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Events manager not seen in two weeksBy Tom KnutsenStaff WriterDrag races were to have begun Oct. 23 at Pleasant Valley Speedway. A rock concert was to have been held there Oct.30. The races were never held, the concert never took place.Both were to have been under the management of Jim Logan, and no one has seen Logan for two weeks,“The last time I saw Logan was Oct.25,” Melton Sosebee, who maintains the racetrack for Speer Bros, of Altus,Okla., said Friday. Loganhad leased the facilities from the owners.In an October interview, Logan said, he came to the Wichita Falls area because he had read in “Speed SportNews” that the Citizens Traffic Safety Council had surveyed high school students and found an interest in drag racing.Sosebee said Logan arrived early in September and for six weeks promoted both oval and drag strip racing.“We had four races,” said Sosebee. “And one of those was a big one.”On Oct. 10, he said, the raceway had its last race.Since Logan last appeared at the strip, Sosebee and his wife have received a number of telephone calls from businesses and persons who claim Logan owes them money.Police authorities are not looking for Logan because no one has filed charges against him, Charlie Beaver, IowaPark’s police chief, said.Sosebee said he went to the district and county attorneys’ offices to find out about Logan’s disappearance.Neither office has pharges filed on Logan.“Three or four people have come here about Logan,” said County Atty. Hank Anderson. “Nobody’s come back to file charges.”Sosebee said Logan and his wife bought a house in Iowa Park and furnished it. When Logan left, the house was vacant, Sosebee said. Now it belongs again to the realtor, he said.Logan had Sosebee cut the grass from the drag strip with the blade of a road grader. Other preparation for drag rae-See RACES, Page 2A
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Wichita Falls Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 12, 1976
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