Oil Piracy Probe Expands Across Texas Fields
A Shell Oil well in East Texas produced mud after being pierced by a slanted drill, triggering a broad investigation into illegal oil production. Since April 1962, regulators, prosecutors, and law enforcement have pursued orders, surveys, and indictments in what becomes one of Texas’s largest oil probes with over 200 slanted holes found and potential legislative reforms ahead.
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Austin
UPI
Shell Oil Co
East Texas
Texas
58Th
Commission
Railroad Commission
Attorney General
Will Wilson
Wilson
Department of Public Safety
Texas Rangers
Kennedy backs nonelection year tax cut battle
President Kennedy pursues a nonelection year tax cut despite House and Senate opposition. He and Mills seek a single revenue bill with tax reductions and broader revisions after weeks of hearings. Byrd doubts budget prospects with a rising defense bill and a near ten billion dollar shortfall forecast.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Mills
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate Committee
Senate
Sec
the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Henry H. Fowler
Byrd
The
Economic Club
Virginia
Anonymous benefactor brings Christmas to Huntsville death row
A Fort Worth donor sent 15 to condemned inmates on Texas death row. Chaplain Johnston bought fruit candy cakes drinks cigars for four prisoners who enjoyed a small lighted tree. Inmates expressed gratitude as they await Christmas Day meals and January executions for three men, Joe Smith, Joe Sneed and Bennie MacIntyre.
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Huntsville
Texas Department of Corrections
Fort Worth
C. M. Johnston
Leo Daniel Luton
Dallas
Death Row
Joe Edward Smith
Houston
Joe D. Sneed
Bennie Lee Mac-Intyre
Tohoka
Tradition Compels Sailors to Start New Log in Verse
New Year custom in the U S merchant navy requires ship captains to begin a fresh log book on January 1 and pen the first entry in verse though salted. Popular Boating notes the poetic ritual as a centuries old practice. Executive Life Insurance offers a five percent discount to non smokers aged 30 and over who pledge they have never smoked habitually. Trinidad trade authorities plan local shoe manufacture expansion in Port of Spain.
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New York
OPI
U.S
Popular
Los Angeles
UPI
Executive Life Insurance Co
Christmas tree customs arrive in America per Hessian soldiers
Hessian troops in the Revolution are said to have introduced the Christmas tree practice to America. The Dutch around New York welcomed it with enthusiasm, while Puritans resisted. Massachusetts banned Christmas celebrations for two decades.
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New York
UPI
America
New
York
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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AVE
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DIAL
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Martha Hyer
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Victor Mature
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Valiant
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Tack Pacance
Guy Madison
van Johnson
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Yen Johnson
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College Ave
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Blody Hackett
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Claire Bloom
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Troy Donahue
Angie Dickingon
Rossano Braza
Suzanne Pleshette
Ome
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George Conor
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Don M. Mankiewicz
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