Word: paso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gasoline." Last week, after five years in California, the startled Brinks found themselves rolling eastward. California authorities had not only taken Mrs. Brink's dare but had bought four new tires ($125) for their 1931 La Salle sedan and had deposited expense checks ahead at Phoenix, El Paso and Abilene to be quite sure that the Brinks kept going...
Died. Jeff D. Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...
...Chamizal. Mexico also hoped to discuss an old Rio Grande boundary question. El Chamizal (see map) lies within the city limits of El Paso-some 83 blocks, worth about $3,000,000. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator awarded Mexico, which already held a portion of the north bank, a chunk of the disputed area. The U.S. turned down his verdict and stood on the boundary of the river's present banks...
Because of the longstanding dispute, El Chamizal's 600 acres are just thinly-settled river bottoms, with a shanty town, a few small packinghouses, a stockyard and a high school. But El Paso wants its title cleared so that El Chamizal can be developed. Roughhewn Texas Congressman Ewing Thomason, who wants to put a spanking new federal building there and build a new international bridge to Juarez, reportedly had President Truman's promise last week that he would keep El Chamizal in mind in Mexico City...
...Nobody in Flatbush," smirks your issue [Feb. 3], "blamed Leo and Laraine for flying to Juarez, Mexico, to get her a second divorce with no strings attached, or for driving back to El Paso to be married." In other words, the Hollywood, irresponsible, matrimonial philosophy is sanctioned blithely in Flatbush...