Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raisin Day at Fresno, Calif, is a typical California fiesta. Started in 1908 by California raisin growers as a promotion scheme, Raisin Day used to be a parade with floats, a cinemactor king & queen. This was replaced after 1928 by a track & field carnival started by Fresno State College in 1927. Chief characteristic of Fresno's annual West Coast Relays turned out to be a tendency toward individual performances so extraordinary that the meet's slogan became: "Where World Records Fall." This helped to make the meet the Pacific Coast equivalent of the East's Penn Relay...
Rinban Masuyama is currently busy with plans for a $60,000 temple for his San Francisco flock, to contain in its cornerstone a pinch of Buddha's ancient ashes and 50,000 lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief...
...Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took place in honor of Buddha's 2,50311! birthday (April 8), with the two Rinbans pouring sweet water on the gold statue in commemoration of the legend that sweet rain fell when Buddha was born. Finally, at Fresno High School athletic field, members of Young Men's Buddhist Associations competed in a Japanese Olympic...
...Fresno Buddhists remarked that their Temple was fortunate. Rarely are Buddhists entitled to celebrate the enthronement of an image, the creation of a Betsu-in, the elevation of a Bishop, and Buddha's birthday at one time...
...Daugherty was by no means the only outsider who laid claim to the Kettleman Kitty. As far back as 1910 Ochsner had been wildcatting on the public domain around Kettleman. Ghosts from this early period arose in the courts by droves. Some 50 people from around Fresno, Calif., known as the Morrow Group, sued for 50% on the ground that they helped Ochsner assemble the claims. Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%. An Ochsner wildcatting promotion called Medallion Oil Co., which lost $100,000 for number of Wall Streeters including Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch, sued not only...