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1948 year in Odessa area headlines and sports notes
A retrospective on 1948 highlights race and politics with local sports feats. Odessa High Bronchos football and OHL track standouts Byron Townsend and Gordon Headlee earned honors. a stadium expansion was approved. Nationally Truman Eisenhower Thurmond Johnson Hiss and Chambers feature in politics and communism debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babe Ruth
Odessa Oilers
Monahans
New Braunfels
Waldo Young
Odessa High Bronchos
Bronchos
Joe Coleman
Fort Davis
Amarillo
Byron Townsend
OHL
Townsend
Gordon Headlee
Abilene
Golder Avenue
Kermit Highway
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Dwight Eisenhower
Strom Thurmond
States Rights Party
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Lyndon Johnson
Coke Stevenson
U.S. Senate
Stevenson
Johnson
Washington
House UN- American Activities Committee
United States
State Department
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss