Public Employee Strike Ban Drives California Ballot Push
California groups seek 500000 signatures to qualify a June 1978 anti public employee strike initiative. The measure would bar binding arbitration, halt pay increases to end strikes, and allow dismissal of striking public employees. Cities endorse the proposal amid concerns over fire and police service.
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California
Redwood City
Santa Clara
Healdsburg
el Monte Exeter
Napa
Seal Beach
Turlock
Escondido
Bigs
San Bernadino
Richard L. Lesher
Chamber of Commerce of the
U.S
Weekly Special by Jac on Embassies and Amy
A Satirical column critiques State Department aid abroad, recounting Michael Davidoff’s Jamaica arrest over a counterfeit bill and delayed embassy contact. It contrasts bureaucratic indifference with the suggestion of justice review. The piece shifts to Amy Carter’s White House mail load and light political notes on governance and junk mail.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Bangkok
Bop
Jamaica
Michael Davidoff
Potomac
Davidoff
Doris Wilmeth
Anderson Loe Spear
United States
Amy
Soviet Union
Africa
Rhodesia
South Africa
Uncle Sam
Congress
White House
Department of the Interior
United Feature Syndicate
Federal Workforce Waste Sparked by Overbearing Civil Service Rules
A 1977 Los Angeles Times piece critiques federal workers deemed unproductive and describes a system burdened by 21 volumes of Civil Service rules, multiple laws, and strong union influence. It notes President Carter's push to reduce duplication and improve talent use, while urging public pressure to enact reform.
The Good Wife Roles and Modern Media Critique
A speaker argues teaching peace and love forms strong family and society. He contrasts traditional women’s roles with media ridicule and warns against lowering respect for professions, praising Proverbs 31:10-31 as a model of virtue and fulfillment through giving.
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James Dobson
Guayule Rubber Project Surges Then Fades After War
During World War II Kern County residents recall the guayule program as the United States sought rubber. From 1942 to 1946 over a billion guayule seedlings were planted on 30 000 acres nationwide, producing about three million pounds of rubber in California. Late 1945 saw California factories produce 15 tons daily, with Mexico adding double that, but synthetic rubber surpassed it and the guayule project ended in 1946 with fields plowed or burned. The shrub, native to the region, was once tested by Eisenhower for national security after earlier American cultivation in the 1920s.
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Kern County
Malay Peninsula
United States
California
Arvin and
Lamont
Mexico
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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White House and Civil Service Commission
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