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County of Shasta...
...than $24,000 to needy students named Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Murphy or Pennoyer (granted by benefactors of the same names), while Yale has $1,000 earmarked for persons named Leavenworth or DeForest. The Mae Helene Bacon-Boggs fund grants $300 a year to a female graduate of Shasta College who is admitted to the University of California at Berkeley, if she can prove that she does not drink or smoke. Carleton College provides about $600 to farmers' daughters. The University of Arizona offers $500 to any student with a 2.5 grade-point average-who also has roped...
...state's beverage canners have been hardest hit, because customers are reluctant to pay deposits on cans and are buying more bottled products. One Eugene firm, Emerald Canning Co., has shut down; California's Shasta Beverages, which distributes its drinks in cans, is also suffering financially in its Oregon operations. Bottlers complain about the cost of picking up empties and retooling plants to wash and refill them...
Died. John Lucian Savage, 88, designer of the Boulder, Grand Coulee, Shasta and a host of other hydroelectric dams; after long illness; in Englewood, Colo. In 21 years as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's chief design engineer, Savage drafted plans for 60 major U.S. dams, yet still was earning less than $10,000 a year when he retired at 65-after which he started a second, more remunerative career as consultant on a score of foreign projects, including Switzerland's Super-Dixence Dam and India's Koyna irrigation project...
...miles of road and built 500 bridges in 41 years instead of the scheduled seven. Later, in what was then a novel concept, Kaiser teamed with five other contracting companies to build Hoover Dam in four years instead of six. The syndicate moved on to work on Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and the piers for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. By the time World War II came and Kaiser went into shipbuilding, he could look back on nearly $400 million worth of projects including pipelines and Mississippi River levees, dams and bridges...