Barstow Community Notes Highlight Local Moves and Meetings
Barstow residents report Bob and Mrs. Gray relocating from Pecos to FM Road 516. Women at First Presbyterian studied Romans with J E Echols, distributing Jonah workbooks. Virginia Allen returns home September 15 and thanks supporters. Barstow Senior Citizen Club resumes September 21 with officers elected. CES Chapter 822 met September 21 with six officers installed and several visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Gray
Barstow
Pecos
First Presbyterian Church
J. E. Echols
Natha Gillis
Lorene Trott
Murrah Cranfill
Albert Rice
Elizabeth Felts
Echols
Freeland
Masonic Hall
Ruby Dell Cummings
Hazel Rice
Ruth Freeland
Elaine Witzig
Esther
Gussie Rushing
Electra
J. H. Freeland
Sentinel
Elua Echols
Josephine Urcharch
Marney Lu Ryan
Ronnie Ryan
Gladys Burkholder
Edward Sheek
Eula Echols
Lillian Sheek
Belle Brown
Theresa Walker
Ada Belle Collins
Ada
Josephine Upchurch
Martha
Betty Jo Allgood
Toyah News Highlights Visits and Travel
Toyah residents share family arrivals and returns from vacation. Ab Cunninghams traveled to Port Lavaca but cut short by a storm. Connie Elizondo and family moved back from Conroe. Granddaughter Gina and Shelli visit from Big Spring. Bertha Sanchez arrives from Los Angeles. A combined Toyah Baptist and Methodist luncheon was held at the school for faculty. Rodney Williams and family return from Pecos and Baton Rouge with trips to Austin and Galveston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ab Cunningham
Port Lavaca
Ricky Scott
Gina
Shelli
Big Spring
Toyah
Connie Elizondo
Connie
Monnie
Conroe
Los Angeles
Bertha Sanchez
Harold Williams
Rodney Williams
Pecos
Major league managerial insecurity evident in Pirates story
Danny Murtaugh rose to manage the Pirates after triumph, only to face the lingering reality of job instability in baseball. The piece contrasts his comeback and health limits with the broader pattern of managers like Casey Stengel and Leo Durocher, highlighting the sport's fragile job security and the personal toll on leaders back in 1970 spring training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danny Murtaugh
Pittsburgh Pirates
Bill Mazeroski
New York Yankees
Casey Stengel
Murtaugh
Casey
Charley Dressen
Bill Rigney
Leo Durocher
Danny
Durocher
Rigney
San Francisco
California Angels
Yogi Berra
Bob Skinner
Darks
Rigneys
Murtaughs
Pirates
Mkes
Pittsburgh
Derby Bus Driver Guides Kids Home Safely After Detours
Shirley Hotchkiss, 37, Derby school bus driver, battles detours and unruly pupils while keeping one eye on the road and one on the children. In six and a half years she has never had an accident or a child injured aboard her bus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby
Conn
NEA
Shirley Hotchkiss
Shirley
New York City
California
Arkansas
New Jersey
Connecticut
Big City
George Blake
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Ann Trammel
Inez McHorse
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Great Western Finance
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Kirby Vacuums
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Jackson
Washington
Will Tudor
S. Cherry
Country Club Drive
Adams St
Pecos Insurance Agency
Dean
W. 6Th
Jackson Blvd
Call
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Lee Lumber Co
Pecos River
Toyah Co-Op
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Tom Erskine
Dairy Mart
Larry Spruill Co
Andrews Highway
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Terature
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J.H. Freeland
Virginia Allen
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Walter Burkholder
Marvin Clark
Lucille Smith
By Tom Tiede
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