Plans to cut Pecos River salt via Malaga Springs drilling
A Washington report from Secretary of the Interior McKay outlines experimental drilling of wells into Malaga salt springs 15 miles south of Carlsbad New Mexico. The plan aims to reduce Pecos River salinity by pumping brine to Queen Lake for evaporation, with projected three year delay for noticeable water quality improvements.
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Pecos River
Governmnt
Pecos River Compact Commission
Commissions
Washington D. C
Secretary of the Interior
McKay
Malaga
Carlsbad
N. M
Commission
Pecos
Malaga Springs
Robert T. Lingle
Queen Lake
Fort Davis Open House At Gaddis Clinic
More than 100 residents visited the Gaddis Clinic Sunday afternoon in Fort Davis enjoying tours of the new hospital facilities. Snow and mud challenged attendance and the event highlighted the community’s support for the facility, with flowers and gifts decorating the halls. Dr Don A Gaddis and Mrs Gaddis run the hospital, with Mrs Laura I Lillie joining from El Paso General Hospital to assist.
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Gaddis Clinic
Fort Davis
Gaddis Cline
Don A. Gaddis
Laura I. Lillie
el Paso General Hospital
New Gaddis Hospital
Clark Apartments
District and Commissioners
C. E. Patterson
Lucius Bunton
Atorney Bill Barney
Marta
Alpine
Patterson
Wilbur McCullough
Jack Harrington
McCullough
Tom Escovedo
Howard Bell
Ferman Granado
Commissioners Court
H.L. Kokernot
J.C. Duncan
George Jones
Jones
JW. Merril
Family travel notes and local updates from Fort Davis
The column lists Worth Evans and Juliet Rowley on trips to California and Las Vegas, Ed Rowley’s start home from California via Corpus Christi, and Willis McCutcheon enrolling at Pecos High School after Schreiner Institute. It notes ex-teachers Miss Weatherby and Hawes of El Paso and Sierra Blanca, who recall Puerto Rico trips and a shift to local food cultivation decreed by the governor. Six inches of snow and no notable moisture near Fort Davis are reported.
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J. P. Weatherby
Lelah Weatherby
Puerto Rico
Sal Weatherby
Taos
N. M
Houston
Florida
Juliet Rowley
Nelson Conway
Las Vegas
Nevada
Ed Rowley
Corpus Christi
California
Willis McCutcheon IV
W. W. McCutcheon
Seven Springs Ranch
Here
Pecos
Schreiner Institute
Kerrville
School Assembly Highlights Fort Davis Event
A special assembly met in the bien school auditorium on Wednesday morning January 5 with Supt. Herbert D. Smith presiding. Miss Lela Weatherby of Puerto Rico delivered the address, introduced by Miss Callie Holt, both noted as former Fort Davis teachers or students.
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Baptist W. M. J
Baptist
W.M.U
R. D. Lovell
Callie Holt
J. D
Bien School
Herbert D. Smith
Lela Weatherby
Puerto Rico
Fort Davis
Snowfall Breaks Long-Running Measure Record at Mount Locke
A heavy weekend storm dropped six inches of snow within hours, six and a half inches at McDonald Observatory Mount Locke, largely wet and beneficial for the parched land. Temperatures ranged from 56 to 19 last week as snow ended a more than six-year drought without measurable snowfall.
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Mount Locke
McDonald Observatory
Navy Seeks Men For Enlistment In Alpine This Week
Navy recruiter Chief Edward Maese says a West Texas company will be enlisted January 19 and 20 in Alpine. All young men between 17 and 31 are eligible to enlist.
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Life Insurance
Clifton L. Moss
P.O
Alpine, Texas
Great Southern Life Insurance Company
WOME
Texas
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rans-Mexas Marways
Mario 235
THE
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
State Paper
Veras
Pars Mare
Parade Magazine
Rai Ec Se Yy Cs
Fort Davis News
Jett Davis County
Ross Graves
H. G. Sproul
Harold G. Thompson
Supt. H. D. Smith
Big Bend
Centennial Players
Pee Wees
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van Horn
Marfa
Pee Wes
Blackwell
Marathon
Valentine
Ernest Rivera
Webster
Juanita Martin
John Webster
Martin
Eduardo
Lalo) Granado
Francisco Granado
Trinidad Granado
Fort. Davis
Elias Marin
Aarcuimare Tenis
Ily Monument
Alpine Cemetery Assn
del N. Sth
Robert Taylor
George Raft
Granada
Janet Leigh
Mrs
Worth Evans
Los Angeles
Cal
WWE
Marke
Cera
Thenaday
Demetrius and the
Gladiators
Victor Mature
Susan Hayward
Navy
F. C. B. McAllen
Bush
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Sycamore
McAllen
el Paso
Held Bros
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el Paso, Texas
Mrs. MacTavish
WTA
West Texas Utilities Compan
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