Editorial: Long Beach faces new hurdles in subsidence fight
The Long Beach anti subsidence drive faces another Assembly subcommittee hearing in December with tougher questions from industry and opponents. City hopes for positive recommendations to push a March special session agenda while mindful of a November tidelands hearing that could reshape state relations.
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Oil Committee
Wilmington
Bruce Allen
Judiciary Committee
Judiciary
Tidelands
Allen
Extension of School Facility Use Eyed
Educators and school boards nationwide watch the University of Pittsburgh trimeter plan to extend use of facilities and ease the student bulge. Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield explains three 13 week terms total 45 weeks, enabling six years of study in four and avoiding a large expansion of buildings. The plan reduces vacations and aims to address rising enrollments without new facilities while California schools note the growth and Long Beach lessons in facility planning.
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University of Pittsburgh
Edward H. Litchfield
University
Latenfield
Litchfield
California
Long Beach
Doris Fleeson Moon Race Prompts Probe Of U S Space Defense
Washington analysis predicts Congress will probe Eisenhower era defense policy after the moon landing. Experts warn about Soviet lead in space and potential missile advances, urging inquiry into budget, research, and service competition, with some lawmakers calling for defense reform.
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Washington
Thacala
Congress
Russia
Triple school plan aims at national integration compromise
Washington debates a three‑part public school system based on freedom of parental choice with all‑Negro, all‑white and mixed schools. Congress would fund facilities, not regulate schools, potentially superseding court rulings while preserving 1954 mixed‑school bar. The plan, likened to Louisville transfers, seeks a durable end to the integration deadlock.
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Supreme Court
Congress
Rght
Cnll
Eisenhower
Louisville
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
National Guard
America
Medics Back Coffee Breaks Warned By Medical Chief
A famed medical leader says coffee breaks benefit health. Quotes poke fun at public figures and daily life, noting jokes about Prince Charles, Army diet, tailors, and etiquette. Miscellany reflects media satire and a car dial invention.
Just Folks by E A Guest The Wise Man
A verse about a man who claims to know everything and to understand why others succeed or fail. He spreads news endlessly and insists he is right, yet many of his supposed facts are not accurate. The poem mocks the gossiping, overconfident figure who knows what isn't so.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Air Force
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Brown
Meatless Tuesday chaos and bid plans from long ago
A Long Beach note recalls Meatless Tuesday starting with restaurant shortages. It mentions 0 years ago plans for dredging bids by the Board of Supervisors, opening for the San Gabriel dam outlet on October 19, and 36 years ago Long Beach receiving a portion of 1928 Los Angeles County highway improvement funds totaling $6,900,000 per Ray A. Baldwin of the Chamber of Commerce highway department.
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Board of Supervisors
San Gabriel Dam
Long Beach
Los Angeles County
Ray A. Haldwin
Highway Dept
The
Chamber of Commerce
Public Forum Letters On Federal Troops And School Integration
Readers critique presidential use of troops to enforce integration at Little Rock and contrast it with Wisconsin union strike actions. They question constitutional authority, court power, and implications for state governments. Signatures include C. W. Bush of Bellflower and Carl I. Nyquist of San Pedro, urging parental control of driving education.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Wisconsin
hood+lums
Kohler
Supreme Court
School Driving Classes Opposed
A 1957 Press Telegram report notes delegates at a governor’s traffic convention in Sacramento questioned the qualifications of some high school driver education teachers. The letter asks why public schools should teach driving, proposes factories run driving schools, and questions America’s risk in relying on student drivers.
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Press-Telegram
Sacramento
America
Kad waits by Metcalfe Etcalfe love poem fragment
A lyrical verse expresses longing and devotion as the speaker recalls past loves. The speaker notes others kissed and held them, but none shared the magic of the beloved’s eyes, touch, and character, wishing the beloved had been the first.
Big Summer for Insects In Long Beach Abatement Gap
In Long Beach this miserably hot summer mosquitoes and flies harass residents and visitors who must retreat indoors. The city withdraws from the mosquito abatement program, and replacements arrive from ditches. City Council urged to restore the program before next summer to restore outdoor enjoyment.
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Long Beach
Helen J. Salzman
el Pasco St
Uncle Tom serial first printed in 1851 52 National Era
The work Uncle Tom's Cabin Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe began as a newspaper serial in 1851 52 in the National Era Washington D C It later appeared in two volumes in 1852 In a quiz style question the president nicknamed Rabby McKee's grandfather is answered as Benjamin Harrison 23rd US President with daughter Mary married to James Robert McKee
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Harriet Beecher
Stowe
Washington, D. C
Raby McKee
N.B. A
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Mary
James Robert McKee
Press Telegram Publisher Ad Office Contact List
Current files of The Press Telegram maintained at offices in New York Chicago Detroit Minneapolis and Los Angeles include advertising and editorial contacts. The document lists Ridder family publishers and Hines as Acat with Cameron Geni Manager and Golling as Bus. Manager.
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Herman H. Ridder
Herold M. Hines
Acat
Samu CG. Cameron_Geni
L.A. Golling Jr
Bus
National
Ridder-Johns, Inc
New York
50Th St
Chicago
Wrigley Big
Detroit
Penobscot
Minneapolis
Foshay Tower
Pal
East 4Th St
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Sutter St
Press-Telegram
Comic Advertising
Matranolitan Group, Inc
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