Poll pollution debate urges action and higher taxes
Readers respond to Gilbert Bailey on air pollution showing concern and willingness to sacrifice comfort and money. Los Angeles police urge relocation if pollution worsens as citizens press politicians and industry to fund cleanups. Public optimism remains guarded yet persistent as awareness rises and calls for tax increases and reordering national priorities grow.
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Lakeword
Gilbert Bailey
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Board expansion rejected in 1962
The piece argues against reviving a plan to enlarge the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from five to seven members. It cites higher costs, argues against minority groups gaining via districting, and notes voters previously rejected the idea 1,057,522 to 595,240 in 1962. It asserts government works better with a smaller board and urges keeping the current structure.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors
Letters to Editor Warn Of Nixon Reagan Tax Policies
A Long Beach reader criticizes Ron Reagan and Dick Nixon for pushing higher taxes and calls them slick salesmen. A senior citizen describes housing misery, unperformed repairs, steep cleaning charges, and a manager who tells tenants to “get the hell out.”
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California
Ron Reagan
Dick Nixon
Long Beach
Richard G. Palmer
T Am
Santa Barbara oil dispute tests Nixon interior plan
Walter Hickel, sworn in January 1968 as interior secretary, faces a long Santa Barbara Channel oil dispute. Senate hearings reveal a slow path to a solution as conservationists and oil companies push opposing aims while pressure grows for broader federal lease closures and sanctuary protections. The debate pits Murphy bill aims against industry interests amid a cautious committee stance chaired by Frank Moss.
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Washington
Walter J. Hickel
Santa Barbara
Union Oil
Hickel
Nixon
Senate Interior
Baile Murey
Ahn Y. Tunney
Murphy
Tunney
Congress
Senate Interior Committee
Subcommittee
Frank Moss
Utah
Santa Barbara Channel
Interior
California
The
Sierra Club
Alan Granston
D-Calif
Humble Oil
Pauley Petroleum
Senate Committee
Moss
George McGovern
South Dakota
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Clyde
Walter Hickel
Sultan Kirk Adds Beauty to His Harem
A new beauty joins the e commentator’s seraglio, Miss Felicia Annette Kirk, aged a fortnight, placid and charming with hints of Indian ancestry. She joins sisters Monica and Cecilia as the household expands under the male head, while wife Annette Yvonne Cecile Kirk comments on life as master of the seraglio and a hoped for son Amos.
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Sultan Kirk
Seraglio
Felicia Annette Kirk
Felicia
Monica
Cecilia
Russell
Annette Yvonne Cecile Kirk
Women’s Liberation Viragos
Daddy
Little Monica
Felicia the Baby and a Father’s Household Ironies
Russell Kirk muses on naming his daughter Felicia and the idea of female power in history and literature. He reflects on traditional gender roles, citing Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joan of Arc, while joking about his own authority at home and plans to write children’s books for his daughters.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
Joan of Arc
Smog Crisis Triggers Tokyo Emergency and California Tents
A Tokyo pollution council convened after widespread illness as warnings urged indoors activity and reduced driving. In California orange growers deployed plastic oxygen tents to protect crops after studies linked shrinking yields to smog rather than disease.
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Tokyo
Japan
Los Angeles Basin
California
State Department of
City considers traffic limits to curb smog pollution
Gil bet Bailey collapsed on Saturday and students remained in hospital Monday as smog troubles eyes of schoolchildren and firefighters across the city. The emergency council plans to curb car use and cut pollution, while Ottinger seeks to compel enforcement of an 1898 anti pollution law, contested by the Justice Department amid jurisdiction disputes with the Federal Water Quality Control Administration.
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Richard L. Ottinger
Senate
New York
U.S. Justice Department
Ottinger
Justice Department
Federal Water Quality Control Administration
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