Water for Southland Porter Tunnel Near Completion
Sacramento report notes a planned Thursday celebration as workers hole through Carley V Porter Tunnel to transfer Northern California water under the Tehachapis into the Southland. The 23 foot bore runs 48 miles through the mountains facing fault risks. eventual concrete lining will allow 120 million gallons per hour. A 1967 cave in trapped 17 workers but caused no deaths.
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UPS
California
Tehachapi Mountains
Southland
William A. Gianelli
Alfred Golze
Porter
Techachapis
Edmonston
Central Valley
Los Angeles Basin
Mojave Desert
Gianelli
Tehachapis
Carley V. Porter
D-Compton
The
Assembly Water Committee
Hunt Plan to Turn Alcatraz Into Space Museum Revoked
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to rescind preliminary approval for Texas millionaire Lamar Hunt to convert Alcatraz into a space museum after public opposition led by dressmaker Alvin Duskin. The decision delays the project to allow new plans and creates a separate committee to manage the island.
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San Francisco
UPI
Lamar Hunt
Alcatraz
Board of Supervisors
Alvin Duskin
Manhattan Island
Hunt
Duskin
Berkeley PTA Vows to Back Vietnam War Protest
The Jefferson Elementary School PTA in Berkeley votes to participate as a unit in the November 15 peace march with two dissenters. Spokeswoman Anne Hannah says it is the first PTA unit at any level to officially take a stand on the Vietnam War.
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Berkeley
Parent-Teacher Association
PTA
Jefferson Elementary School
Anne Hannah
Intercept Ends Yet Border Vendors See Only Namesake Change
Mexican businessmen say Operation Intercept remains a deterrent as U S tourists stay away. Mayor Ernesto Perez Rul refuses to cross for charity events until border delays end. Weekend waits linger at 30 minutes to an hour with inspections for smuggling. Local merchants report declines in traffic and sales as the two nation effort continues.
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Ernesto Perez Rul
San Diego
Tijuana
U.S
United States
Robert E. Peck
Woolworth
California tourism spending hits 2.7 billion in 1968
Visitors spent 2.7 billion dollars in California in 1968, up from 1967 as 16.1 million travelers generated 10 000 survey measured by Economic Research Associates Los Angeles. Auto visitors totaled 54.8 percent for the greater Los Angeles area with air visitors rising 34.9 percent to 5.8 million. Disneyland Fisherman’s Wharf Knott’s Berry Farm Marineland Zoo and Sea World cited among top magnets.
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State Office of Tourism and Visitors Services
Economic Research Associates of
Los Angeles
Disneyland
Fisherman’s Wharf
Chinatown
San Francisco
Knott’s Berry Farm
Marineland
Los Angeles Area
Zoo and
Sea World
San Diego
Intercept race idea falters at Caliente track
Caliente race track near Tijuana reports 9 184 customers Sunday up from last week as officials note Intercept was used as a name but appears not in practice. The venue now shows only five cars present and a sparsely attended event.
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Caliente Horse Track
Tijuana
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