West Texas graduates receive nursing diplomas in joint ceremony
The West Texas Hospital and Lubbock General Hospital nursing seniors, 36 in all, honored at a joint graduation. Dr M Norvell Young urged choosing the better part while diplomas were awarded by Dr English and Rev Winslow. Awards went to Wilma Purvis, Jaquita Weaver and others. Eleven January graduates, mostly in Army or Navy Nurse Corps, were also recognized.
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M. Norvell Young
Broadway Church of Christ
West, Texas Hospital
Lubbock
Aenetal
Rath
Norris Duncan
Oe Panetgs M. H. Uncan 0Ryfourth, Received the Ninth Annual Dr In T. Reankin
I. Ne
Noopital School
Nis
Dr. J
Jake Hutchir
Krueger
Lubbock General Hospital
Mildred Schuster
Abernath
T the
West Oe
Hos Rogie
Dunn
Wilms Purvis
Erst
Jaquita Weaver
Littlefield
Allen T. Stewart
Mamie I.neal
John A. Winslow
St. Paul’s Episcopal
Dr. Young
Dorotha Nellarrett
Joyce Watson
Louise
Jean Anderson
Ruth Fielding
West Texas Hospital
West Texas
West Texas Hospital School. of
Florence Nightingale
Winslow
Mrs. Neal
West Texas Hspital ‘Senior Class: Jane Ashi , Dorothy Becker, Bonnie’ Eubanks
Sue Koke
Wanda McGee
Oleta Parker
Wilma Purvis
Andyey Sean Jae Janus Weaver
General Hospital
Tommie Bridges
Elmira Dickenson
Winnell Fischer
Madge Jackson
Frances Lee
Martha Little
Faye Mathis
Pear Poo
Barbara Randolph
Melba Rawlins
Mary White
Betty Howell
Laura Mae Jackson
Marie Milliken
Dale Schofield
Betty Seay
Lorene Thomas
Sallie Hadnot
Alpha McWilliams
Lara Preutt
Elsie See
Anetta Tillman
Elsie Eilis
Ruth Duncan
Lubbock Hospital
Army
Navy Nurse Corps
WPB Holds Back Cars as July Date Debated
The War Production Board signaled no firm civilian car authorization before mid year. Detroit faces no go ahead yet and July 1 remains unfounded. About 90 controls revoked recently, with roughly 200 more to drop in months ahead, while essential metal materials stay restricted to safeguard war production.
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WPB
Detroit
War Surpluses Listed for Postwar Repairs and Armament
The program details large inventories in Europe including 94 million clothing items to repair by the Quartermaster corps 160000 motor vehicles by the Ordnance department 255000 radios by the Signal corps 21000 construction equipment by the Engineer corps 2000000 gas masks by the chemical warfare division and 23000 electro medical devices by the Medical corps. American forces in Europe hold about 3000000 small arms 11000 artillery pieces 350000 automatic weapons and mortars 62000 combat vehicles and 371000 general purpose vehicles, the first public disclosure of these figures states.
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Quartermaster Corps
Ordnance Department
Signal Corps
Engineer Corps
Chemical Warfare Division
Medical Corps
Europe
Two Soldiers Killed in Jeep Wreck Near Nacogdoches
A jeep crash northeast of Nacogdoches killed First Lt. John R. Epps of Fort Worth and Pvt. Tony Stuitt of Tracy California. T/4 Clayton Saunders of St. Joseph Missouri was critically injured as the rear guard of a 12 vehicle convoy moving from Shreveport to Houston.
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Nacogdoches
Here
John R. Epps
Fort Worth
Tony Stuitt
Tracy
Calif
Stuitt
Clayton Saunders
St. Joses
Shreveport
Houston
Theft reports and prison camp news headline brief
Police report several thefts including J S Johnson 511 Sixteenth two cartons of cigarets and a radio C R Woolsey 2114 Twentieth Fourth garden tools two washtubs and a washboard M O Rogers St Francis hotel man s wrist watch ruby set ring two hunting knives two pair of trousers and a belt Mr and Mrs Carl Howard route 3 Levelland learn their son Pfc Wayne N Howard has been liberated from a German prison camp He farmed near Robertson before May 1942 and was a POW for 27 months Five men will be ordained deacons at Central Baptist church tonight Victor Billington D Boyd Crooks J O Smith C A Weir and O R Downing Hale county Sheriff Ted Andrews and Plainview Police Hoyt Curry helped detain a 48 year old Lubbock man after a near crash north of Lubbock An 11 year old Lubbock girl held in city jail for a 100 fine after a crash that knocked a fire hydrant water service disrupted during the incident Military police checked her story about a lieutenant driving the car
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J. S. Johnson
C. R. Woolsey
M. O. Rogers
St. Francis Hotel
Carl Howard
Route 3
Levelland
Red Cross
Pfc
Wayne N. Howard
Howard
Robertson
Central Bapt' Church
Jeff Welch
Coen
Victor Billington
D. Boyd Crooks
J. O. Smith
C. A. Weir
O. R. Downing
Hale County
Ted Andrews
Plainview
Hoyt Curry
Lubbock
Twentyninth
College Ave
Mindanao Battles Tighten As Japanese Hold Falters
Allied forces push along the Del Monte airdrome corridor and toward Maramag with the 40th 31st and 24th divisions closing pincers in Mindanao. Reports say about 50 000 Japanese troops remain on Mindanao as air and naval bombardment aid ground assaults across Luzon and Borneo theaters.
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del Monte
Sayre
Davao City
Mindanao
MacArthur
Bukidnon Province
Mangima River
del Monte Airdrome
Maramag
Talomo
Davao
Luzon
Angat
Ipo Dam
Manila
Ipo
14Th Army Corps
Tarakan
Borneo
Sandakan
Tawao
Brunei Bay
China Sea
Indo-China
East Indies
Boebedowang
Makassar
Bira
Celebes
New Guinea
Wewak
Agadl Kavieng
Bougainville
Observers
North Texans to Get More Grade Tires
The OPA announced extra grade one automobile tires for B and C gasoline ration holders in North Texas. Harold Carmichael, rational executive, said 6 000 additional tires are being made available in North Texas during May and June. Dallas County received 2 000 tire certificates.
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North Texans
Dallas
OPA
North Texas
Harold Carmichael
Rational Executive
Dallas County
Cemeteries Approved by Senate Committee
Washington May 15 The Senate Military Affairs committee approved a bill authorizing construction of new cemeteries for war veterans in every state.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Stocks Mixed as War Loan Drive Dampens Trading
Stocks showed subdued activity as the Seventh War Loan drive weighed on sentiment. Motors and rails with strong peace prospects rose modestly while reconversion anxieties and tax relief doubts trimmed gains. Chrysler climbed on solid first quarter results, while United Aircraft fell after dividend cuts.
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New York
Japan
Associated Press
Chrysler
United Aircraft
Burroughs Addins
Aviation Corp
United Air Lines
Grumman
Eastern Air Lines
Douglas Aircraft
Sears Roebuck
Goodyear
International Nickel
Union Carbide
Standard Oil
Cotton futures rise with May at record 23 cent mark
New York futures firmed after early weakness, May futures hitting a seasonal high of 23.01 cents a pound, first 23 cent cotton on the board since 1927. Trading volume held back pending Pace meetings and potential department of agriculture price parity actions.
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New York
Pace
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Truman Defers On Reparations and War Crimes Issues
The President outlined a broad postwar agenda including Polish government reform and war crime handling. He emphasized unity with Allies against Axis rearmament and urged a just German reparations plan in kind to aid rehabilitation. He praised 21 experts chosen to accompany Edwin W. Pauley and Dr Isador Lubin to Moscow.
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America
Moscow
Edwin W. Pauley
United States
Reparations Commission
Isador Lubin
Marshall Banker Dies in Marshall
Albert C. Pierce aged 60, assistant cashier of the Marshall National Bank, died today after a one day illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow. He is survived by his widow and one daughter.
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Marshall
Albert C. Pierce
Marshall National Bank
Mustard Gas Described as Most Devastating WWI Gas
A historical account asserts mustard gas was by far the most devastating chemical employed in World War I, highlighting its enduring impact on warfare and civilian suffering.
Stock market snapshot shows gains led by motors
At A Glance New York May 15 stocks higher as motors lead in a selected advance while bonds stay steady and rails rise. Cotton is irregular with mill buying and short covering. Chicago wheat, corn, and rye show short covering with light offerings. hogs active and steady to top at 14.75. cattle steady to strong.
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New York
Chicago
Livestock Prices Reported at Worth and Kansas City Markets
Worth market on May 18 shows cattle with 3 calves at 1,000. steers and yearlings 13.00-18.00. beef cows 8.56-12.00. bulls 11.00-13.50. calves 13.00-14.38. stocker calves 9.00-13.50. stocker cows 1.00-6.00. hogs and sheep receipts varied with lambs 11.00-13.80 and fat lambs 13.80. Kansas City reports cattle 3,900 head, beef steers 15.50-19.60, veal 13.00-14.50. hogs 14.60 for 140 lb+, sheep 6,000 head with spring lambs 15.68 and woolled lambs 14.50.
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Foux Worthe
Worth
Reese
Kansas City
Grain futures rise with May deliveries at Chicago
Chicago rail market reports May grain futures hit season highs as May corn tops at 81.18 cents per bushel and wheat climbs about 3 percent. Oats and rye show modest gains while barley advances. in Fort Worth wheat No 1 hard trades around 1.75 to 1.83 per unit and corn No 2 white around 1.36 to 1.31 per 100 pounds.
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Chicago
Fort Worth
Port Worth
Market News Unchanged Butter and Eggs in Chicago
Kansas City reports Chicago butter and eggs market steady with firm demand. Butter receipts total 886 215 pounds, Eve receipts 25 507 cases, extras 35.3 to 36.1, standards 34.3, current receipts 32.6. Prices and scores shown as 3 score 4143, 92 score 41, 90 score 4034, and similar figures for other quality grades.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Officials Record Marriage Licenses in Texas
Official records list two marriage licenses: Eugene O. Heath 23 of Hale Center to Miss Jane Charlotte Weddington 16 of Amarillo. Louis R. Whitt 30 of Seminole to Mrs. Mary Leach 31 of Lubbock.
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Eugene O. Heath
Hale Center
Jane Charlotte Weddington
Amarillo
Louis R. Whitt
Seminole
Mary Leach
Lubbock
Divorce and title suits listed in district docket
OTR District G. V. Pardee presiding. Erma Sanders vs Dell Sanders for divorce. HM. OH. Whitney vs Mrs Nettie Morrow to try title and for damages. Esteven Cantu vs Severa Hernandes Cantu for divorce. R. D. Holmes vs Harold A. Cooper for debt and foreclosure of lien. Ima Churchill vs Mark Churchill.
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OTR
G. V. Pardee
Erma Sanders
Dell Sanders
OH. Whitney
Mrs
Nettie
Morrow
Esteven Cantu
Severa Hernandes Cantu
R. D. Holmes
Harold A. Cooper
Len
Ima Churchill
Mark Churchill
Builders Plan Additions and Alterations on Several Addresses
Paul Faulkner and Arthur Clay owners with W. G. McMillan contractor to add space floor to building at 2410 Ave G. Ray Palmer owner and W. G. McMillan contractor to alter garage into living room at 3023 Twentieth. D. Christian owner to construct one-story addition at 411 Ave L. Stubbs Merrill owner with Joe Telford contractor to construct frame elevator at 517-10 Nineteenth. Total project values range from 200 to 11695 dollars.
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Paul Faulkner
Arthur Clay
W. G. McMillan
Ave
G. Ray Palmer
Co. D. Christian
Ave. L
Stubbs Merrill
Joe Telford
U. S. Subs Sink Nine More Japanese Ships
The Navy reported nine more enemy vessels sunk by U S submarines in Far Eastern waters. Combatant ships include a destroyer two small escorts and two patrol boats. Non combatants include a tanker a medium cargo carrier and two small cargo vessels. Total Japanese vessels sunk since war start reaches 1128 with 131 combatants and 997 non combatants.
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Washington
U. S
Far
United States
Negro Denied Bond In Fatal Shooting
Levelland Texas May 15 A 40 year old negro is held without bond in Hockley county jail after a preliminary hearing on a fatal shooting case. Andrew Garcia 40 Level land resident was shot with a .38 caliber pistol Saturday night. Officials offered few other details.
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Levelland
John Roberts
Hockley County
Andrew Garcia
Sheriff's Department
Garcia
Restrictions Listed On Plant Expansion
Dallas May 15 Release states that Production Urgency committee and War Manpower commission approvals are no longer required for War Production Board plant expansion or spot authorizations. Applies to Dallas area and No 3 and No 4 unclassified labor zones. In class 1 and 2 areas such as Fort Worth Beaumont Amarillo Borger, approvals from PUC and WMC may be dispensed with if labor staff would not exceed 100. A J Langford, chairman of the PUC, stated yesterday.
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Dallas
War Manpower Commission
War Production Board
Fort Worth
Beaumont
Amarillo
Borger
PUC
WMC
A. J. Langford
Eastin Wolffarth 75 Dies in West Texas Heart Attack
Funeral services set for Eastin Wolffarth a longtime cattleman and former Lubbock county sheriff who died Tuesday. Reading will be by Elder Liff Sanders, burial in Lubbock Cemetery. Wolffarth’s career spanned Jacksboro Crosby County and Terry County ranching with two sheriff terms. Survivors include wife three daughters one son and multiple siblings. Pallbearers and honorary bearers named from local ranching and police communities.
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Sanders Chapel
Eastin Wolffarth
Lubbock County
West Texas
Liff Sanders
Purial
Lubbock Cemdry
Wolftarth
Duggan Ranch
Whiteface
Dallas
Wolffarth
Jacksboro
South Plains
George C. Wolffarth
Crosby County
Iowa
Rollo Burns
Lubbock Army Airfield
Lubbock
George
Terry County
Bud Johnston
J. Homer Beal
Sir
Bob Beal
Lawrence Bacon
Joe Dick Slaughter
J. William Davis
Capt
C. M. Townsend
T. B. Duggan
Bud Jones
Frank Boles
Frank Brown
Baxter Honey
Neil H. Wright
Sam C. Arnett
Harvest Labor Registrations In Lubbock County Begin
Lubbock county agent announces registrations for harvest work as truck operators and combines prepare. Twenty three truck operators arrive with six combines and nine trucks for travel to harvest zones. Peak harvest expected around May 18 with medium combines needed in several counties by May 21. District office records will log schedules as more workers are anticipated.
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Lubbock County
Jason Gordon
Gordon
D. A. Odam
Plainview
Brady
Concho
Tom Green
Young
Throckmorton
Baylor
Opera Oree
Registrants From Lubbock Board 1 to Induction at Fort Bliss
Twenty three registrants from Lubbock County Selective Service board No. 1 depart for Fort Bliss for induction as Mrs. Viola L Younger, chief clerk, announces. Names include James Roundtree, Willis Higginbotham, Sam Langley, Donald Groves, Milburn Gaston, and others. Sixteen black registrants from both boards return for pre induction physicals. three black men from board No. 2 accompany the group.
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Lubbock County
Fire Truck and Cab Collide in City Intersection
A collision at Nineteenth and College injured several, with Troy Givens, Pete Stark, and Johnnie Heffington minorly hurt. Earl Kirkland suffered a knee injury. both vehicles sustained damage while sirens were on full blast. The incident occurred as firefighters answered a call to a four room residence near Coffmen courts at 3905 Nineteenth.
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Achree
Nineteenth and
College
Troy Givens
Pete Stark
Nineteenth Street
Johnnie Heffington
Earl Kirkland
Kirkland
Hefffington
J. O. Tinsley
Harvey Nix
Nineteenth
Coffmen Courts
Big Five Proposals Shape World Conference Debates
The major powers steer talks as five nations including China France Britain and the United States influence decisions at a world conference. Plans propose a security council veto on sanctions and assembly review rules while small nations push amendments to widen participation and oversight. Senator Vandenberg led the redraft defining assembly rights and limits.
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China
France
Itain
United States
General Assembly
Security Council
Alsots
Great Powers
New World League
Russia
Big Five
Assembly
Council
Vandenberg
Mich
War criminal trials urged by Russian, Polish, Czech voices
A Moscow radio commentator urged that Axis war criminals be tried by the people of Russia Poland and Czechoslovakia as essential to peace. Yermashev said no fascist leader is innocent of crimes in those three countries. Dispatches say British police search for Heinrich Himmler near Flensburg.
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Red
London
Moscow
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Comune
Organization of Peace
I. Yermashev
Monitor
Flensburg
Germany
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Pimlico Opens With Big Crowd Expected for Feature
Pimlico’s belated spring racing season begins with the inaugural feature the $5,000 Baltimore spring handicap. Kristiana stable’s Megogo and H Guy Bedwell’s Soilure draw major attention as a 15,000 crowd is expected at post time. The note mentions Stuttgart’s famed library of 8,500 Bibles in 100 languages.
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Pimlico
Baltimore
Pimico
Kristiana
Megogo
H. Guy Bedwell
Soilure
Goering Faces War Crimes Trial And Allied Moves
Hermann Goering, among the first top Nazis captured, is slated for a life war crimes trial as Allies announce the plan. The Seventh Army denies handshake rumors and a Paris dispatch notes Doenitz awaiting action. Allied frontier closures and searches target Nazi fugitives. Churchill hints at victor settlements with Truman. About 480 German ships, many damaged, are accounted for in surrendered ports. Moscow reports 1.23 million Nazis captured on the Eastern front. 12.77 million killed or captured by Russians in four years.
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The
Associated Press
Hermann Goering
Allied War Crimes Commission
Luftwaffe
Seventh
U. S
Seventh Army
Goering
Paris
Karl Doenitz
Flensburg
Doenitz
Luxembourg
Germany
Little Duchy
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Churchill
Commons
Truman
Hitler
Europa
Bremen
Moscow
Bomb attempt on New York election day denied by officials
London May 15 Reuters states a Stars and Stripes night note claimed an attempted bombardment of New York on election day failed either by falling short or being shot down. New York officials denied any attack and Washington and Navy spokesmen said there was no foundation for the report. Rooney, tied to the New York bureau, said the piece was withheld after Germany fell.
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London
Phate
Army ‘Newspag Stars and Stripes
New York
Z M4ooney
Germany
Eastern Defense Command
Third Naval District
New York Police Department
Navy Department
Washington
Connecticut
Rooney
Atlantic
Ex Navy Lieutenant Brackx Convicted of Espionage
Lau rent H. J. Brackx a 51 year old former U S Navy reserve lieutenant was found guilty in federal court of war time espionage and censorship code violations. The verdict came after a two hour jury deliberation with Brackx facing possible death upon sentencing set for May 25. He was accused of conspiring with Axis agents in Italy and telling Italian naval intelligence officials he would seek radar and airplane construction information when returning to the United States in 1941.
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New York
Laurent H. J. Brackx
U.S. Navy
U. S
John J. Dowling
Mortimer W. Byers
Brackx
Italy
Max Ponzo
Veterans Administration to be Expanded and Modernized
President Truman announced the Veterans administration will be expanded and modernized to handle postwar demobilization. He said there will be no immediate shakeup and he does not plan to appoint former Senator Bennett C. Clark to a high post.
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Vets
Washington
Truman
Veterans Administration
Bennett C. Clark
Clark
Andy Reid Wins In Abernathy Alderman Election
Andy Reid was re-elected as alderman in Abernathy in a special election to resolve a tie from the April 8 regular vote. Reid received 16 votes, H E Richter 11, H Schulz 7, with two write-ins for W C Jenkins, per Burford Davenport of the Abernathy Review.
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Andy Reid
Abernathy
Levelland Automobile
Reid
H. Schulz
Burford Davenport
Abernathy Review
H. E. Richter
Richter
Schulz
Wife Of Himmler Believes Him Dead
Frau Margaret Boden eines says Heinrich Himmler’s wife and daughter have not heard from him since mid April and believe he is dead. She and her 15 year old daughter Gudrun report last sighting in November and no word since April 15. They were found with her sister in a mountain chalet in the Italian Tyrol about 15 miles north of Bolzano by 88th division members.
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Bolzano
Italy
Heinrich Himmler
Margaret Bodeneines
Associated Press
Gestapo
Gudrun
Himmler
Frau Himmler
Tyrol
88Th Division
Stilwell Comments on Russia Japan War Prospects
Gen Joseph W Stilwell told the Buffalo Courier Express that Russia may act if she reorders her home front but there would be no immediate military shocks if she attacked Japan He noted Japans large Manchuria force could slow Reds in eastern Siberia and predicted Japan would fight to the bitter end during the Seventh War Loan drive opening.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph W. Stilwell
Buffalo Courier-Express
Russia
Japan
Stilwell
Haveing
Manchuria
Sierra
Rocky Mountain Snowstorm Strikes Western States
Weather disrupted the region with light to heavy snowfall across Colorado and Wyoming. Cripple Creek and Leadville reported six and two inches, Pike's Peak area saw one inch, and temperatures plunged to 26. A mass of cold air from Canada brought snow and rain into Wyoming Oklahoma saw rains and high winds. Laflore suffered a flash flood washing away three miles of Frisco railway track and hundreds of acres of timberland damaged.
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Plains Country
Rinto
Ruxton
Midway
Colorado
Pike's Peak
Cripple Creek
Leadville
Canada
Wyomin
Weee
Oklahoma
Laflore
Tomland
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