Just Musin by Alton Hughes Ralph Williams Pecos Fireman
The Pecos Fire Department began with a soda acid tank later adding a hose and ladder wagon built on an old car. Ralph Williams recalls Cowan building fire, near-accidents, fines for speeding and license issues, and a late life Yellowstone float trip. He aged 92 and plans future interviews.
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Ralph Williams
Pecos
Ralph
Studebaker
Sam Prewit
Cowan Building
Archie Ross
Archie
Ross
Roddy
Leader Grocery
Yellowstone
Livingston
Montana
Big Timber
Foreign autos seek U S naturalization and plant sites
Editorial notes Volvo to assemble in Virginia next year using imported major components and Volkswagens potential U S plant near Detroit. Toyota and Nissan weigh U S plants amid recession and energy worries as Rolls Royce Mercedes Peugeot Fiat had earlier U S plants. Local gains include jobs, faster delivery, and intensified Detroit competition.
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Woods
U.S
United States
Volvo
Chesapeake
Sweden
Volkswagen
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Toyota
Nissan
Charles D. Dole
The
Christian Science Monitor
America
Rolls-Royce
Mercedes
Peugeot
Fiat
New Jersey
Germany
Europe
Jail visit turns into strange trials and tours
A recounting of a brief detention in Monahans where the narrator argues with a police officer about fines, endures a jail visit, watches inmates, and imagines the jail as an odd temporary home. They reflect on the humor and shame of being an ex convict in a family setting.
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Monahans
Edmond
Oklahoma
Enid
Oklahoma City
Pecos
Supreme Court
Monahans County
Hawaii
March 5 history highlights a Boston Massacre date
On this date in 1770 British troops clashed with a Boston crowd in the Boston Massacre, hastening the American Revolution. Other notes include 1766 Spain taking New Orleans, 1798 French occupation of Bern, 1849 Zachary Taylor's inauguration, and Stalin's death in 1953. Birthday items note Rex Harrison and Lorin Maazel. Thought for today cites Kipling. Bicentennial footnote recalls Dorchester Heights attack plan foregone by rain.
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Associated Press
Boston
New Orleans
Bern
Switzerland
Zachary Taylor
U.S. Senate
Andrew Jackson
U.S
Rutherford Hayes
Josef Stalin
Moscow
Japan
Mount Fuji
Turkey
Tel Aviv
Israel
Rex Harrison
Lorin Maazel
Rudyard Kipling
Dorchester Heights
Ka leidoscope Yarn Workshop Doubles As City Feat
Kansas City children attend the Crown Center art workshop Ka leidoscope which uses 500 miles of yarn 56 miles of ribbon and 110000 pompons annually. The project is a popular community activity linking the Empire State Building to the Washington Monument in yarn.
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Kansas City, Mo
Empire State Building
Washington Monument
Crown Center
Hughes Faces SEC Inquiry In Air West Takeover Probe
The SEC plans questions with subpoenas in San Francisco over Howard Hughes and associates alleged to orchestrate the 1968 Air West deal. Memo reveals Hughes personally directed the purchase while others claimed only corporate officers acted.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Howard Hughes
Securites and Exchange Commission
SEC
Air West
Hughes
San Francisco
Chester Davis
Las Vegas
Desert Inn
Bob Maheu
Nevada
Paul
Maheu
Bob
Htco
Hughes Tool Co
Civil Aeronautics Board
Raymond) Holliday
Richard Nixon
CAB
Air West Purchase
Davis
North Pole
H.P. Smith
Canada
Labrador
Greenland
Smith
Gen. Smith
U.S. European Command
Doodlebugger Wives Respond to Editor on March 2
Wives of doodlebuggers defend their husbands and criticize the editor Gene Douglas for implying their profession is dumb. They argue teamwork keeps families together and note seismograph companies and doodlebuggers are vital to the country.
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Gene Douglas
Pecos Enterprise
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Specators
Vernon Sullivan
Fonville
T.Y. Moorehead
M.L. Roddy
Marshall
O’ferrall Pauly
Texas Press Association
Eddie
Ren Sargent
Texas
Desparado
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