Historic western town notes all but doomed flames and crashes
Sheriff deputies hunted for S E Morton Glenn Hyde Robbie Hyde and W O Hyde but bodies were not found. The Pelican Club nightclub burned Aug 5 arson suspected. Oct 25 Odessa teens Bobby Sherrod James Monk and Gleason Kirklin died and seven injured in a two car crash at West 11th and North Sam Houston. Dec 22 Dick Pendleton fatally injured at West 6th and North Sam Houston. Mona han s jail death Frank Jureca 52. pathologist says not self inflicted. Texas Rangers and grand jury case unresolved. Major political shift voted J T Rutherford unseats Ken Regan. Roy Orbison, later rock star, graduates Wink High. LDS Church established in March with initial meeting in Monahans chiropractors office from 1940. Continental Airlines crash injures three in Odessa Midland. Sandhills Rodeo indoors at new Ector County Coliseum. Brown v Board ruling cited.
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James Monk
Gleason Kirklin
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J.T. Rutherford
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Congress
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Continental Airlines
Odessa’ Midland Air Terminal
Ector County Coliseum
Brown v. Board of Education of
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U.S. Supreme Court
Historic 1950s pop culture and politics snapshot
Billboard crowns Kitty Kallen with Little Things Mean A Lot while Morton Thompson tops books with Not As A Stranger. From Here to Eternity wins Best Picture as Sinatra, Lancaster, Clift, Kerr, and Reed star. McCarthy's Army hearings trigger condemnation vote. Veterans Day replaces Armistice Day. Hogan earns Masters win.
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Publisher's Weekly
Morton Thompson
Frank Sinatra
Burt Lancaster
Montgomery Clift
Deborah Kerr
Donna Reed
United States
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
Senate
Ben Hogan
Fatal tractor-trailer crash near Pecos claims driver
The Texas Department of Public Safety reported a July 31 crash on U S Highway 285 about four miles south of Pecos involving two tractor-trailer trucks. One driver died and one truck burned. Details were unavailable Sunday evening.
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Wrong-way driver fatally shot by Houston police
Houston police say officers shot and killed a 63 year old pickup driver who drove the wrong way on a freeway and rammed 30 to 40 cars Sunday morning. After pursuit to a parking lot he refused to exit and rammed patrol cars. two officers fired, the man was struck, later died at hospital.
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