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During his two days in California, Carter also talked politics with Governor Jerry Brown, who still would not publicly endorse him. Doffing his jacket, Carter traded repartee with an audience in the farm community of Merced. When a farmer complained about immigrants' not wanting to work, Carter cracked, without...
So ended one of the most bizarre kidnaping cases in California history. Timothy White, the five-year-old, had been abducted in Ukiah on Valentine's Day, while on his way home from kindergarten. Police charged that he was taken by a drifter named Kenneth Parnell, 48, who cropped...
Both boys were healthy and fit when they were reunited with their families, although at first Timmy White's mother did not recognize him because of his dyed hair. Stayner's parents had never moved from their home in Merced during the years of his captivity, hoping that...
In Adams' album from his 1916 trip, with its tiny sodium-browned prints of the Merced River, Half Dome and the scarps of the great valley, one can see the latent images of his work, struggling to become photographs. But as yet they were just vacation snapshots. "They couldn't...
"Finding gold is like playing blackjack in Reno-it's a sport and a game of chance," says James Manion, 29, an unemployed Sacramento warehouseman. He claims to have found two nuggets last month worth $1,500. In search of more, he put on scuba gear and spent four...