Is LB's Johnny Learning
Long Beach Unified School District reports strong test results and high scoring locals. 553 Long Beach students ranked in the top 1 percent nationally, with 26 students overall and 36 juniors achieving high marks in various divisions. Superintendent Douglas A. Newcomb defends the district against criticism, citing rising enrollments and robust programs for gifted students while noting teacher tenure debates at LESC.
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Douglas A. Newcomb
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Newcomb
B F Tucker Honored For Decades Of City Service
The funeral of B F Tucker today reflects a half century in Long Beach marked by civic contributions. He helped found the Adelaide Tichenor Clinic for Crippled Children in the mid twenties and served as its president until his death, and he played a pivotal role in securing the site and launching the Community Hospital. His welfare focus on crippled children and community progress stands as a lasting legacy.
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B. F. Tucker
Long Beach
Adelaide Tichenor Clinic
Tucker
Senator Soaper Sells a Series of Silly Snippets
A collage of dated quips and political jabs comments on Nixon Dewey vaults, a dog in a car mystery, and a Treasury Lone Ranger stamp sale. It mocks airport expansion and global politics while tossing in jokes about allergies and television awards. The piece scans as a light, satirical column.
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Lone Ranger
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Portraits of Letters Then and Now in Social Greeting
The piece contrasts old longhand letters with modern typed messages. It lauds typing for speed and ease, noting fewer words yet more conveyed, and argues typed notes are more inviting than lengthy handwritten correspondence.
Congress Building Projects Called Biggest Boondoggle
Washington critics label a 200 million program to expand Capitol offices the biggest Washington boondoggle. The plan adds five Senate rooms and three for representatives, builds a third House office building, remodels the existing structures, and even leases the Congressional Hotel for possible office use.
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H. R. Gross
Iowa
Supreme Court Hears Segregation Integration Questions
David Lawrence reports that the Supreme Court tackles administrative questions arising from segregation integration. In New York City Negro parents protest public school seating and transfer policies, arguing for integrated schools with transportation. The piece notes the 1954 decision deeming separate facilities inherently unequal and questions who should decide school assignments and transportation duties. The debate centers on whether all-white schools should include substantial Negro enrollment with funded transfers.
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Supreme School Board of the Nation
Supreme Court of the United States
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York City
Supreme Court
New York City
Supreme Court rulings spark church debate on enforcement
The piece notes the Supreme Court's need for enforcement of its rulings and cites Presbyterian leaders in New York who endorse using troops if necessary. It highlights rising tensions as some church figures advocate armed support to uphold desegregation and education rights for children regardless of residence.
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Unioad Presbyterian Church of America
New York City
Supreme Court of the United States
Five Star Officers Remain Active Duty by Theory
The record notes five star officers in the US military are considered on active duty and not retired in theory. Sir Francis Drake sailed the world on the Golden Hind. Paul Revere was born on January 1, 1135.
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Francis Deare
Paul Revere
Public Forum Letters With Signatures and Addresses
Public forum notices invite letters not exceeding 250 words with bona fide signatures and full addresses. Editors may edit for taste or space while preserving signatures.
Protests Over Move of Long Beach VA Office
Veterans and residents in Long Beach protest the removal of the VA office to the Los Angeles facility and the transfer of staff and services. Local veterans praise Long Beach staff and fear reduced access, while Pasadena retains its small office. Letter writer Mrs Ivey Johns urges reconsideration and thanks local officials.
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Los Angeles
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Long Beach
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Pasadena
Ivey Johns
Long Beach Blvd
Unneeded Luxury
A taxpayer endorses a suggestion urging restraint on State Col. spending in California. The brief notes a public demand for prudent budgeting and criticizes extravagance in government purchases.
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California
Long Boat Prosperity Drive Urges Freeway Link
Recommends Los Angeles River Freeway as vital national defense link to C H Purcell by Rear Adm Paul Hendren. Chamber of Commerce directors and Assembly interim committee on highways stress the proposal.
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C. H. Purcell
Public Works
Paul Hendren
U.S. Navy
Chamber of Commerce
Assembly Interim Committee On
Propositions S and T Backed by Local Leaders in Long Beach
Betty Lou Frost of Corinthian Walk Long Beach and Mrs Charles S Price of 2441 Chatwin Long Beach voice support for Jobs Propositions S and T. They urge merging UC and Cal State structures to avoid dual systems and to boost Long Beach as a resort and convention city through civic leadership.
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Betty Lou Frost
Long Beach
Charles S. Price
Chatwin
Hooveria named for President Hoover planetoid discovery
Reader questions answered by Informavior Bureau. Hooveria, a minor planet named for Herbert Hoover, was discovered in March 1920 by Prof. J. Palisan of Vienna University in recognition of Hoover’s postwar famine relief work. Other answers cover Peshtigo fire deaths, livestock slaughter decisions, and U.S. electricity output vs the USSR in 1957.
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Herbert Hoover
Prof. J. Palisan
University of Vienna
Mr. Hoover
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