Central Valley photographs

Modesto in the thirties had a community known as Little Arkansas on
one side of a canal bank and one known as Little Oklahoma on the other....
all or most of the families on certain streets in Little Oklahoma were
from the same county or small town in Oklahoma....

The established towns and cities strenuously resisted petitions to
extend roads, sewers and other facilities to the satellite migrant
settlements and regarded annexation as unthinkable. In such a setting
it is not surprising that Okies and Arkies were promptly stereotyped
as a minority. The characteristics that were assigned to them were,
of course, that they were dirty, shiftless, of loose sexual morals,
improvident, lazy, and had far, far too many children.

At the high point of this anti-Okie hullabaoo, a sign appeared in
the foyer of a second-rate Bakersfield movie house which read:
"Negroes and Okies upstairs."
--Carey McWilliams, article on John Steinbeck,
"A Man, a Place, and a Time"

Police are still investigating, but of the 31,000 car break-ins reported in San Francisco last year, less than two percent have been prosecuted, according to police.

Officers were called to a robbery in progress. When they got there, officers saw employees fighting with Kellia Howard, 26, of Ceres. Officers took Howard into custody for the robbery.

Howard later revealed she wasn’t alone and led officers to a nearby hotel. There, officers found Howard’s father, 44-year-old Augustine Melena, of Ceres.

Officers searched Melena’s vehicle on probation and found several stolen purses and wallets. From this evidence, officers were able to determine the crime spree stretched from Davis to Turlock.