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...than 20,000. On California's Mojave Desert, population has soared 360% (from 32,000 to 147,000); one of its new cities, Ridgecrest, not even an entity in 1940, already counts 6,700 residents and is steadily climbing. The fertile Coachella Valley, north of California's Salton Sea, has doubled in population (from 16,000 to 32,000) since 1950, and Henderson, incorporated in 1953 twelve miles out in the desert from Las Vegas, has become Nevada's third largest city (after Las Vegas and Reno), with a population...
Fancy new all-year resorts, surrounded by high-priced desert estates, have risen in California's Apple Valley, along the 30-mile-long Salton Sea (239 feet below sea level) and at Arizona's Scottsdale and Paradise Valley near Phoenix. New housing subdivisions have mushroomed into the desert at Palmdale, Lancaster, Hesperia and Lucerne Valley in the Mojave, at Indio, Coachella and Twentynine Palms in the Colorado Desert, across the floor of the Las Vegas Valley and out for miles on all sides of Tucson and Phoenix...
Died. James B. Verdin, 36, Douglas Aircraft Corp. test pilot, World War II winner of the Navy Cross and the D.F.C., holder of the three-kilometer air speed record of 753.4 m.p.h. set in a Douglas Skyray at Salton Sea, Calif., on Oct. 3, 1953; when he bailed out of his disabled Skyhawk jet bomber over California's Mojave Desert...
...calls have come rolling in, one a minute, so fast that Mrs. Emery is on busier the ever trying to keep the machine clear for new messages. And to make matters worse, she now has to contend with a conglomeration of illegitimate creatures: Bald eagles with brief eases, Salton stall birds, and pink ducks with blue stripes, all reported anonymously. The finishing blow, however, was supplied by the up-to-date machine itself when it collapsed last week under the unnerving load of bird inquiries...
...aircraft manufacturers recaptured the world's speed record when a Douglas F4D jet Skyray averaged 753.4 m.p.h. over California's Salton Sea last week, cracking an eight-day-old record of 737.3 m.p.h., set by a British pilot in a Vickers Supermarine Swift...