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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1923
Page
2
Barstow residents are invited to a meeting next month to decide whether the three present railroad crossings should remain and how to protect public safety. The east end crossing could be put under the tracks to eliminate danger, with input sought on keeping crossings open and any suggestions. The meeting is set for 2 00 p m Tuesday August 14.
The department of public instruction moves to halt the board of control, calling it a legislature created body that interferes with state educational bodies. Sup t Wood says the board arbitrarily reviews teacher college courses and withholds salaries until demands are met. Mandamus will be sought in a teacher’s name to compel salary payment while markets and agricultural council funding proceed, Los Angeles seeks funds, and counties brace for motor vehicle act enforcement costs.
The state market director at San Francisco will be retained and rigid inspection of all sugar ships from the Hawaiian Islands will be enforced to prevent fruit fly. The governor plans to boost salaries for agricultural officials, funded by outside agriculturists until legislative funds are authorized.
The attorney general concludes that when a minor is committed to a reform school the school controls the ward and parole supervision rests with the school, not the county of commitment. Incorrigible minors returned from reform schools must be cared for by the county. The opinion was issued at Mrs Nellie Pierce’s request.
Santa Clara farmers and shippers renew efforts before the railroad commission to open direct water transportation via a new bay channel. $140,000 was spent dredging deep water from the bay to South Shore Port midway between Mountain View and Sunnyvale, with pier and terminal facilities built. The commission denied a permit for tracks to reach Gilroy two weeks ago, amid opposition from freight carriers.
The state appoints embers ap to the highway patrol sparking a dispute over patronage, with the Southern City's attorney arguing the law permits favoritism at county expense.
For the first time in recent years the patients at the state hospital for the insane decreased in number. The federal government took over several hundred soldiers insane which brought about the net decrease. Enlargement of present institutions including a $75,000 building for women at Napa are contemplated by the board of control.
Following the announcement that Garret McEnerney had been retained to represent the administration in the budget hearing, the attorney general stated that if state money was used to pay the board of control's special attorney other departments would be entitled to the same privilege.
Additional field officers will be thrown along the Colorado river and the Nevada border, especially in mountain and agricultural counties, where the alfalfa weevil has appeared in California for the first time.
Attorney General Webb rules the state board of control may advance thirty thousand dollars from the emergency fund to the state land colony at Delhi to cover emergency expenditures during the cropping season.
State highway engineer and assistant T. E. Stanton will inspect highways in Oregon and Washington to pick up desirable features for integration into the California road system.
Garret McEnerney has been retained to present the administration's case in a series of suits aimed at untangling the state budget before the Supreme Court on August 17. A claim for 477.45 dollars submitted by the railway commission and delayed by the controller's office opened the way for another budget suit.
C A Storke of Santa Barbara was named to the board of education to fill the vacancy left by the death of George W Stone.
Urass Valley plans to spend 8000 dollars on new street scarifying equipment. A raid on a Japanese social club at Lodi yielded 564 quarts of saki. Newcastle reports a weekly record of 225 car shipments of fruit. Glen Kempley of Chico, known athlete and boxer, lost an arm in a sawmill accident.
The piece notes a charter revision for San Francisco being discussed, Southern Pacific expansion with more sidings at Davis, and a defeated $3,200 bond proposal to advertise Orofilie. It also mentions Sacramento updating its 1888 plumbing ordinance and a contract awarded for a new Bank of Nana building.
A compact reflection on conscience by William Hazlitt noting that a single admonition warns, while a repeated rebuke condemns. The comment ties inner restraint to social harmony, comparing moral admonition with the calm of repose in dialogue.
A brief quotation highlighting a moral comparison between intellect and compassion. It states the brightest intelligence is far less valuable than even a small act of charity attributed to W Nevins. The wording emphasizes charity as the higher virtue.
A concise note presents a faiths era reflection by Sibbes on joy as the ground of a good conscience and moral conduct.
A further postponement is deemed necessary for the sale of 41 percent state highway bonds totaling 4 million dollars due to bond market conditions. The securities will be offered again on August 1.
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