Widow Artie Justis Snakebite Doctor of Pecos Legacy
In Pecos in the 1940s widow Artie Justis is remembered for training her 11 children and for a snakebite tale. She treated a rattlesnake bite with alum after damaging her foot, surviving a day of paralysis, and preferring self made remedies over doctors unless upholstering work was requested. The piece links her to Crow Flats and earlier life, and notes other local vignettes including a bridge hand hoax and railroad reminiscences from 1904–1910s Pecos.
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Artie Justis
Pecos
Crow Flats
Carlsbad
N.M
Artie Justice
Justis
Editorials A Question of Art and Modern Pieces
The piece voices doubt about modern art standards and notes the high price of Matisse cutouts, contrasting with a bricks sculpture at Tate. It highlights Cooper School of Art's show of useless wooden objects by Arthur Frawley and Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose as playful art.
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New York Museum
London
Tate Gallery
Cooper School of Art
Cleveland
Arthur Frawley
Howard Hughes
Rattlesnake tasting and a wary scoutmaster’s odds
Journalist Gene Douglas recalls tasting rattlesnake at a snake pit and describes the meat as tough yet chicken-like with cornmeal batter. He observes snakes’ temperaments, snake handlers’ risky acts, and compares the experience to a local fireman exhibit seen with Boy Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Douglas
Emile Post
Mentone
Snake Pit
Oklahoma
Today in History March 25 Highlights and Oddities
On March 25 events include Greeks beginning the revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1821, the birth of Maryland under Lord Baltimore in 1634, Fort Stedman fall in 1865, a 1947 Centralia coal mine explosion, and a 1964 Runnymeade donation for a Kennedy memorial. Also noted are climbs, regional conflicts, royal succession in Saudi Arabia, plus humorous local notes about rattler roundups and zoo protests.
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Associated Press
Kingdom of
Greece
Lord Baltimore
Maryland
Fort Stedman
Virginia
Centralia
Ill
Britain
Runnymede
John Kennedy
Mount Eiger
Swiss Alps
Laos
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Khalid
VIP flights reveal Senate and White House entourage aboard elite airlift
The 89th Military Airlift Wing operates a 23 aircraft VIP fleet serving Washington officials from Henry Kissinger to George McGovern. Logs show trips by John Stennis and Barry Goldwater, with flights costing millions and some trips tied to nonofficial purposes. Pentagon reviews the program amid bipartisan scrutiny.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
89Th Military Airlift Wing
Henry Kissinger
Army
Frederick C. Weyand
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
George McGovern
D-S.d
Timbuktu
West Point
Air Force
Congress
Capitol Hill Travel Club
Senate Armed Services
John Stennis
D-Miss
Meridian
Miss
Meridian Naval Air Base
Stennis
Pentagon
Arizona
Senate
Easton
Goldwater
Maryland
William Quinn
House Armed Services
Edward Hebert
D-La
Mel Price
D-Ni
Mike Mansfield
Mexico
Middle East
Amman
Cairo
Damascus
Tel Aviv
Carl Albert
Europe
Russia
Sens
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Richard Schweicer
R-Pa
Fernand St. Germain
D-R.i
House
Wayne Hays
D-Ohio
North Atlantic Assembly
Fred Rooney
D-Pa
Spence
Rp S.C
Navy
San Diego
Congressional
Trent Lott
R-Miss
Gulfport
George Mahan
D-Texas
Texas
Ernest Hollings
D-S.c
Ed Muskie
D-Me
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Maine
Chamber banquet thanks readers and sponsors
Editor thanks attendees of this year's chamber of commerce banquet and credits Joey McMahan J and J Feed Pens Bear Stroud and Jerry Matta for meat and cooking. Readers new to the event are urged to attend next year and offer suggestions for 1976 the year to get things done.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Joey McMahan
J&j
Bear
Stroud
Jerry Matta
Washington’s Newport Greeting and the Touro Synagogue
During his 1790 New England tour President Washington was welcomed in Newport Rhode Island by leaders including Moses Seixas of the Touro Synagogue who praised the new government for opposing bigotry. Washington responded with the famous Letter on Bigotry and Persecution later reprinted in The World Almanac. Touro Synagogue, founded 1763, is noted as the oldest Jewish house of worship in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Washington
Newport
R.I
Moses Seixas
Touro Synagogue
Touro
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Musin
By Alton Hughes
Widow
Fred Schluter
Fred
Bob Bickley
Dan Peyton
M.H. McKinney
Schluter
Peyton
The
Pecos Enterprise
Texas and Pacific
J.M.B. Gilmore
T&p
Dallas
Enterprise
Gilmore
Frank Scholte
Monahans
Scholte
New York
Museum of Modern Art
Henri Matisse
O’ferrall Pauly
Texas Press Association al
Ben Sargent
Austin Ager
Okeene
Oklahoma City Zoo
Merry
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