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CALIFORNIA TIDELANDS will soon get a bigger play from oil companies. Under a new bill signed by Governor Goodwin Knight, companies may drill from piers and barges, can lease most of California's 2,000,000 tideland acres on a cash-bonus-plus-royalty (a minimum 16 2/3% of production on proved offshore lands, 12½% on unproved fields) basis. Most exploration up to now has been by slant drilling from the shore...
...Having spent some time in Republican campaigns, I have long since learned that in politics one must live with one's mistakes. My proposal is that we who encouraged and allowed the rise of Goodwin Knight take full responsibility for him. Let's put the welfare of our country first, and keep Goodie here with...
Should the Republican presidential field be open with President Eisenhower not running, Goodwin Knight would be the most formidable Republican available. He is dynamic, forthright and honest. There isn't any Republican of national prominence who compares with "Goodie" as a campaigner...
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MAY 30 COVER STORY OF CALIFORNIA'S COLORFUL GOVERNOR GOODWIN KNIGHT. TIME FAILED TO MENTION, HOWEVER, THAT HIS HAMMY ANTICS ARE JUST INCIDENTAL TO THE FACT THAT HE IS THE MOST CAPABLE GOVERNOR IN THE 48 STATES...
...ordered for breakfast. The gas chamber execution was scheduled for 10 a.m. At 9:05 the governor's office called and postponed the execution because the State Supreme Court had been asked by Barbara's lawyer to hear a new argument. At 10:26 a.m. Governor Goodwin Knight himself called, said the court had rejected the request. A remote-reading stethoscope was being taped over Barbara Graham's heart when a third call came at 10:43, delaying the execution. A new petition had been filed. Cried Barbara: "Why do they torture me? I was ready...