Redlands gun talk mirrors state and national debate
The Redlands City Council is urged to delay any municipal gun control ordinance until state and federal actions clarify the landscape. Across California and Washington, lawmakers push stronger gun laws as national politics mix with local concerns. Travel, big country notions, and reflections on American unity pepper opinions in a broad column about gun policy, media reports, and public interest.
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Redlands
Daily News
Riverside
Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors
San Francisco
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White House
Johnson
Sacramento
Jesse Unruh
California
Senator Kennedy
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UPI
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Hawaii
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England
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Almanac Today June 28 1968 events and notes
Almanac entry for Friday June 28 1968 notes the 180th day of the year with 186 remaining, moon phase between new and first quarter, Saturn as morning star and Jupiter as evening star. Highlights include Labor Day holiday for federal employees in 1894, U S Panama Canal purchase in 1902, Versailles Treaty in 1919, MacArthur reconquest of Luzon in 1945, plus a thought on Euripides a sympathetic wife and a note on censors Roman census duties.
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Congress
United States
Panama Canal
France
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Philippines
Fragments on Redlands and Stanford Alumni Nostalgia
A reader shares nostalgic observations comparing University of Redlands and Stanford. He notes campus changes since 1929, describes Stanford’s new four story study hall library with music rooms and language labs, and recounts how alumni gauge time by copper class plaques and the generation gap. The piece mentions lost books worth about $50,000, a turnstile entry system, and a cab ride between campuses.
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University of Redlands
Stanford
Memorial Chapel
Rickey’s Hayatt House
Tressider Memorial Union
Moore
Palo Alto
Greyhoad
Redlands Yesterdays Five Years Ago Highlights
Redlands records include a high of 91 and a low of 53 with a 20 000 square foot minimum lot size set by the county Planning Commission to govern residential standards. Norton AFB ends jet engine overhaul as 5 714th J 57 engines wrap up over six years.
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Sunset Drive Loop
County Planning Commission
San Bernardino
Norton Afb
Robert E. Conney
Questers Antique Study Group
Humphrey and Vietnam stance questioned by rivals
Washington focus on Hubert Humphrey's Vietnam views surfaces in a network of aides and commentators. Harris says Humphrey never considered resigning as VP, while others suggest he privately opposed or tempered Johnson's policy. Critics warn silence or equivocation could harm his credibility if he seeks the presidency.
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Washington
Hubert Humphrey
Fred Harris
Okla
Harris
John Caldwell Calhoun
Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
South Carolina
Humphrey
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
White House
Vietnam
Mike Mansfield
Bill Moyers
Chalmers Roberts
Mexico City
Bob Kennedy
Induction protest quoted by Hershey on anti draft stance
Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the Selective Service System, says he has no quarrel with antidraft demonstrations while noting the act of protecting a fellow draftee from induction interferes with his right to obey. The remark contrasts the protestors' stance with the duty to report for service.
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Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service System
How not to sell yourself in New York satire
A humorous column discusses pushy sales tactics and a boastful salesman named Ralph who pressures a young man to sign up for a course promising $15,000 yearly earnings. It contrasts with anecdotes about anesthesia patients revealing thoughts and a restaurant owner mispronouncing wines to boost sales. Also notes a silent room at Bell Labs in New Jersey reducing reflections by 99.98 percent.
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Ralph
Campus rebels no sweat for ideals
Washington sees SDS tactics echoing Hitler Mao and Ho Chi Minh as student protests at Columbia turn violent. The piece argues SDS leaders fail to discipline or sacrifice, remain isolated from the poor and workers, and rely on rhetoric over real organizing, while youths and women provoke police with learned revolutionary methods.
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Democratic Society
Adolph Hitler
Che Guevarra
Mao Tsetung
Ho Chi Minh
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SDS
Moon Squad
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Mao
Che
Vietnam
Cuba
Germany
China
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David Lynn
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Claude M. Day
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M. L. Miller
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