Wasco memory and modern politics echo in 1950s life
A memoir fragment recalls Wasco’s labor camps and first grade with Mrs. Little, then shifts to broad social critique. It links early rural hardship with heated debates on public decency and breast feeding in public sparked by Antonio Villaraigosa. The piece laments political polarization and urges voters to seek common good amid confusion.
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Hoyett’s
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Broadway Avenue
Mrs. Little
U.S
Thomas Jefferson
America
Sacramento
Antonio Villaraigosa
Los Angeles
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Remembering Lerdo School and a Dodger Outfox Plan
A reflective memoir recalls childhood scenes at Lerdo School near Minter Field in the mid fifties. The writer recounts wearing uncomfortable shoes, tagging along with his brother Fred and friend Damny White on a runaway bid, and hints at planning to change names to Dodger and elude Wasco police next week.
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Lerdo
Minter Field
Fred
Damny White
Wasco Police
The Great Communicator and the Word Made Flesh
An encore column argues that true communication rests in concise truth. It credits God as the greatest communicator, noting Scripture warns against empty verbiage and praising Jesus as the Word that became flesh.
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Jesus
Solomon
God
California voters back Proposition 117 on cougars
By Fred Davis the piece surveys 1990 state measures on cougars. It notes Proposition 117 and bills 1362 1363 1364 proposing ballot replay education funding and easier cougar shooting. It lampoons a proposed Cat House bureaucracy and critiques the tone of wildlife policy.
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California
Dept. of Fish and Game
Assembly
Dominic Cortese
San Jose
Calgas
Ediben
Willie Brown
Long Beach
Fish and Game
Prayer and morals blamed as nation and God clash
A letter urges national repentance and credits prayer with restoring moral order. It cites the Founding Fathers, historic court decisions, and the removal of prayer from schools, arguing America lost its guide but can still observe the National Day of Prayer by law.
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Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
God
Engie
Vitale
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