The California Geographer Vol. 09 (1968)Journal of California Geographical Societyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2152742024-03-28T09:22:57Z2024-03-28T09:22:57ZA selected California bibliography: water resources-Part IIDurrenberger, Robert W.http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/23092020-06-22T22:56:17Z1968-01-01T00:00:00ZA selected California bibliography: water resources-Part II
Durrenberger, Robert W.
The following items have been selected because of their usefulness to geographers and because they are representative of a larger body of literature readily available in the field of water resources. Only a limited number of publications by governmental agencies is listed.
1968-01-01T00:00:00ZJohn William Reith: March 22, 1914 - August 9, 1967Wake, William H.http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/23082020-06-23T00:25:42Z1968-01-01T00:00:00ZJohn William Reith: March 22, 1914 - August 9, 1967
Wake, William H.
"He joined the USC faculty in 1948 and was both an author and
lecturer." This simple statement in the Torrance Press Herald, August 23,
1967, announcing that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors had
adjourned in memory of the death of John W.(Jack)Reith, August 9 at
Mount Sinai Hospital after a long illness with cancer does not begin to tell
the story of Jack's nineteen years of contributions to the field of geography,
the growth and development of his students, and his efforts to build a
strong geography program in the University of Southern California curriculum.
1968-01-01T00:00:00ZThe spatial association of the vote for some elective offices and Proposition 14 in California, 1964 and 1966Gibson, Lay Jameshttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/23072020-06-23T01:06:20Z1968-01-01T00:00:00ZThe spatial association of the vote for some elective offices and Proposition 14 in California, 1964 and 1966
Gibson, Lay James
On November 3, 1964 the voters of California overwhelmingly passed
Proposition 14, an initative measure designed to do away with the Rumford
(fair housing) Act.1 In the months that preceded this vote the campaign for
1nd against Proposition 14 was heated, and there was widespread specttlation
as to the effect of this proposition on the vote for United States
Senator in the same election. Proposition 14 played an important role
in the campaign of Pierre Salinger, a vocal opponent, and also, if by
default, in the campaign of George Murphy, who remained relatively silent
on the issue. In May, 1966, the State Supreme Court ruled that Proposition
14 was unconstitutional, thus restoring the authority of the Rumford Act.
The now two-year-old and legally impotent proposition was by no means
dead. The State Poll, published in the Los Angeles Times in September,
1965, showed that the race relations was the issue of number one importance
to the electorate of California.2 The results of a State Poll published in
the Los Angeles Times in June, 1966, indicated that the race relations was
the number two issue and that Proposition 14, this time mentioned
specifically, was the ninth most important issue identified.3 Proposition 14 played a role in the conduct of the campaigns of many of the candidates
for election in 1966 and was a common issue raised by the press in their
daily appraisals of the campaigns. Following the November, 1966, elections
Proposition 14 played a prominent role in the analyses of Governor Brown's
defeat.
1968-01-01T00:00:00ZThe influence of several factors of site on the giant sequoiasBlick, James D.http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/23062020-06-23T01:02:39Z1968-01-01T00:00:00ZThe influence of several factors of site on the giant sequoias
Blick, James D.
The Giant Sequoias (Sequoia gigantea or Sequoiadendron giganteum)
are among the more interesting members of the earth's B.ora. Their great age
and size has attracted attention since the trees were first classified by John
Lindley in 1853.
It was this very spotty and limited occurrance of the Giant Sequoias
which led the author to investigate some aspects of their ecology in hopes
of accounting for the present pattern of growth. This paper is an outgrowth
of a part of that study, which continues. Among the more obvious but nonetheless
important factors here considered are those of site; namely, elevation,
exposure, position on the slope, and proximity to water. Data were available
for 65 of the 70 groves.
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