California News Briefs Recap of State Actions and Events
California news briefs cover extended deadlines for adjusted compensation act applications to January 2 1930 military discipline and budget items. It notes paving a way for a legal fight over a Klamath river bridge claim, a Coloma wedding, grass burning to curb fires, and Hickman’s death appeal timeline. It also reports a planned $10 million Benicia Port Costa bridge and state highway bids, fishing restrictions, National Guard training aims, veterans bonds sales, licensing rules, former Senator Works’ death, oil production upticks, prison demographics, election costs, aviation milestones, and California’s official quail proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Departments of Finance and Public Works
F. Rolands
San Francisco
Klamath River Highway
del Norte County
Rolands
Coloma
California
Edwin Markham
Annie Cox
Hilda Herzig
Lotus
Eldorado County
Ben Ruedge
Lodi
C. W. Null
Placerville
William Edward Hickman
Little Marian Parker
Los Angeles
State Supreme Court
Hickman
Southern Pacific
Benicia
Port Costa
Suisun Point
Carquinez Strait
Martinez
Army Point
San Francisco Overland Limited
Shasta Limited
Division of Highways
Bert B. Meek
Bay Shore
San Juan Capistrano
Oxnard
Santa Monica
C. C. Young
Fred G. Stevenot
Natural Resources
Division of Fish and Game
Fish and Game Division
National Guard
R. E. Mittelstaedt
San Luis Obispo
California Veterans’ Welfare
California National Bank of Sacramento
Sacramento
Charles G. Johnson
Johnson
Anglo and London Paris Company
Bank of Italy
U. S. Webb
United States
John D. Works
Ohio County
Indiana
Superior Court
San Diego County
Supreme Court
Republican
American Petroleum Institute
San Quentin
Western Air Express
Mills Field
Los Angeles Field
Spirit of
United States Commerce Department
Michigan
Joseph Grinnell
University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Cooper Ornithological Club
The Spreewald Wends of Germany A Waterway Culture
Prepared by the National Geographic Society this piece surveys the Spreewald Wends, a Slav Indian-like people living in a maze of canals. It describes their waterborne village life with boats as streets, eel and cucumber economy, giant cherry pies, ritual wooden carvings, and lingering superstitions shaping daily life in a low swamp landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Oder
Spreewald
Germany
Poland
Berlin
Spree
Bohemian
Saxony
Brandenburg
Leide
Leipzig
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American Legion
James K. Fisk
State Tax Commission
Robert M. Haig
Columbia University
Commission
Haig
The
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Bayer
Aspirin
Aters
Carter
Peralta Chemical Co
Central Bank
Oakland
Calif
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Chas. W. Ward
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