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The State - News from Jan. 21, 1986

About 400 members of Neighbors for a Better Visalia demonstrated outside an auto parts firm employing Loren Lowdermilk, Ku Klux Klan “great titan” in California, protesting a proposal to establish the white supremacist organization’s state headquarters in the San Joaquin Valley city. But Lowdermilk said Imperial Wizard Jim Blair in Five Points, Ala., had decided to place the headquarters in San Bernardino instead. The headquarters has been in Fontana.

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