California News Briefs Chronicle 1929 Developments
Regents affirm move of State Normal School Los Angeles to UC Westwood Hills in 1929 and note related campus plans. Reports cover damages from St Francis Dam flood, new International House at Berkeley, Benson power venture, Donner party land deed, and aviation, irrigation, and forestry developments across multiple counties. Includes air service, Catalina flights, grizzly bear counts, Chrysler Oakland plant, Serra Pilgrimage, and California political shifts.
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Teachers’ College
Regents
University of California
State Normal School
Los Angeles
University
Westwood Hills
St. Francis Dam
Bakersfield
Lillian L. Curtis
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Berkeley
Benson Super-Power Corporation
Georgetown
Delaware
California
Robert H. Fulton
Los Angeles County
W. H. T. Gaban
Redondo Beach
C. W. Oliver
F. Lewis
England
Seven Affairs for Each Mate Findings From New York Survey
The bureau of social hygiene in New York City reports that the average married person has seven love affairs. Among 200 men and women, 681 affairs by men and 677 by women were recorded, with women slightly more fickle. Most attachments occur before marriage. some romancing continues after wedlock. The study, conducted over four years, notes age ranges from 23 to 59, with peaks in youth and later decades, and includes details on causes for affairs and outcomes.
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New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
New York City
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Charles O. Heydt
Katherine B. Davis
Raymond B. Fosdick
Abraham Flexner
French Students Drop German for English
Paris reports a shift in lycée language choice as German loses ground to English. Prewar German was taken by more than half of pupils, now about 30 percent select it. English rises to roughly 40 percent amid beliefs it is easier and more prestigious. Military leaders still favor German as France’s neighbor.
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Paris
France
All Melons in Hawaii Wear Fancy Nightcaps
A playful note describes Hawaii watermelons kept in paper sacks to guard against the Mediterranean fruit fly. Melons ripen nearly year round, mostly grown by Japanese farmers, and marked with date and picking directions. The sight likens the sacks to a field of Japanese lanterns.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Camp Life Too Tame for N. Y. Parson's Son
Richard Milton Potter son of Universalist pastor Charles Francis Potter returned home after four days away. He described hitchhiking and farm work on a road from the Adirondack camp to winter residence. He claimed to have earned more than ten dollars, paying his own board and lodging, and attributed his departure to the tame camp life and talkative women.
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New York
Richard Milton Potter
Charles Francis Potter
Potter
Richard
Old Russian Sect Legalized by Poland
Vilna Poland reports the Staroo briadcy a Russian sect of about fifty thousand people in northeastern marshes has won church legalization after persecutions dating to Czar Peter the Great. He ordered Russians to trim beards and mustaches, which the Staroo briadev deemed a grave sin. They fled cities to forests to freely cultivate their beards.
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Vilna
Poland
Staroobriadcy
Peter the Great
Peter
Europe
Dedicate Home in Sea to Fishermen's Pastor
Ten miles offshore at Star Island Maine a formal dedication honored John Tuck a fisherman’s pastor. Unitarian clergymen attended as the stone parish house beside Gosport’s 128 year old meeting house was inaugurated. An obelisk marks Tuck’s grave. The site features a tidal sand pocket constantly renewed by the sea.
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Star Island
Maine
Tuck
Gosport
John Tuck
Isles of Shoals
Sparrows and Songbirds Increase in Midwest
The United States bureau of biological survey says English sparrows are not vanishing. Though their numbers fell in recent years, they are balancing, with declines in the East. The West and Middle West show increases. American songbirds are not endangered, per officials.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
West
Middle West
Bureau
Deepest Oil Well to Be Drilled Still Deeper
Drilling will resume at the deepest oil well on land owned by the University of Texas in Reagan county West Texas Big Lake field. After reaching 8200 feet the derrick burned causing a halt. Oil was found at 3000 and 6000 feet as temperature tests interest the university bureau of economic geology. No evidence yet of formations earlier than Permian age.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas
Big Lake
Reagan County
Bureau of Economic Geology
Weaker Sex Towanda Woman Rescued After Five Days
Mrs Elmer Benja min of Towanda Pennsylvania aged seventy seven was rescued after living five days and four nights in the mountains. She wandered barefoot for much of the time after losing her shoes and survived on wild berries. She reports only being slightly tired.
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Towanda
Elmer Benjamin
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Donner Party of
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State of
Native Sons of the Golden West
Cora M. Woodbridge
Gov
Young
Alturas
C. E. Rachford
United States
Rachford
Modoc County
Modoc National Forest
Forest Service
Santa Barbara National Forest
San Francisco
J. L. Maddux
Maddux Airlines, Inc
Beacon Airways, Inc
Fresno
Maddux
San Joaquin Valley
Grant DuBois
Beacon Company
Maddux Lines
United States Navy
Sand Point
Naval District
Alameda
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa
Contra Costa
el Dorado
Humboldt
Imperial
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Lake
Lassen
Mariposa
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Modoc
Monterrey
Napa
Orange
Placer
Riverside
Sacramento
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San Mateo
Santa Barbara
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Shasta
Siskiyou
Solano
Stanislaus
Sutter
Tulare
Tuolumne
Ventura
Yolo
Modec
Corcoran Irrigation District
Willows
Glenn County
Lloyd Sutliff
Sutliff
Frank C. Jordan
Pacific Western Broadcasting Federation
Will C. Wood
Banks
Aurelia Henry ‘Reinhardt
Mills College
Oakland
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Burson- Price
Santa Paula
Wilmington
Avalon
Catalina Island
Pacific
Western Air Express, Inc
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Detroit
Plymouth
Serra
C. C. Young
James Rolph Jr
Monterey
San Jose
Watsonville
Salinas
Hollister
Gilroy
King City
Cabrillo
State Highway Commission
Southern California
Jordan
General Petroleum
Corcoran
Kings
Tulare County
California Natural Gas Company of
Fairweather-For-Congress Club
Alfred E. Smith
Kern County
Democratic Central Committee
John H. Fairweather
Reedley
John P. Brooke
N. Y
Midwest
Panama
Kellogg
Keith Merrill
Foreign Service Buildings Commission
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