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Symbolizing this new unity was the California Democratic Council, established at Fresno in 1953. The CDC -- an association of volunteer, issue-oriented young professional people -- provided door-bell-pushers and envelope-stuffers to any Democrat who needed help...
...picket lines. The Delano Record, the town's conservative bi-weekly newspaper, and the California Farmer, the grower's newspaper, referred to the union as Communist-dominated. Berkeley students who came down to Delano to help in the Huelga were quickly labelled "outside agitators." The Catholic bishop in Fresno, at first a Huelga sympathizer, turned against the strike and claimed that the people were not being honestly represented...
Landing a bit later in Delano, they were met by two priests representing the local bishop, Aloysius Willinger of Monterey-Fresno. They told the flying fathers to stop inciting the strike: "The bishop feels that this is none of your business and asks that you go back to your own diocese." Protested Kenny, later on: "Where the poor are, Christ should...
...airparks. Last week Atlanta Industrial Designer H. McKinley Conway Jr., who has planned several airparks, flew to Meridian, Miss., to confer with town officials who want to build one there. There is, of course, still the problem of commuting between home and work-but the Sierra Sky Park in Fresno, Calif., has solved even that. Owners of its 105 residential lots can land on the community airstrip, taxi up to their homes, then park in their own planeport...
...pistols and a rifle, one Guard unit opened up for ten minutes with a machine gun on a band of rioters, sent them fleeing. SATURDAY By midday, the number of Guardsmen patrolling the area had swelled to 4,000 and 700 more were being flown in from Fresno. They set about "sweeping" three separate zones totaling 40 blocks; the largest was a section of Watts bounded by Century Boulevard, Central Avenue, Compton Avenue, and 103rd and 104th Streets. Forming a skirmish line that extended across a street from sidewalk to sidewalk, and carrying M-l and M-14 rifles with...