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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1957
Page
10
The piece complains about party deserters driven by personal gain and urges genuine, practical idealists who act for the country’s welfare. It cites a Michigan industrialist quitting Eisenhower’s camp over spending and questions labor leaders and Wayne Morse’s motives, urging leaders to uphold principle over personal benefit.
President Eisenhower and British Field Marshal Montgomery toured Gettysburg and agreed they would have fought it differently. A separate quip recalls a barber scolding a quarterback for a Sunday mistake, the barber noting he would not have played it that way either if given the weekend to think.
Long Beach City Council adopted an anti subsidence bill and seeks enactment this session. An informal Monday meeting with Chamber of Commerce and Navy Shipyard workers produced plans for an aggressive campaign and strong community backing. The council treats the matter as an emergency as the Legislature nears final month with many issues to decide.
The article argues money remains scarce and inflation unlikely to ease. It notes the Treasury test of exchanging four billion dollars of notes at 1 percent and 3 percent rate issues, with many holders preferring cash. It warns higher rates could lift all interest rates and stresses limiting spending and defense appropriations to curb inflation.
Washington reports a possible shift toward banning H-bomb tests as proposals gain traction in government circles. U.S. moral position questioned, while Soviet and British moves shape disarmament talks in London and at Christmas Island preparations continue amid domestic debate on the damages from past tests.
A satirical column riffs on Cari Lodge hosting 40 friends with ice cream in flowerpots and real flowers. It notes a Pilgrim settlement replica at Plymouth, crops insurer schemes, Lodge’s dining room expansion, and nostalgic jabs at bank presidents and British press. The piece also criticizes propaganda, cartoons, and stereotypes with pointed humor.
A verse celebrates a man praised as thoughtful and reliable with a good memory. The poet notes his timeliness and care in marking weddings birthdays and friends’ events, praising his long standing habit of recording such dates for his loved one throughout the years.
The Press Telegram marine editor Edsell Newton won a national maritime newswriting award at the San Francisco exposition. Merritt E. Paddock, former Long Beach mayor, had funeral services. James E. Bonner, ex City Manager, died earlier.
Public forum letters must be under 250 words and include genuine signatures and addresses. Editors may edit letters to fit space and ensure decorum.
Letters praise two items from the Press Telegram urging protection of free speech. ERNEST DENNING commends Malcol Eoley for fair handling of controversial topics and supports Councilmen Toby Wick’s stance on not censoring groups using public space. He urges readers to write to representatives about Social Security and pension changes in 1953.
Letter writer Marianne Taylor blasts government waste and tax policy while praising a visiting potentate and calling for aggressive foreign aid. She argues to abolish services to fund bases abroad and annihilate nations resisting the economic system.
Bills to create another bureau of Older Persons in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare were raised in Congress last year. The proposal would require substantial funding to establish a new agency, while supporters argue for improvements to the current program led by those already administering it.
A reader asks about global population by race and the answer details world totals of about 24 billion people with roughly 43 percent Mongoloid, 24 percent Neprooid, and 33 percent Caucasoid. It notes racial classification varies among anthropologists and defines race by distinctive traits inherited from parents. It also confirms former Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s middle name as Gooderham, derived from his mother’s maiden name Eleanor Gooderham.
Current files of The Press Telegram show staff and management names including publisher editor and advertising representatives. Offices are in New York Detroit Minnesota and San Francisco with multiple contact sites and agencies noted for distribution and publicity.
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