Holiday Visitors and Family Arrivals Across White Oak
Local notes list numerous family visits and holiday gatherings in White Oak, including Truman Meissner and Michael Chase visiting relatives, Airman Curtis Modisette arriving from Cannon Air Force Base, and extended family from Dallas Sherman Lubbock Tyler and other Texas towns. Also mentions W H Stamps’ death and Vienna Opera touring the Soviet Union in 1971 with renowned performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman Meissner
Michael Chase
Harlington
Theo L. Meissner
Theo Meissner
T. F. Mason
Cannon Air Force Base
Clovis New Mexico
Curtis Joe Modisette
Lonnie Lucas
J. C. Modisette
Truman Lassiter
Dallas
Leon Lassiter
Curtis
Barry
Donald E. Davis
Wylie
Buster Purdy
Tracey Blankenship
R. L. Blankenship
Jackie Hovard
Steve
Jerry
Pat
Onalaska
T. F Mason
New Orleans
Guy Hastings
Lawrence Kern
Hastings
Charlotte Hughes
Ava Nell Powell
Phoenix Arizonia
Darl Baker
Austin
James Baker
Carl
University of Texas
Ross Allison
Shreveport
T. J. Munn
Ray Munn
Ross Allisons
Travis Allison
Jill
Kay
Jerri
Tyler
Chris
White Oak
Allison
Allen T. Munn
Timmy
Mark
Kimberly
Bay Springs
Mississippi
Year 1970 headlines span politics space and culture
The year featured Vice President Spiro Agnew clashing with critics and party rivals, Nixon campaign tours, Edward Heath becoming Britain’s PM, King Hussein’s survival in the Middle East, Apollo 13’s crisis and Lovell’s return, the rise of the women’s movement led by Kate Millett, Susan Saxe’s notoriety, and veteran QB George Blanda starring for the Raiders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spiro T. Agnew
Sen
Charles Goodell
New York
Goodell
Richard M. Nixon
Oval Room
Edward Heath
Britain
Harold Wilson
Middle East
Jordan
Hussein
Syria
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Earth
James A. Lovell
Kate Miller
Susan Saxe
Brandeis University
F. B.I
George Blanda
Oakland Raiders
Newsman's Story on Marines Harsh Duties and War Memory
A review of Sergeant Sutton by Robert E. Ford recounts World War II Marine training and combat with a stark, emotionless style. Ford, a former lieutenant, preserves battlefield realism and Marine ethos while noting a flawed island spy subplot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sergeant Sutton
Robert E. Ford
Hawthorn
Sutton
Iwo Jima
John Wayne
Ford
Associated Press
Pacific
R. H. Johnson Jr
Most Beautiful Christmas Tree At Capitol Stuns Oldtimers
A 34 foot Texas cedar from near Smithville dazzles visitors with 1 974 lights 1 200 balls and 43 200 icicles in the rotunda. Tourism centers report 34 629 out of state visitors in November and 27 000 plus Texans, with Laredo showing a 71.6 percent services gain over last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol
Rotunda
Texas
Smithville
Highway Department
Laredo
San Jacinto Museum of History
San Jacinto Monument
Winfred G. Ellis
Harper's Weekly
Thomas Nast
America
Nast
Santa Claus
Hemphill County
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White Oak News
Everett Hill
Rhonda
Julius
Smyra
Tennessee
B. W. Hill
Carolyn
Barbara
Pam Jr
M. O. Fletcher
Pamela
Bruce
Sansenito
Alice Fletcher
Fletcher
Elaine and
Wayne, Jr
Kingsville
Massachusetts
Ken E. Kern
Oxford
New Hampshire
Kern
Lacey York
Janna
Randy
C. R. Skelton
Gladewater
J. H. Boies
Buzz Boies
Commerce
Sherry Dobbins
Penny Barrow
Seabrook
W. H Stamps
Irving
Stamps
Vienna Opera
Russia
Vienna
Vienna State Opera
Soviet Union
Wagner
Karl Boehm
Birgit Nilsson
Richard Strauss
der Rosenkavalier
Christa Ludwig
Marschallin
Walter Berry
Baron Ochs
Leonard Bernstein
Strauss
Oklahoma
Marines
Rifle Company
Brooks Robinson
Baltimore Orioles
Cincinnati Reds
Muhammad Ali
Bobby Orr
Boston Bruins
Johnny Bench
Cincinnati
National Baseball League
Pele
Brazil
Christos Papanicolaou
Norman E. Borlaug
Oscar Auerbach
E. Cuyler Hammond
William H. Masters
Virginia E. Johnson
Robert F. Drinan
Boston College Law School
Senate
Elizabeth Platz
United States
Pope Paul VI
Orient
Manila
Daniel Berrigan
Phillip Berrigan
Chet Huntley
NBC
ABC
Harry Reasoner
CBS
ABC Evening News
Societ
Alexandr
Eq) Solzhenitsy
Stockholm
National Book Committee
Robert Penn Warren
Dean Acheson
Jean Stafford
John O’hara
John Dos Passos
Ernest Hemingway
Spiro Agnew
Richard Nixon
Alexandr Solzhenitely
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Playwrite
Nasser
Robert Penn
REN National Book Committee Award
Muhammed Ali
Texas Travel Log
Wellington
New Zealand
Cor
Alto
Cherokee
Texas Forest Service
Jodian Mound Nursery
Norman Borlaug
Century Man
Austman Street
Church OF Christ
Uledewater, Texas
Blackeye
Chuck Roast
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