From Hijacker to Flute Player Tamsin Fitzgerald Finds a New Path
The 23 year old Tamsin Fitzgerald recalls an aborted 18 year old plane hijacking with her former boyfriend Michael. After prison and writing letters to author Richard A. Condon her story became the book Tamsin. She works toward a musical career in New York and questions the value of prisons as institutions.
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Joy Stilley
AP News
NEW York (Ap
Tamsin Fitzgerald
Cuba
Michael
Miami
Alderson Federal Penitentiary
West Virginia
Tamsin
Richard A. Condon
Sions
Kulubi
Edmund P. Murray
Crown
New York
Ethiopia
Texas
Joseph Mayer
Naylor
San Antonio
Tex
University of Texas
Georgetown
Southwestern University
Mayer
Southwestern U
Stark Young
H.Y. Benedict
T.A. Taylor
Harvard
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Winchester
Mass
Nine Buck's Row Gothic Novel Sparks Manwriting Debate
The review notes T. E. Huff's new Gothic tale Nine Buck's Row, discussing Huff's use of male pen names and the Gothic formula featuring a threaten maid in a haunted setting. It contrasts male authorship myths with the industry’s demand for suspense and romance in old house settings.
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Robert E. Ford
Associated Press
Buck’s Row
T. E. Huff
Hawthorn Books
New York
Fort Worth
Tex
Huff
Edwina Marlow
Beatrice Parker
British Isles
Jack the Ripper
the Ripper
Congressman Secures Diazinon Approval For Texas Crops
Congressman Bob Price announced the EPA granted permanent approval for Diazinon to control midges in Texas crops in the Low Rolling Plains and Panhandle. He urged a waiver of the usual 90 to 180 day waiting period, warning that delays could jeopardize this season's guar crop. Price said written approval could arrive before week’s end as he travels the 13th District.
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Bob Price
Envionmental Protection Agency
Panhandle
Texas
Price
Orbie Cannedy
Vernon
Environmental Protection Agency
Langley Family Holds 20th Annual Reunion Near Wellington
The Langley reunion drew 121 relatives and 23 guests on August 17 18 19 on Langley grounds west of Wellington. Gary Don Neeley elected president Juanita Langley secretary treasurer and Aubrey Stuckey trustee replacing prior officers. Seven states represented including Texas New Mexico Kansas California Louisiana Indiana.
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Langley
Wellington
Gary Don Neeley
Juanita Langley
Aubrey Stuckey
Bob Haven
Sally Gray
Jim Langley
Texas
New Mexico
Kansas
California
Louisiana
Indiana
Nannie Johnson
Messrs and
Mines
Arthur Haven
Harvey Price
Jim Shadle
Gus Haven
Clarendon
Coleman
Tommie Warner
Tom Davis
Farmington
N.M
Earl Harwell
Robert Ferguson
Tommie Harwell
Childress
Dwayne Crew
Newton
Kans
Mess
del City
Okla
Messrs
J. W. Langley
Hoyt Langley
Paris
Tex
Lloyd Langley
Cary Neeley
Benny Carson
College Station
Donald Langley
John Barnhart
Garland
Mmes
Ethel Hester
Lee Carmen
New Orleans
Joyce Langley
Kathryn Cook
Missouri
Donna Richards
Doug Clazton
A Way to Go Science Finds Bicycle Travel Best
A Way to Go Science reports walking at four mph uses about .1 horsepower while biking at 10 mph uses only .15 horsepower, suggesting bicycles are the most energy efficient human transport.
Barbs by Phil Pastoret
One swallow doesn't make a summer but it can be the beginning of a lost weekend. Keeping phone rates down aids the ecology if they go up much more we’ll have to go back to smoke signals.
If she doesn’t get back on her diet June will bust out
A humorous squib notes someone’s diet slip risks June bursting out, jokes about a talky car passenger muffler, and quips that most men love the lawn while a dollar requires nonshrink goop used on clothes.
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June
Number Changes In Telephones Will Be Made In Childress
About 400 Childress telephone users will have their numbers changed on October 4 as the 937 4000 group shifts the fourth digit from 4 to 8. A new directory, number plates, and call interception plans will help avoid missed calls during the switch edging toward continued service with updated switching equipment.
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Deuschle
Childress
Shires
Icebergs Melt Fast in Warm Seas Above Forty Degrees
In polar waters an iceberg can last indefinitely but when it drifts into seas with temperatures above 40 degrees Fahrenheit it melts rapidly.
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Southwest Books
Gulf OF California
Richard C. Brusca
University of Arizona Press
Tucson
Pacific
Gulf
Haile Selassie I
Man
Tad O Allel
Auto—Life
Frank Barksdale
Ave
F NW
Ellzey
Dodge St
East Eighth
Quansh
Langley Family
Fresno
Calif
Bill Dennis
Stamford
Messrs and Mines
Floyd Crow
Pampa
Royce Frisbie
Memphis
A. J. Neeley
Ben Farmer
Johnny Carson
Monty Ferguson
Homer Holton
Travis McGuire
Tom Anderson
L. A. Davis
Ralls
Johnnie Hunt
Warren Merril
Hoyce Harris
Maude Clay
Cadillac
R. D. Cagle
Chamberlain
Windsor
Ont
Phil Pastoret
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Sx Full Oae Bank
First National Bank
National Childress
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