A few weeks ago I received a text message from my son Michael in Sacramento. It included the photo that is shown in this column.
He is the caretaker for my 100-year-old aunt, Vivian Kirschenman, and was going through some of her old belongings when he found the article from The Californian that was run 45 years ago.
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