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But when a California Big Freeze hits the Southern citrus region, it's serious business. After a pocket of air from the North Pole descended on Southern California last month and gripped the orange groves in its 25-degree chill, nearly one half of the crop was lost. Local newspapers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light the Pots | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

The idea behind smudging is ridiculously simple. Squatting in the middle of orange groves all over California are filthy black smudge pots. The pots have a ten-gallon belly at the bottom and a four-foot smokestack rising out of the belly. There's a hole on the top of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light the Pots | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

In the cozy suburban homes, The Call relieves a lot of anxieties. Many highschoolers have gone to bed or left for parties without doing any school-work, taking the calculated gamble that they will not have to show up in school the next day. Sometimes the smudging call doesn't...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light the Pots | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

SMUDGERS have thirty minutes from the time The Call comes until the time they have to show up at the smudging barn, and most of those minutes are taken up trying to find enough clothes to protect bodies against the unleashed natural fury of a smudging night. Experienced smudgers know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light the Pots | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

The glades and groves of Hellas now sing your praises

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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