Long Beach Budget Plans Stable Taxes With Growth Driven Program
Long Beach eyes a steady property tax rate while expanding public works next year under City Manager John R. Mansell. The budget anticipates almost 3.9 million more for departments funded by taxes, plus new projects at the airport, downtown revitalization, Queen Mary conversion, a 400‑room hotel, West Beach redevelopment, Martin Luther King Park, Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool, and a new terminal.
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Long Beach
John R. Mansell
Tidelands
Long Beach Airport
Park System
Mansell
Ates
Queen Mary
Pier 1
West Beach
Martin Luther King Park
Long Range el Dorado Park
Belmont Plaza Olympic
U.S
McDonnell Douglas
A Just Plan for Freeway Expansion
A bill moving toward passage would ease the impact of the Century Industrial and Pacific Coast Freeways on low income areas. It authorizes the Department of Public Works to buy replacement sites and housing for displaced families, with state or private purchases and assured title to prevent economic loss. The measure passed Assembly 51-8, with Gov. Reagan backing, awaiting Senate action.
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Watts-Willowbrook
Long Beach Central Area
Pacific Coast
Department of Public Works
Reagan
Senate
OPEN FORUM APPROVES LIBRARY MOVE
The Friends of the Long Beach Public Library commend the City Council for approving in principle the development and financing of the Library City Hall complex. Citizens and organizations endorse the plan, hoping to replace the antiquated facilities with modern buildings meeting current needs. The note also cites public support from the Independent Press Telegram and Mrs Rene 3 Simon, president of the Friends of the Library. Also: Time for Change calls for stronger firearms control following Kennedy and King assassinations and RFK’s era.
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Friends of the
Long Beach
Independent Press-Telegram
Renee 3. Simon
Friends of the Library
Time For Change
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Robert Kennedy
The Glorious President No One Saw
An unpublished reference work fragment notes 1984 U S presidential campaigning shifting to a pattern where candidates announce plans then retreat to bomb proof shelters until Election Day and broadcast to the public from hidden locations as the campaign unfolds.
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United States
Wiggins Heroic Candidate in Moving Campaign Box
A fictional tale describes Leslie Wiggins riding to victory in a giant armored box with a loudspeaker and hand shaking arms. The crowd reacts with excitement as he wins by a landslide and becomes a celebrated president who ends poverty and pollution by 1986. The piece closes with a broadcaster’s odd description of the savior, noting she is Black.
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Leslie Wiggins
Wiggins
Vietnam
Ald
Inlks
Humphrey
Nixon
McCarthy
Rodkefeller
Destricti
Congress
White House
Pass of the Eagle chronicling Chaparral Texas by Scarborough
Annie Cecil Scarborough presents The Pass of the Eagle a poetic tribute to the Chaparral region of Texas with illustrations by the author. The book explores the lush brush country along the Rio Grande across from Coahuila Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas detailing history folklore and the blend of Indians conquistadors missionaries traders French and Anglo settlers.
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Mrs. Scarborough
la Region del Chaparral
Texas
Emerson Hough
The
Walter Prescott Webb
J. Frank Dobie
Mody C. Boatright
Brush Country
Dobie
Chaparral
Andy Adams
Rio Grande
Coahuila
Nuevo Leon
Tamaulipas
San Antonio
Scarborough
Youth and Congress the campus vote and the next steps
New York Times Service notes the 1967 68 college year ends amid a failed push to transform politics. It credits student activism with helping withdraw Johnson and propel McCarthy while urging continued youth pressure to influence Congress and improve leadership, warning against dispersal into summer.
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New York
Johnson
MacCarthy
Campaign To Eliminate City Residency Rule Grows
For five months a campaign urged Long Beach voters to rescind the city charter residency rule for employees. Over 130 mimeographed resolutions were filed with the City Council, nearly all favoring elimination. The documents came from many groups, though most were distributed by the Long Beach Police Officers Association.
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Long Beach
Long Beach Police Officers Association
Los Cerritos
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Democratic Women's Study Club
Kiwanis Club
California Council of the Blind
North Long Beach Women's Club
California Epilepsy Society
City groups push for vote on residency charter change
Don Ackenburgys Reporter’s Notebook notes citywide support for a public vote on a charter amendment to rescind residency requirements. Numerous unions and diverse groups back the idea, while the charter amendment committee has not met since February 8 1966 aside from its rare sessions.
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Paul R. Deats
Thomas J. Clark
Charter Amendment Committee
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Open Forum
Raymond H. Kilsen
Ute Nation
Arthur Hoppe
Nances
Youth Vs. Congress
Numbskullg
New York Times Service
Pat McCarthy
Rockefeller
Capitol Hill
Oreaa
Congressiona
Washington
James Reston
Long Beach City
Don Ackenbury
Bixby Knolls Shopping Center
L. F. Dalley
California Ave
Nancy Whittle
Paramount
Uney
George Miller
C. A. Timmerman
Myrtle Ave
Jim Millard
Market St. 1
Mary Canwels
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