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...front of a grocery store on the main street of Imperial, Calif. Mrs. Mullings and the two children were crossing the sidewalk when Mullings, startled by an unfamiliar noise, looked up, saw the wall of the store crack, disintegrate, crash on the heads of his family. In nearby El Centro, a fire wall tumbled down on Clifford Moore. All through rich Imperial Valley, one night last week, ran the earthquake's shivers. They shook down buildings, cracked open the irrigation canal that carries the Valley's water, let precious water flow out over Mexico. Damage: more than...
HARRY R. BURTON Assistant Advertising Agent The Nevada-California Electric Corp. El Centro, Calif...
...staunch and true TIMESTER, I hate to you that TIME erred (issue of July 23) it said men shed their coats and women wore organdie in reached El Centro . . . . the day the temperature reached...
Imperial Valley Press El Centro, Calif...
...Centro in California's Imperial Valley the temperature last week rose to 122° F. Stepping out of doors was like walking into a blast furnace's draft. Snakes and lizards, whose muscles stiffen with rigor caloris at 104°, died. But insects, which can function at 147°, and animals, with a system of maintaining body temperatures at normal regardless of climate, pursued their ordinary activities, as did the men, women and children of El Centro. Women dressed in organdie; men went without coats. Everyone wore hats to prevent sunstroke. But of heat stroke there was no fear...