Brown proposes six point plan to limit campaign money
California Secretary of State Edmund G Brown Jr urges campaign reform to curb spending and influence. He calls for a $5000 contribution cap per candidate and ballot measure, reduced campaign mail costs, free and taxed media access, and lower advertising rates, plus earlier disclosure and broader voter registration efforts.
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Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
Los Angeles County
The
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U.S
Taven
California
Congress
Speer
Los Angeles
League of Women Voters
Hickses celebrate 50th wedding anniversary in Long Beach
Mr and Mrs Lee Roy Hicks of Long Beach marked their golden wedding anniversary with a reception at the Long Beach home of their daughter and son in law Bill Wales. The couple married October 1 1921 in Pasadena and have resided in the Long Beach area for 25 years. Mr Hicks retired in 1965 from Shell Oil Co. The family includes 6 children 13 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. They are members of First Baptist Church Wilmington.
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Lee Roy Hicks
Long Beach
Bill Wales
Bill Hicks
San Luis Obispo
Wred Hicks
Anaheim
Jos Hicks
Bark Abharonian
Alhambray
Gene Cully
Escondido
al Hicks
Bob Hicks
Oklahoma City
Okla
the Hicks
Pasadena
Long
Couples reveal wedding plans for several couples
Maureen Aunt Tylee will wed Harold George Gadbay in June next year. Linda Anne McComb plans to marry Michael Joseph Curran. Marcia Himmelstein-Waldman is to marry Richard Daniel Waldman on December 19. Mary Neiberger is set to wed Donald McConnell on November 20. Parents of each couple listed from Long Beach and surrounding areas.
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Maureen
Tylee
Harold George Gadbay
George W. Tyler Jr
Lakewood
Harold Gadbaw
Long Beach
Linda Anne. McComb
Howard R. McComb
Michael Joseph Curran
Laurence. L. Curran
Anaheim
Stein
Fred Himmelstein
Richard Daniel Waldman
Martin Waldman
Mary Neiberger
Donald McConnell
Robert Neiberger
A.L. McConnell
Dear Abby critics loneliness and aging lovers plea
The letter from a 63 year old widow and a 66 year old widower asks why society shames older couples who seek companionship and possible marriage. They fear loss of pensions if they wed and reveal families condemn their living arrangement. A reader teases about obituary wording with a light remark about six spouses.
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Abby
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Douglas A Normingtons to note 50th anniversary
Mr and Mrs Douglas A Normington celebrate a golden wedding anniversary with a Sunday reception at Hughes Hall California Heights United Methodist Church. Hosts are daughters Mrs Roger T Graham and Mrs William Kofahl. They have seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Douglas A. Normington
Hughes Hall
California Heights United Methodist Church
Roger T. Graham
Long Beach
William 8. Kofah
Redondo Beach
Normington
Minnesota
Corona
St. Luke’s Episcopal
Wonderful Weddings Seeks to Guide Complex Union Plans
The authors behind Wonderful Weddings Inc recount decades of charity event planning and launch into wedding planning. They run Washington Whirl-Around tours for visitors and say weddings demand professional help, with 50 ceremonies yearly and challenges from interfaith rites to rushed planning for quick itineraries. They also operate tours of embassies and notable DC sites, linking tourism to philanthropy through an Oktoberfest fundraiser for the Sid Association of the District of Columbia.
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Ellen Proxmire
Wisconsin
Barbara Boggs
House
Hale Boggs
Gretchen Poston
Washington
Maynard Mickler
Charles Schwartz
Wonderful Weddings, Inc
Having Babies A Pain Men Could Never Feel
Column on gender roles and childbirth humor contrasts men's imagined absurdities with women's real experience. Readers recall husbands’ quirks and reactions, from organized would‑be surrogates to hypochondriacs, as the author suggests women handle labor and birth while men fumble with plans and car metaphors.
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Claude
Gregory
Liz
Harold
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