If you fought to defend your country...

[Bill Stewart]

>>     Stanford was in Palo Alto the last time I looked... is the "City of
>>     Stanford" a new chartered entity inside Palo Alto? to permit "real"
>>     law enforcement, not just hired guns?

At 02:08 PM 11/30/1997 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
>Stanford used to be a real town.  Palo Alto annexed a number of
>surrounding smaller towns in the 50s.  The town of Mayfield is one; it
>consisted of the area just south and east of Stanford, where California
>street is now.

I'd been under the impression that Palo Alto didn't _want_ to have
the campus within its boundaries - too much risk of students voting
in city elections while living in the dorms.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts at ix.netcom.com
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