Editorial: Will It Ever Catch Up on Road Delays
The California Highway Commission budgets 1.9 million to make Garden Grove Blvd a four lane from Knott Ave to near Los Cerritos Channel, easing congestion for Garden Grove and Long Beach workers. The plan adds six lanes on the Long Beach Freeway segment and eight lanes on Harbor Freeway, with extensions of several freeways included. Despite large totals, the note says progress remains slow as traffic grows, and catching up seems unlikely.
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Garden Grove Blvd
E. Seventh St
Garden Grove
Long Beach
California Highway Commission
Knott Ave
Los Cerritos Channel
Orange County
Santa Ana
San Bernardino
Harbor
124Th
190Th
San Diego
Golden State
Los Angeles
Orange Counties
Los Angeles County
Deserved Salute to Roosevelt Marks Centennial Year
Theaters churches and leaders nationwide honored Theodore Roosevelt on his birthday and the start of the Roosevelt Centennial Year. President Eisenhower attended a Roosevelt tribute as speakers highlighted his roles as statesman and naturalist and cited his 1900s civics writings on citizenship and the higher law.
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Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Teddy
B. Bromley Oxman
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
America
Panama Canal
Jesus Christ
Benson Enigma fuels Minnesota Senate battle in 1962
Doris Fleeson surveys farm belt mood as President Eisenhower keeps Benson at Benson’s fate looms over Thye’s cautious campaign. Proxmire’s Wisconsin upset shifts Dem plans, while Minnesota Democrats unite to attack Benson and back Thye, a farmer ex-governor allied with rural voters.
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Minneapolis
Ezra Benson
Eisenhower
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
U. S
Minnesota
Benson
Edward A. ‘Thye
Walter Judd
Congress
Benson’s waning grip amid cabinet shifts and 1960 race
The text notes Senate races becoming battlegrounds with Democrats in narrow control. It discusses Benson’s staying power under Milton Eisenhower’s policy patterns, potential cabinet changes weakening him, and the influence of Humphrey, Wilson, and Nixon. It hints at Benson’s world tour as perhaps a swan song.
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Senate
Congress
Midwest
South
Benson
Milton Eisenhower
Milton
George Humphrey
Charles E. Wilson
Treasury
Defense Departments
Nixon
Bensons
Coryright
Unite A Subaidaen Aga OY Walted
Fencure
Thoughts from Fenelon on faith and solitude find comfort
A quotation reflecting on Israel and self destruction from Hosea and Fenelon. It contrasts loneliness in absence of faith with solace found in divine presence, emphasizing friendship and trust in a higher power. The piece blends scripture with philosophical meditation on solitude and support.
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Israel
Francois Fenelon
Ike's Troops in Little Rock Face Legal Challenge
President Eisenhower defends using federal troops to enforce a court order rather than policy. Alfred J. Schweppe counters, arguing no statute grants troops to act as marshal when courts compel desegregation, stating laws are Congress acts and not court decrees.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Little Rock
Sen. Sten
Nis
Democrat
America
Alfred J. Schwepp
Seattle
Uaysceeca
Mr. Herrong
Stennis
Mbe. Schwefppe
United States
Schweppe
U. S
William P Rogers hailed as great mediator by peers
Virginia Kelly reports the new Attorney General William P. Rogers, 44, is viewed as a great mediator by Democratic and Republican senators who knew him from the War Investigating Committee and Capitol Hill service. Rogers is praised for aggressiveness, industry, and affable personality amid long Senate tenure.
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William P. Rogers
War Investigating Committee
Truman Committee
Senate Investigation Subcommittee
Government Operations Committee
Senate Democrats
Sen
Hoey
D-Nc
Rogers
Washington
Homer Ferguson
Senate
Ers
Fergeson, Hoey
John L. McClellan
Karl Mundt
McCarthy
Dwight, Royall, Harris, Koegels & Caskey
Royall
New York
Truman
Eisenhower
Just Folks by E A Guest The Whistling Boy
A celebratory poem about a newsboy on his early morning beat. The child is carefree and bright, whistling as dawn breaks, while the speaker notes life will bring growing cares, but the boy can keep whistling no matter what fate holds. The piece honors youthful optimism and resilience.
Long Beach memories span decades of civic and campus events
A seven member panel studied airport flight patterns to curb noise over California Heights. Buffums' director Harry Buffum joined the Southern California Edition Ca board, following his father Charles A. Buffum who did so in 1933. Alumni gathered at Long Beach Junior College for homecoming marking the campus tenth anniversary with a Vikings vs Vaqueros football opener. Los Angeles County planning aided Long Beach bridge work over the flood channel entrances while city building neared eleven million dollars for the year.
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Harry Buffum
Buffums
Southern California Edition
Charles A. Buffum
Long Beach Junior College
Vikings
Glendale
Vaqueros
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Public Forum Letters Include Signatures and Addresses
Public forum letters must not exceed 56 words and require bona fide signatures with addresses. Editors may edit letters for taste or space while preserving essential meaning and authenticity.
Advice on Bridges From a Citizen Friend
Charles Cordray offers practical cautions on county bridge work urging proper ownership of approaches, avoiding oversized designs, and avoiding unnecessary costly spans. He warns against curves and overbuilding over drainage ditches, advocating common sense in bridge planning.
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San Francisco- Oakland Bay
Charles Cordray
Prospect Ave
Vicious Doctrines Attack Prompted In Letter to Forum
Helen Price of 222 Belmont Ave condemns praise for the Constitution Party in a Forum letter. She accuses adherents of antisemitism and Negro discrimination, arguing the movement misuses Americanism and echoes Hitler and Mussolini, opposing the ideals in the Declaration and Constitution.
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Public Forum
Constitution Party
Los Angeles
Hitler
Mussolini
Helen Price
Belmont Ave
Thank You to Press Telegram for Club Groundbreaking News
The Assistance League of Long Beach expresses sincere thanks to the Independent Press Telegram for coverage of the West Long Beach Girls Club groundbreaking. Photos and reports should stir new interest in the club and encourage further investments in this character building project. Corresponding Sec Mrs Burton W Chace and President Mrs Kenneth S Wing sign.
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Assistance League of
Long Beach
New
West Long Beach
Assistance League
Burton W
Chace
Kenneth S
Disposal for rusted large trash can with grinding truck
Anne Fickes asks how to dispose of a large rusted trash can after its bottom rusted out. The city’s new grinding trash machine seems unable to handle it and she seeks practical disposal options.
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Anne Fickes
Livingston Dr
Bus riders urged to vote for updates
A fragment notes Zella Maye Dial urging voters to use buses to stay informed, describing battered vehicles as buses and implying a civic call to action. The terse item highlights a local figure and a transportation themed prompt without fuller context.
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Zella Maye
Iéth St
World's ugliest bird frogmouth, mopoke of Australia
A reader quiz notes that many consider Australia's tawny frogmouth or mopoke the ugliest bird, explaining its grotesque beak gape and family ties. Other questions cover naive entrained concrete flat for highways, periscope photography in submarines, and UC Berkeley Mt Hamilton observatory named for James Lick with a 36 inch telescope funded by Lick.
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Australia
University of California
Mt. Hamilton
California
James Lick
Press Telegram Credits and Advertising Offices List
The document lists personnel and roles including Publisher Press-Welesram Herman H Ridder, Harold M Hines as Publisher Assistant, Samuel Cameron General Manager, L and Calline group Bun Manager, H Burmester, Editor Malcolm Epley, Miles E Sines Executive Editor, and Washington News Bureau. It notes Ridder-Johns Inc advertising representatives with offices in New York Los Angeles Minneapolis St Paul San Francisco and maintains current copies of The Press-Telegram at these offices.
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Herman H. Ridder
Harold M. Hines
Samuel Cameron
L. & Calline Gr. Bun
He O F. Burmester
Malcolm Epley
Miles E. Sines
National
Ridder-Johns, Inc
New York
E. Sotn
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