Pecos Loses Highway District to Odessa After Protests
The Texas Highway Commission moved District 6 headquarters from Pecos to Odessa on July 22, 1957, despite protests by local officials and 5,000 signatories. The change aims to improve efficiency with a new resident engineer’s office in Pecos and a substantial payroll shift, leaving Pecos with a smaller but active engineering and maintenance presence.
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Pecos Enterprise
Pecos
Marshall Formby
Texas Highway Commission
Odessa
Highway Department
District 6
Fakinson
Balmorhea
Faltinson
Austin
Sheriff Nail
Chamber of Commerce
Dick Slack
Faktinson
The
Highway Commission
Commission
Marshall Huffman
Texas Highway Department
CIA and State Department tied to corporate payoffs abroad
Washington files reveal vast foreign payoff networks among multinationals. Lockheed linked to CIA briefings and a secret former-CIA group in London guiding deals. Yoshio Kodama cited as a $7 million consultant in Japan. State and Defense aware but deny bribery. Gates of inquiry via Sen. Church probe.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
State
Defense Departments
CIA
Lockheed
U.S
Thief Holdings
London
Sen. Frank Church
Yoshio Kodama
Japan
State Department
Foreign Service
Defense Department
Nine European nations plan universal passport by 1978
Editorial notes the European Community agrees to replace national passports with a single EC passport by 1978, simplifying travel among France Germany Italy Belgium Denmark Holland Luxembourg the United Kingdom and Ireland. It also outlines moves toward direct universal suffrage for the European Parliament in 1978.
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United States
Europe
European Community
France
Germany
Itay
Belgium
Denmark
Holland
Luxemburg
United Kingdom
Ireland
Passport Union
Economic Community Information Service
Rome
European Council
EC Commission
Council
Understanding skid row bums and the grip of despair
A psychologist recounts interviews with skid row alcoholics, mostly men around forty, labeled simple schizophrenics by some. He notes varied backgrounds, sober wit, and a common sadness, with a preference for freedom from time schedules over steady employment or family life.
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Oklahoma Mental Health Department
Today in History and White House Research Row
A compact digest notes March 23 milestones from 1775 Patrick Henry liberty speech to Virginia. It also recalls Mussolini, WWII internment, Gemini 5 launch, and NATO shifts. The rest reports White House research staff disputes under Ford and a House Intel Committee rift over FBI coverage.
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Associated Press
Patrick Henry
Virginia
Richmond
Clement VII
Henry VIII
England
Catherine of Aragon
Andrew Johnson
Washington
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Pakistan
Republic
British Commonwealth
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Virgil Grissom
John Young
Lyndon Johnston
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
France
Brussels
Belgium
South Vietnam
Hue
White House
Ford
Robert Hartmann
Hartmann
Gwen Anderson
MS. Anderson
Agnes Waldron
Ms. Waldron
James Connor
Connor
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