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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1966
Page
10
The City Council will hold a public hearing on routes for the Pacific Coast Freeway through Long Beach to hear engineers discuss interchanges, separations and one way patterns. The piece urges constructive debate over design choices and warns against delay as costs rise and traffic jams loom across crossroads.
The piece notes 835000 American service members overseas with about 8 fifths in South Vietnam, plus many stationed globally from Greenland to the Philippines. It states combat troops in Hawaii or Alaska and readiness elsewhere, with a third of the Air Force's 14,400 planes overseas, framing deployment as deterrence rather than imminent combat.
A satirical tale features Admiral Raborn defending the CIA under attack from Washington pundits. Homer Pettibone recounts a misadventure in which he supposedly tracks nine Congressional Appropriations Committee members, earning a reward and becoming head of Latin America and the Middle East with a Macao base.
A Washington column laments New York City’s crippling power outage and transit walkout. It notes widespread disruption to work, commerce, and daily life, blaming centralized systems and labor disputes while urging a better dispute resolution approach.
Sacramento assemblyman Joe A. Gonsalves seeks inquiry into state concession contracts and revenue, questioning whether the state is earning its fair share from these deals. Former mayor of Dairy Valley, he pushes the audit amid 1966 scrutiny.
Assemblyman Gonsalves pushes for accounting on bids disqualified under Sen. Virgil O Sullivan s responsibility clause amid concerns over lax concessions at Huntington State Beach Pfieffer Big Sur and Hearst Castle. He notes Tosh Gowdy ties and favorable terms. He warns against tax hikes in 1966 and stresses protecting California taxpayers.
A company offers protesters for hire with bearded pickets available for demonstrations around any issue. For three dollars an hour, customers receive signs and manpower to bolster causes from mothers in law to Indonesian libraries.
A Long Beach reader challenges published maps of the Atlantic Avenue to Walnut Avenue area calling boundaries misleading. The letter argues homes here are well kept, residents active in churches and charities, and notes real estate prices dropped after recent publicity. Address: 1048 Mahanna Ave.
Ray Larson of Gardenia Ave argues that Defense Secretary McNamara’s bomber cutbacks threaten U.S. safety and recalls Barry Goldwater’s 1964 warning. He urges readers to study politics amid Supreme Court dissents and wartime fears, urging personal involvement in national affairs.
A citizen questions whether the cigarette tax is a luxury tax or a public health measure and argues that council members are representatives of taxpayers, not guardians. The letter from Bernice Karver calls for clarity on the tax and urges a broader policy approach to smoking andpet care, including breeding control and educational programs.
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