Letters on bullfighting highways and population shifts
Readers criticize bullfighting images and freeway plans in Lompoc. Beverly J. Smith protests Harris Grade by passing new by passes, while Fred Reed argues against speed limits, urging safe high speed culture. UPI reports the 1970 population center moved to Mascoutah Illinois, with a dedication planned May 16. Succotash origin explained.
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Harris Grade
H & Ocean
North Dakota
Calif
Lompoc Valley
Beverly J. Smith
Washington
UPI
Pacific Ocean
Census Bureau
St. Clair County
Ill
Lawrence Friederich
Mascoutah
Illinois
Centralia
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
United States
Battle County
S.D
Gregory announces hunger strike at San Francisco rally
Dick Gregory, the comedian turned activist, pledged to starve himself on liquids until the Vietnam War ends during an anti war rally in Golden Gate Park. He called the United States the sickest slimiest most degenerate nation in the world today.
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San Francisco
UPI
Dick Gregory
Golden Gate Park
Gregory
United States
Berkeley election crisis prompts Senate hearing on irregularities
A Senate committee in Berkeley opened a hearing into possible irregularities after radicals won city council seats and Warren Widener edged Wilmot Sweeney by 78 votes. The panel focused on security at polling places and late arriving absentee ballots, with 4,000 absentee ballots cast versus 1,200 in 1969.
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Berkeley
UPI
Senate
Warren Widener
Wilmot Sweeney
Widener
Sweeney
John L. Miller
D-Berkeley
Superior Court
Land deals stir California legislature land row near Lake Davis
Plumas County rancher Roy Carmichael says he sold 9.79 acres to Assemblywoman Pauline Davis and Assemblyman L E Townsend at bargain prices to aid agriculture. The Bee quotes Davis planning to subdivide the land and seeks action to lift a construction ban around Lake Davis, a water source for Portola. Townsend bought land nearby. Davis rejects conflict of interest claims and calls it political maneuvering. Local officials report pressure from Davis over the moratorium.
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Sacramento
UPI
Plumas County
California
Charles’ Roy Carmichael
Portola
Lake Davis
Pauline L. Davis
D-Portola
Assembly
L.E Townsend
D-Torrance
Sacramento Bee
Townsend
The
Bee
Davis
Carmichael
Plumas County Planning Commission
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Darlington Raceway
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Porsche
Jaguar
Volvo
SAAB
Fred Reed
E. Locust Lompoc
Baltimore
Chestertown
Mechanicsburgh
Misick- Quatash
Anita Ekberg
Rome
DEPT
Gregory Pledge
Mervyn Dymally
Los Angeles
Dymally
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
Coleman Montgomery
Pauline
Hugh Davies
Impala
Chevelle
Fisher
Chevrolet
Camaro
Nova
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