Five Texas presidents and a lions show joke
John Pitts chronicles a humorous local column noting the five listed Texas presidents with a correction that Sam Houston served twice, recounts the Downtown Lions horseshow as a running joke, and ridicules aging myths with Vitamin E claims while musing on animal food use and famine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alec Russell
Texas
Sam Houston
H.H. Powell
David G. Burnet
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Anson Jones
Russell
Lions
Officers seize 65 pounds of marijuana in traffic stop
DPS patrolmen Russell Hill and Hugh Lillie stopped an eastbound 1974 GMC pickup one mile east of Collie Road. A strong marijuana odor and a bagged brick stash led to five arrests for narcotics. Suspects: Robert Stokesberry, John Stout, Robert Falk, Larry McMahon, and William Tribble. Arraignments set in El Paso Federal Court. A separate vandalism report cites a beer bottle breaking a car window owned by Carolyn Dossey on Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DPS
Russell Hill
Hugh Lillie
Collie Road
Kansas
Robert Stokesberry
Springfield Mo
John Stout
Kansas City
Kan
Robert Falk
Prescott, Ariz
Larry McMahon
William Tribble
Mesquite
Texas
Lillie
el Paso
Carolyn Dossey
Washington St
Collie
Apollo Soyuz mission readied for joint space linkup
Astronauts and cosmonauts prepare for twin launches from Cape Canaveral and Baikonur. The Apollo and Soyuz crews will meet 140 miles above West Germany, exchange greetings, and perform joint experiments as detente aims to grow through future cooperative flights in space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Apollo
Soyuz
Onov
Valeri N. Kubasov
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Moscow
Thomas P. Stafford
Vance D. Brand
Donald K. Slayton
West Germany
Stafford
Leonov
Kubasov
Cape
Chester M. Lee
NASA
Mary Ella finalist Baylor beauty Miss Texas
Hazel-eyed Mary Ellen Richardson of Waco wins Miss Texas beating 58 contestants at Fort Worth. She earns a Miss America berth in Atlantic City and a one year North Texas State Univ. scholarship plus a 3000 dollar Mennigs wardrobe and 500 dollar Toni Kelley wardrobe. Meek is fourth runner up receiving a 600 dollar Texas Wesleyan College scholarship and 300 cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Webb
Hazel-eyed
Mary Ellen Richardson
Waco
Miss Texas Today
Atlantic City
Miss Richardson
Mary Ella Meek
Fort Worth
Tarrant County Convention Center
Miss Texas
North Texas State Univ
Denton
Mennigs
Toni Kelley
Miss Meek
Texas Wesleyan College
Fanny Brice
Man
Odessa Jaycees
Mary Ella
Ben F. Meek
Pecos
Baylor University
South America
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John Pitts
The
Washington Post
University of California
Lester Packer
Packer
Hill
Hugh
Reeves County
Wendell Taylor
Balmorhea State Park
Reeves County Sheriff's Deputies
Memorial Hospital
Baikonur
Florida
Baylor
Meek
Eagle Bank
Fort Worth Convention Center
Toledo Bend
Patrice McLemore
Murst
DEPT
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