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of city and immediate enviorns whichChristmas weekend. when waters of the Diverting Canal andMormon Channel burst over their banks. The affected area on.the east extends from just ~~~th.~~:Vaterloo Road on the north to

Fe tracks on the south. Flooding extended in thesouthern sections as far west as McDougald Canal. Most of the i

3,500 residents of the areas affected have moved' back Ii~1'~"'ho,i~ ,homes except in the Corona Park-McKinley Tract sub- !divisions 'south of Charter Way and east of the French Camp !Turnpike. I...

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Levee Collapse IlU,UUU Near Mormon

Cle fe ht' Channel AreImaxes Ig! Warnedto Save Area

1 Lines nuses iasr rugnt to nerp I! transport evacueps to shelter'points. and for feeding. San .TOA·i quin County is in t he area de-, c1ared an emergency by PresidentEisenhower. .,WORK ALL NIGHTI 'All city and county crews. in-

An estimated 3,000 Stock. :eluding police, firpm('n, sh~riff'ston-area residents were made ,deplltlE''', city and county CI\'II dp·h

. ,I Ienso personnel. and volunteersomeless last night and today 1 worked throughout the night in

as swirling flood waters over•. rescue work.flowed the banks of the Mor-: City Manager Lilly snid ~OOP(,I··mon Channel. the Diverting Canal s.ons h;1(1 voluntr-orcd for flood ]'1'.and other lesser waterways. lief work. Ill' sent out a ~ew cn ll

Most of those evacuated by po- today /or enlI.stmf'nt. of ale! f rom Ilice, sheriff's deputies and National ex~er: icemen and limon ml'mh~rsGuardsmen live in the south and! to fill sandbags for bolstering

Ilevpes.

. .. F.e!win Anderson, local manager.Additlonal pIC t U res and ,of the California Water S(,I'Vic('

stbries of floods ar~ on Pages ~Co .. said today there ilOno water26 and 27. ~ supply problem eyen in thl' flooded

: sections of the city. JJ(' added Ir-ast sect ions of Stockton. The' that crE'WS have hppn on tho job I.Ree! Cross is hOUS.ing the evacuees throughout the flood maintaining a I('\'n} Th' . --- ,

\' " r n ~ t ttl I I 1 c- • e ra In" of th e pa s t fPIV'In hotels, motels and the Civic Me- corut, an pal ro a ong t re entire ,. clays ml'ltpd the snow pack lip to,'moria! Auditorium. wa er supp v svstrm, 100000 f, .ppt. adding to already

Between 15,()()0 and :!O,()()()resl- 800 PHOSF.:8 OlTT swollen rivers. idents south of of'h •.•Mormon Ch1lft-! Fewer than aoo telephones arl', OUTL~OK lTN~F:TTLF:O I

ne l were il.lertl'd hy City Manager' .:out of servlr-r- today, as compar-r-d Despite thpse pncollraging de..Toh~ C. LIlly this morning to th~ .with ~O()Ovostr-rduv, arr-ordino to' vplopment~. the burr-au said thppos$lhle necessity of fleeing their F'dwar-I Bpst. 10c~1 l11<lna.e;I'; of 1 WPl!.th(,l· map con tinuos to present, hOI11('s. the Pacif ic Telephone & TPI"., I!. rilthl'r ."unsE'ttlect picture."i THREAT DIl\IINI8HES granh Co. ~loudIness WIth oC'C'l!.siollalshowers

By late morning, however, thlll Mnnv of tho phones out t odnv , HI foreC'Ast for the Central Vallp\·~

I~hr"'l!.t was diminishlng as the flow' are in thr- MOl'1Id!l area, A ('1''111'1'' through tomorrow, but thl' outlookIn the Mormon Channel showed from tho Central Ca lifrnnin Tr-ac- I bevond that ~II uncertain thePI~ns of slacking off, according to tion Lin». which WA, hf'ing spot tr-d ' fOrf'CI1SII'I's report sd. 'iCIty Engineer Marshall Dunlap, at the lin('·.~ hridgp nr-rus s 111PDi· I Sf ock t on rpC'Pi\'('(1 1.02 Inches of! who was making constant surveys \'prtil'g Canal just north of Stock. ram .e!ul'Jng the past 24 hoursby helir-optor. ton, cut power and phone service I brInging thp tot a l for the SPilSO'~

The latest area br-ing evacuated out when it knocked ovr-r a pole' thus fill' t o R inches, cnmpa rr-dwas an IS·square block district in early today. I With 4.'17 inches at the !lame timethe Corona Park and McKinlev Because of last night's flood Iast yr-ar.Tract subdivisions, south of Third threat in the downtown St ock trm ("onll'l' wl'ilthpr with a high noa rSt roe t and east of the French area, many merchants placed sand- !'i4 degrf'f's I~ ('xpl'cted tomoj-rowCamp Turnpike. bags in front of their stores And 11ft1',. a low tonight near 4~ e!f'.

Flooding- in this II 1'(' a was cau!;ed .O\'('r basement entrances in the gl·I'('S. Yl'sterday'~ high was fi2bv an overflow of t he McDougal 1 sidewalks. dpgre('s. <1,e!PgTPe ho low ti1(' PI'I'·Canal, which wr-nt OVPr its hanks The Red Crosa ~pt up shel tors VIOIIS e!Fl~'~ low. This morning'swhen a pump at Walker Slough and canteens in fl1P city and low \\',lS ·1fi degrees. .Ia ilr-d. throughout the county to assist The tpmperatllrp at 10;~0 o'clockI,l(iHT RAIX 0111': ,p\'acllees and thp flood workers. this mor:n'ng was 50 dpgrees, corn-

The Uni t ori St a tr-s Woa t hr-r BII. m,ank('tll' ~nd (,ots I\'\'e prO\·id.ed parPd With so e!l'grp(,s at the samerr-au 111Sacrumen to predicts light h~ the. AImy 111CIVIC Memorial t irne Yl'stprday.interrnf t tr-nt rain in this ill'PIl Auditor-ium. ~,~through tomorrow. A rlrop in LITTJ,F: nA~IA(iF: KNIGHT SURVEYStpmppl'Aturp!I in thp Sir-rrn Ne- City officials pointed out thatV~dA. which brought. snow last alt hough manv persons Wf'l'e evac- DAMAGE BYnight .as low as the .1,500.foot. i uated, tho flood waters -eaused: AIRlevel. I!I expected to lessen new' relatively little damage inside fj ..threats of floods.. ~ome!l. Most of the flooding was SA("RA!'ItF:NTO DI" "4 (AT', Hogan Dam reservoir. which III the streets. ; c. ,. ,(. - .1i provides flood control for Stock- The Pacific Gas & Elect ric Co 1 i i' 'O~ t':,nlght "look orf tOOR.I· 111: ton on th,: .Calaveras River, Willi ;eported .only minor power Iailure~ I! ~;~iz;"a 17n~l. illil~O rl~;l("d t h.ereported rising this morning lit. In the city. ("rews from the gas I ... ' .01 il 0.0. a . 00 -I al .

I the .rate of one foot every 3 hours, division. however, have been kept! rgf'e! hNOIt h~rn Califor-nia. inrlurl- iCIty Engineer Dunlap reports busy turning off lines and shutting i nIT I I' rri t ica l Yuba Cit y-Ma rvs- 1

i there is !ltMage space for an addi- off Appli.ilnces in flooded sections,' VI';; al'p'k·1. :! tional ~5,OOO acre-feat of wlltpr of the city. 11' s y was mostly .hlllp a s 'behind the clam. At 7 a.m. today Patrols report that sights('ers' t.hl' govprt1or Irft the capit a l. Th»,the dam was just over half ful], are creating a traffic jam a lona ' I am stopped herp last night fori The dam CApacity is 7~,OOO acre. the French Camp Turnpike, on EI i the. f.lrst. rr-spi to in sf'vcl'~1 e!ays'ifeet, Dunlap stated. Dorado and Center streets, and, Knight was accompanied hyCRF.:ST CO~IE!lI OOWN Hazelton A\·('nue. I Stanle)! T'IPrson, stille civil de- 1

At 9 a.m. today thl' flood on th,.. RADIO STATION HIT fpnse dlr~ctor, and Ad,]. Gen. EilrloCAlilvera.s hplow thp dam crpst hart Ra~io Station KXOB went off ~'w~~~~~r~~nwe!~~ ~~ ~~out ~Ocoursecl Its way down the Mormon the air at 5:15 a.m. today when \' a "nd la " em InChannpl ilne! hae! pmptied intt) water noorl('d the transmitter east 1 Th p ne.StoC'kton ChAnnel. This rpsultPd in of Stockton. . I. I' gov~mor c"me back to S1IC-,a fi·foot drop in thp WAtpr level City officials report the Cala. '\1 ramf'nto IFlst night from Los An· Iilnd is providing some r('lief. v('ras Rivpr presents no irlUnediate ,gelf's. Hp ~lannpd to retum thl'rc

Thp Mormon Chann('1 I!'I II threat. Two minorl;lreaches in I ~on,lght fOI hiS mterrupted holl·hrilnch of thl' Calavera!l, forking the I('vees were rl'port' ust wes~ a) stay._ .. . " .'orr at Bellota. 17 mill'S I'ast of of PaCific "fpmori~l urn but Douglils H~ll £'tt, thl' go\ ('1110' S,stockton. they AI'f' IInder rp!)lni-c•••." ~sslstant ",.('SS secrf't"r~·. silld theI A new h,.(' ;., the Mormon The WAtp\' IIver'aes,,'S' fo 10 f("('t Itmprary 's II1defll1ltl' hilt t hilt<::;l1?-nnel levp(' . ; reported lit I from the top of the Calav('I'as KnIght horPd. to Iilnrl wherl'vprLmlOn and Taylo,' streets, with ' - - __ ----- posslhlf'. R1Iri Pit said no stopwlltf'r flooding nOI·th from thl1t . _, __ would be posSIble at Yuba CIty-POInt. Observers say the flooding RaltIfllll as compilpd hy the MarySVille.of the channel north of Charter Stockton R('cord, Southern Pacific' CHIEF O'KEE-FEWay last night is the first since and PG&E follows:1911. . 2·1-hnur Season s!:~~n COLLAPSES FROMRising watel'!l in the Mormoft Perlort to rt.1leto <laleChannel promptl'd thl! city last Stockton ln2 ~.OO 4.17 WORK ON FLOODnight to cut through ih 10 nl'W t;;;/rca ·:::::::::::U~ ~~+ 421

Ieartq,fill spans across the wrotpr- Ef~~~~,n I. Hi ,on t~~.Tllp st I'ain of e!irecting flood\\ray, ]eaving only Center Street Oakrln!p .....••.... :~Q '~:2~ ~.:!I) fIghtIng ftctiviti(ls for 2 straightas a nort·h·south arterial. Sonora T':~ ~~,q ~.~]. dRYS c~ught Up with !'olice ChiefFILLS ,QLASTF.:D ~lurph.\' I ::n :!IR" 1n.11' Jil('k 0 Keefp early thIS morning.

Usi~g explosives and hulldozers, fa~:k~.I~"c"111J1 ~.~~ ikJ;; !U"i! O'Keeff', who had only 5 hourllthe cIty cut through fills at EI LIvIngston .':::::' .11~ ~.no ~ ~~; 0: sleep .since early Thursda~, was,Dorado, San Joaquin, California, Patt~l'.on ..... 1.ln :;WI 3~114tteat('d In Em('rgency HospItal at. Stanf'slaus, Pilgrim, Ophir and Au. __ I 1I.m. fOI' fatigue and a painful

Ir,?ra streets, a partial fill at . ----- left shoule!f'r and s('nt home toLlllcoln St.rf'et, and the Santa Fe R.:lI'ho Station KXOR wh rest.

jrailroad !lpur, tr.Rnsll1.itt('r is locatl'd f'As'I' 01' tOhse<' Tllp chil'[ had heen co·ordinat.D t C inc: the AC'tiviti('s of thp police with

Co!. H. E. Sandel'son. presictPnl i r'r\,pr m~ ,anal. was fOl'cPe! to go othpl' f'ml'rgency units sincl' thp.of the local chapt('r of tht Reo o. thl' air at 5:1.') a.m. today when fl d d'.Cros ••and c.hairrnan of the I·Soo. hIgh watpr thr(,.Atened .its ~.nUI·p. 00 angpr slarted ThursdilY-~, m t Th r., morning ilne! slept only hriefly yP~·I ter CouncIl. and Richard Hill, en. .p statIon, whwh staved t(,I'day morning.executive director of th(' Stock. on the aIr throughout the nig.ht Capt. Rpx Parkpr is in charge (}t

I to~ ch~pter, are headin Red Crm;s ;'1Ih flood repot1s, then combined police activities until O'Keefe's reorehef w~rk hel'~ orees wfJ.,h Station KGDM. 1 turn.--

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Marysville DikesHold al FloodDanCJer Eases

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24(tJP1-A Feather River levee col-lapsed lit Yuba City today sendingmore than 19,000 fleeing for theirllves all raging coastal and moun-Iain torrents continued to engulfdt ips in 3 Western states whereat least 15 persons have beenkilled lind 25.000 made homeless,

The Christmas Eve disaster-s-termed "major" by the President,caused many towns to await inhorrified ant icpat ion for flood wa-ters to descend while other citieslay stilled in swir-ling currents andstill other sodden towns beganclearing away the debris of mil-lions of dollars in damage.

Week-long storms, bringing tor-rential rains, have ceased. withonly variable showers and grayskies predicted over the bleakareas of destruction. All the re-sources of the government, thestate, the Red Cross, armed forces,civil def('nse and civic groupsthrew themselves into thp sad re-habilitation as the cities countedtheir dead.ALL NIGHT RATTLE

At Yuha City, the 1.1!t' brokeearly this morning af. aiY-'armyof men had worked tlirough thenight to holster tht" city's·defen_.Thousands of r('fugees fromMaryllviIle. acress the river, alsowere sheltered in the city. They,too, had to fleE' again.Meanwhile, the cities of Modesto

and Stockton are threatened byoverflows on the Stanislaus and'Tuolumne rivers in the latestNorthern California flood develop-ment.

The people of Yuba City hadheon alr-rrod to the danger and de-sorted the city without panic. Asthe water poured through thelevee, widening- the break. morethan 1.500 pol icc, soldiers and spe-cial police patrolled t he cana l-Iikr-streets with order to shoot to killany lootr-rs. But no looting wasreported in thp dead city. Author-it ies triort to vprify a report thatone Ll-year-old boy had drowned.

The levpp break CRUSed the wa-ters of the Feather and YubaRivers at Marysville to drop. Thatdf'!lerted town of 10,000 npstled drybehind it!! ~O·foot high system oflevee/! 1181,500 sand bag volunteerspatrolled and preparpd to ward off Ia hrpak. The flood, howf'vE'r, hlllliQroppPd 25 inches and the dang<N imAy he passed. I

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ftcle:k decided it migh t be a lJ<lOd'idee. to bring the emergency pro-:ced_ for floOd control up todate, and accordingly arrange-ments were made for II. 2-dayeehool for the employes concerned.

The school, the first in years,WII8~eld Tuesday and Wednesday.

Frida, the rains-and the floods

Excitement doell IVa.nge things10 peoples' minda. ,

Two volunteers E'I'ltered a Jef-ferson. Street house that was knee_ I

! high In water. Just liS they ap..·proached the man of the house, he,was oending down. One volunteercalled M him and caught him ashe was aboutto pull an electricoord from itl! socket.

RAINS lACKENAS COLD fRONTMOVES SOUTH

Ra ins over }.;ort hern California Itoday WNe slackening to scatteredshowers as a cold front moved inf rorn A!~s1<~, pushing the mainstorm t o the south. the Unit edStAtl's \\'eather Burr-au in Sacra-mento reported today. Blue skieshroke through the clouds here at9 lI.m.

Thf' burs-au Mid thp front alsohas rpsulteo in lowetinz thE' SIlOWline in the SierrA. to the 3,000·foot

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hank. Water Inundated most of the strf'et.1I to Charter Way fore-ing the evacuation of several hundr...t flOmiliPI lIv.iI1/othptwren thechannel and Firat Street. \Rprnrrl photn I-~~--.". - .~-----

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AIR VIEW OF FLOODED DELTA-In the aerial view of inun-dated Empire Tract, above is shown the wide levee break whichflooded the rich peat land of the widely-known island. The break(No.1) occurred on Little Potato Slough. No.2 shows the immen-•ity of the ripped-out levee. No.3 is Potato Slough. No.4 is the

Venice Island Ferry located directly west of Herman and Helen'sFishing Resort (No.5), well-known to striped bass anglers allover Northern California. No. 6 shows the western portion ofthe flooded Empire Tract. No. 7 shows where Little ConnectionSlough (No.8) joins the deep water :hannel~S~~kt(m . •

Flood Waters From Rising Streams Hit·Many Valley Areas····Eva(uation Started

Tuolumne RiversClimb Out ofBanks, Flood

INO NEW SNOWIn Tuolumne today no new,

snow was reported overnight anda heavy rain was falling up to the I8,ooo-foot level.

The warm rain and a minimum itemperature of 45 rlf'~rf'es at'many places along the mile-highcontour had washed away nearly

SON 0 R A, Dec. 23-Rolling I all the snowpack, leaving onlywatel'll of Tuolumne County creeks patches up to the 6,ooo-foot level.and rivers, swollen by R days of At Dodge Rid g e the packcontinued rain, today climbed out dropped a foot overnight and be-of their banks in foothill lowlands, came patchy as the warm rain fellheavily damaging some river bot- through the night.tom resorts and hom-es. Runoff waters from the Dodge

Don Stewart, Chinese Camp,! Ridg~ snowpack, 1 to 3 feet inCalifornia Division of Highways Idepth, wa~ over tho groundmaintenance man, said homes and land left the bare oarr h exposedresorts in the Jacksonville area in many places in t he area.along the Tuolumne River had Rivers were rising.from 18 inches toz feet of water The Big Oak Flat Road betweenIn them. ,: Shawmut Gr.a.d~ and the Stf'\:f'ns

Communication lines Into Jllck,- Bar Bridge, A-~dlstance of 3 miles,lionville Mocassin Big Oak Flat, was lnundllW and was closed asandG~veland a;e down. PT&T th.> Tuolumna River pushed up 8workmen are hunting the breaks feet above the flood mark set inin communication 1ines'today. the flood season of 1950.

The danger of flooding in the EVACUATlO1¢8V~Iley also .was increasing as the' Along the area closed off, 10 orrall~-fllled rivers rush.ed seaward. 12 homes and resorts have heenMaJor dams are halting some of evacuated. Mountain River Lodgethe runoff, but there I~ no .control18l1d Davis Camp are reported un-over the waters of the trlbutarY'df'r waterflowing into the large rivers be-: The" . . .low and these were the danger ,.exact sltuatl.ol1 In rnanvpoints today. .areas IS. ha.rd to dl~cO\·er as 1111

During the past week, with rain c~mmUI1lCatlon lines II1to the areafaUing· steadily, up to 8.99 inches, al ;hOU~t· t D··· f 11· Ihave been recorded in Sonora. This' . e a e IVISIOI10 Ig twaysmakes the total rainfall 13.74 mamtenal~ce crew blocked off theInches, creating earth-soaked con- road leading ~o Groveland lastditions. nlgh.t. and assisted a number of

Continued downpours must run families out of the area to higherflU, because no more can be ab- ground. .sorbed into the ground. The T!JQlu.""!ne River WIIS re-

Rivers rose between 4 and 5 !,orted still rrsmg today after add-feet overnight lind the rise con- mg 20,000 .acrp-ff'.pt of water- totinued steadily today the reservon- behind Don PedroffiGHWAY C·REWS· Dam last night. ..

The Stanislaus was rising. ICharles ~of, TuoluI?ne. County About 6 families, employes of

road comrrnssioner, said his crews the PG&E at the Stanislaus Power rlabored through the past 24 hours House, were isolated when water;to keep culverts open under county cut across the road leading to the :r0!ids. Many were unable to co~- power house and blocked them in. 'tam runoff waters and Hof said None of the people are en-.floodeq roads were reported In the dangerI'd and all can be evacuated'Red Hills, southwestern Tuolumne by other routes if this be coCounty, along the Draper Mille necessarv. mesroad and the Woodhams Ranch, The rain in Tuolumne h dand along the Sonora-Tuolumne.. . S _o~eroad, both in central Tuolumne little sign of abating today. More 1County. than 41/2 inches fell in Sonora in

Principal road hazard today in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. to-'the county system, Hof added, is !faY. Pinecrest received 4.77falling trees which lire toppling inches and Goveland registered aacross roads. A slight wind was record-breaking 6.30 inches in theblowing and any increase would 24 hours.heighten this hazard.COFFER DAMS OUT

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TIle Stanislaus River washedout coffer dams at the BeardsleyDam site near Strawberry Wed-nesday night. flooding the damarea. Work lit this location hadbeen halted for the Christmas holi-days and no crewmen were en-dllngel'ed.

Work at the Donnells dam, up-stream on the Stanislaus, also ishalted for Christmas vacation andno washouts at this location werereported yesterday. Workmen litboth projects will report backTuesday.

In the Sawmill Flat area nearColumbia State Park the homeof Bil Anderson was flooded thismorning when a 20-Coot highearthen dam on the nearby Souzaranch broke. flooding the Ander-Ion home and surrounding area.ROADS BLOCK~D

Other county roads were pass-able this morning, hut rock slidesand flooded areas in many spotsslowed traffic. The California Di-vision of Highways in Sonora saidmajor slides were reported on theheavily traveled Sonora Pass high-day on bot h sides of Jamestown, atthe Twain Harte grade and alongHighway 49 near Par rot t s Ferry.

The bridge across the StanislausRiver at Parrotts Ferry was indanger today as waters rose closeto the arch of the span. Trafficwas normal across this bridge,l

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OAKDALE, Dec. 23-All is inreadiness as the Stanislaus Countysheriff's office, with all availablepersonnel at its command, standsby for a high rolling crest expl'ct-'I'd to come down the Stanislaus ------,----------River into this area late this after-noon.

Early today PG&E attendantsat Stanislaus Powerhouse aboveMelones Dam warned of a crest of70,000 second feet of wa t er com-ing down. The filled Melones Damwas then overflowing at a depthof 612 feet over the top of thedam with an intake of 35,000 sec-ond feet.

Sheriff Dan Kelsay said II planeof the auxiliary Count.y AeroSquadron took to the air a t noonto direct deputies and rescue par-ties if necessary to save maroonedpersons and livestock.

Twelve families in the OrangeBlossom Colony area moved short-ly before noon, taking what. theycould with them and piling furni-ture and valuables on trucks intheir fli t.

Six-Foot FloodCrest Due Todayon Stanislaus

1 I Five members of a family living1011Andr-rson Road, north of High-"'ClV 3.1 a nd south of Crows Land-illg. were rr-movort hy boat this111'>1"11111)..',but members of 2 otherIamilies in the same area refused Ito leave, "unless the water getshigher." This area also is threat-ened hy the flooding waters ofOrr-st irnha Creek which dropsdown sharply out of the Coast

A turkr-y breeder \\IIS husy mov- I Rang».ing 2,400 head of breeding st ock ' While. the flood picture looked

bleak this mormng an even darker.future is forecast as the swollenIStanislaus River has yet to cresttis It news westwarn Uu( or tneSif'ITIl.BRIDGEI'; OUT

Officials have ordered severa Ibridges among these isthe Creek bridge on

from his turkey farm in the pathof the flood waters.

The S tan i s Iau" River wasclocked lit 20.000 second f eet atthe Orange Blossom Bridge at Ita.m. with the forerunner of theanticipated 70,000 second feet slat-ed to hit there about 3 p.m.

That's the bleak flood picturepainted by Oakdale Irrigation Dis-trict officials who said the dam

Sheriff's deputies hegan a taskof warning all residents in thearea below the Melones Dam toevacuate their homes immedi-ately because of thl:' wall of wa-ter crest ing down the Stanis-laus River.

The deputies were making~ontact especially with residents111 the lowland areas nearKnights FelTY and Oakdale.

The crest is expected to passOakdale late this afternoon orearly tonight.

now is spilling water 612 fl'('t overt he top over t he tot al 700-footwidth. The intake \\IIS estimated I

at 35.0nn second fect. I

The 70.000 second feet crest isdue to enter thp Melones Damat noon "and there's no way ofstopping it-it's going right onthrough and down the alreadyflooding St anislaus River.

The officials added "the crestwill just come in and go rightover the tOl'>."

The dam Ii lled at fi 11.111.and of-Iicials said water started flowing'over theq of t hs darn at 7 a.rn.,II1creasi~tjnulllly to the 612-foot. mari"at 10 a.m.

During '. the 19:'>0-51 flood thedam filled up and the overflowwas peaked. lit 53,000 second feetToday's crest'Would he 17,000 sec~ond feet." mor~ than establishedduring the disastrous flood of1950-5l.

80S FOR 'DUCKS'

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I" ••••••re the Stanislaus River._ •.••.__ .• to -be "considerably"

0\"f'1' flood stage., Residents in Knights FelTY and,.,the Orange Blesaom Colony area'I west of Knilthts Ferry. were I

evacuated in the early morninghours. The ,expected noon crestwill flood these 2 areas, officialssaid.

1$1,700,000 lsiCity Damage

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fot' till' floorl damage. Stanley Ott,cit~· plann, ing director. st at cd ...

J If' lis lr-d this damage: Ut ilit ir-s,,'>;;',I)().()()();proporl y in p r i v a t e'11I>111f's.~ I.()()(),OOO; husinoss prop-; I'lt y, ~~'()o.()()n;retail out lets, $~OO.-: 1)11(). '1'11('ost ima tcs wen' marie asi t hr- l'it<,; staff prr-sontod a st udv'I "r pos,;ihl(' flood control measuresto the council.

MODESTO. Dec. ~.1-, St anislausCounty offici:Jls t od.iv snnt out anSOS for mechanized "ducks." am-phibious vehicles, to f'\'iWU<1tP.Sf'\-f'ral Iarni lir-s 111111"00111'(1in floodod ,arr-as in several districts of the:county.

The SOS was ~i\·I'n when boatsproved useless in at I"<lst one are abecause or swift-running streamsladen with dehris (rom the Coast

I Range on the w-« Side.. Thr'ee families living past ot

lorestimba Creek, about 2 mill'S,south of Crows Landing were rna-rooned when th« creek spillf'd OH'r

An area one 111111nne-halfmiles square hct wr-on Newmanand Crows Landing "·IlS rf'-ported under wat r-r short lv hl'-fore noon today, The wa (I'I" insome places was 10 feet dcr-p,Highway 33, in the area, \VIISflooded and was 0 r d ere dclosed.

BODY OF MANFOUND IN CA

its hanks to Inundate the area.Deputies we're dispatcherl with aboat, but the current and dehrishas halted their efforts to bringout the fllmilies. INEWMAN

By 10 a.m, an AI'm\' "duck" \\'1lS Istanding by to effe(:t the reseu~ Iof the marooned families.

III the. Newman area, l\Iark'sGravel Pit was filled and Del'sPlace, a resort bf'f\vf'rn Newll1l1nand C.mw!! Landing II10ng the SanJoaquin Rivlf,. was eVflcuat('d lind Ithe buildlngtHVere part ially underwater as the residents \\'1'1'1'hroug ht OUt'..Also evacuated in the Isam I' operation was the family ofL. C. Mo6rehpad whosf' ranchhome was In the path of floodwaters.

T\1•.•h()rI~·of fifi-ye~r-old EugeneR;nlgel. lFiIl!l E. C1elY, was found~('qC'rdRY in his olrt model caraCt 1'1' his Yf'hielp har! heen miredriown in Mormon Channel, be-t\\,C'I'n the nnw Califm-nia Walnut(~Io\\·f'rs Association plant and(,helrtf'r Wav,

Irlf'ntificl1t·iol1 of thp bodv wasmarl» bv R;lI1gf'l"s daughter. Mrs.Lupr- J·:spurlf'. 1227 S. Pilgrim. who"·;IS (";lIkrl to the scene. Police saidtha t Rangrl had been listed aslllissil1z for 3 days.

Auf horit ir-s theorized that theaut omohile was swept from Dia-monel Strf'C't, which leads from thewalnut plan to Charter Way,somotune F. night by therushing wa Mormon Chan-nel, The roa !Ii from 2 to 3feet UDder w: "F'riday night.Only 2 ~h nd a portion ot

the fenders w visible when thevehicle was first seen about 7:55this morning by Carol Cooper, ot:112;) Lr-wis. and Kenneth Woods,1~71 S. Olive. Cooper, an EastSir}r' pa t rolman. and Woods, II wIII-nut plant construction worker..';;1 id t h['~' hp,d bf-rn in t he arr-a orthr- p lan t eltl. thC' wr-r-kr-nd, buth;.rj not Ilo!ieed· t hr- ca r,

F'ol irr- a nd 41eplltif's pulled ther'1l' from thp wa tr-r with a towrig ilftpr IIjtpmpts to force openthe car's door proved unsuccessful.

FLOODING -\Vater from last night's hpavy rains was hacked up to lawn-to-lawn level at Inmanand Princeton streets this morning. The depth of the water is indicated by the all-but-covered firel. ••..l,.~"'t ~hnUln ••t lowpr left. (R@corli photo)--------~~~------------------------~

DANGER, DETOUR -Thf' Linden Road ('a,t of S rockton was closed at 1 a.m, today as Iast-risingwaters of the Diverting Canal poured .u-rovs t IH' roadway. By noon the wa tors were 2 fept highand the fast current madr- travel impossihlc r-vr n for trucks. (Record photo)

HERE, SANTA-The home of Mrs. Edward Johnson. ;';611 Linden Road, was gailyweek in anticipation of Santa's ar rival tomorrow night. Today, Mrs. Johnson was

~~~II·I"',"· her hags and getting ready to evacuate her family. (Record photo)

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•SANnBAG(HI'G-Emel'gency crews from the Sou t hern Pacific Railway Co. wore rushed to the Di-verting Canal trestle early today to build sandbag barriers in an effort to control raging floodwaters. (R@corrl photo)

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FLOOD VICTIMSSAID G ~UGEDBY PUMPERS

Flood victim "gouger~" and "MI-were criticized by

special meetinglast night.

appear to beof gouging, city man- •

Gleasonsaid she heard II. con t I' act 0 rworked an hour in pumping out abasement and chal'gf'rI ~47.50. An-ot her worked for:'! hou rs and 10minu t es and f'hargf'rI :j;IOO.

However, this man was paidonlv $:1 and the lady sigllPri an ,agl:eement to tillY thr- rorna indr r .at $1 a month, Mrs. Gleason glee-Ifully added,$2,1>00 FOR FOUSOATION

Lilly said he receivf'd a report,that one huilding contractor hartquoted a price of $2.500 to repair

A volunteer crew of 30 off-duty firemen. working without.compensation and at 110charge to nousebolders, hasheen pumping out flooderlbas erne n t s in St.ockton'sstricken area. Fire Chief LyleStevenson said todav,

The fir erne n have beenworking two 5-hour shifts aday to clear hasr-ment s offlood waters. using portahleequipment from Sha rpe Gen-erRI Depot. Householders re-quiring ilssistance should dialHOward 4-4641'.

a sot t lcd Iounda t ion. The hOI1~e"owner f'stimntNi thf' job shnuldi cost about ssoo.

WiJ1iilm Rirlrlick .rr., city a t t or-ney, suggester! t nat those whoplan on Red Cross ?ssistallceshould get work cost vorif ied first.Others who hl'lieve the charcesare unrl'asonilhly high can fMcecontractors to show the chargesare reilsonable. Biddick stated.FALSE RUMORS

"We had a fleet of trucks andcars whose sole purpose it \v<1Sto verify rr-ports." I-1. M. Dunlilp.citv engineer. said of the manyfaI'se rumors of hrokr-n or danger-ous levees.

Dunlap said he harl no objectionto investigating spot, in the leveeswhere there was reason for con-cern.

As an example of what he ob-jected to when the city facilitieswere overtaxed, Dunlap told of awoman who called and asked fora check of the levee near herhome. She explained she wasdowntown shopping and was wor-ried about her 6-yeAr-old son she 'IIhad left with a babv sitter. .

The Red ('ross arl\·isory council. t

which inclurles contrilctors. has I

agref'd on price I r vel s tn. hechilrged for such work. and UJlor-mation is availahlr through Its nf-fico at disaster lwadquartf'rs Inthe Civic Memorial Aur!itoriull1.

Pel'sons unable to pay for rI<lm-age to their homes caused bv theflood may apply for financial as-!li~tance through thl? SlIn .To~(l'llnCounty chapter of the Red Cross.

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•HousinCJ Help SouCJhtfor Flood Victims

WASHINGTON. Dec. 23 (UP)--Sf'n. Thomas H. Kuchel (R-Cahf.) asked the Housing andHome F'inance Agency today foran immediate survey of Northern iCalifornia to determine whetheremergency help can be given fami-lies in the flooded areas.The agency already has advised

hili office that it' may be able tosupply trailers to provide tem-porary shelter for persons driven (from their homes.

Epidemic Following FloodHeld :Unlikelyby"fxperts

There is no major threat of an epidemic or big health problem as aresult of the flood. , \

This welcome word was given t his morning by Donald Layson. publichealth engineer with the .SAn Joaquin Local Health District. However,Lavson did offer suggest ions f'or msurmg sani t a ry saf et y.

Diseases which could result " --~----from polluted water and food in-clude typhoid fever, influenza andother intestinal maladies, the engi-neer said,Layson reported thet no trou-

ble occurred as a rosul t of sewerplants hrcoming flooded. He saidthat one plant was flooded in thecity's southwest area Saturdaybut was quickly cleared yost e rday.

"All the city's wa t r-r plants aregood. One on Sharps La nr- ami onejust. north of Charter Way andeast or Contr-r St ror-t were threat-ened and were taken out. of sorv-icr- Sa t u rda v as a precautionarymeasure." Layson declared.

The private water supply insome fringe areas of St.ocktonoffers a more serious problem,according to Layson.

He cautions residents in thoseareas to pump wells dry and usea disinfectant if flood waters con-tacted the well water.

He also advised against usingAny food which came in contactwith flood water.

"Fruit and vegplllblcs whichhave natural covel'ings---potat(){'s,or-anges, lr-rnons and Ihe likr-mayhi" piltrn if thcv first ilrr washr-din a C()(lllllrITi,,"l disinfrcl in::: solu-tion. pr,..pc:red hy rtddin;:: l' t ahlo-spoons of disinfr-ct an t to a gallonof watr-r." Layson said.

As a f inal word of advirr-, Lay-son said pr-rsons rr-turnina 10clenrro homes in flrooeo al'ras

I should open windows to provideI plrnty of vr-nt ilafion. .

"This will prevent molding annthe presence of musty odors," hesaid."I ~uggest pumping out th('

wr-lls and. III the case of Ii and1'-in('h diameter wr-lls, pouring inabout. 2 gallons of commerr ia l dis-infrrtant. Thr-n pump Ihr wr-Iluntil Fin 0001' of r-lorine is not iced ,in t ho water. Let it st a nd for aboutl4 hours and, at the end of that Itime. the well may be pumped out.azain. IBOIL DRINKING WATER i

"DUring the waiting ppriori,. I'suggest. boiling water for 20 min- \utos hofore using." Layson said. ;

Another problem in the .unll~-eorpora ted sections i'lf the city IS

plumbing. .Layson said 1'rverFil r-omplaint s

have hocn receivro of pr-rsnnspumping t he contents of sr-pt ir;tanks out onlo Ih,.. slrprt or onlopr-opr-rt v•.This is not ror-omrur-nrtcdhrcilllsl" it (,l'pFltps FI sarut attonproblem. Action will hI' tal<~nacains t rpslopnts who prrsls! IIIdoinr; it. LFI~·,on drcl:-1rrri,

"In those arr-as whirh ha\'p bor-nf100d1"0 a nd in which sl"pl IC tanksArp IISI"O.I SUggcst rr-sidr-n tS lisetheir plurnhinz systrms .. although,spllringlv. if thp grollnd IS frpr of~\'lItf'r, 'I'hf' subsoil is rRpahlp of,handling tIl!' sewae:e if ton mtwh.lS:not flushpd into it," La~'son Sllto.

r.<In;on said tha.t wh('n proplrfppl '1hpv mUst pump out srptlc,tanl". it is lldvisabll'! In Cill\ arommPI'Cial pumping ,,,r', :('e In todo il.FOOD WAR:o.il:o.in . \

The engineer iIIso will'I1pd rf'SI-dents not to use any food left un-:refrigerllted whilf' they were refu-'ees -from their homes.

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u.s. AID ISORDERED FORFLOOD AREAS

\\,,\;';1 IlNGTON. npc. 24 (UP)1'1('~id"nt F:isf'nilo\\'Pl' today 01'-1,

r-larr-d f'lood-st rickrn Reno and\\'Flsho" County, Nev., as majordisaslf'r arl"8S, .

Th» Presldf'nt's artlon followpdII similar order ;.-psterda, thatapplied to California.. dfI.

In a tl"legram to ttl" N~8governor, Charles H. Ru~sell, t.heWhitp House allocateri t~ .the f~d-f'rRI Civil DPfen~e Admllll~~ratlon"'such funds for fed"ral asslst8noe'a~ are nocessarv to !lupplemt'ntst a t e and local f>ffo1't!l.". Rtlsspl\ asked thp Prelidpnt. forfpdl'l'Hi nssistancf' in a tf'~f'gramrpc('i\'po last nIght. He est irnatedf lood d"magp to public pr?PE'rtyalone in Reno R no III \\ ashoerOllnl\' betwppn $;jOO.()()() And~1.0()().()O(). HI' said Ihf' ",,~er-gf'nc~' I is) increasing hourly.~T.'\T}; HARDF.!ilT HIT

Prrsidl'nt Eisf'nho\\,pr ypstproayop~IHrrd Californla. hit ha rrlost. hyIhp f'loods, 8 major Olsflstpr. ".1'''8.

III" Olifi,f'r! Gov. r;ooowin .T. KnIght \hv t,..l,..gram "such funds ... RS,,;.,.. nocr-ssarv to sllpnlpmE'nt st.l1te,and 100'al efforts" in the wloe-spr<';1-(1rr-Iir-f progr~m.

..";::rirulttlrf' ~f'crE'tary Fzra T.Rrllson offprl"o ('flli fOTT1"- andOrf'gon surplus Ioorls for t~ef'mf'rg('nry ff'('ding of f lood v.!c-t irns. Thp Sma ll RtlSllll"SSAdmll;-is t rn t ion rlpclflrpr! ~orthprn Cali-f'orn in. Sotlthrrn n reg I' n lind"'rslrrn NI"V"OR disaster arr"~.

Th» moves r-amr- swif t lv on thehor ls of 8 plr-a from Sf'l1atf' p.,..-puhlican lrar\'r Wil liarn F. Know-,la nd ICal if.] to F:ispnhowE'r for'a J1 nossible fedE'l'llI hrlp t~ floor!-st rir-kr-n IIrelll\ of ,rtlifOl'11I8,

\Vl' iI f' House Prrss ~pcrP1f'ry,l:1n1f'S C. HAJ;1;f'rl~'SAid t1;P .1"I'f'S-irlr-nts action gi,·C's th'" (I"I~ De-frnsp Ar!minislrfltion fI ':Irtl~al"b la nk rhl"rk" in its Ilood .l'phefarlivilirs. Jlp sa id It WAS ol'ntlRr10 frrlrr~1 ar tion in t ho northp8st-prn floods last sumn-er.DEEPLY C01W'ERSED .

Presidential Aidl" Wilton B.Persons. who r('layeo thC" telegramt o Knight. told Ihe ,ali~orl1la gov-r-rnor t ha t t hr- Presrdent hadasked him to "rxprpss. his dpepr-onc=rn with Ihl' hilrdshlp ~no suf-fr-rinj; caused t hr- people of yours t atl" hv thrsf' Iloods." .. ]\:ni;:;l;t, rrqtlrsling fpdrrRI illr!,1010 the Prl'sid,..nt therp Alrl'AdyhAS h"f'n pxtpnsin' los1l of Itfe Andprop!'rty in flond-,trickpn. ,.reA~anrl An "!'ven mnrp ~••\'er~ ,~nllnda-tinn imminentily thr!'Atens north-ern parts of Califonua..

Delta Endangered by SwollenRivers, High Tides, Winds

A 3-way combination nf swollen rivers, above normal tide, and Isoutherly winds today presented a flood threat to thousand, of acresof rich Delta farm lands.

The combination was described all a "serious situation" by JohnM. Luther of the California Central Valley Flood Control Associationin Sacramento.

Observers pointed out that the

Icrr-sts of the floods have not asye t. re8chd the Delta area, and

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1hllt the-tides will become progres-sivr-ly higher for the next week.

Strong winds which have borne

Ithl' present storm a re creditedwith raising the high tide level in

IISan Francisco Bav as much as 2feet above the unusually high tides

Ifor this time of year. the U.S.Corps of Engineers office in Sac-ramento estimated. Supplies and equipment. includ-

William Harper, office manager ing helicopters and amphibianlof Zuckerman - Mandeville Inc., trucks. are being dispatched to-i Delta farm operators. said a read- day from Stockton Army and Na-'ing of 9.7 feet was recorded at1 noon today ilt. Connection Slough. t ional Guard units to assist inbetween 010 River and Middle flooded areas,River. as t hr- affect of the high Sharpe General Depot officialstide was being reached at that who began yesterday sending outpoint. k

Harper said the Mandeville supplies in true s, said they haveIsland levees have been heightened received authorization from Wash-since the 1938 flood. but that the ington to help during the emer-primary danger is from pressure gency. Requests for aid from pub-against the levees as the water lie officials are being channeledrises. The levees arc being pa-trolled hy National Guardsmen through 6th Army Headquarters

Iand sandbagged at points where at the Presidio.stress likely is to develop. The depot's disaster train, which

The predicted high tide todayat Stockton. using the san Fran- includes 10 hospital cars and mess .

Icisco Golden Gate reference point cars, has been alerted and is

, was 4 feet. Tomorrow's predicted standing by. Depot personnel Alsohigh Is 4.2 feet; Sl\Jlday, 4.5 feet; have heen ordered to ready boatsMondav. 4.7 feet; Tuesday, 4.8feet, and Wednesday and Thurs- used by engineering units.day 4.9 feet. ," , . LEFT THIS lUORNING

The high water mark during the F'ive helicopters from the 30th:flood of 1938 was between 9 and Engineer Group (Aviation) left,10 feet. Stockton Field this morning to I

Sheriff Carlos A. Sousa re- assist in the Healdsburg. Redding, Iquested that plealure boat owners and Yreka areas. One helicopter, I

refrain from using their craft which has a capacity of 5 to 7 per- 'during the flood threat because sons in addition to its 2 pilots lind Iof the danger to levees from their crew chief. was sent to Yreka, ac- ,wakes. companied by a 2-place helicopter.,

1 Robert Nessler, owner of t~e and 2 of the small helicopters I

'King Island Fishing Resort, said were ordered to Healdsburg.i hI' had reports water has reached Six 2%-ton amphibian trucksIhe levels of cafes at the Para- (DUKW's) from t.he 118th Ord-dise Point resort. located on Dis- nance Company, California Na-appointment Slough, Cohn Tract, tional Guard. were ordered to re-and at Herman and Helen's Fish- port to the adjutant general's of-ing Resort !,n Little Connection fice in Sacramento yesterday aft- ,Slough. Empire Tract. . ernoon to pick up supplies and I

l equipment for the Chico aroa, lind, : 2 others were sent to Modesto:this morning.The detachment of 14 men and

Ii DUKW's have been placed onstandby duty.The depot's engineer supply sec-

tion has been shipping out sand-bags. shovels. picks, emergencylighting equipment, and othersupplies. A total of 30.000 sand-bags has been sent to ContraCosta County.

Sacramento's M c C I e IIa nAirForce Base said today 2 tons of

Iempty sand bags have heen flownto Reno to be used there for con-taining the Truckee River.

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More than 1,000 Stockton areahomes were damaged in the Christ-mas weekend floods, according tofirst estimates of American RedCross field rs.

.Iack Bas~tt, director of the 10-CHI Disaster Center opera tions.

I assessed the local damages witht he aid of local volunteers. to pro-vide II basis for estimating localrequirements to national head-quarters.

The preliminary toll:Persons: 1 ~li.d, 4 hospitalized.

1,750 given :mass care, 500 still,needing em*!'iency f 00 d and~el~~ II

Homes: none destroyed, 622 withmajor damaie. 377 with minordamage. .."

Busineslei:' 5Q. wit h minorI damage, '" Fann buil~: 60 buildings de-~troyed, 12 wlt1i major damage, 26with minor damage.

Richard Hm, IOCHI Red CrosschApter manager, 1I1lid IbAt. thetotAl number ,of indi,'idunls af-fr('lnrl' h~' t he floods prohahl~' is illexc('ss of 2,500 basrc\ nn "11 ('S Ii-m<llf' of 750' to ROO filmiliC's dis-pl'1(·('d. '

About. 1.750 of tbese were han-dled through the Red Cross. andthe balance fled their homes di-rectly to friendl or relatives.

ARMY SUPPLIESARE SENT TOFLOOD AREAS

A ool1ple fA IOggy Stocktonianlwere standing at a downtown in-tersection this morning when allat once 817erything was bathed ina golden llight.

"Hey, look. there's the lun com-ing out," said one.

"Yeah," ed ,thedel'ingly.it ?"

I AhoutCounty J/Ill night fing Ihem in po8ttfon in A hrf'Rkin tbe Divf'rting Canal levee near

I thf' Southern Pacific railroadI bridle near Ma1Jl Street.

WET CHRIST!\fA~-The vearcame to a disastrous close inStockton as torrential rainfall,accompanied by warm weatherat high altltudts, sent riversout of their c&l1linels and over'the tops of levees. The picture :shows w1IIt happened in thesouthwest part of the city justbefore Christmas when waterthat poured ~to--theMormonChannel overflowed the banksand inundated many hlock.s oflow-lying areas. The streets con-spicuous in the foreground.from right, are El Dorado,Center, and Commerce. Thelarge structure at upper rightis the Edison High School. -

RUSSIAN RIVF;R S('y.:\,F.-Some of the homes in t h.- GtI('rnevilJe rr-sort area surrnun.Ied by floodwater's from t hr- Russian Hive,' arc shown in this a irvir-w. l\lany farnilu-s were e\'al'ual,'d from lhpirhomes whr-n t 111'r ivr-r swept over its hanks in fla sh flond~, 'A I' Wirephoto)

McDOUGALD CANAL BREAK INUNDATES CORONA PARKiBy IRVINE SPRAGUE

There's a merry Christmasgreeting, or a decorated tree injust about every window in CoronaPark,But not It sIngle IDlltary soul/

is there to enjoy them, Fat Corona IPark is under 6 feet of w.ater. .The subdivision, developed

years ago, consists of row uponrow of neatly painted, well kept,modest houses of the low costvariety.It is located east of McDougald

Canal and the French Camp Turn-pike and south of Charter Way.Edison High School marks thenortheast corner of the area.Safe from floods during early

hours of the Stockton emergency,Corona Park was under wa ter inless than 30 minutes Saturdayafternoon when McDougald Canalbank burst from the pressure ofwaters diverted south from Mor-mon Channel.INADEQUATE '"EVEESVolunteer crE'WSfrom all over

Stockton rushed to the scene towork on sandbag barricades un-til late Christmas Evt, but thewaters were not to be denied.The entire 20 bloCQ is still flood-ed, the dirty waters lapping eager-ly over the too little-too latesandbag levee.Many of the refugees are housed

in the Civic Memorial Auditorium.Some are in hotels and motels.A few are doubling up with friendsand relatives.All day yesterday Corona Park

fathers were flagging down ridesin small pleasure boats plying thewaters, seeking transportation topick up clothing and necessities.No one knows how long it will bebefore they can return.Volunteer boatsmen from all

over town were in the area with14-foot, and smaller, craft. Mostwere helping the unfortunate ref-

: ugees, Some were just sightsee-ing.PLEA FOR PARENTSEvery boatload had some Christ-

mas packages aboard. For, evenfaCing critical needs tor clothingand other necessitld~ere wasn'ta father in the lot ~:could turndown the pleas ot:

Only one truck was able to noany rescue work yesterday, a Na-tional Guard 2''.-ton vehicle thatwas able to plow through the

deep sections to pick upof clothing and necessities.

Hip boots Was the costume ofthe day yesterday, but manystripped to their shorts. A brightsun shone on the scene,The rescue boats usually drove

up to the front door, or a frontor side window. In some casesthe boats drove right into thegarage.FENCE HAZARD8

SANTA ARRIVES BY ~OAT-Petpr Lemon, centor, of 414 Koh]prtakes a boatload ol Christmas presents from his flooded home as

Picket fence. were boating ob-stacles, as the waters were lap-

just over the tenee tops.""••••,.0lIl,.. fences snagged a number

and motors.the homes the waters aregh to float lighter fumi-

and spoil everything else.desolation is complete.

Normally, on December 25. thegreeting il "Merry Christmas."In Corona Park, the Christmas

Day salute was, "They tell methere is no such thing as floodinsurance."-----------------

CHRISTMAS SCENE-James McNeal of 508 West 5th, stands in, hip boots in his front room, ruefully looking at his gaily decoratedChristmas tree. (Record photo)

"Daddy, can you get my Christ-I' could not be moved.out in advancemas presents, this time, please." of the flood. Fftl sections had

For the most part the young- less than 4 feet til. water.sters were left at the Auditorium, One sign states that Howardor along the French Camp Turn- I Street is "Not a Through Street."pike banks from which the boats Nobody can contest the fact.were launched. Two or 3 "For Sale" signsDeepest area ill around 5th and placed on poles on front lawn.

Lincoln streets, where the waters are certain to get no takers, torlapped over tops of autos that the present at any rate.==0-==-

KNIGHTS FERRY Will RESTOREITS FIREHOUSE; PRAISE BOY, 12, KNIGHTS F'E;RRY, Dec, 2R-Residents of t h i: communi tv havr-In,tf.'rruptt!d, clean-up opera tions following t hI' rr-ccssinn of S Ian is ' '1. liS "River fl~' flters, to, plan thr I'~storation of t he ir ce nturv-otd lire-:,house and to heap praise on the 12-year-old boy who rescued the his- i

tone Iirewazon. iFamilies facfng ruin 111 thf>il'+--- - - -- ----- - -_ .. __ '

own homes grieved when the l'rtm-I ' ,paging river tore the f irr-house With the l'rtcllll1g' of fhe work oftower ,from its foundation and Harold (Cor-ky) Bowen in sa\'ing'swept It, down the ~treet and he- the 100-yC'ar-old firewagon from ~gan talking restoration almost he- the flood,fore they tackled reconstruction The boy and his parents, Mr.work of their own, and Mrs. Iiarold Bowen of Oak-

J, G, Taylor, president of the da lo, were in town to pick up theirCommunity Club and one of :l Christmas turkey, when the floodtrustees of the monument, de- hit and marooned them here,c1~,l'e? today; , I Harold I'acre! to a local grocer~'

With residents work ing, fo- I for the key to the Iirr-houss asgethcr we can reconstruct the I flood waters rose in tho strretsbuildill,¥ so it will withst and future 1 When the kr) could not he founrl:floods, , ,hr, 7-~'ear-old ,JII11mH' Sharp and

Eye-wi t noss accounts of thr- f irr-- .nnot hr-r companion mnde their i

hou,se crash blame the poor Ioun- ! wav to a cal' and nht ainr-d a saw,datu.'>n at the rear of the building I to Iorcr- open the Iirohouso door.for its surrender to the flood wa- I By thp t imo t 11(' door \\'R'tors. ,The tower floated intacr.. opened, t he Rowen youth ",,,Sand Will he salvaged, It has been working a lonr-, with wa tr-r up tosecond only to the covered bridge his armpits, III' rushed to theas a target for tourist camera- wagon and pulled it to high groundmen, with the aid of his mother and i

Telephones also have been busy IMrs, Raymond Sharp,

Corona Park andMcKinley TractAre InUndated

Most of the 3,000 to :t500 Stock-ton-area residents who were forcedto take refuge Irom floods overthe Christmas weekend are re-turning to their homes today ex-copt in the Corona Park-MclvmleyTract SUbdivisions,

The homes of the :;00 I'rsi4ent!llof th':. subdlvistnns st il l "'rl'(' ~dpr1 to ;) tpet of water t h is mortting,Elsr-whe rr- in the 1::'3-blnck areaof Ihr citv affrrtrd hv the floodsrVrlrurrs 'arr rr-turninz to face amajor cleanup job,

Corona Park and McKinlcvTrart subdivis ions, sour h of ,har-tor \\'i1~' and east of French CampTurnpike, were Ihp ha rdr-s! hitarr-as in the city, At t he Iwightof t hr- flood ~o!lt('1' Wil:, wili"t dor-pin most hO!l1'S,TAI\E~ TO TRA(T

E\',H'lIrI'S from I IllS ClI'f"C1\\'rl'e,hollsed in loral ho(rl, and 11101<'15'Rlld 'It Drurl Vocalion'll Institu-t ion n('Rr Tracv,

, lm'0na Pilrk Find thr l\lrh:inlrvTl'ilCI Find a 5-blo('k ill'rR rlmllndthe city corporation ~ard WE'reflooded Saturday when McDollgillCFlnal lev~sfshed away from~rd to 8th 'S1l' along the FrenchC· Illp Turrtpi ;

Hllndreds volUnteers spE'ntCbr'i"tmas in an unsuecessful at-tpmpt to patCh the hreaks withsandbags, The flood resulted whenhigh Mormon Channel watersflowpr! south through the cilna!.

Cily Enginerr Marslutll Dunlaps'lid Ill" has pumps oprl'aling i'lt\\I;,II;rl' Slough i'lnd fllilt thr <lrril,honld hr drar hy toni~ht, I'lond\\'al('I's in Ih" ."uhdh'j,inm:, IlP Arlri·pd, arr rC'rNling fas!.TOO SOO:\"

,Jnhn C. Lilh', Sto('kton ('IIvmCinagrr, si'lirl tn'd,,~' "I I'a,,'1 heglnIn pslimClte tllP riam"g(' ye!."

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])"ng(,I' poinls in Ihr ('ollntvt(ld'l~' from flooding rll'r Thol'llton

; willch (s isolated hv th(' Mokpl.IHl1nr Rivpr: the ~'-tossdalp III'PIl

,and S;ln .JoaQuin lity AI the ('on.~filIrncp of Ihp San .JoaQuin AndSt anisl,,"s rivers,

'nlP San ,JoaQuin Rh'rr <lt 1\1O';s-dillr was mPilsurrri lit 18.::':1 fl'ptill. 7 a,m, today, II risp of h in('hp~fl'Om the 2 1lm, !'rilding, Till'!dMlgrl' point is 22 frl't al thi~point, In 1950 thr rh'er floodpdIll. 24 feet.

I A car. property of F.mi! Pardina. IJamestown. WL'I destroyed :\1011-'

T I C t dav whr-n WAters of Woods C'rN'k

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uoumne oun Y I overflowed. The car was washed;about 1()() yards do~tream, I

1 D S Mr-anwhile, ralnfa)l fn th,.. Sierr-a I

amage et at foot hi l!s r-lirnbed to 24,42 incheswith lR,7!'l inches of this to+al 'falling in nrrrm~r, making the

Q t Melle month Ihr "'I'llrst in Iuar er I Ion R",('ol'ds or Ihe thr ifoothill r-ount rv lRff7, i

, , 'And thr- closrst r"rm~rl',SONORA, Dee, 2,R - - Swollon : total l'il;"f,,11 was In lRW) whr-n

I'!\,rrs and creeks I,ll Tuolt,~~ne: ts.zs ;nrl1<'s were mr"surer,( oun t y caused an ,estlmall'd $~.IO,- I With light valn fallil1'" in ~onnr'i1

\ 0011 <ia,l1Iag(' during a \\'('("k of \'('stpl'rlAv afternoon thl' rr-r-ordfloods 111 rrvrr and, crock hot tom for t hr- month 1* ex~ted to climb'al'('as, rnun t y off icia ls said Yl'S- hlzher. :tl'~'(,lay, Tbr' sl'asonRI rAinfall to date,

11,1(' !'slimatp, considf'l'rd, a All'efldv has passed the total for I"nunimum hy road and housuu; 14 ~eason~ since 18R7 when ll'ss Irllgllll'el'S, Illclu?1lII r1'lmag('s tn, than 24 inches were I'l'rorrlrrl,county roads, highwavs and PI'I-,' during thr- ontlre !leASOn, Thp a\'I'I'-vat o property 1I10ng the Tuolumne AgP rainfall for a season in Sonoraal1~ Stnnislaus rtvr rs. , is 30 inr-hcs

Supervisors es I I 111a t r flood!watr-rs which ~shf'd away cul-vert s and small' bTidg('s in all sec-tions of tl1I' county causr-d $l!HI,O(}()in damages to the coun t y roadsvst orn, while repairs and main- itr-nance to the st at e .highwn y :sys t om will take anot her $'iO,O()O, i

Propr-rt y danlllgl', prmr.ipally toI'r"ol'ts ;111(1 homos along t hr- swift- I

flowing TUO\tIIllIl(', somo damil~e LINDEN, DE>c, 24-Shortlv hp-to the Tri-Dnm pro ior-t , loss of Iore noon today thl' hank of'1\1ol--private roads and hric\f~I'S, and 'mon Slough, 2 mill'S southeast ofoverf lowing creeks which rle- Linden started to show signs ofst royr-d fen('rs, will to t a l about r rttrnhl ing; An appr-a l was sr-n t 1It$ HH)'(W)O, nnr-o to t hr Ci vi l Defr-ns» l lr-nd-

Officials said thr count v is qUal't,,!,s in St ock t on for sandba as"lucky" 10 have psrap('11 wiihollt and men wr-rr- sent to Ihr area tomnre sr-rious damage. The county I'rinfol'('1' till' hank,loss, they said, is small ('olllp;ll'rd, 'sIHlI!ld the wa t rr hrr-ak thlollghwith property losses in ot hr-r sec-: it "'(111111('ortl~ straight down Lin-t ions of Northern California, I dr n ",'ad alrl'! Into t he t own.WATERS RECEDE I \\'al('1' f rorn t hr- O\'C'l'llo"ing

Meanwhile, all creeks, aided by, ('"lil\f'rFiS River st ar tr-d "ppro;,,'h-cold weal her which dropped tem-, ing Lindon ycstr-rdav aftr-rnonn.prl'Rt1lrpS hrlow frN'7.ing in the ' cornina 1I('I'OS5 the Iir-lds a nrl or-Ioot hil ls and near zr-ro in the r-ha rds I rnrn the Bcllot a di rr-vt inn.mountains, were back in tlwir: Thr- town is cut off from Stork-channr-ls ~'rstf'rday, Rivr-r« still: ton,f'lovr-d "high" and wr-rr- out of 'I n,,1\\'''rn 40 arid 50 Iarm fa Ill-hanks in flat riverhnttom arr-as. ilir-s I"rl their homes whr-n thr

unimprovr-d entrance rnarls 10Sunshin» most of yr-s tr-rrlay . t hr-ir homos from thr- higlll\a,"hr-Ipr-r! st rr-ams to cont inuo drop-. starter! to 1::0 under water Find Ih"ping, flood hrgfln 10 reach toward the

Traffir through the count y, with hOIlS('S,2 excr-nt ions, was near normal This morning the wa tr-r st oori 4vostr-rdav, County roads in the I inr-hos df'(,p on Main Street, nr-a rMiddle Camp area are still im-: t he t own fire house and appr-a rodpassable because 4 culverts 01" to hr risin;.:, A,t.~ t imr- 11 1111',-

The Oa kda le Fn rm Bureau IJ1'idgrs were washed away, and sag(' "'iI" hring, received tr\('phnnrtnrla v issur-d a call for volun- thr Sonora PItIIl ~Ighway, 1 mile cnrmr-r-t ion wa!li brnkr-n.trers \0 a id flood-hit ranchers east of Jamestown, was blocked For R I ime vestr-rdav J.illd"11along t hr- Slanislillls Rh:er, while State Divlslon of Hichways 1 «ould Ill' rr1lched hv 'o('tnllJ'ingThC' virt ims of rnrnpagrng crews cleared rock slirIes, il'Olll Stn,'klon by wlly'of Watrdnn)'i\'!'r waters lire removing Traffic was I' out I" d through 'H,,;)d nl' h~' ('oppernpoli< n""rl,de h I' i s, I'epairing fences, Volponi Arres, a nearhy subdivi- I DlIl'illl; thl' nighl, hO\\'r\'rl', IIH'sprrauing w!'t hay tn rlr~', and sian, whilr thf'sr l'ppilirs \\'rl'r 1'O;;r\s ('onlH'('ling the \VCllrl'lon ;11111removing mud from homes romplrted, This highway is op!'n I Lind,'n roads wpnt und!'1' "'<111'1'ilnri fal'm builelings, Chal'lrs fonav, and dri\'illt; hrcame Ion (i;IIl:.!('I'Oll"

1 ~,' T~lrl)honr communications to for 111n,"t 'Gilpin, O'lkdalr :~ ~'" I!I regl!l- ".Tarksollvil1(', ~10rCIIsin, Grovl'land I ('nnnPI'OI)()lilDlllt('ring \'oluntprrs,_:..:..:..:.::.:=--.:..:.;,;==;..:.,;..;".-.----- I Rnd Rig Oak Flat, dl'!ltl'o,)!ro whencd wste,'dayand most families I the Tuolumne overflowerl In the

I ('vaClIalNI and mo\'rd out their! JacksonVille a-, wall normalI \J\'eslock. "yestrroA,)! art 'P'I'&T crf'wmen: Do\\'nstrram at thr ,1UllctIon of, from Sonora .,., Modr-sto hadthe )'I\'rl' WIth thr TlIolumnr RI\'er, workrd lhrough thE' C"hristmRsthl' Cravson ROAd area still is: holida~' to 1'('storl' sel'\'iC'e, Ithl'('at('n(.d and rrsidents have: I M<ln~' pr;&F. linp hrraks, holhhren alertrd, Depulirs !laid most, m~ io!' C1nd min~r, h~".r hprn re-of the Ir\'ees protrrting thf' !lec-: pa,lrrrI, !'lnd srl'VI~f', fadIng only f~rI ion al'(, not too 1'1rong, hrlPf t IlTIrS d\lrll1g the flood, )s

The Tuolumne rose ilboll\ 3 feet i normill again, HRENTW()OIl, Dr,', ~I Vif-yesl!'l'fI<I~' liS a result of mountain CJ,EAXTNG u.r 11'('11 flood I'rfugpps fn\lnri ,l1rlt('rrains rilrlif'r, Watl'r slosh('d 1111.0 i In thl" JIU;:kIol1v!11P - MoccRsln in thr- J\mpl'iC'Fln Lelo':'ion HAil hl'rl'roads in thr Rivl'rdalr and RohC'rl-i areas, resort o\ittl!t'!l lire rlrarin£; I'll" ~'rstprdilY and onp fllmil~' wasson \r'lels but no nrw inundation i Away debris left by morr than 6, rllJ'lllpd out to II pri\'ate homl' ilSof hOI11(,s occurred, feet of wa ter which flooded the: \\'11trrs from Marsh CreE'k inun-

l\1ean\\'hilr, suprn'isoJ's drclareo[ Mountain River Lodge and Dan's I' dlltrrl thpir homps,thf> cOllnty a disaster m'(''' 111hop,?s , Camp, both major !louth side rp- Flood wllters wprp not rising'"f )'I'rri\'in~ slatr Rl1d fe(I(,I'~1 aId sorts, Repairs have been "tart ed, this morning, howe\'er, and nofor rehnhilitalion and namer! act- Thl'rl' wl'rl' no deRths or Injurips I nlhrr fillllilies in thi~ arpl\ \\'('1'('ing I'OFid 1'0mmissinllC'1' Bilis Delbon because of the flood In the countv, ,('\';wllat('d,to thr pNmanenf post, hut a hermit In th(' Stllni~laits Th(' 1:1 refugl'E's in the LrL:inll

Drlhon rstimated it mfl~' cost: River gorge ne.at Columbia StAte "illl compri!ll'l 3 famili€'~, J\nolhrr$1I:0,llrl!l to I'rpl"rp the w,ashed, Park was re~~d missing for a family, h persons, found shel\t"r in(lilt Clkll('nry Brldgr and $20,000, timr ntll'inJ!' th~ weekend, a prh';!1(' home,to I'('pall' the approach to the Blos- i He is InR'VAld' Tsaksen, 62, who ' ParIs of !(ni£:h~('SOIll Bridge', lIe snid hI' hopps to formerlv resided In It cabin in the 'FlII'd 1:1t(' \' e' S t e rcomplrtC' a fUl,tl1rr, sUl'vey of I gorf!I', ' "\'il('tlI''''S \\:e)'e takionhridge and road condItIOns 011 the: Thf' rahin' w." WAshl'rl aWAY, Iwnlt",

I \\'rst ~idr in thr nr;xt frw days, .Tohn 1'ilmmer. R miner in thp' Flood watl'us ha\'e hit IInl nnl~'and rrpnrt to suprl'\'\sors, •RrPfl, f()ll11d :rsaksen near thE':, Brt'lIt\\'ood alld KnightsI'Il, hilI

-- Exnr"ir1l'nlal mine, !Inri took him I Ualdl'\', H\Ton Rnd Bethrl 1"lalld,to his rflhin, Ml'anwhl\p, a ~her-: 'l\len1hers of the 5 StAr Pnsl,iff's pnl'ty, led by Sheriff Don:( Vetrralls of Foreign Wars, pl;l('('riVal's, h~rI sear('ht!d .long the river i" themsel\'es on 24-hour ('1111 IFtstfor 1s<li;srn hefore he Wit. loclltpd, I~ night, adding to 'the !lumber nr

'1 \'oltll1teerll .tan,iHng by in theI emergency.

Rivers Still Riseon West Side

:11 () J) EST 0, f)('C', :!H - - NI'wflooding ocr-urred \orlH~' in St urns- ,laus County's West -Side, hut au-thorit ies said the situation "is not,seriolls,"

The San .loaquin River in thelIills FC'I'!'\' dis t tirt hr-t wr-rn Nrw-mall and' Crows L;lIlding I'osr 8inchrs above the H611 flood S\ClgP,inundat ing farmland Along the1'l\'PI'.

Shr-vif f's deputirs said thesp:tl'srly populated lIrPH was alrl'l-

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I LINDEN CUT OFFFROM STOC~TON

nlHI';lllg Ifpoints eilSt.

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;21 in BrentwoodFlee Their Homes

'\'rtS ("\-aClI-~. hilt allto privatI'

IIANTA ARRIVES BY HOAT-Peh'r Lemon, centr-r, of 414. Kohler-takes a boatload at Christmas presents from his flooded home as

McDOUGALD CANAL BREAK INUNDATES CORONA PARKiOnly one truck was able to do

any reSCue work yesterday, a Na-tional Guard 21'-ton vehicle thatwas able to plow through the

deep sections to pick upof clothing and necessities.

Hlp boots was the costume ofthe day yesterday. but manystripped to their shorts. A brightsun shone on the scene.The rescue boats u8Ually drove

up to the front door, or a frontor IIde window. In some casesthe boats drove right into thegarage.FENCE HAZARD~

"Daddy. can you get my Christ-mas presents. this time. please."

For the most part the young-sters were left at the Auditorium,or along the French Camp Turn-pike banks from which the boatswere launched.Deepest area is around !'lth and

Lincoln streets, where the waterslapped over tops of autos that

By IRVINE SPRAGUEThere's a merry Christmas

greeting. or a decorated tree injust about evel"Ywindow in CoronaPark.But not II. single solitary soul i

ill there to enjoy them. Fot Corona IPark Is under 6 feet of water, IThe subdivision, developed 4

years ago, consists of· row uponrow of neatly painted, well kept.modest houses of the low costvariety.It is located east of McDougald

Canal and the French Camp Turn-pike and south of Charter Way.Edison High School marks thenortheast corner of the area.

Safe from flood!! during earlyhours of the Stockton emergency.Corona Park was under water inless than 30 minutes Saturdavafternoon when McDougald Canalbank burst from the pressure ofwaters diverted south from Mor-mon Channel.INADEQUATE LEVEESVolunteer crews from all over I

Stockton rushed to the scene to ~work on sandbag barricades un-ti! late Christmas !:v~,but thewaters were not to be denied.The entire 20 blocks is still flood-ed. the dirty waters lapping eager-ly over the too little-too latesandbag levee.Many of the refugees are housed

in the Civic Memorial Auditorium.Some are in hotels and motels.A few are doubling up with friendsand relatives.All day yesterday Corona Park

fathers were flagging down ridesin small pleasure hoats plying thewaters, seeking transportation topick up clothing and necpssities.No one knows how long it will bebefore they can return.

Volunteer boatsmen from allover town were in the area with14-foot, and smaller, craft. Mostwere helping the unfortunate ref-

! ugees, Some were just sightsee-ing.PLEA FOR PARENTSEvery boatload had some Christ-

mas packages aboard. For. evenfacing critical needs ·for clothingIUIdother necessitieS, ere wasn'ta father in the lQt could tumdown the pleas of:

Picket fel1CN were boating ob-stacles. al the waters wen! lap-

just over the fence tops.fences snagged a number

••••,"'..••.••••••and motors.the homes the waters are

••.·••n<;.uo<" to float lighter furni-and spoil everything else.

desolation Is complete.Norma lly, on December 25. the

greeting il "Merry Christmas."In Corona Park. the Christmas

Day salute was. "They tell methere is no such thing a.s floodinsurance."-------------------

CHRISTMAS 8(1ENE-James McNeal of 508 West ;';th. stands in•hip boots in his front room, ruefully looking at his gaily decoratedChristmas tree. (Record photo)

could not be movedout in advanceof the flood. F4fW!lectionl hadless than 4 feet fA. water.One sign states that Howard

Street is "Not a Through Street."Nobody can contest the fact.Two or 3 "For Sale" lignl

placed on poles on front lawnsare certain to get no takers, forthe_pres~~! _8 t __~n_y_r_a_te_. _

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Family Twice Driven from Abodesin Ea~t St.ockton by Overflow

Twice ye!l "y, a Stockton, Slough stipped over its banks, In-couple and their ~ children had to I undating the auto court.

,flee flood waters, Short was r!'unitE'd with his (am-; At 4 p.m. Orville D. Short car- ily at Red Cross headquarters at, rled his wife Wilma, and chi loren 930 N. Commerce. '! from their ~E'w home at 4<115 K The children--Linda, 13, Jean,

IFourth as swirling wa tr-r, spilling 9. Danny, 7, Donald ~, ann Nancy"from nea rby Mormon (,hannpl.l14 month5--al1 of whom had colds, Ithroat ened momentarily to invade spemPd none the worse for their;

I the house. rxpPI'iencr. I"I didn't carry you in over the NEXT TO ('HASSEL

: threshhold when we moved in, hut "Wp didn't realize th!' auto courtI'm car rving you out over it," was right next to the channel."Short told his wifr-, t ryuu; to find ;\hort said ruef,uU1. RS he SIPProhUl110r in tlH' s i t ua t inn. coff'oe. •Fl;RNITI'RF. ON REJ)~ Short said hE' and his family

Af'tr-r driviriz his family to thr would spr-nd t hr- night with Mrs.Slncl<ton Ci tv Auto Court. In~~ S, Short's mothor. Mrs. Harvey Park-Wilson Way, Short ro turucd :-1t, er, in Thornton.7 p.m. to t hr-ir East Stockton horne I .';;hort said hp was able to mOVE'to place their new furnit ure nn! only a small amount of thp Iamilyhods and possibly out of rr-ach of, belongings from t he horne.

, t ho mounting wa tr-r. I Hr-r PXPl'PSSIOn suddcnlv hocorn-I SOI11P 2'. h 0 u r s l"t('r, wuil« ing t au t , Mrs. Short st a rt ed toShort Ins still lit homo. ~,lrs,' ask, "You didn't fOI')I;!'t .Short and t hr- children Again \\'1'1'1' i ":-':0." her husband hrok e in and

If~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~':::~':i~;HlGl WAT'ER""EfFORTSPEEDS r~~~K~rcPFlOOD,·RElIEF I Im;~I':~~~~i~~I:~;'it~'i,: ~~r~II~~~:~:'~\

SHn .Toa<lUlrfJ€oullty·~ Civil Df'-: ',S!'I'iOIlSI~' disI1Iptf.r\ torl;oy AS E'f-:frnsE' ['ommd'l1('ation~ Cr-ntr-r got'its first I'PIII workout over thr ! fpcts of the flood WE're felt onwr-r-kr-nd AS all count v resources nE'arl;y evfH"Y tY1l8 of transporta- i[wore marshaled fOI' flood dut v, tion. I

I Supervisor Chairma n ('. R RIIIl The mlljor obstA('lp to mov4"I1'!'""t :II'flS in cnmmand of Ihr- cr ntr-r.I Ai~ro hv his doputv odrnsl' diroc- ' is within thlt city. The o"!'rflow, tor, E. F. TJ;'!ll\. _ of both Monnon ChAnnel and thei .The centei- 1;lE'g'i1n,OP('l'11I,i~ns ,:It Divarf ing Canal hall Iprt ['pntpr,9.01 p.m, Thursday. lit I it st 11'- St.ree t, CO'Vp.l"E'dwith WRt!'I' for 6port" the rains might cause floods blocks, IU the only A\'Pl1Ile forto thrraten tJif! county. moving north and sou t h,

Oper'at ions have cont mued with- Crosstown Il'fIffir rn ing lod without respite continuously, cars rorou ted from 1111lj01' high-KF.Y PF.RSONNEL ways And enwrgl'll<'Y equipment on

KE'y people working with Bull th!' pill'tiall'¥, flooded, strl'!'t t ha t, and Trau have been Shr-riff Carlos stands a? the onlv link hf'tl"f'('nSOUSil. Undersheriff Michael Can- t he flood-oi~SE'ctE'd f;ections of thelis, Hr-aith Director E. M. Bing-, city,: ham, Road Cornmixsionor Lloyd, RF.{)SION~ RULF.D OllT, Bndlp}" Welfare Dirr-ctor Cha rlr-s I "hl'istmfls homrromings Ar!' hp-Stuart Farm Advisor \V(',..;!r\,' "F I I' 111i n g, Personnel DiI'P(·to'l' ing postponed or cilnCl'lrr\ ~s r-ail

1 Charlo» Slw:'In. PIIITh:lsin!.: .'\c:rnt and bus t raff ic is off schrdllll' for,.Tohn Tlour-no. Iligh"':1\' P'1II()1 (':11)- thp ~rrl straight dRY. All lncal rRil-'tRin Le land PrRis ;II;r! Firr- \\'al'- roads and bus tr-rmina!s rr-portdr-n Will iarn Arma nino, dp]ilyl in lOhedule or I'limilliltionWit h t ho sherilT,,,; I'ilrli()..; ;IIHI:1 of rum. 1 d

17-,<;t:11ion radio BPt wil It t hr 1'111':11 On]" the airlinos Rrp unaff ectcfil'l' dist rlets, thr cnnt rol ("'nIN locilll';' with hoth compRllies sprv-hRd 'llliek contilct with I'Vf'ry src- icing' Stockton rpporting every-t· f h thing on schedulp,10110 t I' COUllty, AutomohilE' traffic Ollt of the

NF.TWORK A V A I LA RI.F. C'it v faef's detours on sP,'l'ralThr cidl orfl'llS!' rar\io npt, paid rOl'ltr". with othE'rs clospd by slides

7~ ppr cpnl. hy Slelt!' Rno Jo'prlrral Rnd \"<1shouts,funds has hf'pn pxtpnd('o gr:<dll<111y Trllffic using thl' Highwa~' 99thl" Pll."t two YPArs h~' tllp COUIlI y Fl'prV'ilV east of thp ('ity is I'e-BORrd of SupPIYisol's And \\,ilS rOlllrrl into the city at the flood!'dreHdy to operiltc ,illst in timf', !'Il,"in SlrHt tlnrlrrpASS to Ilse th!'

"'Ve wpre ]f'arnin" 11.<Wf' w('nt." ['PI1!('I' Strel't crossil1g.TI':'Iu commpntPd Ihis l11orning, Hi"h,,';JV !lO tr<1ffir ('oming from"Aft!'r a f('w hOill'S it was A smooth TnH'~ ;ll1(i th!' RH\" Arl'll. still opE'n,and f'fficent op(,l'atioll." mllst' bp l'outE'd ~cross to Durham:

Typical prohlems ilill1r1IPd hy thl' Frrrv Road h~' w,,~' of Frpnchernter included the sllnd hllg situa- ('Ilmi) ROAd, as is trilffir opstinedtion. for l\lilntf'('H from olhl'l' points 111-

The county drff'IlSf' offic!'rs hilo cluding Highway 4 IROI'd('n High-to hRve Quick and COlTf'c1. i'Inswprs wa \' I. Borden IlighwilY is opento the SlInd bflg ('JllI'SI ions, like onl~,' ilS far as Pittshurg,"how ml!.ny. full or f'mpty, whl'n.wherE', transportlltion, volllntppr ! ('orNTY T ('I,OGGII:Dcrews. relief, frMing " In th!' county nf'twork. Farm-

That was ,iu,,,t 011 Sl11l0 hllg.s.: ington RORd is hlock('d off fromEvery ot.h!'r prohlt"m har! mliitiplr, Stockton east, Lind('n Road isfRcets. Likr lr\'rf' hrpilk.,,- -whnt ' clm;po hy the Diverting CRnalrOllds to hlock, hoI\' sPl'iollS is t ilr ol·prflow. Rnd thf' LoWE'I' SRcrR-hrrak, who shollirl hI" el'ilCUllt rrl? mrnlo Road was hlo<'kE'd hetweE'nOTHF.R WORKt:ns , Lodi Rnd Galt Illst night when

Among thl' othrrs \\'orl<inc: Ollt wat('1' O\'l'rflow!'d thE' banks of Dryof t h(' (,pnt ,"r wrl'r (,0Il1I111Inic:t t ion" Crl'rk . .111s1w('sf. of Highway 99.f'XPf'l't <; FrPrl ""1l'li II". Hill \'r'rlr. llic:hway 99 is open from Sflcra-,RohPl't Peiel'"on. L('l'oy V,:ysuph I m('nto to M{,ITPd, with a detour'ano Orson .}-1;11'111I\n, Ipilding to Fresno but threat('ned

Puhlic I nCorlll A Ii 0 n Expl'rt I at. llnv timl'.Charlps EpPE'l'son "'ii' on dllt~·.! lfighwflv ~~ I\\'f'st Side High-, Along with Trilnsporlation Adviser I WAY) is c108ed from Crows Land-Charles Dickmfln. ling' SOlllh.

Hundred.<; of voluntepr~ !'xpcuted: Routes to CRlaveras County stillthe decisions mllde At thf' cent!'r. I are open with both Highway 12

and Waterloo Road pusable. ,

a ~ million dollartion for t ho con-

depressed Freewayand flood raceway in MormonChannel WIIS made in a tr-lcgramsent yesterday by City ManagerJohn C. Lilly to Rep, Leroy John-son's office in Washington.

The request steins from lastweekend's disastrous floods inStockton when the Mormon Chan-Inr-l ovr-rf lowed its banks and inun- ,dated largf! areas of the city. I

Lilly's telegram: I"Propose request for 3 million I

dollar appropriation with which toconstruct flood raceway - dc-]pressed freeway and appurtenant I

surface traffic crossings. Consider \'flood raceway necessary to carryoff flood waters to PI'PI'('nt recur-renee of extensive damage tohom E's. agriculture, industries. icommunications. transports t ion'and federal and municipal facili-ties.

"Freeway will be valuable traf-fic carrier in connection with Portof Stockton, military installationsand transportation of agticulturaland defensepro~cts. This requestis unre,lated ~ ~ proposal con-cerning neVl".;H.oltin Dam and ordiverting Cjrtlal,levees. We do notwant thls request to joopardizedarn and panfll projects in anyway."

IGUARDSMEN PATROL:i LEVEES IN DELTA

Stockton National Guard unitswere called to duty at noon todayto aid in patrolling flood-threat-ened levees.

City Manager John Lilly called'the state adjutant general, Earle

IIM, .Tones, who ordered the localGuardsmen into action,, Lt. Col. Robert Quick. plans and,training officer for the 49th Di-I vision Artillery. said he is calling

Ion Division Artillery Headquar-tel'S BII ttery and HeadquartersI and A batteries of the 164th FieldArtillery to supply the men.

In additiou. the local Guardheadquartets Is co-ordinating theuse of other artlllerymen for floodwork throughout Northern Cali-fornia, Including batteries of the149th AAA Bn of San Mateo lindthe 637th FA Rn of San Jose.

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Local Guardsmen were lastcalled to flood ,outy during thestOl'I11S of 1950-~1.

MARYSVILLE,· GETSEVACUATION ORDER

MARYSVILLE, Dec. 2:~ IAPI--The City Coun~il of Marys\,iJ]('today r;rdered, th~ el'aculltion ofMarysvllle's 12.500 residcnts inthe face of a mounting threat ofUoods. I

The radio broadcast bulletin at.,12:30 p,m. urged an orderly mov!'- ,ment of traffic across the Tenth:~ridgp, the only way out of the icity at the junction of the swollen'Feather and Yuba liVers. I

Transportation was promisedfo,r pedestrians' teaching YubaCity ACrOS!! the bridge, so theycould hp taken to higher ground.

A stAtement i.sued by U.S.W;Rth('r Bureau' in Sacramentos~ld til,:, F('ather and Yuba wouldhit th<'lr peak. IOmetime in thE'aftl'l'noon.

"This is without douht thl'gl'f'lItl'st flood ift the recorrls of IthiS rll'l'r system," said 8R('r1l-Tl1l'nlO Bureau I'orecaster LloydMagar.

NEWMAN AREAIS HllHARD

N Jo: W ¥;A. ,i. Dec. 24 Floodwaters fromthc crooks rising inthr- Coast Range continued tnbatter areas 'around this towntoday. With every avn llable maneither on duty or on call author-i ities believed they would be ableto control the situation RS far asI"'arution. Ieedlng and saving lifelinn property Is concr-rned.

F'irr-rnen and' volunt cr-rs f"'III'II-at ed and Frank Azr-vodo f arnilvthis morning from their home onVilla Monucha Road, northeast ofthp rit v

At lin'on today ('I'prythinl: wostnf the> Miller & Lux Canal to thphasr of the foothills was undr-rwatrr in this area, Thr- <'llTrlll:pfloorleo could nnl h" pstim'lt('r\10n<'lY hut it consists of some oft he most valuable Iarrn land inthi~ section.

Th> .lackson-Perkirts ('0.'5 rn I'

gl'Owim: Arpa of .almost hOO ,,"res"'~!; 1IIHi" I' watr-r, as "'CIS til" l I il lsFE'IT~' ['PI11Ptpry'. Ros!' Vi llace.a set tlornent of 7 houses occupiedhy E'mployrs of thp rose growingconcern. was !'I'Acuated during thenight. as was the company's hunk-,hous». .,

J)"I's 1"1:II'r, a t a vorn AI1r\ mOlrl,I'asl of 11,(, '11 & L ('111111 on t hr-Hills I"CI'I')' Road was abandoned Iyesterday afternoon and now has Iabout 2 fE'E't of wa tr-r 01'1'1' till'floors of all structures.

Thr- ;-;outhel'l1 Paritir tl':l"\;s r"I'about a mile in this SPI'I inn a n-unrir-r water.

;-;0 [;,1' no sPrio1,l:;' rlill11:ll.!f' h",~hf'f'n r\on(' to the. hrrl,;1' hI'as rAI1 hI' di~ , • Rl1r! t "'1 insal'''' gnil1;: Ihroug . although trA\,-!'Iing slo,,'ly.'

ThE' rauroad b"ldge n"p,' (),n_

stimhA Creek II"~ tl,,, hl'irl,.."l1!'arhy which carrtes Hiz hvav :~,1(,"'1'1' thE' same str-eam were thl·p~t-pllpri hv debris in the cr~k anticrews of "¥~watched both struc-tures All nlght.

Wha t pebriJ lsnoE'o FI'l;'linst thpstrllctu~~ {. $11 hauled out 01'Tmshf'r1thi'l'lbgh undr-rnr-a th sopt .•..ssure azainst the spans couldnot build up.

Lockeford Area Hitby Mok, ne Flood

LOCKE' •dl'Pds of acr .,f l'jeh fl!.rmlandsill thi~ IIrea :und('r of'ep wRtprtOdA~' after th@ ~wollf'n l\Tokrl-I1IIl1H' RiI'er .pV't>rflowrO it.s hRnk!le:-!I'I~' la~t l'IiKtlt. ano ~pillpd O\'!'r]f'\·(,f".~.

Chr~ll'r Locke. rRIH'h('l'. ~i1io hi~1'~lI('h I\'a~ thl" flr~t 10 :;:0 11110('r

I \\'ilrr At;; p,m. ~r~t!'l'dll,\'. hI''sflirt. muddy wRtpr~ hpc::"n pouringO\'PI' I hI' Mok('lumn" IPI'p"S,

Stl'pngthenl'd f'RI'Ii",' Ihi,. ~pllrthl'Ous;:h a $23,000 rcconstructionpro,i!'ct, the' ~',fes thf'mseil'ps lirehnloino;:: up'Will and no hreRk~ hllr\hprn r\i~co\'e~d 11Itp. I,,:<t nio::;ht. orE'RI'I~' toda~ LOck!' l'epOl'lE'd,

Locke ~" estimatps of O'lI11Il!;,Pto recpntIy planted "pill8Ch And!lug-ar heet!l cannot be made until 11

, thOl'ough inspE'ction. of the flood [• arC'a i~ conducted. Damage to lI [prlile soil in the bottomlands is I, t'xp<,c\pd to be h!'a\'y, he sRid, :

Locke repol'tl"d mil 11\' othrl'rAnches in thfoWlalldS ~lolIg thebilllks of tbe ,kelumnf' lIeill' hrreal'!' complete covel'Pd hI' wRtrr

II !'\o darr)'aelb the 1'00nrnunily ofLockE'ford .. , •. J>epn 1'('POl't('o, 111-,

I though " ntiJ11Wr of rnRnwRY~ aloeflooded,

CORONA PARK WATERWAY--Hardpst hit of the Stockton floodareas, the Corona Park subdivision southeast of Charter Way andthe French Camp Turnpike is still under' to 6 feet of water andall residents of the 2O-lUJuare block area hllve been evllcuated.

This scene, with water lapping over tops of abandoned cars, is at IHoward and Lincoln streets. Additional Stockton and CentralCalifornia flood photos are on pagl!ll 6, 8, 9, 13, 14, 21,23, 30 and 3l.i J

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(: picture Little Connection,south of the point of the break which flooded Empire Tract.No.1 il Herman and Helen's Fishing Resort. No.2 is the VeniceIsland Ferry, No.3 Is ,Empire Tract and No.4 is the Channel.

Church Young People Aid Flood Victims IFrit'nds, relat ivr-s, lind even strangers worked sid e hy sirle with Corona Park residents today as they

I continued t ho drudgery of cll'aring the flood filth from t hr ir houses.

I Among the strangers who rolled up their slecve s and pitched in to help were young people from, Cont ra l Mr thodis! Church.i Promise of 11101'1'ho lp f';tlll" I rom a cit izr n's com mitoe which is nn::anizillg wurk Cl'('\\'S of itrlllltS forI -~--~ ---- ------ ~thf' wer-kenrl. ~._~-_~_-======~ _B d S h I This committee today est ah-rentwco C 00 lished headquarters in the YMCA.

and is receiving calls from Corona

Used to House families who need more hands inthe monstrous clean-up task. Mrs.

E Arnold Rue and l\lrs. Alhert. cut-vacuees hane, acted as dispatchers; for theyoung church peoplf' out in Coronatoday and lined up jobs for theadult crews.HELP PLEDGEf)

LeveeTracy .

TRACY. Dec. • ..•.A levee ofthe San Joaquin River about 5miles southeast of Tracy and justsouth of the Banta-Carbona Irri-gation District intake canal at theend of Critchett Road, gave wayat 9:30 p.m. last night. lind inun-dated 500 acres of farm land.

Five families in the flooded areawere evacuated.The break was not a surprise

to those battling the cresting San

ak HitsFarms

BRENTWOOD. D!'c. 23-Thl'Brentwood Elernent arv School isI serving as an evacua lion cpntet·for Brentwood area Iamihes asflatlands in Eastern Contra CostaCounty were under flood t hrr-a ttoday' and some areal' ropor tr-dwatar risin~ slowly and approach-ing flood stage. i

1 Arrangements were made a I:Brentwood and Concord to care, for any refugees driven from their

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Members of th» Adian youngI people's group of Central Church,

lIed hy Mark Jantzen Jr .. and ad- I

vised hv Mr. and Mrs. Rober-t Nel- 1son, ali'eilrly had planned to givemol' I' than moral support to the I

flood victims when a group of j'

community leaders mot yesterday I

to soe what they could do.Thf' croup included Dr. Harold I

.Iar-ohy, Collf'ge of t ho Pacific so-ciol()g~' professor: Ca rl Mof andr-r,dirr-ctru- of the YMCA.: MorrisGI·('pnllr'rg .. J e wi s h Comrnunitv <Counr-i I If'ad!'r, and leaders in the:'Ilinistf'l'i;1i Union,Thr- committo« hopr-s 10 givf' aidI to rldrl'ly couples and families Joaquin as the spot has been a

Iwit h 0 II t. suffiriPllt manpower. source of trouble since SaturdayCrews will he armed with special night when a "boil" appeared nearciraning equipment. the levee.

homes and preparat ions wr-rr- made ') Another cause for alarm WIISto evacuate a number of persons FI<~F;LINGBETTER the fact the levee was shot throughfrom homes in Knightsen, expected Residents were fp!'ling bettor to- I with gopher holes.necessarv ahout noon, day as af¥Ue of t he murk began The rushing river waters ate out

The threat to Knightsen carne I to disappear, The tvpical reaction a 2oo-foot wide swath as it Cas-as II result of Marsh Cror-k going ypstprday was that. of Richard Ing, caded onto the farm land.out of its hanks during the night. ;)1:) W. Fifth. Who stared a t his Volunteers and flood controlAt noon no water had ont ered this muddy home and hluttr-d out: : experts watching the levees alsotown hut a close watch is boing "T J::PI sick looking' at it." reml·tpd another break. thls inkept on th(' creek which appeared This was Iollowori howeve-r hv it a secondary levce at the north I

I to be rising slowly. 'If'ssrnillg of tension as npighliol's ond of the already-flooded San,I When Marsh Crr-ek Irft its hanks . s\\'app('r\ flood yarns and made Joaquin River Club, near San'last night it Hooded Delta Road. tho host of the worst. Joaquin City. The break in thebetween Knightsen and the Oak- ]ng alrr-ady had Iriends who secondar-y levee. holding backley-Brentwood Road. A I noon to- were flooded out of their horne in : seepage from the river, floodedday cars with high clearances were I an earlier inundation when the 60 acres.able to get through hut the water. waters came Saturday. Readings at San Joaquin Citywas ri.~ing slowly and it appr-arr-d . PI.ESTY OF BAIT f at 8 a.rn. today showed a drop inthe road would be blocked br-Iore I Befor» - ded through the the San Joaquin River flow to thethe da I'Sover 25.7-foot mark and lit Mossrlale at

c- v < • I rlf'bris J_n o.use Emanuel Me-In t'he Dainty Avenue area at I Curn,:1~ \ . Fif th Street, whose. the 20.31-foot mark. Flood stage

the Brentwood north city Iirnit s, house was the first on the block at San Joaquin City is 27 feet and50 families were evacuated from I to J'f'cf'ive. the waters, visited a 24 feet at Mossdale.their homes at 6 a.m. today. I hit wilh horx and stared for The high at San Joaquin City

T'he Davis Camp area, a m ile a while lit 'f1 . thousands and t hou- since the flood threat. started isnorth of Brent ••-ood also \"11" d 26.89. estabIi_s.h_e_dSunday night, ,~ U". n, v ~ sail" of wO!'ms I•.ft wrig£;lillg' In ~__cleared. th» st rr-r-ts. "Plpl1ty of hail," I1P• ...•... _The Legion Hall also is he ing ~1 1 t 11k I .

.~~~P~~:dfo~l~d ~~t ~(/~e:i~·g~~~le~~ \~;(\;(~;<.';:~til~n:~t(1 I" );:;~i·n£.::()tit::: More Raeln SeenRed Cross personnel is standing i pilr-d dusgust on disgust. As Mrs.by to aid evacuees and an appeal I All :-; I d I Iarnilhas been issued for food and cloth- IiWOl~~l('d.'~'h:meo~:~lrnl;~~· "Aa~~l ~ for TheiS Area~~CALON just hari that sofa cleaned."

The small mementos and kepp-High Waters in the Esc'}jlon Ilrl'a sakes which were lost hurt. Mrs. MON! rain 1. f!x~ted to fall inha ..·e struck in the Lone Tree dis- , t".~

trict, covering roads, . f'I'(J1I I1rll;htf'lIf'ri sornr-wha t : "I I the Stockton area tonight and to-.In Escalon itself. the waters are I ;":fli T1l\ hlrds out first." morrow as flood victims here move

covering grounds of the Ill'\\' Esca- AfTOS, til" s t rer-t , Mr. and Mrs. back Into their hom" to begin: Ion I.-ligh SC.h.OOI'and will he into IF'oriro AngrJf's !l1ilnaged to lllllgh cleaning up debris.the buildings if the water con- ilt 111(' rlf'\'ilstatlOn insidE' their 4 Meanwhile. local officials aret inues 10 ris~. ":a]] , . "It's, such It mess, \'OIJ worried because heavy rains areGtJSTINE wouldn I helleve it." Then "You falling up to the 7,000-foot IpvplF'amilit's in thf' ]\1ac Swain !In;i\ I havs to laugh, what else j " in the Sierra, melting a snow

near here have hf'f'n warned to I paftwns warm rains molting th~ I

evacuate their homes in the path II DRIVERS WARNED rnour.tain snowpaek, which re- Iof the rising watet·s.The Gust ine-Mr-rced highway sulted in the deluge of water that.

(140S) may be closed if Ihe water ,ON WATER PERILS flooded the Stockton area over therises anv more. It is now almost Christmas weekend.at the h'l'idge level. Intermittent rains fell on Stock-

I The AI! Year Hichway 10 Yo- Capt. Charles A. Monk. in I ton today. In'the 24-houl' period1semite is closed III TImber Lodge, charce of tne traffic division of the ending at 7 a.m, today .10 of anI d n rl" inch of rainfall was measuredan th ••Pacheco rass roa noar Stockton Polic e De p a rt m ••n t, , I. Los Banos was rr-ported passable warned motorists to h•• particu- here, boosting, the Ileason s tot a. but dangerous this morning. larly careful in driving on wet to 8.10 inches compared with 4.47 :

In the Newman area, an Army and flooded roads. inch ••s at this time last season."duck" is standing by for emer- "Motorists should slow to 11I Normal rainfall for this time ofgency evacuations as Orestimha .Ioast 10 miles an hour when thE')' year ill 4.24 inches.Creek is flooding the lowlands. i approach a watery area, f'ven Liftl!' change in tet;eraturf' is, Mark's gravel pit is full of rain an inch deep. If they drive faster expectr-d in Stock tonight.waters, and Del's Place, a rr-sorr 1 t han that. the water may flood Saturday's high rea was 55bet w e p n Newman fwd Crows : ignition systems and stall their negree". The high yesterday wasLanding has been evacuated. TIle car. creating a traffic stoppage 64 nf'grees and the low was 47buildings aro partially under I I and road hazard," the captain said. Idegrees. The minimum t••mpera-wa tr-r, reports say. '! In addition. there is H dangerous . ture early tod~ Wall 52 degross.

Also evacuated was Ihp family t mechanical danger present when At 9:30 a.m. tOday the temperll-of L, C. 1\1oorehpa(l, whosf' rlllH'h 1 hrake linings become wet and ture was 57 d\!ltles, 4 degreeshomp was in thr path of flood brakes fail. Capt. Monk said. higher than at the same time Iwaters. I "We ha\'e had 6 accidents in the i yesterday.

------.-.- ! city alone during the past 24 hours ..l....:- _for these reasons."

KNIGHTSEN, D f'!'. :2.3---Flood waters from t hp MarshCre ••k starll"d to flow into thiscommunity at 11 a.m. andstnres and offices were t hl'f'1l1-ened wsth inundation. Mostfamilies have left and t hoxeremaining here are rearly toevacuate at II moment's not ice.

Roads to the Thornton areawere opened to traffic thismorning as flood waters receded.The town had been isola ted sinceSaturday.

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• Near· Record Set byDownpour2.17 Inches-

All city and eou. including the Red I

: Defense offices.I and auxiliary erealerted to stand by 01" emergencywork in floods that threaten theStockton area after heavy rainsyesterday and lut night, with stillmore expected.

Officials expecG the worst tocome, with the hIM\':Y runoff frommountain streams Itill 12 to 14hours away. These streams are

Details of the flood situa-tion in Stanislaus and ContraCosta counties, and MotherLode high water areas, are onPage 16.

I reported brim f~ as a result ofwarm rains that melted snow up

I to the lO.ODO-foot level in the. Sierra Nevada .

Almost 5 inches of rain feU inthe Angels Camp area over the24-hour period ending at 7 a.m.today. The runoff feeds into theCalaveras River ~h~d HoganDam,. which protect' tockton.

Officials declared th. to be thebiggest immediate danger to theStockton area. .

The tor r e n t Ia I downpourI splashed 2.17 inches of rain onStockton, flooding streets, knock-

I II1g out 3,000 telephones, inundat-ing lawns, and threatening towash into homes In some areasof the city.

I The United States WeatherBureau in Sacramento sent out

Rainfall as compiled my theStockton Record. Southern Pacificand PG&E follows:

Last24-hnur SeaMn season

~ Period to dale to dateSt ockton ••_••••••••2.17 6.98 4.47Manteca .....••••••. 1.05 5.42 4.21Tracy ...••.•.•••••. 1.60 5.82 4.27~IPon 1.58 5.79 3.51v"dl ..••..••••••.. 1.43 7.21 6,07Esr-a lon ••..••••••.. 1.93 6.34 4.70Llnden ••.•...•..... 206 8,26 5.29foalt i.so 7.94 7.13

. Modr-sto •••••••••••.1.29 a.35 4.81Merced · ......•.•.• ,1.90 11.05 2.32qakrtale. .•••••.2,33 7,21 5.83Knights Ferry ••.•.. 2..36 6.88 5.38Sonora .. . ..•... 4.57 17.11 8.84San Andrpa •.•••••. 3.75 15.17 8.27Murphy,,- .•.•••. 4. 75 ~.:;5 10.44An.:pl. Camp ..•.... 4.86 18,03 9.lS.tack,nn ~...••.•. 2.92 13.55 9.60Llvlnest on ...•..••. 1.58 4.55 3.58~aIlNs"n .......• 1.58 4.70 351I,rm'pland ......• '.BO 21 48 9.82Melones ...••••• ~ .3d18Pinecrest ...•... .'.• ,4.77 zo.oi 10:38

1-------------------------'warnings today that heavy rainsare expected to resume tonight. and tomorrow and that gusts ofwind up to 50 miles per hourcan be expected.

City police and firemen, theirauxiliaries. . and off-duty workcrews were called out ~bout mid-

ilnight to help meet the floodthreat and to warn residentsoarlv today of flood dangers.NEAR-RECORD

The 2.17 inches of rainfall inthe 24-hour period ending at 7a.m. today brought the city's totalfor the season to 6,98 inches ascompared with 4.47 Inches at thistime last season. Nonnal rainfall

j:at this date is 3.99 inches •

This was a near-record rainfall,for Stockton, A 48-hour weekendreading 0}1 March 22, 1937. regis-

r tered 2.33 inches, most of which: fell during a 24-hour period. A'total of 2.07 inches fell in a 24-hour period during Feb. 1-2 of·1945.

The Mokelumne River at Lodiis running bank-high and Is ex-pected to flood momentarily onboth sides. At the Melones Damon the Stanislaus River, fH~ f~of water was pouring over the bwark and the crest still. wu .hours upstream at 10 a.m.

ransportation atStandstill In FloodsSAN FRANCISCO. D~ 2fi I

(UP)-Railroad and bus ."'1'\')('1'WIUI nearly at a standstill in manyareas of Northpl'n and Cr-nt ra lCalifornia today hpcausp of floods.The Southern Pacific reported

its Shasta Route closed hocause I

of a slide lit. Cruzette, Ore .. hut:the Shasta Daylights ran over the I

longer Siskiyou Route,The Overland Route was closed

over the Sierra hecause of a wash-out at Emigrant. Gap, Wnrkrnenhoped to restor!' tht' lim' in time, for today's Overland schedule. I'

1\ LINE BLOCKEDThe San Joaquin Valley line was:

blocked by a washout north of I

~Tulare, Trains detoured over •,Santa Fe Iines between Fresno andBakersfield, ' I

The SP canceled 9 trains yester-day, P 'f" 'I'The Western act ICII main mewas blocked hy slides .. WP trainswere detoured via Barstow.

Slides closed the NorthwesternPacific Railroad between San Ra-fael and Eureka. NWP officialsrl~ierl a report. that the lint' wouldhI'" out until Apl'il. Thev said itshould be open in 3 weeks.RUSES "ITPacific Grr-yhound lines caner-led

its service to Reno, running hw'psonly as Iar as Colf ax. SpI'\'icp tomany Northern California points,,was suhject to do tours.

Reno airport was expectNI toreopen thi~ morning, United AirLines announced it IIched111ed "plane for Reno whirh would lpavl' I

SASTA CLAU8~-H~meles,s residen Is of flood-stricken Yuba City will have a bel:ltrdyear and the 2 Lodl dentists shown above are attempting to see that. after all. it is

nt'~""~ftDDr, ChrIS Keszl~r, left, and Dr, LeRoy Buller are pictured loading a plane with toy.ve!Uf'rnSlV. donated by Lodi merchants. Dr. Keszler flew the ~fta from Stockton Field to Mary.-

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•WOEFUL WADER--Baulino Agdeppa, of 1826 Turnpike, wearingcandy striped shorts, carries a sackful of clothes al he wadesthrough the park in front of his house.

WATER SHOWS ITS POWER~ TIl(' ;Kl\H'rlul thrus t of thecurrent in the Stanislaus River,swollen by floods from its wa-tershed, is illustr-ated by this air0( •.picture, taken on ChristmasEve. TI.e boiling water pushedand chewed at the lpvee until itlet go at a point southwest of.Ripon,

IFLooD DAMAGE~· . 'EXPERTS' SAID FLOOD WOULDIS SURVEYED WATER HITS THE NEVER HAPPEN IN STOCKTONIN STANISLAUS RO'OF TOPS AT Flnt Time In History So Much Rain .

Fen in Short Space. City Manager Says

KNIGHTS FERRY eo~t;ckton was flooded by water which the Qxpertll said WOUI~ never

It was the first time history that much water h8~ fallen In such• short space of lime, City Manager John Lilly reported today inexplaining the flooding of the Mormon Channel.

Thp Divr-rt ing Canal was de-.---:--:--=====,---.....,,=,.......,-=.' ..--Isianed specifically do divert water 1950.1938 Floodsfrom MOl' m 0 n Channel whichhranches off trom the CalaverasRiver, hack in\o the river north-f'ast of Stockton, Mormon channel R "d· Tovr-rf lowed at Gillis Road and sent eca e In racywater spilling into Stockton, The .' ,Divf'I,ting Canal-held f'Irrn on thecity sidr-, hut:,.~ke and floodedto 1111' r-ast, ..'. : .

Bllt there ~~.. nev (> I' a predic-tion tha t <In tf'd 1\ inches ofrain would {al to combino withnear capacity flow from HoganDam. It was this combinationwhich sent water spilling into ISoutb Stockton,FIRST WORRIES

Stockton officials began to havetheir first w.orries Friday nightwhen Ihe muddy waters hit thefirst fill across the Mormon Chan-nel at. Wilson Way. There the 7 by10-foot box culvert could not han-dle the volume,

Cit v of'Iir-ials weJ:;e unaware ofthe Gillis Road overflow until apolice off icr-r reported water run- .ning under the Mormon .Chan~elBridge at Wilson Way, LIlly said.The first move was to attempt toconfine the water to the channelhv sandbagging. However, whenthis failed on the south blink, irn- Imediate evacuation steps wcre :taken for residents on the southside. i

Because of higher levees, sand-.hagging efforts were more 8UC- Icessf ul on the north side. Cityworkers were successful in keep-ing the Charter Way Subway fromflooding by sandbagging, ,

The city made' a quick decisionto cut the Iills, in the hope thatmost of the water would flowdown the old channel bed,XOT E~OUGH

But even this was not enoughlind the water spread across anArea of 125 blocks before receding,

It was not the water from thedam that Will responsible for theflooding, '\lUi; tM tromendous run-off in het.weeft.! 'The Hogan Damwas filled ~ near capacity flowlast vear and to fuII capacity inMarc'h of 1952 without overflowingthe Diverting Canal. ,

The city manager today clan-fied the replacing of the Stanis-laus, California and EI DoradoStre('t bridges by fills. The Stan-islaus Bridge was badly damagedby fire and the old wooden bridgesat California and El Doradof;treet!l w!'re in poor condition andon hazardous foundat ions.

FiIls. he said, werl' helieved tohe the most practical and eco-nomic solution. Evcn so. LilIy said,thl'Y we're only instHll('d on a tem-POrfll'y basis. with a depressedhighway in the channel hed as a Ipotential future development.

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MODF:STO, Dec. 29-An esti-mate of flood loss in StanislausCounty came today from 2 sourcesand sets the figure at about$1,500,000, not including damageto homes. The estimates camefrom County Agricultural Com-missioner Milo Schrock and RoadCommissioner Ellis Delhon.

Schrock says that, although hehas not made a complete survey ;of the county, up to !'i p.m. yestrr-Iday damage to county crops would

. be about $1,000.000, H!' said theI damage is no worse than in 1!l!'iO,I DellJon spent most of the nayyesterday in Stockton conf'eringwith State Division of HIghwayrepresentatives, Both state andfedera I road officials are in St an is-Iaus County today to make a t.our :of roads and brtdges with Delbon, .BRIDGE LOSS

He said present estirna tes hy:his department set th ••flood darn- Iage to roads and bridges of the'county at hetween $350,000 and'$400,000, "However." he said,"further damage from the SanJoaquin could raise this figure hy ,$100,000. There is some darn-:age to bridges that. we have had,to estimate because, unt il we can iget down and inspect the footings,we will not. know the r-xact. extent Iof damage. However, we have at-tempted to place the figure huzhenough in these inst ancos so \\'.1'won't be under on our over a ll esti-mate."

Delbon !lays that after today·s.tour of the county with the Folate;and federal men he hop~s to have Isome definite Information as tohow much money can be ohtainedfrom these sources; method of re-payment, if any, and how soonsuch funds can he obtained.

The commissioner said he willask the Board of Supervisors tomeet with him as soon-as he hasall the necessary information onboth total loss and possible outsidefinancial aid.

Schrock say" county crops arenot far advanced to he seriouslydamaged except in the cases ofhay and alfalfa. The loss in haywill be confined to stacked andstored hay where water has eit~el'seeped under it or is st andinginches deep around it. In the bot-toms along the Tuolumne Riverwater has risen until walnut andpeach trees are showing in manyInstances only upper branches.Farther down the river, near theSan Joaquin River, the land ismostly pasture land and ranchershave moved their dairy and beefcattle to higher ground,HOME LOSS UNK:SOWN

The amount of damage to homesof the county will have to ('o.melater through insurance compames,county officials said today,

In the Knights Ferry andOrange Blossom al'l'as on the rastside of the county and along theOrestimba Creek and San ,JoaquinRiver area on the West Side. somehomes were nearly completely in-undated. There were about 3Shomes badly flooded in these 2areas. ,

In the Modesto area, homes 111the Riverdale, Rin'rview and Rob-ertson Tracts were not deeplyflooded and in most instances wa-ter raised only a few inches inside Ithe homes, However, there were Isome homes in these areas, located'either on the river bank or within,a half block of the river, where the I

watrr rose to greater depth~ with-in the houses. Sheriff'~ deputipswho patrollerl the \'acated areas topre\'(.'I1f. looting estimate that for atime late Satmday evening andearly Sunday there were ahout 6:10

'to 700 homes where families had ,--I moved out of thf>se 3 areas. In;1 some cases they took all the house- ,I hold g-:,e_a_r_, _

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Ry :\I.'\R(~F:RY WILLM~'Rp('orl' (·nrr""ponl\pnt.

K:'o:](;}ITS FERRY. o('c. 21 -With wa t cr up 10 Ihe roof tops of110m'" Rlong til" SI~nisIRlI' Rivr rhank and in th" hollo\\'~ of thisfoothill r-ornrnunitv, II'I"'phonp com-mnnir-a t ions Ilrp out lind poweropprlltrs only .at int ervs ls. .

F'ami lies from t.h•.•sp low-lyinghoml's hll\'p t liken rpfugp in ranr-hil0111pS on high('r grounrl. somerS(,l!plng from thr-ir houses withno hrlongings nt h •.•r t han thpriot hrs on thl'ir backs.

Thp wa tr-r (''Imp. too fllst forma nv hOllsrholrlpr~ to ~':l\''' Rn~'-Ihin~. F.xpecting It' s low risp ofwa t or to ;lMllt 2. f""t on th=trlo\\,(')' floor.'. mo~t "'1'1'1' hlls~' cl'1'I-

ling Iur-nishinzs to ~I'('onrl storvrooms whr-n R. 1\'1111 of ra\'!lgll1g,,·!!tl"rshit \·I'stl"rrll'l\·. swirling intohornr-s and forcing' the ocoupant sto flrl'.Foon !\IO\'1':1)

;\"'1r1)\' r a n e h e r s v('st"rr!I\~'mOl'llinc' movr-rl fooo"llIff. fromthl' town's ono .:ro(,l'ry sf nrr- toth" s('hool hOIl'I' 'on thp hill. a nrlwhr-n thl' wlltl"rs rp<l(·h •..rI th •.. postnffirr soon af tr-r mail harl ""rnrl'c(';\·I'o. thl' posrrnistrr-ss hlJnrill'rIup t h•.•ma il a nrl f1prl wi t h it, AI,oto thl' sr-honlhouss.

The to\\,n's firp hOlU\p is s\\'PptII"'!!\' ~1thollgh thp engine WI'ISnri\'~;l to high S/:rounrl. Units ofIorrnr-r housinz pro.iects wh ir-h hMIhp!'n rr-loca t ed on Il'\'('lprl grollnn I

\\'('1'(' swept away and lllsi nightwa tr-r WIIS IlIppil1g lit thf' floor oft h •.. historic CO\'eT('rl hrirlg('.Th» ('otIRge of 1111'S. Minnie

Kirkp,drick \I'IlS swept AWIlY,n':'\' I:\, I'F:RIL

\\'ild(,AI Crf'Pk, whu-h rlltsl, t.llrOl1l:h high('1' grOlll1rl in t hr- I'Irr~'1is filling rllplrll,' linn somr- II'SI-

I dr-n t s who thollght thl'ms('lvI"sI Sl'Iff'. 11lI1~' ~'f't h(' rnaroonod in Ir aru-h homes.

Mrs. CIRrrllf'(' Spr('dy. who Of\-I"rp.t('~ th •.•oriJ:;inrtl Knights FpIT~':hot •.•1 I'I~ Il gur-s: horne. re turnodfrom h('r ()l'Ikdalr hf'RlIty shnp ap- .point rnr nt yest!'rda,' to find \\'lItl"1'S ,r-n t oruu; thp buildinc; Shl" wr-ntfishill~ for hpr wcddina r inas a nrlnt hl'l' p(,l'sonal h!"lonl:in;:s u n t i] shpWI'I~ forr'l'd to flpp t he hOlISp.

1\11". F.sthpr Nap ir-r i~ hOtTO\\,-inl: ('Inl h'" from fri('nrls --.h(' hrtrl

'no tim!" to £1'lIh II rhanzr whent hI' \\';11 ('I' t rappr-d hpl' R~ .hp \\'11<;

C<llTyil1g Iarnilv I,p"f\srtk('.< to Ihp<;t>COilri story hNiroom for !llIfp-

I ke('ping.I \\'alkpd "cro.~ thl" ('O\'I"rpr!

hririgf' (,l'Irly IRst night. 11 WR<;,hl'lking' allrl qui.v(,l'ing with, thl"fOl'r" of thp rush1l1g \\'atl'r. \\ I" !Illf(';n' thllt it i~ lo~t.RRlnf~F: ~.\\,F.nIII R ('1111 from II mohil,. 11'1,.

phonf' IInit this mnrning. l\-\r •.\\,illms l'eportNi waters 1'11'1'rp('('d-ing lind thl' ql-~'e<lt'-olo ro\·PI· •.•d·hrirlg •.•hl'ls h('en Sprt rprl.

()nh' foot t1'l'Iffir \\'R, RlloWPfIon th~ Splll1 tonRY Rftl'r II rhprkrii,<,lnsM Ih" f10nd hrtri r<'op(,llprl" Irtl ~l' ('I'Rck OJl t.h(' rOilrl "I1·fRI·P.The ('rllrk. :;0 feet. IOIlg' Rnrl illlillCh wirlf', run~,pRl'l'll"l tn thl'\\'hitl' lillf'. Mikp ~hllrPl', 1111('ng-i-Il"'f'r in I,night~ rl'rry .• lIiri tilpI't'ack h",ri hpf'n r •..•lll'farpri oncp soit. "popening dol'S not. rr".pnt II

g'rl'"t h"7.1I1'0. .''''It,,r, 11.1\'" I,,(t thp ma,"

,t,'I'('t nf Ih,. ron'/lllll1itv !Inri 11'11'-phnllP rr('\\'s Rrp lI1<;t~l1ing tl'lll- i1)(11"1\' ma.~n('tn hookll!, (R('ilitipsin th~ :-'Iasonic HIIll to rl'lRY mps-s~::('~.

:\1 I"RIl\\'hil!', II lI10hile t"l!'rhol1eIInil i. 1{I'''pim: Knight, Fprry in('ont,,(·t with thp ontsidp world,

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Flood Threat HaltsDelta Ship Traffic:

There is no ship traffic on theSan Joaquin River as a result ofthe flood threat to the Delta,

()fficials at the Port of Stockton~Hirt that no Rhip arrival~ haveh(,(,11 logged since the SItuatIon h('-1'''111(' <lcnte Saturday morning. andth"t no \'f's~cls ha\'e .<<lilpd. .Th" add"d strain on If'\'r('s I rom

t he weight of ocean-go inS/: ~hlPSI'Inri pv!'n smaller crllf! would vast-~Iv increase the danger of levee, breaks, officials said.

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TRACY, J)pc. 24 -A~ residentsof this arr-a battled rising waters

.f rnm Corr-al Hollow Crook to theisou t h and the San Joaquin RiverI to thp r-ast, t hr-y rr-ca lled the•flood, nf 19:10 and 191~. I

Tilt he wi 11t or of Hl:1()-:11. t hr- IS'11l Joaquin River rPllchpd R·h •..ig-hl of ::,.1..., (prt jlJ s' hpforp thewr-str-rn I('vep broke in thf' Moss-<1'111''1rpR IImi poured "'l'Itpr on ap-prox imat elv 60.000 scrps

The rushmz torrent torI' out Rhridge on thp upppr ~pction ofHighwav :;0 hf'tween Par arlise ClIIand thp SAn .loanuin. Th» west-bound portion of thp roariway li.ik\\'A~ snapped and trAffic In the~rell. carne to II sf andsf.ill, exceptfor emergpnl'Y operations. for 2",(,pks. Tr ave lors were l'erOlltl'rit hrnugh t hr- Delta Islands I1r('R onTrACY Island Road to the BordenHichway.

In June, 1938, the Ip\'l'rs in thl'same area crumbled aud inundn t odIIH' sa me Highwa y :;0 a 1'<';1 1'01' :.!months. AI that t uur- onlv till'old hlzhwav t'xi,t,'d thl' wost-hound portipn t rnvr-lcrs know now

allri it WRS eovorr-d with water1:.! fl'('t dr-op.

CorrAl Hollow Cr('('k r'1l1.sf'd morr-t ha n ~100.()()0 'OI'lIllR£:f' to rR('ifi"Cn;t~t AggregR.te~ phlllt ~t 1(1'1'-lingrl·. 4 mill'S ~olJth of TI·l'Ic~·. in1%2 \\'l1pn it overflowed, floodingp'llllpment and filling 11 hugerqt"'r "'htrh thfll plant had dUi:;f or 1:"il1'pl

IISlETON READYITO EVACUATEI I!;; LET o N, Dec. 24-0ffidalsI hpr" toriay !lay thpy IIr!' ready to

I, I'\'lIeulite thls communit~· of 2.000. pel"Sonll "at R momfntl! notice" as; thp t hrr-at of floOd. grew moreI s(,I'ioIlS lit 1\ a.m.. '0.. ,I w R t Pl'S of both tHlt 8acram@ntoi !Inri i\lokelumne rlv.@rs lire ri!lngI stC'1r1r1~'. offiCIals reported. R.nd 'tre,.1 fppt from th!' top of the le'·ee~.

"Wp exrpct thp IVt')rst to come"""\'I"PI1 11 'lin. and noon. "'hen"''1tl'l' probably will hllck un muc~higher againllt the le,·ee5." de-c1<lrf'f! M!lYl'lt" W.~B. 8:tpW!H't.

Th,. mayl'1l'; who d!"Clared ast ille of. !'m!'rgency hpre \'e~terdayRftl'I'I100n wheh'thl' flood dan~el."gr,'\\· more imminl'111, ,"id hight Id •.•s fl'OI11 th" San J<~l''1nris('o Bavand the o\'erflo\\, W'1terll fromPardee Dam, are expected to causethe ma.ior trouble,

Dl'spite the threat of possihledanger to the community, themayor lOairi de fen .'I I' and dis-astrr offi('illls 81'1' "hrf"flthing a loteasi('I'" now thR.t high winds haveIsuhsidpd. Wind.'i ye!lterday blewlargp amounts of water over thele\'I'PlI,

,All policf', fire and other emer-gf"I1C~' orgamzatlons hl!"e beenpr!'ssl'!i into smtce. The tOll'n isheavib' sllndbag~ Mayor Stew-art, \\-ho is,' ~reetlng emergencyopera tlolU, laid.

TWO BRIDGES, ONE ADRIFT-The Mcl-lenry Bridge over the Stanislaus River, probably tired ofpeople passing over it, decided to take a trip of its own on C~ristmas Eve. The flood helped andthe bridge is shown above, lodged against the tr~stle of the Tidewater ~uthern Railroad. Forceof the collision between the 2 bridges hent the ra II structure and bulged Its tracks, but the trestleheld and the river dropped a short time later.

LA HONDA BEARS BRr:"iT -The handful of homes at Lal Ionda Park, one of the recreation spotson Angels Creek on the Murphys Grade Road he tws-en Angels Camp and Mu:phys ..wprp threatpn."rlbv the fast-rising waters. Several of the homes were isolated when the bridge pictured here wasswept away.

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TWICE VICTIM-The Orange Blossom Brid # --... - .On May 21 it collapsed as a truckload of turte near Oakdale was twice in the news during the eof Fresno, was going over it, At that time th~y\;eed ~see Photo.below),. driven by Albert M~rr~;''fjhe plct!!re above shows the rebuilt bridge this ti ater In t!Ie.Sti1JtsIIlUS Rivsr was about a foot deep'oating In the current after an unsuccessful res~:e a:t ViC\lmb 6th flood , waters. Two dogs, show~

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STREET 8CEJ'liE---Mormon Channel waters surged southward in many East Stockton streets yei-terday. Here is the Pilgrim and Tara .trHi in tenectlOn, loolting aouth. WIth the Borden Co.bui:klillg in the ioregIound.

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!"ow TO "lOP l:P-Recedil1g flood waters fro t h Kl . .Klamath, Calif, Some homes were swept dow:str;am ~ath RIver left this scene of wreckage atsmall town, The week-long stonn ravaged parts f C J" ~ d SOON people were evacuated from the----------- , 0 a 11..a'. nJ_~, evada and Oregon.

:In-RPHYS GF.TS D""KI"G-\\,hiJf' f"II' homes in Calaveras County were menaced bv the hizhwater becau-» most of the crf'''ks run in deep cut beds, these two homes at the western ·edo-/'of thee'oI11ll1l111ity were suirounded by wa t cr« uf Murphys Creek. It crept into grounds at the Br;t HarteS:1Il3 torium,

100 MII.LION GALLONS TOO MUCH-That's the plight at theCalaveritas quarry of the Calaveras Cement Company fromwhence comes the raw material with which the plant near SanAndreas operates. Upper view shows the quarry before the flood.Lower shows the Beene after the water from Old Gulch Creekpoured into the quarry. Workmen succeeded In clearing the pitof all eqUipment, inclUding a new $125,000Bucyrus-Erie drill.At least 20 daY' of pumping from 12 pumps will be required toempty the quarry. Lower photo ahbws workmen preparing toin.tall pumps~ ~t i. ~t anticlp!lt~ th.at operatio~ ~~ the plan.t

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Engineers, documenting the Christmas weekend Ilood in detail,took this aerial photograph as the flood waters began to subside.The photo shows the inundated Corona Park area in the fore-

and dry business dis t rir t along theskyline. The flood waters reached R natural level. draining intothe 1011"1' lands to t hc south. The cit,' cornornr ion vard is shownat thc loft above Corona Park and Edisori High School is at theright a hovo the -ubdivision.

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TV BUT X() RECI<;l''fIOClj----The Stanislaus River crumpled the small house in the Iorcground but leftthe larger house uptight with its television ant en na r.sing irom the swirling waters, This scene isdownstream tram tilt' Orange Blossom Brid"e n ('cIt" Uakdal~.

BOUXDS-Another view of Turner Road~11A:_Ir.!l---"'lo&treet, .•••reateninz ---. ~"S.

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\\'nodbrirlg-e. A gap on the highway and crack on side (arrow) makes bridge unsafefor travel

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., -----FLOOD BOUTE-This aerialphotograph, taken at the peakof -the Christmas floods, showsroute of the waters that hitStockton. The flooding orig-inated from the southeast as,water spilled over banks of Mor-mon Slough, pushed throughIewlands to the south and thentoe-I'!ntered Mormon Channol thisside of the Diverting Canal. Thewaters continued westward inthe channel, pouring over thebanks in mid-Stockton andthence coursing southwe-st andending in Corona Park, TheDin'rting C? n;:!l-a\'E'(! Stockton:.- .•.from the east, a- 15 gr aph.callvShOw11 by the wide body of watprpushed away from the city bythe high canal banks, Tl;p wateroriginated in mountain streams,was partially controlled throughHogan Dam and then camedown the Calaveras River toSellota where bulk of the \I'll tel'Sheaded south through MormonSlough, Flooded districts tn theeast including the Highway 99'Underpass at the Sarita Fecrossing is ShOw11 in the forp:-&round. (Record photo)

QrIET WATERS-Three daysafter' ·the Stockton flood sub-sided ••the source of the watersE'ilst'of Stockton appeared calmand peaceful. This aerial photo-graph shows how the DivertingCanal is anchored on southbank of Mormon Slough, de-signed to send waters headingfor North Stockton to pass tothe sea through the CalaverasRiver and thence the San Joa-quin River, A short stretch of I0( .:l\I0r:!Mn Channel is blocked offbetvtefn the Divert lna Canalbank and the Gillis Roar! fill.The Mormon Channel route isthen free into Stockton, Floodwaters splashed over southbanks of Mormon Slough all theway from Bellota to Stockton,backed up behind Gillis Roadand then surged over the roadand into the Mormon Channelbed and thence to Stockton,

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HAY BY HF.LlCOPTER -~ Cat tle FEed hy flood waterson the Gunn RAnch nort hr-ast of Thorn "tch along a narrowlp\'ee, to&. photo. Their owner, W. (;;.. • prevE'nh'd hy highwater o(-ftle Consumnes River Irom getting feed 10 thrm himself.called 'lJpoh R. helicopter from Sharpe General Depot in Stocktonto hop hay to the marooned animals. The shadow of the hrlicoptrrdarkens bales of hay just. dropped. In the photograph to the lef t,Wa lly Eric. who was with the first load of [prd. loosens halps justdropped. ThE' copter f lew low to herd the animals toward tho [{'pd.Below, 1st Lt. Frank R. Wilson, pushes a bale aboard the whirly-bird.

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churches responded within a half hour Saturdayfor volunteer crews at Lodi Lake Park.

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RF.NO 8WA:'ItPED- Swirling nood waters from the TruckeeRiver, which runs between the l\!apAII Hotel and the RlversldsHotr-l in h;!(';;,::rollnrl. are held out of tilf' Maw's lobby by a sand-bAg ha rr icar!». Na tiona l Guardsmen and ;;01) airmen from nearbyStpad Air Force Base Iolned =mployos in boarding up windowsand entrances to business tirm.l. An estimated 26.000 .andbag.were heaped around ~m.

BASKET Emil '.10 8AFJ:Tr-A Coast Guard helicopter hoversover a hoUM at Guerneville, Callf" u It pull. up a basket (cir-cle) containln, one ot ••VW'&lm.anbers of • family marooned onthe rooftop (arrow), 0tIaer-.m ••••of the tamn, watch u thebasket 10. "P!. •••• await ttI*... CJuerneorill. w.. on. of

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U .. f I 'In III'D ef'Iort s to rescue hi~ 2 dozs t his unident itie.I man sadlv". ...\\· ••·1"1' l\\' \y. n'll,','e" II ~ c'' <.... . "'.. .••••.I~ •., • . 'I . t . ',. waters or th e Stanislaus River at the nort h end of Orall~d",lI,'h?s t he-m stru55 din tie dlL,IY ~. •.

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JU!iiT 'FISHING-Johnny and Michael Peterson, 8 and 12, sons of Dr. and Mrs. Preston Peterson of1281 Greeley. try their luck with rod and line in front of their home, flooded half-way up the lawnby rain water. (Record photo)

AMPHIBIOUS TRUCK-A work truck plows through f()()t·def'P water at Pacific Avenue and Rnb-inhood Drive, entrance to the flooded Sherwood M'Innr suhrli 'ision. Oterordphl')tn)

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NO 1'1.:\(,1<; FOR R:\RY--The arms of 111'1' mot hr-r. 1\ln;, Frf'rI Lamar, provirlr- t hr-only dry r('stlng pl~('(' for R'"-month-olrl I)Phr~. CIS t hr- 1.-1I11'1I'S rr-t urn to t hoir 1101111'in Corona Park. The first task Mrs, Lamar a,-;signs Ilf'I,"'1I and rlaughtpl', Rinn, 12,is cleaning th(l crib. I HI't"lId phil!))

HOUSEWIFE RETUR TO KITCHEN-Mrll, William Arends,on the verge of tears, holds a mud-covered 1'08st she 1I'(t on 1hI'sideboard of her kitchen when.,h!' Was driven from her home inYuba City by the flood. She returned on Chr-istmas Day to findfurniture soggy with wa tr-r, drawers filled with rnuri, and floorsladen with silt. Dark lines on cabinets are high wa tr-r marks,

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tl1f~ constructed earth fillbrldges across Mormon Channel through this morningto allow backflow from the Di to go unchecked tothe Deepwater Channel and further flooding of SouthStockton and threatened flooding of the downtown area. Above

1 is the gap made in the EI Dorado Street bridge.

IU;LI'I:\'(;' 1I1\:\'US- - Fivc-ycar-nld Manur-l Sot o, righI, and his 3',2-ypar-old sist PI',Frilll(,(,s, wield brooms in an ('[forI to hr-lp t hr ir neighbors, Shirley Lopez, 12, lof t,

.; and Virginia Lopez, 14, sweep debris from the Lopez home in Corona Park.S I Rel'orrl photo)'--- -

SIGN OF TRE TIMES-"Not A Through Street," says tile 1Jtgnat the Intersection of Lincoln and Howard streets. lind truer

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ESCAPIsn An unident if ied woman motorist, too frightE'nE'd to stop and give her name, ploughedthrough t he :2-foot dr-op flood waters of the Linden Road just past of the Diverting Canal. The wa-ters, still rising, threaten to isolate a number of homes in the area. (Additional flood pictures onPage 6,) (Record photo)

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MAROONED-Many residents of the Edison Villa Housing project arose this morning and foundtheir automobiles mired in 3 feet of mud lind water and completely out of action. This scene isfrom the Orange Street and Charter Way intersection. (Record photo)

r.npI. f)",r. 21~·Two rnr-nlnok I'pfll~r nil ~n i~l~nd in lhr

midrllr- o( t hr- ~lnkl"lufl1n" Rivr-rlas t nir:hl to "~rf i1"il.'· f rorn tl1('f loorl" lilno"'n I'i~hl in thr m irldlr-

nf thr high wa t r-r nrilr I1rl'E' a nd".E')'", 1''''''llpri Pill'l,\' todayrnurh dif I ir ul t v

Th(' mr-n a rr- .sl;tlllr.v 11Ft II, 21,'lllrl Clt'll'lrs Rrl1J.\·, 72, of no fi.\Mildri,·"".<. n('.<rl,('d with them "·il.<

'l Sill" II, hl'lrk, nonorscript ong Iownr-d h~' R(""~·.

Tit", men had h('rn I"Clmprrl Cllfln~th", hank« n( tbr :\fnkrillmn'" In rl- .•,In('" " half mi) •• II'rst o! l!i:::l1-";)\' f)f) Cllln rt 'lllill'tr)' mill" sou t h

I nf I hr f'lln n( R)'" no Road.\\ hrn 111•. wa t or st ••r tr-d tn I'is,.,

l;tll' yr."trnjrt~· t hr-v nf'riol'n to gotn t hr- is la nrl Ilnd abou t I() o'clockmilO" il r!lmp t hc rr-.

l)lll'in~ th(' ni"ht Ihr \lnk('lllmnE')'n"" ra pirl l v i1llrl about rnidnich tI hI" 111<'11(n\llln I h"',1.<rll·r, h('illgrllC:III(r'ri. '1'1]("· ('111111:;In unde-r-hl',,,,h ;Inri s111,,1\11'<'<,sand st artr-dr"llill::: fnl' h<'lp.

.\hnUI ~,:1f) n'clrwk thi';illl: f';l.\· :llilsrm. i1 f armr-r"I n I. 1 nn:.; :1:1, Acampo, h(';ll'nt hr-ir (';111, and "<illy 10r';lINit hr-rn nil thr ish •41ftoh hy thishour ".,," undor \l1'('r:

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Ilh,.. .<l1r\,lff. A iln"t "';lS nhlili'~rnI f'rom l.nrll 1,,11\('Pink. Inilorrl into" l'irl"lp t rur k and hmllght tnI h(' .<rrn('.

Thr-r» J .n<li Poli('r ()ffir'('1" XOI'~rna n \lil'1r'h "no Sh('ri(f's Dopu t vRill C~rnrr m:1I1llrn I h I" srna l!("'"Ct, (''lllipp"d \l'ith 'I li:::ht motor,'"1ri .'I~rlrrl (nl' tllr t vvo 1111"11.R('srlh~ 111<'hi:::1l ('III'I'('l1t and h"mp"r"nhv """{ll('''' IIIP I,,'n nf'fi('rrs \\'rl'l"(·~1Tird".,\·rl·,,1 hlllldl'rn ""I'd"f!n\\"l1st!'r;Ull h,..rot'(" 111(".,· ('nl!lrl C:lin

filII ("nllt rnl of t hr h"nt and g"ttn thr pa ir.

\\'h('n thr-v I'('il('h('rl t hom Ih •.•n(fi"rr" fnlll;d thr 111(1 ('Iingingnrsprriltrl.1' tn I h I" light brush.with nl1l~' t hrir h""o" shm\·ing. f)R.\;\L\TIC RF-SClJF,--Ch<lrlps Reilly, 72. St anlov H<lII, :21. <InnRr-i ll v W~.' I1nlrJil1C'thr smal] hlar-k RrilV" pel rlog are shown Rbove RS thr-v Are hrought ;I"hnr!' fromon~ nn h is <:hnulnrrs lInrl r"(II"ro an island in the Mokelumne River nea r Lodi thi~ morning. Intn 1"1 him en iI" h•. \1'"" lif t od th •.•upper picture the ~oRt is appl'?llrhing lhr ".hol'1 l'I~offir'rrl;intn thr hni'lt. and mpmb('rs or thr "nndbndg ••1-11'1"n('pnrtment '!If'llnd hv In

Rrnllghl 10 shorr-, J 1;111\\'~" ilhlr hr-Ip Ihp men in thp hnat. In thr lowr r pi("llirr ~h('fiff'" Dr-putvIn "·,,Ik (rom t h •.. hoa t tn ~ pnlirp Rill (;Rrnel' and Lndi Pnli('r Or(irrr Chill'lr.s Went land lire shnwnra r and Irorn 111•..1"'11'intn Mason (,:1rrying R('ilJ~' lip thr h"nk tn Ft pnJi('p ('nr.Hns pi t nl . Rrilly, t ho rln!"r miln.1 --\I'RS "11((rring f rnm suhrno rs inn .and ('xpnq!l'(' and harl tn hr ('Hrri('d

•hv Ihr nffi('rl'S out of Ih(' hn"t";1rl 1,,1('1' intn thr hnspit.ll. lit"ilppr:>I'ro In I", in hnd ..<h"pr.

nrCi("('l's 111~rI('HI'l':1n2;('m('nts In11:1\(' t hr- ri()r:: rrri and (',lr<'rl Iorilrl!'1' II){'\ hiln nispnsrn nf Ihri III·n rrs('llrrl O11"n.

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WHAT WATER LEFT-When the waters receded from "the Woodbridge area yesterday, theyshowed this 50-foot gap in the Lower Sacramento Road at Woodbridge.----------------~~-------------------------------.

CCTTISG THE STREET-Stanislaus Street. across Mormon Channel. which was completed lastyear to replace an old wooden bridge, was cut last night by a huge dragiine to permit the flow.;'water through t he channel, II, ,

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ARTU'ICL\L L\KE-Waters surging over the e~st l':lTIk~of the L\\"(~rL~g ~anal. tada}:' were fastspreading over rich f arm lands to create an art ifi cial lake. This scene IS hom the Linden RoadBndge. .~Rec"r<1 p;~

, .. .:.\W,\\,-I~odg~. against the Tidewater Southern' Railroad. north of M d •!;m ~ Pl1rlgE'. aw.asn on StalllsJil.uS River flood wa ters. At the end of the raIlro"ag t~stok' IS the Mc.c .. een, The rl\er has droppeo SInce this picture was tak=n Chrls trnas £\1'. ac a bulge can

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J\IOSSDALt; BRIDGE-Returning Christmas holiday traffic 50 and Highway120 at the l'vllssdal('Y last night as the San Joaquin River to at that point to ahigh of 19 f ot at 4:45 p.m. U.S. Army Corps of Engineer officials anticipated a peak at this_ •.•.i""'+ ,..,f 'J'J folf- tnrlOou Th .... 1Qr;n fl,...,...A Alln+h Wl+ +h n tim,.. t-l-.n. l~uoo. ITOo""" UICII., UHU!' ,)d "'n foot

AIR VIF-W OF LE\'t:t; RRI<~:\I\ The rampaging Stanislaus Rivo rbroke t hrnuuh a Irl"l'r Sat urri.iv aftrl"lloon. 9 mi lr-s sout hwr-sf ofRipon. and inllnri"tpri a lflrgp il,:ra of rich, frl'til' fann land in thearea, Tl1P pirt 111'1' a hove, a companion shot 10 the one holow,shows thr rrvr-r' wa tr-rs pourinr; f hrourrh t he hr iak whir-h ~t:JI'trr!8~ a small nirhe a nd 'llli,'kly wirlr-nod to 1:1 fppt, then to :I() fp(,t.Famlu=s in the RrPR \\'("1'(" nlortr-d and ("varuat?rI, In snrno rllsrslivestock were transporter! out of the area or shif t od to high("rground. (Rp('nrrl photo)

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"THERF: SHI'; OOES"-Thf' prr-ssure of tons of watr-r pouringthrough Lit t lr-Connection Slough proved too grr-at yesterday after-noon for this section of levee protecting the Empirr Tract, 8 miles

northwest of Stockton. The ent ire tract, the first in thE' Delta togo under, was inundated. The break relieved an immr-diat e threatto Venice Island which was still in danger today, (Record photo)

•GOVER~OR'S EyE VIEW-~ov. Goodwin J. Knight surveyed flooded 3,300-acre Empire Tractfrom t~ls.lo~-flYlllg A~'my helicopter during his stopover here yesterday. Depth of the litter-coveredwater IS indicated by Its hoigh t on hui ldings III the t ract. Litt lr- Connection Slough is shown at topof the photograph, srparat('n. __h~ a s('•.~n of unbroken levee ann roadway. /Rpcnrd photo)

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REGISTR'\TIOX--R"gi~tel'ingat Red ('I'O~~ head quarters ars eVACl1eeS t lef't 10 right) J. E. Mill!',

Myrtle Har+sock, and Mrs. Julie Mills. who wer e taken by Armv truck from their home at 1225

$. 81l1tl'r Mill, \\".15 wpl to the waist In an effor t to obtain bedding from the basement floodedhy Mormon Channel water-s.

REt\10\,I~G DE8RIS-,A constant flow of dohrl s down the high-running Calaveras River imperiled

the Sout hr-rn Pacific trest le yes terrlay and today. Crews were const ant iy a t work. using a giant

C],HI1P. to 1'('1110\'(, t hr ma tcria l ami sandbag the river banks.

Ri':ADV FOR THY. HOSY.-Mr. and MrPedro Angelos haul a dresser from their Corona Park home~o their ol1l1ghler can hasp it off. Ruim furmture and muck-covered floors greeted the family of 5children on their return to the Iloode al·('a. (Record photo)

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BUS RESCUE-The Lenardini family was evacua ted from their home at 126 E, Jackson by boat

and loaded aboard a City Lines bus. From left t a right are Lloyd Lenardini who is holding his 11'2-

year-old son, Lloyd Jr .. his mother. Mary Lenard ini, and his wife. Mrs. Mary Lenardini. The water"CIS ;{12 feet In the street when the Lenardinis·were taken from their home.

RF.S(Tf; WORKERS ~~t. .John ~IJ('h(>llns anrl Pfr-. Bob B;,gptti of t he 164th FA En of thet inna) (;II"l[j prlot t h» 0111~ rPSC1H' t iurk "hip In d rrvr- t h rouvt: Corona Pilrk ,trept, ~'f'stf']'(iR~',

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TUCKED IN-Asscmblyman John McFall of Manteca tucks arobe about Gov. Goodwin J, Knight to ward off the cold after thegovernor accidentally ripped off the emergency door from the heli-copter in which he inspected flood damage in the Delta yesterday.State Sen. Alan Short of Stockton ill shown in the background.

I.oril nows (''llnf''''lln!lll rf!UI 7.imln"nn~n, ~fI"l11ptlll£: to g,,1 nr-arthe rSmpi\&l11il: 1I1nk"I'lmn" Riw>r "ryonri th" \'inp\'~l'r1 shown Rho\'I', "'fl~ rilln1<"rj "'hl'll th" "lJ1lrioll'r(arrow) li~,was ridrng ran intr. a rieep spot and ("!lp~i~M, Another photoiil"apher snapped this pic.ture. Zimmerman lost his own camera. in the muddy waters.

!n"s OF THF, TntF,S ~'illl'r wor.Is 1\,1'1'(' ll''',(';' \\ 11'1,11 t hau tiJ(1,,(' on th~ sign pirt urod above. N»Throllgh Trllffic, it warns, Photo shows floodr-d ('x,'I'lsi\(' Lodi Lake RI'Ca residences in the Laurr-lAvenue area.

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REFIJGEES TWI(,f~ - T'he Orville D. Short famil y was evacuated twice yesterday from flood WIi-ters. first from their new horne at 441:; E. Fourth H nd t he second time from a motel at 10:22 S. Wilsonwhere Ul€'Y had taken refugl'. hr-tor« going to th e Lome of Mrs. Short's moth PI' in Thornton. Seat-ed are Orville, 14-month-old Nancy, ;\11',. Short, a I~:: l):lnny, 7. Standing are l)onald, 5. Lind Ii , 13.and .lr-an. ~. (I{p('ord photo)

BOIJ,I~(l. (,Hl'R~I~(l FI.onl) W.\T"~RS-Tilf' 'I'ITifw havr»:1'1'eatpl'1hv till' flooding Sf~nisla\ls River S"fllrdCl~' noon is g!'aphi("/lily shown ahp\'p in " closeup pir-t ure oJ: till' br!'Ak whu-h PC('urrrdon the L. E. Eck lund Ranch, about 91t1iles southwest of Ripon.Patro.ling deputies spotted the break first and before volunteersMuIr! be rushed t,., halt the rampaging waters. a 15-foot hole was.~ide ned to 30 feet in a half hour and the swirling waters kepteating away at the levee. (Record photo)

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COl\Il\IU~ICATIONS CENTER-Radio jeeps patrohng the northand east levees protecting Stockton were controlled through thisNational Guard command post. Sgt. Kenneth Tatton And Cpl.Dean Coleman are the operators on duty.

I'LOOD VJ('TIl\I- Police and voiuntccrs a rr: shown as t1H'Y att('mpted y('stenlay mnrrung tn rornov ethe autornobi!e of Eugene Rangel, 60, of lRlYl E. Clay, from Mormon Channel near the CaliforniaWalnut Growers Associat ion plant. Rilng('\"s bod Y was found in the car. The vehicle was bf'iievedswept into the chann!'l frorn nearby Di;'lll1ond St root Friday night when flood water poured overthp road, Two polirr- officers shown in the wal('\'-Gilb('rt Rollins, left, and Walter Bahrenfuss, be-hind Rollins, wr-ro t rr-a tr d for immersion in Elll('rgpncy liospital. Other man in the water Isullidpnlifipd. Police said the death will be attributed to the flood and will not be classified as ar raff ic fatality. (Recorrt nhot o i

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JUST A REMNANT --This photo shows the remaining section of the Orang!' Blossom Bridge, 011 theStanislaus Itiver, east of Oakdale. At the right is the home of C. O. Wickersham as it appearedafter being flooded half way up the windows. Lodged against its rear' are the remains of an equip-ment shed which collapsed during the high water. In the foreground is a jumbled mass of equip-ment which was in the shed.

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Flagman Injured; ,Car Driver Seized'SAX FRfu'\'"CISCO, April 3 t ia lly under a movint; freight train.

nxs I-A crossing fl:l;.;man tor tho A courageous brakeman leapedSouthern Pacific Railroad \\'8.., 14 f er-t from thf' top 0: one of thegravely injured in San Francisco train's boxcars onto tho hood ofearly today when he was hurled thc auto to capturo the driver andby an automobile's bumper par- hold him until police arrivcd

The victim of the Rccidrnt wasJesus ~Iartinez, :14, His lr-ft hand .~)4l1"l~fjli'''>had to be amputateci ill SouthernPacific Hospital. His ann \\'ilS alsocrushed,The driver was identified as

Frank J. Timms, 66, a restaurantmnnagcr, He was bookr-d at CitvPrison on charges of fplony drunkdrivi nc, refusinc to heed a rail-road crossing signal and drivingwithout a license in his possession.The brakeman. Gf'org-i' ~[alone,

who saw the accident. I\'as quotedhy police as sayinc Timms tried tohack away and 11('(' th(' scene.Xl a lon« said that whr-n ho jumped,HOp the auto's hood. hf' thenlc.tpod to the ground, pUllt>d thedrivo rs door open, snatched theiznit iori key and collared thedrivor.

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IMembers Passes !AId.3 {AP)-The bodies 01 four Downtown CafeI penons were recovered yeateftlayI LONDON, April 3 (.\P I -A bill from..a car in·which they.PlUDKed Two men were com icred late knownpermitting women t» st t 111 thelto ••••tlt in th 'D.o-He 'D'-- ~y by a Superior Court The, fLo" ...,. e •.-" .owy __ • jury of the Jan. 14 burglary of a at tIHouse. 0 rds for the first tune 0 uld they lIPPBieuu, cafe at 29 W. Main. keep,\\'011 final parliamentary approval ~. '!be defendants, Lolen MvVey, f----.,last night, .Queen Elizabeth II! _ Jw:k \Vllliama tdIDtIfted as. of Thornton, and Leo Duran, Iwil! Sign It mto law Soon. two of the victims from permual 30. transient were referred to the

i The bill permits the monarch papers • Randolph Lloyd. 54, of probation office by Judge George \;CJ,I",.,re.to appoint men and women to the Mllpitu,,J:alif., and CIarenc:e Leo F. Buck for a report and sentenc-uppe-r house with special titles Jackson, 1l. of 419~ TreDd Aw- iDE April 14.which cannot be passed on to nue West. Spokane. • The men were arrested after Iheirs. The House of Lords is now He ~~-the FBI joined officers W. B. Smith. a private patrolman,composed of hereditary scats for today in b)'ing to det~ from surprised them in the act of loot- ('men only, plus places for church- fmgerpriDta th~ Identities of the ing the cafe. Smi th fired shots into'rnr-n of the established Church of other two, a middle-aged man and the cafe and the men dispersed.E!12:1and. woman. Duran was found in anThe Labor party opposed the wrecked taxi cab in a lot

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NOT COOKING WITH fiAS·- A Corona Park resident takes a watery walk through hili kitchen,the utilities obviously out of act ion,

L,\~n:\IYR"- :"TII.L THY-RE r;j"pt \'·.1\1"'~ of t h « St~Il<\.l'l~ RI""r IRfI ilt Ihe }11.tnl'l" KIlI:::h!- Fron"covered br-idge with the water level Just 3 feet below the floor of the span, This photo was t ak enat 4:30 yesterday.

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RO(Dn"o A"OF.LS (,RI';f<:I\ Ang('ls ('rp(>k, marin;:: bank full with r(>ri-hupri silt ladr-n wa tr-r. isshnwn IH'l'l' l1S it 1'11<.;11(><1 tilmllL:h t hr ('it~, of Ang(>l., (';lI11P, forcin;:: 1"'iH'ualion of two farn ilir-s. '1'1,,'p.r turr- \\'ilh til" lligll\\,iI~' ·EI sign is InnkillL: cimnl"II'I'RIll [mill till' bl'ictgf' ovr-r Main SII'f'I't. 'I'll••oli1l'l' piclUl'Q is looking ups t rcam, wit h the hom os of Mayor Jolin Lr-mue and Romie Rollcr'i atthe Irft.

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TR01JRL"~ SPOT ; [t'l'l' i< wher« Ihe McDougal d Canal levee burst open, tloodini peat the FrenchCamp TUl'npik(' and into ('"mna Pal'k, t

B,\BES IX .'\R1IS - Strong, arms heljlt'd small children leavof1ood.'rl South Stockton this morml1g' IlS hundreds of homes weree\<ll'\lat"rl, This scpne took pial'I' at Harrison and Clay str('ets,

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dr-nt it ir-d worna n and bpI':! «hi ldrr-n.

CLOSJt;1l TO TRAFFIC . Thr-Lower Sacramento Road Bridgeat Woodbr-idge had just hor-nclosed to traffic Dec. 23 whr nthe above picture was t a kr-n.Large cracks had opened Undf'~ ,"-the buffeting of water and do-bris, Some time after the picturewas taken a section of the st rue-ture collapsed in the flood whichinundated Thornton and partsof Lodl,

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t~\"'-\(T.lTI():-'- All) _ Elllen;'('llcy ('1'1'11 s l'I'IlH)\illl! famili('~ from Ilnod ellriangl'red South Stot'ktnnhomos resorted to usinr; surplus life rafts left 0\'('1' from World War 11 days as water ran waist dN'l'

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TII"~ 1,()~,{i \\'.\1'1' Wait iru; to I'Pc('i,'e dishursing orders fOI' loclging and nH'Clis at Rr-d Cross \lead·qua r+vrs a •.•· \ ldt to right I flood rl'fllge('s Mrs. Dolores Barrera. 1504 K Anlif'rSOll, H-year-old Ell1nl;\H. ('1'11 ",1'0 I'd, 1\1'1' aunt , Mrs, ~Iari(' St<'\\'Olrt. 9:n S, Wilson, holding hvr l.l-month-old son Larry. andEddie ~Iaril' Stl'\\'al't, 11. 1\ll's, ll;II'/i'I'a, II'ho is b l ind, was (';trric'd frolll Iier /t"me hy I~lii('e .

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CRUISER IN SERVICE-Motorboat operators volunteered their boats for rescue service, Owner

John Van Assen is directing the launching of his boat at the Wilson Way subway in front of the

Nic-L-Silver warehouse.

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WHY TRAFFIC IS RESTRICTED-This section of U. S. Highway101 hanging out in space is just one of the reasons' traffic on the'" ,road in the Eureka area' is restricted. This section was under- Jmined by the Eel River during the recent flood. The highway ,was dam,aged 'severely in 16 places, ranging from loss Of,a half,- ,:,foot of roadway for a length of 100 feet, to a' complete washoutfor 800 feet. (A~~V!reIl~o~)_. - -------.. --. _._---.-,. ----- .- '"~ .-'~"~. ~ -- - --. - -- ---. -

WATER CHECK-The, northbank of the Mormon Channel, along Hazelton Street, was sandbaggedthis -morning' to prevent the pent-up waters, which flooded over, the south 'ide last night, from re-peating its act-ioni and reaching th~ downtown bus iness section. _ _. (l'l"f""r;i nr,nt,,)o-::"";==~~ "",,,'=::="~-~'---- -._'~-,---~ ..-..,-= ..~== ...:-=--==--

BRACED FOR DELUGE·-City employes and _nter workers sandbag the .Wilson Way subway inan effort to prevent overflowing Mormon Channel waters from flooding the underpass.

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