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...arid Sonora state, just south of the U.S. border, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz stood in the hot sun one day last week, read aloud a decree that expropriated a huge chunk of U.S. -owned property - the 400,000-acre Cananea Ranch. As thousands of peasants, swirling on the dry. sandy earth, shouted "Sonora for the Sonorans!". he raised the Mexican flag over the last of the great Mexican latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared...
...years ago the entire gulf coast was a useless, dusty plain. Only a few farmers eked out a skimpy existence along the riverbanks. In 1947 the government of President Miguel Alemán began construction of the $12 million Alvaro Obregón Dam on the Yaqui River, in Sonora state. Finished in 1952, it soaked more than 543,000 acres in the valley below, created a treasure house of cotton, wheat and California-sized vegetables. In 1955 the $8,000,000 Mocuzari Dam was completed near Alamos, also in Sonora state. With its irrigation system finished, 197,000 acres...
Everywhere business on the notoriously rickety second-class buses is declining in favor of new completos (first-class buses). Wealthy Mexicans jam the seashore resorts, or splash in heated swimming pools in the high, cool capital. Long trains chuff north through Sonora and Chihuahua to load record wheat crops...
Died. Hallett Abend, 71, longtime (1927-41) chief New York Times correspondent in China, author (Ramparts of the Pacific, Japan Unmasked); of a heart attack; in Sonora, Calif...
...fine organ for its day, but before long, Fritz Mayer began to hanker for new tone colors and started a drive to get new stops. Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops-a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica...