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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1967
Page
5
A brief Long Beach roundup for September 11, 1967, highlights community notes, upcoming events, and local brief items shaping Monday’s city scene across schools, clubs, and city services.
A Senate Special Committee on Aging subcommittee warns that boosts in Social Security may reduce Old Age Assistance and veterans pensions in many states. It notes seven benefit increases since 1935 sometimes paired with cuts in state aid, urging separate income standards and a broader goal of keeping retiree incomes aligned with wages and prices.
Voters rejected a second time a special school levy in Portland Oregon prompting the school board to cut interscholastic athletics public building use extra pay for teachers teaching and admin staff jobs kindergarten teachers emergency leave and other services totaling over a million dollars The board warned that tax money pays for government services and urged a public reevaluation of tax costs versus benefits.
A letter recounts Ronalds difficult treatment by UC Regents and mocks political bias, arguing voter education outweighs registration. It cites Korrald Reagan and mocks liberal readers while urging reflection on show business and public discourse.
The paper reports a possible city action to seize and demolish the Ross Marina recreation and tourist center at Alamitos Bay. The Ross landing with capacity for 100 boats provides essential moorage and supports sailing on the bay’s West end, drawing rental boat fleets that attract visitors from near and far to Long Beach.
Washington professionals in the Republican Party sense a drift toward Ronald Reagan of California as a viable presidential option while Gov. George Romney of Michigan appears to have slipped from favored status. The shift is described as a professional sentiment rather than based on public polls.
A discourse on the 1964 Goldwater split and the 1968 drift toward Reagan, Nixon, and Nixon’s potential waning support. Conservatives question Reagan’s qualifications after California governance and mull the Miami Beach convention as a dramatic, possibly tragic, script. Republican leaders warn no clear front runner yet as governors hedge bets.
Washington Star Service examines Senator Russell Long's National Formulary Bill. It would create a nine member national committee to list drugs with therapeutic advantages and set price ranges for Medicare and welfare programs. Critics fear a single body deciding necessity and therapeutically duplicative drugs limits physician choice.
The piece notes a drastic 90th Congress proposal to create a Formulary Committee to publish an official drug formulary. Four ex officio members plus five appointed by HEW would decide which drugs are unnecessary or duplicative, granting a politically chosen panel extensive control over drug access for patients and hospitals.
A humorous column laments people who outdo others with longer, more extreme anecdotes. The writer cites Kin Hubbard and riffs on the chronic compulsion to one up every experience, illustrating with travel and illness examples and noting the social nuisance.
Sydney Harris muses on vanity and symmetry in social stories while recalling a Calvin Coolidge anecdote. A British visitor boasts of kinship to poetry and a king, prompting Coolidge to quip about an Indian angel on a coin. The piece blends humor with reflections on self-importance and shared mortality.
The first successful airplane flight lasted 12 seconds with Orville Wright piloting. The sequoia tree is named to honor Cherokee chief Sequoyah who created an alphabet for his people and has a statue in the Capitol rotunda.
Chicago reports on the National Conference for New Politics where white radicals, aiming to widen influence after urban crises and Vietnam protests, run into a constraint. Negro militants demand aggressive black campaigns and even a black caucus with outsized voting power, provoking defections as whites fear loss of identity and autonomy in race-driven politics.
The piece reports on reactions at a Chicago peace meeting where white activists clash with a shift toward black leadership. It notes Ramparts editor Robert Sheer urging whites to purge self contempt and bridge to fellow whites, then caving to black caucus demands and endorsing most positions except a harsh Israel critique. The analysis suggests white radicalism is weaker and whites must join the Negro movement on terms that keep white radicalism weak.
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