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South California
Gets Wet Winter
After 7 Dry Years
LOS ANGELES, UP) — After
seven dry years, parched southern
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California is finally getting a wet
winter.
A series of storms has brought
almost double the normal amount
of rainfall. Lakes, reservoirs and
streams — some of them almost
dry—are beginning to fill.
But there is still a big backlog
of dryness. Lakes and reservoirs
have a long way to go to come up
to normal levels. The huge under
ground water basins that have
been depleted by years of drought
are still not affected by the new
rains. Heavy snow in the moun
tains, when it melts, will help.
As an example of what the
drought years have done, Big
Bear Lake in the mountains of
San Bernardino County now has
an estimated 1,500 cubic feet of
water. This is little more than a
drop in the bucket to its capacity
of 72,000 sq. feet. However, since
Nov. 7 the water level has come
up seven feet.
Military Chiefs Complete
Consideration of Measures
To Head Off Reds in Asia
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
military chiefs of the major Pa
cific nations have completed con
sideration of specific measures td
head off a threatened Chinese
Red invasion of Indochina.
What these steps are, for meet
ing the growing Red threat to
southeast Asia is veiled in deep
secrecy—but they are said to be
firm.
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Gen. Omar Bradley, the U.S.
chief who presided over the mili
tary meetings, urged the con
ferees to* such strict secrecy that
their one - day session Friday
closed with neither a communi
que nor comment from the par
ticipants.
But the military leaders are
known in informed official quar
ters to have reached basic under
standing on some recommenda
tions. Only their political super
iors can translate these into spe
cific measures called for by Presi
dent Truman and British prime
minister Churchill in their talks
' here this week.
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Being Trained In
Atom War Defense
, HEIDELRURG, Germany, </P)—
The U.S. Army Command in Eur
ope said yesterday that Russia’s
atomic bomb could be used both
against strategic targets on home
fronts and in tactical operations
on a battlefield.
It said American armed forces
on this continent, as well as in
the United States, are engaged in
atomic warfare training.
The training includes “disaster
plans and aid to the civil power,”
the Command declared.
In its first statement on atomic
warfare, the headquarters here
of General Thomas T. Handy,
E U C O M commander, replied
tersely to questions submitted by
American correspondents.
It said all American troops in
Europe, including those in supply
and maintenance units, were be
ing “trained to protect themselves
against atomic attack.”
The United States now has 200,
000 combat troops stationed in
Germany. More than 50,000 ser
vice troops are stationed along
supply lines running from mili
tary posts here to French ports.
Parents of Quads
Need Names, Space
NASHVILLE, (A*)—A surprised,
38-year-old farm wife who was
expecting twins gave birth to
quadruplets Monday night.
The babies, three boys and a
girl, were born to Mrs. Haggai
Ponder, the mother of eight other
children, at her small farm house
2V2 miles north of Murfreesboro,
Ark., 20 miles from Nashville.
Dr. M. D. Duncan, who was
with Mrs. Ponder at the time, said
the mother was doing nicely.
Dr. Duncan said he was just
as surprised as the mother. He
also was looking for twins.
The father, Leonard Ponder, 41,
and three women neighbors took
the babies to a Nashville hospital
where they were placed in an
incubator. An attendant said they
were doing well.
The quadruplets present two
problems for the Ponders:
1. How to house the family of
13 (one son lives in California) in
their 3-room house;
2. What to name the new arri
vals.
“We ain’t even got any names
picked out for them,” said Ponder.
“We were waiting to see was it
going to be a boy or a girl. I
don’t know what we’ll do now.”
U. S. Gave Nationalists
$56,000,000 in Goods in ’51
TAIPEH, Formosa, (JP)— The
United States gave Nationalist
China $56,000,000 in commodities
last year, the Mutual Security
Agency announced Tuesday. The
total includes freight charges.
Fertilizers costing $12,000,000 led
the list.,* Raw cotton, worth $9,
800,000, was second.