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...year Western drought, youngsters skateboarded on the dry concrete bed of the Los Angeles River. Shasta Lake receded to less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...Most Rev.) Stanislaus J. Brzana Bishop of Ogdensburg Ogdensburg...
...California environmentalist groups lost a bitter fight to stop construction of a dam on the Stanislaus River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 62-story-high structure was designed to prevent yearly flooding of the lower Stanislaus. Backers of the project cite other benefits like some 2.4 million acre-feet of irrigation water and enough nonpolluting hydroelectric power to supply a city of 200,000 people. The problem is that the dam will also destroy some nine miles of spectacular white water. An organization called Friends of the River, which was formed to fight the dam, persuasively argued that flood...
...plan was originated by The Rev Everett Briggs of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Monongah. "They've been living under a pall of death," The Rev. Briggs said. "There was this fantasy that widows couldn't remarry because their husbands weren't buried. They couldn't reorganize their lives...
...STANISLAUS...