California News Briefs Highlights State Affairs
Major R Y Stuart arrives to confer with California authorities on conservation matters. Deer season opens in districts 2 21 3 August 1. Initiative to abolish prize fighting moves to November ballot with 94 539 signers. San Francisco Bay Bridge to cost 7 5 million and span 7 1 miles, to open June 1929. Delinquent wages collected reach nearly 83 000 in June. Industrial welfare shows employment and payroll shifts from 1927 to 1928. A fifth tax proposal adds 5 to auto owners for dependants insurance, yielding 10 million annually. American Hospital Association convention set for San Francisco August 6 10. Violations of fish and game laws double in six months. Tourists enter California at 2 613 daily with 871 per car average. Pensioned teachers total 41 with 30 years plus. A new San Francisco match factory to produce 5 million matches daily by 1929. Auto deaths rise by 90 and accidents by 1 200 in six months. Gallows awaiting 15 inmates at San Quentin and Folsom. State plans to regulate airplanes and pilots. licenses proposed. Guard camp near San Luis Obispo eyed for future funding and permanent improvements funded by federal government. Fortieth Division Air Squadron command transfer to Capt John N Jeffers.
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R. Y. Stuart
United States Forester
California
Stuart
S. B. Shaw
U. S
Nevada
Sacramento
Fred G. Stevenot
Natural Resources
M. B. Pratt
Coast Range
Mendocino County
Ventura County
Frank ©. Jordan
San Francisco
Peninsula
Alameda County
San Francisco Bay Bridge
Bay
San Mateo
Mt. Eden
Hayward
State Department of Industrial Relations
Will F. French
Department
Governor’s Council
State Department of Industrial Welfare
State Committee On
Edgar C. Levey
Assembly
Municipal Traffic League of California
Industrial Insurance Department
Levy
American Hospital Association
Canada
Australia
Latin America
United States
Hospital Association
Children’s Hospital Association
The
Hospital Dietetic Council
American Association of Hospital Social Workers
American Occupational Therapy Association
Stevenot
Fish and Game Commission
Frank Snook
State Division of Motor Vehicles
Snook
Thomas Allen Box
Sausalito
Alexander R. Heron
Young
Heron
Folsom
San Quentin
James B. Holohan
Court Smith
Morrill
Jack Frost
Gordon Scott
Denham Scott
Navigator
Honolulu
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Scott
Scarborough
Fifth Infantry
California National Guard
San Luis Obispo
Jeffers
State Air Force
Griffith Field
Eddie Rickenbacher
Ghost Vessel Seen in the North Sea
The German navy launches wireless controlled dummy ship trials using the former battleship Zaehringen as a 11,800 ton ghost vessel. The ship will be guided from a nearby torpedo boat, with nonexplosive shells and cork ballast to prevent sinking during gun practice planned for later in the year.
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Berlin
North Sea
Mariner
Zaehringen
Wilhelmshafen
Bird Fetish Found During Mesa Verde Archaeology
A prehistoric bird fetish the finest of its type yet found at Mesa Verde was unearthed during the 1928 annual archaeological investigations led by Supt. Jesse L. Nussbaum. The pendant carved on a three quarter inch bird with drilled eye sockets and rock crystal eyes was discovered among Wetherill mesa cliff dweller ruins, with funds provided for the dig. The find enhances the Mesa Verde museum collection of cliff dweller pottery.
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Muancos
Colo
Mesa Verde
Jesse L. Nussbaum
Department of the Interior
Wetherill Mesa
Mesa Verde Museum
Train Disturbs Nap of Deer on Tracks
A sleeping doe on the Wallkill Valley railroad tracks near Middletown New York caused a halt as the engineer blew the whistle and rang the bell. The deer woke at the last moment, glanced at the approaching train, and leapt into the adjacent woods.
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Middletown
N. Y
Wallkill Valley Railroad
Here
Museum uncovers fine restored pottery collection
The museum reports a substantial discovery of restorable jars and bowls. Superintendent Nussbaum says the newly uncovered specimens are among the best received, notable for both technique and decoration.
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Nussbaum
Wall Street Adopts Photostatic Billing Method
On busy New York Stock Exchange days three to four million share totals trigger late statements as clerks copy entries after month end. Firms test photostatic copies of active accounts posted and balanced to speed mailings, with potential cost savings under review and possible wider adoption.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Paper money boycott in Tonopah and southern Nevada
In Tonopah Nevada and mining camps, one and two dollar bills are shunned as omens of ill luck. Banks ship off these denominations twice a month and most merchants refuse to handle currency under five dollars. Before 1917 coins were predominant. regional ore wealth shaped money habits.
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Tonopah
Nev
Nevada
Japanese to Invite U S Boy Scouts Over Tokyo
The Union of Boy Scouts in Tokyo plans to invite seventeen U S Boy Scout representatives to visit Japan during the emperor coronation in Kyoto next November. The Japan American Association will cover expenses. They will stay in Tokyo and visit Nikko Kamakura Hakone and Nara.
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Tokyo
Japan
Union of Boy Scouts In
United States
Kyoto
Japan-American Association
American Boy Scouts
Nikko Kamakura
Hakone
Nara
Hermit Steer Exiles Self in Grand Canyon
A fifteen year old hermit steer roams Grand Canyon National Park. Tracked by unusually large hooves found in April, the lone animal survived since grazing permits in 1916 under Scott Dunham of Fredonia, Arizona. Park officials plan to allow the steer to live out its years in solitude.
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Grand Canyon
Denver
Colo
Colorado River
Grand Canyon National Park
Forest Service
Scott Dunham
Fredonia
Ariz
Bright Angel Canyon
National Park Service
Japanese Youth Scouts Plan Visits and Camps
The text notes that the Japanese Boy Scouts will host enthronement ceremonies visits and organize several camping trips for their American friends, highlighting cultural exchange and outdoor activities during the trip.
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Japan
Boy Scouts
Dog Finds Aid Mile Off for Stricken Master
Elizabeth City North Carolina a seaman's white collie was credited with getting help a mile away while his owner Captain Earl Davenport lay seriously injured after a boat motor exploded Davenport crawled ashore and Will Snowden the nearest resident a mile distant woke to the collie Laddie barking Snowden followed the dog to the scene noting damage at the front door indicating the dog’s effort to wake him
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Elizabeth City
N. C
Earl Davenport
Will Snowden
Snowden
Laddie
Captain Davenport
Nail Down Desk Covers Stop Heckling in Belgrade Parliament
European parliamentarians disrupt speakers by banging desk covers. In Belgrade the Yugo Slavic skuptchina desks were nailed down during opposition speeches to mute critics, allowing the speaker to deliver a bitter address with little interruption.
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Belgrade
Brimstone Rain Grimly Feared by Romanian Peasants
In Bubhusi Romania peasants fear the apocalypse as a seven hour rain of water and brimstone, with a sulfur smell, marks a second such phenomenon in two months. Local observers report unusual atmospheric events and spiritual dread.
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Bubhusi
Romania
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