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...Firebaugh have more to lose. "This is the first time water has ever been rationed like this," says Sarah Clark Woolf, spokeswoman for Westlands Water District, which has been forced to cut irrigation supplies to hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural land. California Farm Bureau Federation President Doug Mosebar estimates that Fresno County could lose 20% to 30% of its agricultural output this season...
...fish, and yet we're losing crops," says almond farmer Cort Blackburn. "You cannot put the fish in front of all the people." Chris Cardella, a farmer on the east side of Firebaugh, agrees: "We need legislature to overrule all our environmental impacts because humans come first over fish." Mosebar dismisses such "myopic" thinking: "If we're assisting the fish, we're also assisting our food production." He hopes this crisis will spawn better infrastructure for moving and storing water. "We're at a crossroads right now," he says. "This is a wakeup call...
...worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...
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