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Newspaper

Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 24, 1961

Page

3

Assemblyman Kenrick pushes overhaul of California juvenile law

Editorial lauds Joseph M. Kenrick for proposing major changes to California's juvenile court act. It urges measures to shorten detention time, split wards into three categories, guarantee counsel, create a noncustodial citation system, and make proceedings more confidential. The piece supports modernizing juvenile justice while urging public backing.

Long Beach Joseph M. Kenrick Sacramento Kenrick California Assemblyman

Scouts Lift THIS 35 THE Season In Long Beach Area Council

Scouts seek sustaining memberships to support Long Beach Area Council programs reaching over 12 000 youths. Small gifts from parents and local business donors help fund Cub Boy Scout and Explorer activities through a $100 Club. Each sustaining member enables one boy to join Scouting.

Long Beach

A New Symbol of Status in California

A Sacramento dispatch notes a proposed trend the list of succession. It envisions officials like Attorney General Stanley Mosk naming seven successors and peers adopting the practice. The piece playfully imagines buttons, cars, pensions tied to successor designations for both public and private figures, urging readers to create their own lists.

Sacramento California Stanley Mosk Mosk Stanley Mask Melvin Fribblefinger State Department of Sanitation Churchill Lisenhower de Gaulle Ernest Hemingway

Senator Soaper Sums Up A Patchwork Of Headlines

The column blasts photo trends with a barefoot mom joke and muses on political shifts from past battles to modern campaigns. It weighs inauguration mood, aging politics, unemployment nostalgia, and Kennedy youth, ending with a cheeky jab at weather and endurance records.

Washington Jack Kennedy Sokow

Local Press-Gelesram staff lines and credits

A fragmented byline page from Press-Gelesram in Long Beach California lists staff roles including publisher editor and managerial positions. Names shown include Dante H Rigaofer, M. Hind, C. Cameron, Colling Jr, and Matty Karns among others in advertising and editorial divisions.

Kennedy Inaugural Address Draws Wide U S Support

A Moscow dispatch notes three Kennedy inaugural passages not printed in Soviet press. The speech, praised for guiding U S foreign policy and opposing colonialism, stresses self reliance and a wary stance toward welfare state expansion.

Washington Kennedy United States America Soviet Union Tran Lawrence Moscow United Press International

Kennedy austerity call shapes early Kennedy plan

Doris Fleeson surveys Kennedy administration aims at austerity and swift staffing after inauguration. Cabinet choices center on Rusk Dillon and McNamara with questions over lines of authority and party policy. McNamara’s decisive early actions draw praise and political friction with AFL CIO.

Rusk Treasury Dillon Defense NcNamara Kennedy Hig McNamara Joseph P. Keenan Bhin Afl-Cio Meany

Public Forum Letter argues against smoking by women

A Public Forum letter criticizes smoking by women and urges societal standards, citing a Santa Ana man and a Long Beach church smoking room. It questions whether mothers should smoke while feeding, references cancer concerns, and calls for restraint by state officials while urging adherence to traditional roles. Signatures include MRS S H Fulton and ROBERT Heard with addresses.

Long Beach Santa Ana Maryala F. Farnham Ferdinand Lundberg S. H. Fulton Elm Avenue Jean Valjean Robert Heard

Arrest Record No Business of State

Editor protests secrecy in police records for state job applicants arguing innocence until proven guilty. Raises questions about what candidate information should be public including education experience aptitude health and employment history.

No Control Seen on Cancer and Conquest Foreseen

A reader notes conflicting cancer coverage across sections. Page E-1 warns of no control while Page B-9 forecasts conquest. The letter urges hope and acknowledges reporters cannot fix inconsistent reporting.

E. M. Brown E. Coolidge St Brown

Odd Fern and the Idea of an Oracle

Reading notes explain a walking fern that rootlets at leaf tips multiply and spread on limestone ridges and limey woods. The oracle question clarifies that in ancient Greece and Rome oracle meant a sacred place or deity an answer came from, and later a person of wisdom or a witty saying can bear the term.

Greece Rome

Rattle Snake Island Deal Spurs Long Beach Growth

In the 1890s Missouri and St. Louis capitalists bought Rattlesnake Island later known as Terminal Island and formed the Los Angeles Terminal Railroad Co. A through line from Los Angeles to Long Beach promised a strong traffic grid for heavy pads and the harbor favored seaside resort development, signaling a turn toward economic renewal after earlier downturns.

Long Beach St. Louis Rattlesnake Island Terminal Island Los Angeles River Los Angeles Terminal Railroad Co Saveralne Los Angeles

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