Arnold and Newlin: California Nevises 1961

Some photos of the Nevis family in California circa 1961. Leonard sometimes invited Bill, Hazel and Laura out sailing on his sailboat. Hazel and Bill visit Clear Lake and its nearby neighbor Borax Lake in northern California. They visit Bill's family in the Central Valley, enjoying a picnic at Mooney Grove Park (now part of Visalia).

Laura, Hazel, Bill, and Leonard on Leonard's sailboat, Newport Beach, California, circa 1961
Laura looks very young here, so this might be circa 1955 instead

Hazel at Borax Lake (also called Little Borax Lake), circa 1961

Hazel, Clear Lake, California circa 1960

picnic with Nevis relatives in Mooney Grove Park, with Hazel on far left, Stanley Mello, Raymond Mello, Don Rose standing

Stanley Mello, Bill Nevis, Don Rose, and Raymond Mello in Mooney Grove, California, 1961

Lucille Nevis with sons Walter and Larry, circa 1961

Hazel, Lucille, Leonard, and Walter at Rim Forest in 1961 or 1962

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Arnold's Story: November 24, 1947 MHN

Hazel writes about their unexpected trip to California's Central Valley, specifically to Hanford, the Nevis familial home. Bill's brother-in-law (Arnold's uncle) Manuel Mello passed away. Manuel's widow Laura took it badly.

The anticommunist incident she describes in the letter was an invasion of the Crescenda-Cañada Democratic club in a private home by twenty men, who wore American Legion hats, threatening the host and his guests. The police were summoned by the Legionnaires said that the Democrats were communists and no charges were filed. The host was Hugh Hardiman, a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, was incensed and made a big noise in the media the next day. Because some Legionnaires wore their hats they could be identified as belonging to Glendale Post 127. It grabbed national attention, and eventually went to trial. Even Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling heard the radio broadcasts and saved the transcripts of the radio interviews and newspaper clips in his archive. Nine of the accused were reporters and photographers and had the charges dropped, but twelve Legionnaires were convicted of disturbing the peace and subsequently got fined.

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ROAL is the Reserve Officers Association League. 

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Carl Cummings may be the close friend that Arnie lost in the war. He stayed in touch with his friend's mother and she gave him a Limoges china plate. It stood in a place of honor in our home in Gainesville for over fifty years. 

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