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This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.

Presents news briefs on developments around the U.S. as of November 1941. Decision of the General Hospital in Los Angeles, California to replace its dishes with fiber plates; Type of sign erected along the highway of Salt Lake City, Utah; Law passed in Tallahassee, Florida about car accidents caused by cows.

The article presents information on the First Student Paper Competition organized at Stanford, California by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Although launched barely two years ago, the Student Paper Competition is proving to be a constructive force in computer science education at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Editorial and refereeing activities undertaken by graduate students translate into a type of professional development experience that is enriching for the participants and healthy for the profession as a whole. The active participation of an equal if not larger number of undergraduate students who submitted papers for the competition attests to the stimulation for scientific and professional growth among students in computer science everywhere. George E. Forsythe, who was a pioneer and who encouraged many of his colleagues to work toward the development of a computer discipline of widespread scientific value, strongly favored promoting the Student Paper Competition to serve this end. As a computer science department chairman he had encouraged the active participation of students in academic and administrative affairs at Stanford University and also at ACM. This example was the inspiration for the plan that graduate students take active and major roles in the management of the Competition.

The article relates the author's experience on his trip with a group of prisoners sentenced to serve at California State Penitentiary in San Quentin. He cites that deputy F. P. Dickerson went from seat to seat and fitted the leg chains on each prisoner's ankle. He narrates that some of the prisoners could not comfortably sleep because of the leg chains fitted on them. He states that prisoners and their commitment papers were turned over by Dickerson to the receiving office of the California State Penitentiary.

The article relates veteran Lee Anderson's experiences on turning a desert of Coachella Valley into acres of date palm gardens in California. Lee and his wife started desert farming with only 600 dollars in cash. In order to protect his crops from moisture and birds, Anderson covers date clusters with paraffined paper bags. The once worthless land now brings 2,000 dollars to 4,000 dollars an acre to the Anderson family.

Focuses on the strategy used by publisher Manchester Boddy to revive the newspaper "Illustrated Daily News" in Los Angeles, California in 1926. Improvements made by Boddy to the editorship of the newspaper; Actions taken by Boddy to obtain control of the paper; Career background of Boddy.

Focuses on the meeting of the Republican Party in San Francisco, California on July 13, 1964 concerning the crisis faced by the alliance. Purpose of the Republican Citizens Committee's Critical Issues Council; Details of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization paper on government administration; Background on the good men in the government.

The article focuses on Ilona Bensczko Selle, a columnist and one of the most influential woman in San Francisco, California. She has contact with countless people during war and her fanatical followers of a morning paper know her as "Miss Fixit". They regarded her as the soother of homesick souls, unraveler of torturous problems and the general minister to the needs of fouled-up General Infantry officer. All these descriptions, she hopes someday to cease her laborious job and rest for years.

The article presents a report on the kingmaker of the California republic party , Norman Chandler, publisher of the "Los Angeles Times," who has founded the "Mirror" in 1948 with his chief target the Democratic "Daily News." The "Daily News" was founded in 1923 by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., son of the Commodore. It soon passed into receivership and thence into the control of Manchester Boddy who published the paper for 26 years. Los Angeles naturally is talking of a new liberal newspaper. But can this city support five metropolitan dailies? Of the four which remain, only Chandler's "Times" is a money-maker. His "Mirror" has yet to finish a year in the black.

The article relates the experience of L.R. Batman, a contributing author for the periodical "The Saturday Evening Post," in settling down in California and Oregon. He studied at Stanford University and bought the weekly newspaper "Niles." He sold his paper and bought another one in Oregon, the "Central Oregonian." The large amount of snow in Oregon prompted him to sell "Central Oregonian" and went again to California.