California and Oregon Flood Toll Rises as Relief Efforts Expand
The floods left 40 dead in California and 12 in Oregon with 20 to 30 missing in California and 33 in Oregon. Damages are preliminarily estimated at 159 to 170 million dollars across a million acres. Federal funds of one million and Red Cross aid totaling five million are mobilized to help northern California and southern Oregon.
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No Retreat In Budget Says Air Force Secretary Quarles
Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles said the new U S defense budget is not a retreating budget and provides the means to do a sound job. He arrived in Tokyo for a two week Far East tour and noted he was not fully satisfied with the Air Force share, but no general or service secretary should be completely satisfied with funding. He dismissed the Soviet 10 percent budget cut as not credible.
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Use of Electricity Still Mounting
New York reports total electricity distributed last week reached a record 11.614 billion kilowatt hours, marking a fourth consecutive weekly record. The figure surpasses the 9.431 billion kilowatt hours distributed in the same week last year by 23.1 percent, with the prior week at 11.602 billion kilowatt hours.
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