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...month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...
Since 1900, said Judge Adlow last week, 327 men have died from prize-ring injuries. There were six fatalities last year. In the same week that Sanders was killed, Ralph Weiser lost his life in Klamath Falls, Ore. "In the absence of a law legalizing boxing matches, an assault entailing such consequence would constitute murder . . . Both of the medical examiners insisted that the objective of boxers who engage in a contest is to deliver a knockout punch. In their opinion a knockout punch means nothing more than to inflict a brain injury on the contestant...
Cold Comfort. In Klamath Falls, Ore., Housewife Pearl Ray, treated for second-and third-degree burns, complained bitterly that while she was away from home at a party, "someone had played a dirty trick" by building a fire in a normally cold kitchen wood range on which she was accustomed to sitting...
Literacy Test. In Klamath Falls, Ore., Clarence Strode, 22, after a hitch in prison during which he had been taught to read and write, was arrested for passing bad checks...
...pioneer woman in a gingham dress and a sunbonnet . . not this trash." Said Oswald West, 80, a former governor of Oregon: "The pioneer mothers would rise up out of their graves and pin a horse blanket around the hussy." "The pioneers," snapped Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald & News, "liked 'em slimmer...