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...Sonoma County district attorney charged Sorensen with violating a state law that makes willful nonsupport of a legitimate child a misdemeanor. To convict Sorensen, Municipal Court Judge James E. Jones Jr. relied partly on the public policy that "all children born in wedlock are presumed the legitimate issue of the marital partners...
California's First Congressional District sweeps 300 miles up the rocky California coastline, from the San Francisco suburbs in Marin County past the vineyards of Sonoma and Napa counties to the rugged timberlands near the Oregon border. The First customarily sent a conservative to Congress until 1958, when liberal Democrat Clem Miller won the seat on his second try. Youthful and highly articulate. Miller was re-elected in 1960. He seemed a sure winner for 1962, so the Democratic-controlled state legislature altered his district only slightly in the gerrymandering that followed the 1960 census...
...cheap table wines are sound value for their price. Gallo's Paisano, for example, is a passable vin ordinaire, even by French standards, and so is Petri's Viva Vino. For quality wines, the experts stick to the Napa Valley for reds, Livermore for whites and Sonoma for Rhines. Among the leaders: Louis Martini's Zinfandel and Folle Blanche, Inglenook's Cabernet Sauvignon, Wente Brothers' Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Chardonnay, Charles Krug's Camay and Camay Beaujolais. California's sparkling wines, on the other hand, are rarely worth the nose tickling; U.S. champagne...
...court Howard refused to say whether he had got the quote from the union official or from another informant. Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Charles McGoldrick ruled that Howard's bylined story and use of direct quotation led the court to assume that the union official made the statement to Howard; thus the newsman had already waived his protection by identifying his source in print. As a result, the judge found Howard guilty of contempt of court and ordered him jailed until he revealed his source. Newsman Howard got out on $100 bail and took his case to California...
Also on the list are: Bruce J. Terris, History, of Eliot and Grosse Pointe, Michigan; John D. Walecka, Chemistry and Physics, of Kirkland and Wauwatose, Wisconsin; Lawrence Wilde, Biology, of Lowell and Sonoma, California; and Phillip Zeidenberg, Mathematics, of Adams and Brooklyn...