Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain-bordered Central Valley, a green, 450-mile finger veined by rivers and stretching half the length of the state, nothing buzzes quite so persistently as the Bees. Last week the industrious hum of the three Bee papers (combined circulation 284,755), issuing from hives in Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto, rose louder than ever. For the first time in its 102 years of publication, the Sacramento Bee came out with a Sunday edition...
Unredeemed. In Fresno, Calif., a gunman tried to rob Sam's Fairway Grocery wearing a sheet of trading stamps over his face with stamps ripped out to make eye holes...
Warmerdam, who has been coaching at Fresno State College, will advise pole vaulters and high jumpers in practice and through personal talks. He is scheduled to arrive here Oct. 23 and will stay through the next...
After two weeks and fifty hours of music, Conductors Steinberg and Pritchard agreed on three "equal merit" awards, signifying that no single winner stood out sharply above the others. The winners: India's Zubin Mehta, 22; Detroit-born Haig Yaghjian (pronounced Yog-jun), 33, founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
Having recently been through the mill, most farmers were being prudent with their new prosperity. In Fresno, Calif., heart of the San Joaquin Valley machine-farming area, Julius Neilsen, Bank of America farm-loan representative, said: "I never saw so many farmers come in ahead of time and pay off their loans." The Iowa Life Insurance Co. reported its sales to farmers through April were up 78% over last year. And, said Red Oak Agent Stanley Fagerland: "When the farmer gets around to buying life insurance, you know he is getting back on his feet...