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Catching On. In Visalia, Calif., riding in an open convertible during a parade, State Assemblyman Myron Frew graciously waved back at the crowd, finally realized that the wild shouts were not cheers, barely hopped out of his burning car in time...
Mess Kit. In Visalia, Calif., police looked for a man who walked into Tootle's 216 Club, ate and paid for a steak dinner, then ran out the door with his knife, fork and spoon...
Last week, a full quarter-century later, the San Joaquin Valley was thriving, and the Okies were thriving. In Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia, Modesto, the Okies were Californians, still speaking the accents of the Southwest, still voting Democratic, clapping their hands to the hillbilly music of their favorite TV entertainer (''Cousin" Herb Henson), still whacking away at religion, Bible-belt style (Scotch-taped legend on one Oklahoma car: OBEY Acts 2:38). They had, most of them, made good-so good that nobody even thought to ask, "Whatever became of the Okies...
...Bernice Frederick) Sisk, 47, rolled into the valley from Texas in 1937, took the first job he could find-thinning nectarines near Visalia-and saved enough to send for his wife and baby. He was elected in 1954 (and again in 1956) to the U.S. House of Representatives...
Died. Susan Peters, 31, cinemactress whose budding career (Random Harvest, Song of Russia) was cut short in 1945 when she accidentally shot herself while on a hunting trip with her cinemactor-husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt...