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...flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply of its own. To get their water, Teviston people had to go to nearby Pixley or Earlimart and haul it back in battered milk cans and oil drums. They measured their status by the number of cans and drums that they could acquire...
This children's crusade was the result of preaching. An English teacher named Mrs. Erma Pixley deeply agreed with irate parents who protested that their children were learning little of manners and less of morals in school. The school superintendent asked Mrs. Pixley to see what she could do. She got out a 112-page booklet explaining her idea: that the intangibles should be taught along with tangibles. Mathematics classes were a good place to talk about precision, accuracy and orderliness; foreign languages, international good will; science, "reverence for the wonders of the universe and humility be fore...
Last week, well pleased with Mrs. Pixley's program, the Los Angeles school board gave her the high-sounding title of "Supervisor of Moral and Spiritual Values for the School System of the City of Los Angeles...
...London's St. Swithin's Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining companies, banks and banking houses, speculators, arbitragers. On Saturdays the meetings open...
...Argonaut, founded in 1877 by Frank Pixley and Fred Somers, enjoyed a bombastic heyday under their regime. Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce were early contributors. As editor from 1907 to 1924 the gifted Alfred Holman maintained a high standard of literary excellence. Though parts of the paper seem dull nowadays, San Franciscans point with pride to Editor Morphy's irascible editorials. He is well qualified to tell about the Big Wind in Ireland for he was born and educated there. Onetime gravedigger and longshoreman, he joined the Argonaut in 1925 with a background of 20 years vagabond-reporting...