Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about to destroy Southern California for its sinfulness. Driven by this conviction, nearly 600 members of half a dozen pentecostal churches in the Golden State are pulling up stakes and getting out before the holocaust...
Before leaving California, Abernathy repeated his vision to several other pentecostal congregations. Most of them, too, have decided to move. Last month more than 100 members of a church in Avenal, 50 miles southwest of Fresno, emigrated to Kennett, Mo. A 50-member congregation in Porterville transferred to Independence, Mo. One hundred members of a church in Lompoc also trekked to Georgia. The Rev. Robert Theobold, pastor of the Friendly Bible Apostolic Church at Port Hueneme, plans to resettle his congregation of 90 men, women and children in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Theobold, who claims to have received mystical confirmation of Abernathy...
While there are personal hardships involved, members of the emigrating churches are convinced that they are obeying God's will in leaving their homes and jobs. They also believe that Southern California has only itself to blame for the imminent disaster. Pastor Theobold despairingly cites "the amount of wickedness here: Hollywood, big business, prosperity, homosexuality, topless places." If the horrible event happens, seismologists will not be surprised. They have repeatedly warned that, because of the stresses along the San Andreas fault extending through the state, California is overdue for a disastrous earthquake...
...countdown came over an amplified telephone hookup beamed from Cleveland. "One minute before race time, gentlemen," said the starter. In Pasadena, Calif., the three-man team starting from California Institute of Technology climbed into their red-and-white Volkswagen bus, which sported a sign reading "Socket-to-me." Across the continent, in Cambridge, Mass., a two-man competing team slipped into their modified white Corvair. Said the starter: "Get ready to throw your switches." Then, with a hum rather than the usual roar, the Great Electric-Car Race...
What needs to be done in Kansas can be done, as California and Colorado and, to a lesser extent, Massachusetts and Illinois have shown. In California, psychiatric aides have been upgraded to the rank of technicians, starting at $400 a month with an $80 raise at the end of a year. After in-service education, they can advance to positions of recognized responsibility, with appropriate pay raises to a top of $1,048 a month. Several of the Topeka State aides' minor grievances can be adjusted by simple administrative action, if Dr. Bay and other officials are willing. Salaries...