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Interstate 5, south of Modesto, is one of the most desolate and dreary stretches of road in the world. Skirting Bakersfield. Fresno, Chico, and Merced, it slices north through the unending flatland of California's Great Central Valley. It is a road of dust and heat and pale skies and dull landscapes and garish billboards peeling under the baking sun. Most of the year it is empty...
...pair agree on almost everything, which often leads to the confused comment: "I read it in 'Ann Landers'-or was it 'Dear Abby'?" Some connoisseurs think they can detect a difference. When the Modesto Bee (circ. 65,490) asked its readers last October to vote on which column to run, Landers won by a landslide, 837 to 97. But most readers-and editors -agree with Austin American-Statesman (circ. 128,093) Managing Editor Jeff Bruce, whose paper, like many others, carries both columns. Says he: "I suspect most readers cannot tell one from the other...
DIED. Eleanor Grace McClatchy, 85, pioneering woman publisher who for 42 years ran McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., a chain that includes the Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees in California, the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and other dailies; in Sacramento. McClatchy was a playwrighting student at Columbia University when her father's death in 1936 propelled her into the presidency of the company. She was aggressive in acquiring one television and several radio stations, and in using her newspapers' influence to champion liberal candidates and causes, but personally she remained extremely reticent. In a rare interview, she once said...
...such tactics some clinics are able to return as many as 65% of back sufferers to productive, if not pain-free, lives. Robert Sumpter, 45, of Modesto, Calif., sought out Hosobuchi after four back operations and a bout with the bone infection osteo myelitis that left him in such great pain that he required constant medication with narcotics. At first, Sumpter had to use the transmitter four times a day. Now he resorts to it only once daily. He also has resumed a life-style that he had totally abandoned because of his addiction. Says he, with undisguised relief...
...much of the water comes down the Colorado River through Arizona and Colorado, and farmers there are demanding a bigger share. Intense lobbying in Congress by white-water rafters and others has delayed for more than a year full use of the $341 million New Melones Dam near Modesto; other environmentalists are stalling plans for a 43-mile canal that would supply more water for the arid south...