93 year old hotel keeper serves railroad men in Toyah
Mrs. Scott Manny Scott, born in Toyah on March 2, 1882, runs the Youngblood Hotel in Toyah since 1951, serving Missouri Pacific railroad workers who bed down nightly. At 93 she rises before dawn to change linens, wash, cook, and mend, assisted by her son John. Her memory stays sharp as she handles daily routines amid train routes between Big Spring and El Paso.
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Hulda
Laura Scott
Pecos
Toyah
Scott
Manny
Mrs. Scott
Youngblood
Missouri Pacific
Big Spring
el Paso
Lawrence Welk
John Scott
Hulda Scott
Youngblood Hotel
West Texas
Merkle
Davis Mountains
Railroad
Pecos Soil To Be Test Site For Sewer Pipe
The Pecos soil famed for cotton and canta loupes may prove corrosive to pipes. S. B. Hunt agrees to a 100 foot sewer line test with four 24 foot sections of six inch pipe brought by Southwest Research Institute.
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Pecos
City Water and Sewer
S. B. Hunt
Southwest Research Institute
Southwest Research
SRI
Gifford Hill Pipe Company
Mission Con
Crete Pipe Company
San Antonio
Texas
Dallas
Beaumont
Harlingen
Pecos HS graduate dies in one vehicle wreck
An 18 year old Pecos High School graduate Manuel Brijalba died in a one vehicle rollover 9.6 miles south of Pecos at 3 08 a m He was the lone occupant of a pickup that left the road struck a guardrail and rolled three times His death is the eighth fatal wreck in Reeves Ward Loving and Winkler counties this year and services are pending at Pecos Funeral Home.
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Pecos High School
Reeves
Ward
Loving
Winkler Counties
Manuel Brijalba
Brijalba
A.F. Seawright
Pecos
Rasberry
Pat Brijalba
Balmorhea
Gilbert Dominguez
Pat Brijalba Jr
Robert Brijalba
Anna Contreras
Bus-car collision injures 42 persons
A Continental Trailways bus en route from Shreveport to Dallas collided head on with a sports car on Interstate 20 near Liberty City. The crash overturned the bus, sending 42 people to hospitals. two in critical condition and two in serious condition, with eleven in fair condition.
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Liberty City
Tex
Continental Trailways
Shreveport
Dallas
Interstate 20
Bobby Lee Sherbin
Kilgore
Longview
Pat Patterson
Gregg County
Krueger amendment pushes phased oil price deregulation
The House Subcommittee on Energy and Power rejected an immediate price rollback and approved Rep. Robert Krueger’s (D-Tex) plan for phased deregulation. The bill aims to remove price controls over about five years, arguing long term energy security and reduced foreign oil dependence. Krueger backed the phased approach despite preferring faster decontrol, with the amendment passing 8-7 after Democrats’ roll-back proposal failed.
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House
Subcommittee On Energy and Power
Robert Krueger
D-Tex
Krueger
Five Marines dead in Mayaguez rescue
Five Marines were killed with 16 listed as missing and 70 to 80 wounded in the Mayaguez rescue operation in the Gulf of Thailand. Defense Secretary Schlesinger released the updated figures contradicting earlier Pentagon tallies. White House press secretary Nessen said there was no intent to hide bad news and noted Ford was puzzled by the delay in totals.
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Randolph E. Schmid
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Mayaguez
White House
Ron Nessen
Ford
Nessen
Gulf of Thailand
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Pentagon
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DPS
Glenn Wood
Melton Rasberry
Preusser Canyon
Joseph
Rose Preusser
Eagles
Bill Carrico
Eagle Band
Cindy Hopper
Miss Hopper
Bob Hopper
Anthony
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