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...Fresno, Calif...
...Lewis Johnson moved his growing family of three boys and two girls to California, where he caught on as a section hand for the Southern Pacific. The family ended up in the quiet town of Kingsburg (pop. 1,500), 20 miles south of Fresno in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. For a year, with nothing but a ragged curtain as a dividing "wall," the seven Johnsons made their home in a boxcar on a siding near a cannery...
VERNON W. WHIPPLE Fresno, Calif...
...Republicans-and each other-a little harder. In Santa Ana, Calif., hard by Nixon's home town, Humphrey said the Vice President would be a "negative, nogo, go-slow, not-now, veto type of executive." At a rally of the amateur-politico California Democratic Council in Fresno, Kennedy warned that the party "would be committing a grave error if it ever tried to out-Nixon Nixon."* Nonetheless, at the same rally, the names of Nixon and of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, were booed and hissed (California Governor Pat Brown later apologized, said...
...less than $2,000," he proclaimed to the New York politicos. "There are 15 million on a substandard diet; 17 million are not covered even by the $1 minimum wage. We have more than 3,000,000 unemployed workers with jobless benefits averaging less than $31 a week." In Fresno, Humphrey took up the same theme: "We cannot, in good conscience, enjoy our prosperity when 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 of our fellow human beings walk the streets looking for work...