February 13, 1959: Merced County Administrative Council members heard at their meeting Monday in Merced that county schools may receive federal funds for improving education in science, mathematics and foreign languages.
The funds would come from the National Defense Education Act program, and would be on a basis of need. The report was presented to the group by Dr. Leonard Christensen and Mrs. Faye G. Dyer, county schools office consultants who attended a recent meeting on the program in Fresno recently.
They said that school districts would be required to submit requests for assistance either individually or collectively. The consultants said they will conduct future meetings with school administrators to help them make their requests.
County Schools Supt. H. E. Newbold asked the administrators for their views on staging an economic education workshop. He said the workshop would be open to administrators, teachers and interested lay people, and would deal with economics in education. The group endorsed the project, and Newbold said he would begin arranging the workshop.
Representatives from six of the county's seven high school districts were present in addition to most of the elementary school districts.
February 13, 1979
OLD WARRANTS ARE DISMISSED:
If you never paid that 1973 speeding ticket and have been living in fear of arrest ever since, stop worrying. The case against you probably has been dropped.
Almost all warrants more than 5 years old have been dismissed by Merced County Municipal Court, Court Administrator Rollin Moore has confirmed. He said there are hundreds or even thousands of such warrants.
Traffic tickets might make up about 90 percent of those warrants, said Moore. In those cases, the suspects did not pay the ticket and never showed up in court. The unpaid warrant for running a stop sign might total $85 after bail, failure-to-appear charge fees, he estimated.
Merced County District Attorney Patrick Hallford asked the old warrants be dismissed because it would be hard to prosecute the old cases or win convictions, added the court administrator.
The district attorney probably will not ask for cancellation of warrants for serious crimes such as murder, or for robbery if his office thinks it still can track down suspects, said Moore.
The warrants being dismissed may never have been served because officers were unable to find out-of-county suspects, he said.
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