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in these days when voters are turning down bond issues right and left. The citizens of Fairfield are unusual. Several 100 of them gathered today at Fairfield's brand new $4 million Civic center, which 79% of the community's residents voted yes to build proud mayor loyal Hanson presided

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over the dedication ceremonies and invited the crowd to tour the new buildings which he said were not only brick and mortar, but represented the spirit of a forward looking community. The new hub of Fairfield. Officialdom is composed of a new city hall hard by a man

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made three acre lake, a new community theater with state and city offices and assembly hall of police building and city council chambers. The biggest single gathering of Fairfield's residents is at Travis Air Force base, which last week experienced three days of racial violence. Senator john Tunney,

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the principal speaker at the occasion, voiced his concern about that incident where they exist, but we must remember that we are one nation, One community. We are not young americans are old americans or white americans and black americans or mexican americans. We are americans. First and

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foremost, I support and understand the desire of so many of our minorities in this country to have a truly equal opportunity in our society and I and I sympathize so greatly with them in having lived their grandparents and their parents, maybe even they're great parents, grandparents

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having lived for so long without having the chance to become a part of the real in group. But on the other hand, we can't allow that natural feeling of despair, discouragement to produce violence, such as we recently had at Travis. And I am very happy that

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the leadership of the base has indicated that they are going to try and create the correct the inequities that exist there, spokesmen say the next major project for the city is more low income housing, Ben Williams, reporting for eyewitness News from Fairfield.