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...southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another tunnel under the Tehachapi Mountains will take it to Los Angeles, and to needy areas from Santa Barbara to San Diego...
Filial Duty. In San Quentin, Calif., Prisoner Josephine Montgomery, hastily transferred from Tehachapi Prison for Women after a routine medical examination revealed that he was a man, explained how he had come to be sent to Tehachapi in the first place: "My folks brought me up as a girl, and I thought I'd just let things ride...
When husband Richard Peete got the news he committed suicide. (Her first husband had killed himself too, leaving her a widow in her teens.) In San Quentin and Tehachapi prisons Louise Peete was a model prisoner. After 18 years she was paroled. She went back to Los Angeles, got a job as housekeeper for one Jessie Marcy, 60. Mrs. Marcy died. Then she kept house for 70-year-old Emily D Dwight Latham, one of the probation officers who had helped her win her parole. Mrs. Latham died. Each time the police investigated. Each time the verdict was death from...
...night of March 1, a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 transport left San Francisco with six passengers and a crew of three, headed for Los Angeles. At the rugged Tehachapi Mountains, it met the vanguard of the worst storm the West Coast has seen for 64 years (TIME, March 14). The storm chased it back past Bakersfield, then past Fresno, then swallowed it up. Last week, a young Fresno prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage...
...Winslow, Ariz. It turned south to Los Angeles when it encountered the rains that later washed out over 5,500 homes, 200 lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen 500 ft. above raging San Joaquin...