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...HEALDSBURG, CALIF...
...early '50s the Lyttons consisted of two extended families, the Steeles and the Myerses, who were the sole occupants of a 50-acre reservation for homeless Indians north of Healdsburg, Calif. The families sometimes feuded, but they ultimately shared a common dream: they wanted to be landowners, not tenants on a reservation. In 1952 John and Dolores Myers wrote the BIA asking "to secure a patent fee or a deed to this property." The Steeles sent a similar letter: they, too, wanted the reservation land deeded to them personally...
...turned over his asphalt business to his son and founded Oakville Vineyards in the Napa Valley, a prime wine area north of San Francisco. Russell Green gave up his $100,000-a-year job as president of Signal Oil & Gas Co. to buy the sleepy Simi Winery Co. in Healdsburg. Both Switzerland's Nestlé and Connecticut's Heublein purchased Napa Valley wineries last year. Though it can take a decade to reap any return from new vines, Widmer's Wine Cellars of New York, now controlled by mustard-making R.T. French Co., is spending...
...site of the earth-power plant will be a hot spot near Healdsburg, 60 miles north of San Francisco, where hot springs and fumaroles abound. President Barkman C. McCabe of Magma Power thinks that a crack in the earth's crust allowed magma from the earth's hot interior to rise fairly near the surface. Magma is uneasy stuff, an intensely hot solution of steam and other gases in melted rock. When it bursts out in large quantities, it builds a volcano. When it does not quite break loose, it creates a geothermal area like the place near...
Maria's benefactor is a dapper millionaire banker from Healdsburg, Calif, named Benjamin Bloom. "Benny," as he is known to everybody in San Salvador, built the hospital 22 years ago, and gave it to the government. His one proviso: that he (and after his death, his wife Aline) should have a free hand in running...