Sixty-Ninth Odessa Area Basketball Tournament Talent
Twenty three teams accepted the invitation for the sixth annual tournament to be held January 10 11 at Odessa High School gymnasium. Over two hundred players and coaches will attend with Odessa hosts providing accommodations. Teams include Kermit Rankin Pecos Alpine Midland Andrews Wink Iraan Forsand Coahoma C arston Van Horn McCamey Big Spring Monahans Moore Jane Seminole Fabens Stanton Port Stockton Ira Odessa. Trophies valued at 75 dollars await winners and runners up with special awards for coaching and all round play plus gold and silver basketballs for top teams. The superintendent predicts this will be West Texas s largest and finest tourney.
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Odessa High School
Murry Hl
Fly
Superin
West Texas
Bardin Preparing Badgers For Trans-Pecos Tourney
McCamey coach Jim Bardin plans a fast workout after Christmas to ready his 19386 basketball squad for upcoming tournaments in the region. The Badgers entered Odessa and Big Lake events and aim for Pecos late January. The Trans-Pecos tournament runs January 1 to February 1, with Iraan as a recent first round exit and favorites to defend the title.
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Braves
Big Lake
Bardin
Whit Waide Confined At Home With Flu
Whit Waide is confined to his home with the flu illness. He is resting at home while recovering, with no complications reported.
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Whit Waide
Youths to Work on Texas Highway Parks Project
Lyndon B. Johnson announces 4475 youths will be placed on state highway park projects in Texas within ten days. Pay ranges from 1.06 to 4.32 daily with a 46 hour monthly limit. Additional projects worth 350000 are under review. Johnson urges eligible relief youths to register.
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Austin
Lyndon RB. Johnson
National Youth Administration
Johnson
Staite Highway Department of Texas
Texans
Army To Maneuver In Big Bend Area
Plans discussed in El Paso involve four U S Cavalry regiments in Texas spring war games in the Big Bend near Marta. If approved by the War Department the maneuvers would last over three weeks starting in April or May with marches by cavalry and motorized units through Southwest mountains.
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Big Bend
U. S. Calvary
Texas
el Paso
Morris Sheppard
R. Ewing Thomason
H. S. Hawkins
Calvary Division
Calvary
Marta
War Department
Raymond Pouncey Wins $100 Chevrolet Award
Raymond Pouncey bookkeeper for the Williams Kerr Chevrolet Company started the year strong by winning the district first prize of 100 dollars for leading the area in radio sales for Chevrolet Motors.
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Raymond Pouncey
Williams-Kerr Chevrolet Company
Chevrolet Motors
Grizzly White Tells Wild Frontier Tales
Old west storyteller Grizzly White formerly with Half Circle Land WT ranches now in New Mexico regales audiences with frontier legends though his long walrus mustache faded after cataracts. He recalls violent days and a jail stay as he recounts tales of hanging, ambushes, and rough justice from the old range.
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Mr. White
Arizona
Odessa Band Wins Second at Sun Carnival Parade
Odessa entries earned second place in the Sun Carnival parade at El Paso. The high school band wore Russian Cos sack uniforms and delighted thousands of visitors as they marched. Miss Pauline Shows, Odessa’s carnival princess, competes in the Sun Queen beauty finals for a chance at film honors.
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Odessa
el Paso
Pauline
Witness Refuses to Testify at County Seat Trial
A prisoner recounts being jailed after refusing to implicate himself. The judge pleads, a jailer hints at a hangman’s past, and the county attorney presses for testimony. The witness ultimately says he will not testify and rides out of town.
Toll Family Trip to El Paso Last Weekend
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Toll with daughter Mary traveled to El Paso for a weekend visit. The family was noted in local society circles and returned home last Sunday.
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Richard Toll
Mary
el Paso
U S Marines Advertises Enlistment Openings in New Orleans
Lt. FE A Robbins announces authorized enlistment for the U S Marine Corps with small February quotas. Applicants may take local physical exams. selected men will report to Headquarters New Orleans. Only single men 18 to 25, 66 to 74 inches tall, with good character and education or equivalent are preferred. Transfers go to Parris Island for training.
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FE. A. Robbins
Marine Corps
New Orleans
U.S. Marine Corps
U. S. Marine Corps
Parris Island
United States
Eastland County electorate keeps dry status in option vote
Local option election in Eastland County ends with 1235 against and 1088 for beer and wine sales. Eastland Ranger and Cisco towns join rural areas in voting against sale, as state court ruling sustains county dry status.
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Eastland County
Eastland
Ranger
Cisco
State Supreme Court
A Good Method Pecos Worker Declines Raise
A Pecos business owner shares a humorous rebuttal to an employee seeking a raise. He chronicles days off and holidays to show that the year’s work was minimal, concluding with the employee receiving a pink slip.
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Pecos
Presiding Elder Will Preach Here
Dr. C. Hightower presiding elder of the Roswell district will preach at the First Methodist Church next Sunday at 11 o'clock. It will be his first Pecos visit and a cordial invitation is extended for all to attend and hear his address.
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Cr. C. Hightower
Roswell
First Methodist Church
Dr. Hightower
Pecos
Young People Report From Memphis Conference
The First Methodist Church youth who attended the Young People's conference in Memphis will share impressions from the gathering of 6,000 Methodist youths worldwide. Wink church youths will attend as guests and those who went will appear on the program during the Vesper Service. Everyone is invited to attend this special Sunday event.
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First Methodist Church
Memphis
Tennessee
Wink
Return From Great American Confab
Mr. and Mrs. Jo W. Camp and children attended the Great American Life Insurance Company annual convention in San Antonio Texas. The closing banquet featured speakers including R L Daniel Walter Woodul William McCraw Coke Stevenson J K Beretta and Sylvan Lang. The company reported growth with capital and surplus over 900000 and total insurance in force exceeding 18000000.
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Jo W. Camp
Great American Life Insurance Company
San Antonio
Texas
R. L. Daniel
State Board of Insurance Commmissioners of Texast
Walter Woodul
William McCraw
Coke Stevenson
House of Representatives
J. K. Beretta
National Bank of Commerce
Sylvan Lang
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Tugwell
Tugwelltown
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Department of Agriculture
Jesse Trimble
PWA
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Tall Tales
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Public Service Company
U. S. Marines
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Conoco
Continental Oil Company
Denver
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