Cartoonist dedicates new oil field workers book
Gordon Bankston of Kermit uses his Texas oil patch background to create The Oil Patch car toons. His new book Red in the Oil Patch honors oil field workers worldwide and notes how drillers and roughnecks shaped the industry and culture.
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Gordon Bankston
Kermit
Pecos
Texas
Orn
Oil
Gulf Oil Co
Wickett
Curtis Hamill
Kerrville
Ace Reid
Hamill
Reid
Bankston
Vernon Company
U.S
James A. Clark
Houston
Local teachers attend Texa s Leadership Conference in San Antonio
Martha Carr of Pecos Barstow CT A led 400 Texas teachers at the Texas Classroom Teachers Association Leadership Conference in San Antonio on August 6 and 7. The meeting aimed to brief local affiliate leaders on T CTA goals and programs for the coming school year with Jackie Blackstock of El Paso as president.
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Martha Carr
Pecos- Barstow
Classroom Teachers Association
Texas
San Antonio
Texas Classroom Teachers Association
TCTA
Jackie Blackstock
el Paso
Crusaders defer August meeting
The Cotton Crusaders monthly meeting scheduled for Thursday has been canceled. The group will not meet again until September 9, the regular monthly meeting date.
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Cotton Crusaders
Today in History Highlights from August 10th
Events span 1809 Ecuador independence beginnings, 1821 Missouri statehood, 1845 Naval Academy founding, 1914 France declares war, 1921 Roosevelt polio, 1945 Japan surrenders offer, Kennedy Johnson acting president note, 196? Vietnam battles, and a 1960s nerve gas disposal by the U S Army.
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Associated Press
France
Paris
Louis XVI
Spain
Ecuador
Missouri
Union
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Austria-Hungary
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Campobello Island
Canada
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
South Vietnam
Kentucky TV adopts small letter a symbol for family warning
Frankfort, Ky. AP reports Kentucky Educational Television has adopted a stylized small-letter a symbol to flash on screen signaling programs may be inappropriate for the entire family. The symbol will serve as a viewer warning during broadcasts.
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Frankfort
Kentucky Educational Television
Weather Rains Boost Ranges and Crops Across Texas
Widespread rains across South and Southwest Texas prompted moisture for late crops and hay, with some flooding and runoff. In Panhandle and High Plains, forages and cotton look better. sorghum slower but improving in spots. peach and alfalfa crops show gains while livestock remain in good condition overall.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John Hutchison
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Hutchison
Panhandle
Canadian River
South Plains Lubbock
Vernon
North Central
Edwards Plateau
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Energia
Fondo
la Técnica
la Teoria
la Practica Correspondiente
Cualidades Superiores
Reeves County
Darrell Glover
Margarite Kent
F.H. Ryan
Hubbard
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South Cedar Street
Ford Love
Joyce Miller
Dan Dominguez
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U. S. Army
Dick Turner
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Greg Doyle
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