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Show IT MIGHT GET CLOSER TO HOME The federal government is suing the state of California to gain possession of her oil tidelands. Recently the state of Louisiana came to the defense of California, for the reason that Louisiana has the foresight to realize that her own oil tidelands on the gulf are at stake if California loses the fight with the federal government. It is shortsighted for the various states to not be interested in each other's problems prob-lems when one is under attack, because each federal encroachment on a state's rights sets a precedent to be extended to all states. So far Louisiana is the only state to make a stand with California to perpetuate ownership owner-ship of her tidelands, mainly because few states possess such wealth under their tide waters but they may have other wealth that a verdict against California could be stretched to cover. If the federal government can successfully success-fully attack states to secure lands or minerals min-erals it may covet, and there is no concerted opposition, individual states may eventually find themselves in possession of nothing but jack rabbits, slag and beach combings. |