Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacramento, California's Governor Jerry Brown drops in on a Mexican-American convention. "You're the leading minority in the Southwest," Brown tells the crowd. "It's your turn in the sun and I want to be part...
Many passengers arose as early as 5:30 a.m. in the Sacramento area to catch PSA Flight 182, a popular 7 a.m. commuter run for state officials and businessmen with errands in the California capital, Los Angeles or San Diego. With Captain McFeron, 45, a 17-year veteran PSA pilot with 14,382 flying hours in his log, at the controls, the flight landed uneventfully in Los Angeles with its 130 passengers. There 102 lucky travelers got off, but an unfortunate 100 boarded the plane for its 35-minute southward leg to San Diego. In addition to a crew...
...Long Island, an enraged driver who thought he had been cut off smashed the offending vehicle with an ax. In a lane-changing argument . in Sacramento, a passenger in a pickup truck shot and killed the driver of the other car. After a near collision in Virginia, two drivers tried to settle matters by staging a shootout. "This is getting more common," says a Chicago Police Lieutenant. "Everybody seems to be uptight." Even some men on his own force. In the Windy City last year, two off-duty officers were fired and one was placed on probation for attacking other...
...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...
Even in the cities, the rains were not good news for everybody. In Sacramento, which normally has one of the nation's highest hay fever rates, the drought had greatly lowered the pollen count. Hay fever is particularly prevalent now, some doctors say, because the allergy-prone became less resistant during the dry years...