Elk Residents Reveal Little Known History of This Area
Two Elk pioneers Mrs. Angie L. Cleve and Fred Griffin recount early travel and road-building in Chaves County New Mexico. They describe the Narrows route across Reeves Hill, 1915 road efforts, and a Pueblo ruin in the Penasco valley with pottery and a 15 foot dam. Griffin notes droughts, Apache trade at Elk, and ongoing highway challenges on Route 83 toward Cloudcroft and Hagerman.
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Penasco
Dunken
Devil’s Backbone
Austin Reeves Ranch
Bernard
S. O. Crum
Reeves Hill
Highway Department
Cloudcroft
Cleve
Fred Griffin
Alamogordo
Fresnal Canyon
Bob Koonce Elk
N. M
Chaves County
Penasco Valley
Angie L. Cleve
Col. Fulton
Elk
Johnson City
Texas
Joy Brothers
Senator Morrow
Joy’s
Mayhill
Russell
Ford
Millis
Eact
Roswell
Tus
Bud Cleve
Artesia
Eagle
Anheuser-Busch of Hope
St. Louis
Bernard L. Cleve
Stuart York
R. E. McKee
Elk’s
First Auto
Buick
el Paso
Ca-Bar Cattle Company
Missouri
J. Mill Company
TO and YO Cattle
New Mexico
Hinkle
Cabar
Zack Light
Parris
Old Seven Rivers
Arizona
Pecos
Lover’s Bend
Carlsbad
Lover
Angie
Buck Powell
W. T. Bowman
Bernard Cleve
John Gage
John Hunter
Agua Chiquita Canyon
Narrows
Eddy
Lincoln County
Pinon
Otero County
Guadalupe Mountains
Panhandle
YO Crossing
Hope
Pecos Valley
Hagerman Ranch
Mescalero Apache
Griffin
Georgia
McMillan
Lake McMillan
Turkey Track
Powell’s
Austin Reeves
Plains
J. P. Dunn
Marshall
Mangus Coloradus
Chico
Sports Take Ninth Straight Victory In T L Surge
Shreveport stretched its winning streak to nine with a 4-2 win over Fort Worth as Marty Hesler drove in two runs with a homer. San Antonio kept pace, beating Tulsa 4-2 on Arnald Dare’s pitching and hitting. Beaumont beat Dallas 4-1 and Oklahoma City defeated Houston 6-4 in other league games.
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Whitey Sawyer
Associated Press
Shreveport
Marty Hesler
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Tulsa
Arnald Dare
Beaumont
Dallas
Oklahoma City
Houston
Fred Martin
Duren
Tulsa Oilers
Joe Szekely
Burns Delivers Go Ahead Homer As Exporters Triumph
Russ Burns homer with two on in the eighth breaks a tie and lifts Oklahoma City over Houston. Beaumont beats Dallas by four run effort with Mike Clark four hit pitching. Wiley Moore hits Beaumonts lone homer for Eagles. Fleming steps down as Beaumont manager Thursday night and will be replaced by Mickey Livingston while remaining on the roster as first baseman.
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Russ Burns
Oklahoma City
Houston
Mike Clark
Beaumont
Dallas
Eagles
Wiley Moore
Les Fleming
Exporters
Mickey Livingston
Shreveport
Fleming
Outdoor Track to Be Ended Tonight
St Louis hosts the 66th AAU Track and Field Championships as 400 plus athletes including seven Olympic champions compete in 21 events at the Public School Stadium. Defending champ New York Athletic Club leads. Kansas star Wes Santee is among the few missing. Ernie Shelton of Southern California eyes the elusive seven foot high jump mark. About 2,058,144 farm youths are enrolled in 86,660 4H Clubs nationwide.
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ST. Louis
Kansas
Wes Santee
New York Athletic Club
Southern California
Ernie She'ton
Polish tanker captain seeks asylum in Taipei
Capt Leonard Masowski said in Taipei that by defecting his wife and two daughters in Poland face punishment. He warned they will be thrown out of their flat, his wife may be jailed, and his daughters could be expelled from school.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
Poland
Daughers
Leonard Masowski
Praca tanker crew granted asylum after stand off near Formosa
Masowski and 11 crew members aboard the 8,207 ton Praca seized by a Nationalist gunboat east of Formosa were granted political asylum yesterday. The skipper feared a 10 year prison term if he returned to Poland and his friends faced jail. The political officer and 17 others are to be repatriated to Poland by the International Red Cross.
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Masowski
Praca
Formosa
Poland
International Red Cross
Tatum Telephone Purchase Ends Company Control
In Roswell an agreement was reached where Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative Inc. led by Atty. H C Markley of Lovington bought out Tatum Telephone Co owned by president Dolores Kibbee. Earlier an FCC investigator had sought to arrange restoration of long distance service with Tatum and General Telephone.
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Roswell
Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative Inc
Atty
H.C. Markley
Lovington
Tatum Telephone Co
Dolores Kibbee
Federal Communications Commission
Tatum
General Telephone
Tatum Telephone
Grounds breaking set for $150,000 school building
Ground breaking ceremonies are planned in Albuquerque for a new $150,000 industrial arts building at Menaul Indian School. Superintendent Homer J. E. Townsend said construction would start immediately after the event on Sunday.
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Albuquerque
Menaul Indian School
Homer J. E. Townsend
Coast redwood bark can reach two feet thick in California
A note on the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, describing bark thickness reaching up to two feet. The fact highlights the species’ remarkable protective layer and the tree’s adaptation to coastal California climates.
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California
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Eval Telephone
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Tatum Telephone Company
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