Two Needed Amendments of Charter
Long Beach voters are urged to approve two city charter amendments. The first repeals a 47 year residency rule for municipal employees, deemed obsolete and hindering recruitment. The second would authorize revenue bonds for tideland and shoreline projects to speed funding and avoid property tax impacts, aiding projects like the Queen Mary remodeling and a new small craft harbor. Voters are asked to study the measures and adopt them by a large margin on election day.
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Long Beach
John R. Mansell
Oil Trust
Queen Mary
Pier 1
Products of Mind Have Value Too
The piece argues Congress favors tangible property while neglecting intellectual property. It notes U.S. copyright lasts 28 years plus renewal, vs lifetime plus 40 years in many countries, and criticizes Senate moves on life-plus-50 despite technological temptations to pirate works. It urges equal regard for artists and creators.
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Congress
U.S
Senate
New York Times
Open Forum on Kennedy Deaths and Gun Laws
Letters discuss Kennedy's death and rising American casualties in Vietnam. Writers urge public votes on gun laws, critique Supreme Court rulings, and question national leadership while citing quotes from McGill and Voltaire. Names include Dorothea M Meekins and D D McFarland.
Things Sacred and Profane SCRABBLE VA
A reflective column notes a week on a mountain retreat during a Kennedy era crisis. The writer describes slowing down from 15 hour days and reading Updike and Rembar, examining shifts in obscenity law and public morals, and pondering progress toward a freer society.
Freedom and seasons in the hill country reflections
A reflective essay contrasts free speech debates with a meditative view of the changing countryside. The narrator notes shifts from Updike and Rambar to nature’s cycles, fox sightings, and the steady pull of timeless values. He ponders laws, memory, and what endures beyond passing hours.
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Rembar
Unsightly abandoned autos prompt odd cleanup ideas
Sensoaper weighs options for disposing of derelict cars. Suggestions include filling them with beer cans and letting Cousin Fascolo yke relocate them. A presidential commission will probe violence, with hopes meetings leave no one with a black eye. A few karate chops aside, TV ads aren’t as violent as programs. Several stations invite Sludge and rival to a debate on another channel. If a picnic runs well, each family would forget to bring a different essential item.
Where Are Those Who Fed Us Lies
A handwritten note dated April 26, 1963 threatens violence in a terse message to Ralph regarding Kennedy in a Confederate Memorial Day context. The text references Attorney General Kennedy stopping in Atlanta on a private southern journey as envoy for his brother.
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Ralph
Kennedy
Boston
Atlanta
Deep South
The
Press
Kennedy Plan Aimed to Avoid Federal Troops in Civil Rights Era
Ralph McGill discusses President Kennedy pressing governors and state officials to accept civil rights laws and court orders. He outlines a plan to deploy only marshals if mobs block rights enforcement, urging states to use their own police to enforce laws and reduce need for federal troops. The piece reflects on past violence, integration, and accountability of leaders who resisted change.
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Kennedy
U.S
Atlanta
Birmingham
John Kennedy
Adlai Stevenson
Robert Kennedy
Los Angeles
United States
Autherine Lucy
University of Alabama
James Meredith
Mississippi
Oxford
Kennedy Brothers
Arlington
Virginia
Book note on City Structure by Los Angeles LWV
Today's Book analyzes Los Angeles city government in a clear handbook style. It explains department functions, mayor and council roles, boards and bureaus, budget, revenue and expenditures, licenses and fees, with an organizational chart for context.
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Los Angeles
League of Women Voters of
Ward Richie Press
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Open Forum
Giher
Sensior Kennedy
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Dmz
Peck
Supreme Court
Ralph McGill
Voltsire
Thoreau
Dorothea M. Meekins
the United States
D.D. McFarland
Wellnaft
NPENT
Mountain Place
John Updike
Charles Rembar
Random House
New York
Lady Chatterley
Fanny Hill
Updike
Rembat
Dreiser
James Joyce
Ulysses
Renibar
James ‘Kilpatrick
Cavalry
Orion
Sensoaper
By Bill Vaughan
Cousin Fas¢loyle
Congressman Sludge Pump
Fifth Street
Elm Avenue
Mamie Knight
Edison School
Bonnie and Clyde
George Weeks
Douglas
10Th St
Lewis Guy
Richard Therrell
UCLA
Monica Manners
Cypress Junior College
Elwood Tatman
Fetter
Tulane Aves
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