Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Light-skinned Alex Bernal was born in California 32 years ago of Mexican parents. Until 1937 he lived in the jampacked slum hovels (shared by Negroes and Mexicans), just beyond the Santa Fe tracks in Fullerton, Calif, (pop. 10,680). Last March, after six years of farming elsewhere, Alex Bernal came home to Fullerton to manage a truck garden, found trouble as well as work...
Notions. In El Paso, Francisco Vega got 60 days in jail as a smuggler of bobby pins. In Tulare, Calif., Aubrey I. Morris, whose truck hit a tree, got busy picking up 15 tons of buttons...
Some of the delegates came from such far places as Chico, Calif, and Quonset Point, R.I. Among them were some of the most famed hot pilots of hot ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...
ALEX BOZANT Los Gatos, Calif...
Sleepy Report. In Oakland, Calif., Mr. & Mrs. Leo W. Gero were reported to have slept while the rug and floor blazed under their bed, slept while the fire apparatus roared up to the house, while the firemen piled in, while they fought the blaze and put it out, and left, carefully locking the door behind them...