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...snow to rain, melting what had already fallen and drowning the entire region in a soup of water and mud. Officials ordered the helicopter evacuation of 2,200 visitors trapped in Yosemite National Park by the rising Merced River. Police in Northern California told some 95,000 people in Yuba City and Marysville to leave their homes as the Feather River overflowed its banks. A sinkhole in Seattle swallowed part of a gas station, while about 90 mud slides struck the area, burying roads, threatening homes and sweeping away the wooden supports of the 66-year-old Magnolia Bridge...
That's been true for Bill Highland, a retired electrician from Yuba City, Calif., who for the past two years has been battling searing pain in his shoulder blade and armpit from shingles. Highland tried a variety of drugs, but they brought only temporary relief. Finally he was referred to pain psychologist Ingela Symreng at the Pain Management Center at the University of California, Davis, to learn techniques that would help him control his pain. Symreng teaches patients relaxation exercises, breathing skills, guided imagery (focusing on pleasant mental images) and distraction techniques. Highland, 83, quickly became a master of deep...
...Yuba Country, Calif. Undersheriff Gary Finch yesterday reading from a note found near the dead body of Heaven's Gate cult member Robert L. Nichols, whose death was an apparent suicide...
...area since December 26, and exacerbated in some areas by the sudden thaw of accumulated ice and snow. In California alone, 95,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as swollen rivers throughout the state wash out bridges and turn suburban streets into canals. The entire towns of Yuba City and Marysville, located on either side of the Feather River in northern California, had to be cleared out, as a levee broke five miles south of the two towns, sending a wall of water tumbling toward them. Numerous highways, many providing the only links between populated areas, have been...
BORN: June 9, 1933, Meridian, Calif. EDUCATION: Yuba Junior College, A.A., 1952; California State U, Chico, B.A., 1958 FAMILY: Wife, Lu; two children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: Army, 1955-57 OCCUPATION: Elementary school teacher; riverboat captain POLITICAL CAREER: Mayor of Fort Yukon, 1964-68; Alaska House, 1967-71, Senate, 1971-73; U.S. House, 1973- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 100298, Anchorage 99510. Tel.: 907-563-4314 This crusty former trapper received a vital boost in the G.O.P.-dominated 104th, when he became chair of the House Resources Committee. This put him in a position to push bills like the one to allow Alaskan...