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Flanked by weeping relatives, a Spanish-American couple sat in the shimmering heat in Sutter Cemetery, holding hands and staring dully at the bronze coffin that held the remains of their 17-year-old son Bobby. Six of Bobby's classmates placed their white carnation boutonnieres on the coffin. Bobby's young niece threw herself on the coffin and sobbed brokenly. Several in the large crowd also cried. Bobby's father silently shook his head a couple of times as though he had been struck, then moved woodenly with his wife toward the green limousine...
...individually, followed by burial among the withered flowers that were scattered about the sere 20-acre graveyard four miles outside town. On all sides lie ripening rice fields, surrounded in turn by the orchards that make this the Peach Bowl of America. In the distance rises 2,117-foot Sutter Buttes, which passes for a mountain range in this sunbaked, mosquito-plagued tableland some 40 miles north of Sacramento...
...before. On Christmas Eve in 1955, the Feather River broke through the levee and drowned 40 people. In 1971 authorities discovered the bodies of 25 itinerant farm workers in shallow graves; eventually, Labor Contractor Juan Corona was convicted of the murders. Twenty-two of the victims now lie in Sutter Cemetery, near where the teenagers were laid to rest last week...
...Moore had two more opportunities to redeem herself Saturday afternoon, and she used them well. First, she disposed of Williams's Jane Garvey, 3-1, and then downed Princeton's Cindy Sutter...
...Preston), the Tin Man (Scott Miles), the Scarecrow (A1 Abrams), and the Cowardly Lion (Paul Hewitt) all played double parts--Miles played Jack Haley playing the Tin Man, Preston played Garland playing Dorothy, and so on. The Wicked Witch (Gwen Mason) and the Gatekeeper of the Emerald City (Andy Sutter) splendidly overplayed in the grand tradition. Toto was something of a problem; he was necessary at certain points in the plot, but the decision to have the Secretary-Treasurer of the Dunster House Drama Society go down on all fours is not completely right. He tends to steal scenes...