Word: altus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No.Name Class Age Hgt. Wgt. Home Town ENDS 89 Vetrone, Robert '62 19 6:1 182 E. Haven, Conn. 88 Henry, John '61 21 6:3 198 Altus, Okla. 87 *Strickland, Seth '60 21 6:3 211 Oneida, N. Y. 86 Hanlon, Roger '60 21 6:3 202 Skaneateles, N. Y. 84 Usher, David '62 19 6:2 189 Cuyahoga Falls, O. 83 Jakubsen, Larry '61 19 6:3 203 Clinton, Iowa 82 Mussman, John '62 19 6:1 183 LaGrange, Ill. 81 *Persels, Conrad '61 20 6.0 180 Osceola, Iowa TACKLES 88 Kier, Brock...
Pipe Dream. Near Altus, Okla., employees of the Sooner State Drilling & Producing Co. set up a drill rig, smiled with surprise as they struck a 4.000-bbl.-an-hour gusher a mere 2½ ft. beneath the earth's surface, checked the find more closely, then hastily removed their equipment, repaired the gap in the 16-in. pipeline owned by the Service Pipe Line Co. of Tulsa...
Into the blood-stinging wind he flew. He called his "mayday!" SOS and got an instant response, first from an Air Force base at Altus, Okla., 200 miles away, then from another airborne B-47. Altus gave Obie a compass heading to come in on. His panel lights grew dimmer, his eyes burned like hot lead. He could see the compass needle but not the numbers. He turned his plane to bring the needle toward the heading he wanted: his own field, the Strategic Air Command's Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, 150 miles away...
...whole town talking with her sex talks to second graders; a real-estate shyster who turns swampland into pay dirt by renaming it "Powderhorn Hill"; a toothsome teen-age tidbit named Comfort Goodpasture whose Puritan blood is brought to a boil by a guitar-strumming Army corporal from Altus, Okla...
...Altus, Okla...