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Rinban Masuyama is currently busy with plans for a $60,000 temple for his San Francisco flock, to contain in its cornerstone a pinch of Buddha's ancient ashes and 50,000 lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief...
...Daugherty was by no means the only outsider who laid claim to the Kettleman Kitty. As far back as 1910 Ochsner had been wildcatting on the public domain around Kettleman. Ghosts from this early period arose in the courts by droves. Some 50 people from around Fresno, Calif., known as the Morrow Group, sued for 50% on the ground that they helped Ochsner assemble the claims. Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%. An Ochsner wildcatting promotion called Medallion Oil Co., which lost $100,000 for number of Wall Streeters including Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch, sued not only...
...Reina de Los Angeles. There he created a new archbishopric, first to be organized in the U. S. in 43 years. From the Province of San Francisco (established in 1853) the Supreme Pontiff detached Bishop Philip George Scher and 98,000 Catholics of the diocese of Monterey-Fresno. From the Province of Santa Fe (established 1850) he de tached Bishop Daniel James Gercke and 89,000 Catholics of the diocese of Tucson. These, together with San Diego (now a separate diocese to which a bishop has not yet been named), he placed under the supervision of brawny, 61-year...
Died. Charles Kenny McClatchy, 77, militant publisher of California's three famed Daily Bee's (Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno); of pneumonia; in Carmichael. Last year his Sacramento Bee won the Pulitzer Prize for "meritorious public service" (TIME...
...Fresno, Calif., registrations at the Fresno Evening High School boomed when Charles Woessner, accounting machine salesman and onetime Baptist pastor, announced two courses in "How To Fall in Love and Stay...