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Except for a brief moment of notoriety in 1978, when a plague of crickets carpeted its main street, nothing much ever happens in Coalinga, Calif, (pop. 7,271). Located in the fertile San Joaquin Valley, it is a sleepy little community whose most notable claim to fame is its unusual name, a garbled version of its early designation as a railroad's "Coaling Station A." Last week Coalinga (pronounced Clinga) was jolted out of its torpor, adding a puzzling footnote to California's seismic history...
...Coalinga, Calif...
Tapped Off. To help solve its water problem, the Air Force has signed up Ionics, Inc., a twelve-year-old Cambridge, Mass, company staffed largely by professorial veterans of M.I.T. and Harvard. Less than two years ago, Ionics unveiled the nation's first municipal water-desalting plant at Coalinga, Calif.; since last June, Ionics has been transforming 250,000 gallons a day of unpotable water into good water for the town of Oxnard. Calif, at a cost of 20? per thousand gallons-half the amount that most U.S. cities pay for their water. About 50 more company plants...
...Edward L. Doheny, widow of one of the principals in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the 20s, agreed to sell her one-fourth interest in California's Coalinga Nose, Pleasant Valley and Guijarral Hills oilfields. Price: $43 million. Buyer: Tide Water Associated...
...Richfield's buying contracts made other companies think twice about buying Richfield when the time came. Mr. McDuffie, president, last week was made receiver. His bond was set at $3,500,000, a Federal record. He is an experienced oilman who began work in a pipe gang in Coalinga field. In 1910 he went with North American Oil Consolidated, in 1915 with Shell Co. of California. Later he was made production manager of the Royal Dutch-Shell group and given a choice of office in either London or Los Angeles. He chose the latter...