Water rights clash looms in Washington Township dispute
In Washington Township a clash between quarry interests and Alameda County Water District Fremont and local homeowners over groundwater pumping and water tax funding intensifies. The ACWD argues pumping by quarries drains the underground basin while agricultural users dodge pumping taxes, risking broader public costs and calls for fair taxation and negotiation.
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Alameda County Water District
Fremont
Washington Township
ACWD
Newark
Union City
Bay
California
Alameda County
General Motors recalls nearly a million vehicles for exhaust hazard
General Motors orders a large recall affecting almost one million cars and trucks to fix exhaust fumes hazards. The move is framed as protecting customers and preventing dangerous emissions while public attention shifts to broader political protests abroad.
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General Motors
The Hearty Pioneer Amos Johnson Remembered Across Time
Russell Kirk recalls Amos Johnson a brick house storekeeper and judge of probate who built the Sherman City era in Isabella County Michigan His descendants memory spans generations as a century passes with ghosts and spirits lingering in the old Mecosta County home and its grocery and whiskey culture
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Amos Johnson
Woodstock
Illinois
Sherman City
Isabella County
Michigan
Johnson
Cameron
Mecosta
Mich
Mecosta County
Isbella
Mecosia
Aine Johnson
Spiritualist
Ilinois
Amog Johnson
Diet wisdom from a century ago highlights Ellen White
A PAUL HARVEY piece recalls a 100-year-old book’s diet guidance and compares it to modern health advice. It notes Seventh-Day Adventist adherence, California Adventist population, and a study by California Public Health Service and Adventist Church Pacific Union analyzing death certificates over five years to assess health outcomes.
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Ellen White
California
U.S. Public Health Service
Adventist Church Pacific Union Conference
Hubert Humphrey and Adventists: health study and mock Vietnam chat
A composite column cites health statistics for Seventh Day Adventists and reflects on Hubert Humphrey remarks about the Vietnam War. It notes Adventists’ longer life expectancy, lower cancer and heart disease rates, vegetarianism, and a new Loma Linda University study, alongside a satirical Washington visit about arguing Vietnam.
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Richard Walden
Raymond West
Loma Linda University
America No Longer Easy To Recognize
A Returning Traveler visits Washington and reflects on U S hunger and welfare policy. He notes food stamp distribution replacing front end lines, rising salaries for lawmakers, and calls into question poverty programs while criticizing hunger relief and national defense priorities.
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America
Washington, D.C
United States of America
Senate
Mutes Committee
Sen. McGovern
United States
Kennedy
Johnson
National Alliance of Businessmen
Henry Ford II
Sen. Ee
Yand
Maclean's Microscoops on Peace and Plans
The column jokes about college presidents uniting for student causes and urges peace negotiators to act, even if by resuming debates on organizational matters. It notes Russia's Berlin issues and hints at economic reforms with longer five year plans.
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Russia
West Berlin
First electric shavers hit American market in 1931
On this day in history details notable events from 1931 when electric shavers appeared in the United States, the 1962 ceasefire between France and Algerians ending a civil war and granting independence, the 1965 Cosmonaut Leonov spacewalk, the 1987 New London Texas school explosion tragedy, and a thought on civilization by Alfred North Whitehead.
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Consolidated Public School
New London
Tex
Leonov
Alfred North Whitehead
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Washington
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Hanoi
Don
Nixon
Humphrey
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