Oil Show Seeks Historical Photos for Permian Basin History
The Permian Basin Oil Show in Odessa seeks photographs newspaper clippings and other oil industry historic items. Tom Brandon organizer of the Old Timers Lounge invites donations or copies and promises to return originals after printing. The show runs October 21 to 24 1970 at the Coliseum with honors for long time industry workers. Contact Brandon Hardware and Supply Odessa Texas.
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Odessa
Permian Basin
Tom Brandon
Oil Patch Oldtimer
Brandon
Brandon Hardware and Supply Company
West 3Rd
Texas
Albany Fandangle Reaches Big Time in Texas
Albany Texas hosts the Fort Griffin Fandangle a musical pageant tracing local history in June. About 500 members of the Fandangle Association led by Watt Matthews underwrite a $40 thousand show attracting town teams performers and audiences with ticket prices from 1.50 to 5 dollars.
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Albany
Tex
Texas
Prairie Theater
Fort Griffin
Albany News
Robert Nail
Fort Griffin Fandangle Association
Watt R. Matthews
TDA Suggests Agar As Additional Crop
Texas Agriculture Commissioner John C White urges farmers to consider growing guar as a cash crop. With Vernon and Kenedy plants contracting 250000 more acres, guar offers soil benefits, cattle feed value, and wide gum uses from explosives to cosmetics. Contact Harold Coombs in Kenedy or Norman Brints in Vernon for details.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Agriculture
John C. White
Vernon
Kenedy
White
U. S
India
Pakistan
Commissioner White
Harold Coombs
Norman Brints
Calde Ron Family Tour In Colorado Snowstorm Adventure
Mr and Mrs Arnie Calderon Byron Peggy and Jojo are on vacation touring Colorado Springs and Pike s Peak Garden of the Gods Santa s Workshop and the U S Air Force Academy. They then visited Rocky Mountain State Park where heavy snow delighted the children. They also toured Yellowstone and plan travels through Salt Lake City Grand Canyon and will return home via El Paso.
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Arnie Calderon
Byron
Peggy
Jojo
Colorado Springs
Colo
Pike’s Peak
Garden of the Gods
Santa’s Workshop
U.S. Air Force Academy
Rocky Mts. State Park
Yellowstone National Park
Salt Lake City
Utah
Grand Canyon
Arizona
el Paso
Amsterdam Parish Evolves With Progressive Catholicism
In Salvator parish North Amsterdam parishioners blend plain liturgy with modern living as Mass ends with coffee chats and open fires. The church rejects traditional iconography and kneeling, favors lay involvement, and features a practical, streetcar‑barn style building.
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Savior
Amsterdam
Holland
Salvator
Burikslotmeer
Nieuendam
Joost Reuten
Wales
Father Reuten
Mary
US weighs metrication as potential national shift
AP analysis notes the U S government plans to seek industry views on metrication by year end under a 1968 law. While England and other regions move to meters liters and grams the United States faces costs and compatibility concerns and a long lag before action.
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John Cunniff
New York
United States
Willie Mays
National Bureau of Standards
Congress
England
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Asia
Latin America
Today in History highlights June 9 events across years
June 9 entries recall Norway's 1940 surrender to the Nazis, Nero's death in 68, Ford's Theatre collapse in 1893, Lusitania aftermath in 1915, 1943 tax deduction bill, Truman 1948 clash with Congress, a 1958 typhoon death toll in Hong Kong, 1965 Australian Vietnam entry, Harvard expulsion of 16 students in 1970.
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Associated Press
Norway
Nero
Congress of View
Ford
Washington
United States
Germany
U.S
Congress
Harry S. Truman
80Th Congress
Hong Kong
Harvard University
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Pecos Enterprise
Tizzy
By Kate Osann
James Ball
Alice Reynolds
Marge Bray
John King
Texas Tech
Mike Boy
Matthews
Fandangle Association
Ledbetter
Lottie Dena
Johnny Golden
Bob Nail
Fandangle
Elizabeth Green
TDA
Siaca Waiis
Werrewa
Au Ormea Wats
Goodyear
Goodyear Service
Interbank
Godfrey Anderson
Huub Oosterhuis
Amsterdam University
Vincentiana
Marie- Bernadette
Sister Marietta
Business Mirror
Eastwood
Shirley Maclaine
Universal Picture
Walt Disney Sales
Vernen du Weurch
Ame Chevalie
Mills Wom
Palomo Linares
Oran D. Whitten Oil CO
Atlantic Richfield Company Dist. Sindely Products
Phillip A. Pearce
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