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When Mrs. Floyd Hutchens, 33, of El Cajon, bore twin sons in San Diego's Grossmont Hospital July 2, they were joined for 1½ inches at the base of their spines. This is the commonest form of joining in "Siamese" twins, but there was only one case in U.S. medical annals where both twins so joined had survived an operation to separate them...
Next Case, Please. In El Cajon, Calif., on trial for burglary, Theodore Watts interrupted his attorney's arguments, told the judge: "Let's stop this farce. I'm guilty and should be sent to jail...
...center on the U.S. southern flank-the Los Angeles area. Here they had a strictly coastal job, all within range of naval guns (and therefore their invasion might take the air-land-sea character of British attacks in Libya). After seizing Los Angeles they would strike out for Saugus, Cajon and San Jacinto Passes, sealing the coastal strip, and again hold tight. (Development, since Homer Lea wrote, of the San Diego base would suggest the necessity of a flanking attack, perhaps through Lower California...
Right out of the late great William Henry Hudson's The Naturalist in La Plata might have come this bit from Mrs. J. W. Peiterson of El Cajon Valley (Calif.) News: "An old family horse belonging to the Marcks Brothers of Lakeside, and raised by them from a colt on their ranch above El Capitan, died last week. Last year he was turned out to green pastures, his twenty-five years of intimate and dependable service ended. Weeks on end, the old fellow roamed where he pleased and was seldom seen...