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...would be possible to lead Sacramento water directly to thirsty Bakersfield at the distant southern end of the Central Valley, but there is an easier way. If farmers on the lower San Joaquin are given Sacramento water, they will not need the San Joaquin water that they use now. Then the main flow of the San Joaquin can be diverted well upstream and used as far south as Bakersfield. This is "water exchange...
...been fighting the cockfighters. S.P.C.A. officials estimate that a secret syndicate of 18 to 20 "big-wheel" promoters in California operate a cockfight business running to more than a million dollars annually. With the efficiency of an underground boxing commission, "the syndicate" coordinates matches in "mains" (bigtime cockpits) at Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Monterey, Visalia and El Centro, issues guides to lesser known pits in vineyards nearby. It also keeps tabs on championships, betting odds and bird prices, buys off the law when...
...deep through the business district of Reno: it smashed floating trees into plate-glass windows, poured into hundreds of lobbies, showrooms and basements, and even forced round-the-clock gambling places to close up. On the California side of the mountains there were floods from Marysville south to Bakersfield; 15,000 were driven from their homes, crops were ruined, livestock drowned and 326,000 acres submerged...
...Bakersfield, Calif...
...flew the birthday flight," said Pilot Michael Seeley of Bakersfield, Calif. "Why doesn't somebody tell us these things...