Permian Basin museum tour to visit West of Pecos
West of Pecos Museum hosts Permian Basin visitors for weekend inter museum tour. Odessa Chamber officials and Texas Tourism official Frank Hildebrand plan 11 am Saturday stop, with TV crews from KMID covering later visits. Local hosts and guests schedule visits and media appearances to promote museum visitation.
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West of Pecos Museum
Pecos
Permian Basin
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
Frank Hildebrand
Texas Tourist Development Agency
Austin
Hildebrand
Odessa
Conrad Dunagan
Monahans
Historical Museum
Channel 7
Channel 2
Sub-zero temperatures chill Texas Panhandle region
Bitter cold and strong northerly winds pushed readings below freezing across the Texas Panhandle and western Texas. Amarillo and Dalhart reported minus one, with other lows including Lubbock six and Abilene thirteen as the front drove 88 mph winds at Guadalupe Pass and caused sandstorms and damage to mobile homes and power poles.
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Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Dalhart
Lubbock
Childress
Abilene
Wichita Falls
Big Spring
Midland
Wink and
Mineral Wells
San Angelo
Pecos
Dallas
Fort Worth
Tyler
Longview
College Station
Wave
del Rio
Texarkana
Lufkin
Guadalupe Pass
Sierra Blanca
el Paso
Ysleta
Levelland
Panhandle
Former President Truman hospitalized for pulmonary congestion
Former President Harry S. Truman, 88, was admitted to Research Medical Center in Kansas City for pulmonary congestion. His condition was listed as fair. Meanwhile, Pecos volunteers battled four brush fires along the Balmurhea Highway area amid high winds and dry vegetation.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Trueman
Research Medical Center
Pecos
United States Accepts Cuban Anti hijacking Plan
Washington reports the US accepts most of Cuba s hijacking plan including an indirect pledge to curb anti Castro refugee pressure. Rogers sent a draft via Silvio Masnata with Cuba language on ships and aircraft and a proposal to extradite hijackers instead of prosecuting them. Volpe ordered new security rules for airports requiring armed police at checkpoints and mandatory electronic screening of passengers and carry on luggage within 60 days.
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Washington
United States
William P. Rogers
Cuba
Silvio Masnata
Havana
State Department
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Apollo 17 lifts off for last moonflight under night sky
Cape Kennedy Florida AP reports Apollo 17 carrying Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt lifts into darkness on a 9 53 p m EST night launch the first American night time manned rocket launch as crews prepared for a final lunar mission.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Harrison H. Schmitt
Night of January Sixteenth at Pecos High School
A New York courtroom drama titled The Night of January Sixteenth will be staged in Pecos High School Auditorium. Mary Ella Meek plays Karen Andre, charged with murder, with a 12 person jury drawn from the audience to decide the outcome.
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New York
Pecos High School
Mary Ella Meek
Karen Andre
Bjourn Faulkner
Miss Andre
Briscoe Loses Cool as Dallas Cops Threaten Ticket
Texas Gov elect Dulph Briscoe faced anger when two Dallas police officers warned they would ticket his car for overtime parking during a meeting. Briscoe reportedly told staff to inform the officers he would return soon, but the officers said they would tow the car if not moved within 16 minutes. The officers were unnamed.
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Cherry Hill
N. J
Tilly Spetgong
City Council
Steve Morgan
Council
Delaware River
Philadelphia
America
Spetgong
Conservation Advisory Board
Dallas
Texas
Dulph Briscoe
Briscoe
Kissinger Tho Hold Third Paris Meeting
Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho met in Paris for half an hour. No statement was released after the session. It followed two 2 1/2 hour talks on Monday and a 24 hour pause on Tuesday.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Kissinger
Tho
Nixon
Car escapes and demolishes three carports in Tra Park incident
Marian Lyle Allgood, 19, started a car then left while it rolled in reverse, damaging carports at Spaces 78 77 and 76 and injuring her knee. Richard Sipe watched the vehicle move out of control, stopping it before it struck his trailer. Allgood was taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Tra-Park
Marian Lyle Allgood
Richard Sipe
Space 75
Sipe
Reeves County Drilling Advances In Fusselman Fields
Reeves County operations by Coastal States Gas Produc and Jack N. Blair report drilling below 13 025 feet on a 14 500 foot Fusselman contract at No 1 Jean Spencer Trust location 10 miles north of Toyah after a test produced 10 million cubic feet daily from an unidentified formation. The test showed 1 1/2 hours open with a 5 000 foot water cushion and a 25 minute water surface rise. A Wolfcamp nearby once yielded 5 1 million cubic feet daily but depleted in 1965. Getty Oil staked No 117 State wildcat 16 500 feet, 15 miles southwest of Greasewood field. Continental Oil plans No 1 David Trimble eight miles west of Pecos. Forest Oil completed No 1 B E Quinn with Fusselman and Ellenburger flows of 35.5 and 115 million cubic feet daily respectively, after acidizing and gel treatment. a sidetrack blowout occurred at 16 415 feet. Location details given for multiple Reeves County drill sites.
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Walter Kapryan
Cernan
Evans
Goodby
Schmitt
Adm
Alan Shepard
Astronaut Office
Coastal States Gas Producing Co
Jack N. Blair
Midland
Fusselman
Jean Spencer Trust
Reeves County Searcher
Toyah
T&p
Reeves County
Getty Oil Co
Reeves
Continental Oil Co
David Trimble
Et al
Pecos
Forest Oil Corp
B. E. Quinn
Ellenburger
Mi Vida
H&gn
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Dick Slack
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Midland Community Action Agency
Marion Fisher
Midland Senior Citizens’ Center
Weldon Blair
Lamesa Senior Citizens’ Center
W. E
Bill) Smith
Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission
Jessie Fitzgerald
Paul Dowling
Wesley Hart
Apollo
Cookie Painter
Deana Vick
Judge Health
David Stevens
Charles Meek
Sandy Blount
Thomas Kirkland
Mark Strother
Mary Hutchins
Laura Boswell
Thomas van Fleet
Bob Strother
Elmer Sweeney
Roland Teague
Magda Swenson
Alberta Henderson
Barbara Boggs
Nancy Lee Faulkner
Moss Kent
John Graham Whitfield
Kay Harp
Arlene Chandler
Kent Holiday
Siegard Jungquist
Neil Burks
Guts
Janis Brownfield
Kay Thomas
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Victor Sikes
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