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...Service in Washington, and the U.S. Youth Council in New York. Over the past 15 years, funds were donated to one organization or another in the name of the Independence Foundation, the J. Frederick Brown Foundation, and the Sidney and Esther Rabb Charitable Foundation, all of Boston, the San Jacinto Fund of Houston, the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs of New York. In several cases, the forms that tax-exempt foundations are required to submit as public records with the Internal Revenue Service were strangely missing from the files of district offices...
...standstill, the drivers made their huge tires bite into the sand like shoveling Seabees, then roared down the ⅛-mile course at speeds that approached 100 m.p.h. Blue ribbon for the top class in both events went to Herman Booy, a 29-year-old rosebush grower from San Jacinto, who won by going to great lengths. Instead of the usual 96-in. chassis, he struck a new-and better-balance by lengthening it an extra...
...March, troops trapped and killed "Desquite" ("Revenge"), one of the most notorious of the bandit leaders; in the past 15 months they have erased three other bandits responsible for 1,100 murders among them. Last week the most vicious killer still at large met his death. He was Jacinto Cruz Usma, 31, alias "Sangre Negra," or "Black Blood," and regarded by the government as Public Enemy...
...fastest growing major metropolis between 1950 and 1960. As a result of their experience in promoting Dallas as the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Celebration, the city's merchants and bankers organized the Dallas Citizens Council (DCC). San Antonio, with the Alamo, and Houston, with nearby San Jacinto Battlefield offered more historic settings for the Centennial, but unhistoric Dallas promised $3,500,000 and well laid-out fair grounds, and won the contract. Through his experience in the venture, banker Robert Lee Thornton felt a need for a permanent group of Dallas businessmen dedicated to the progress of Dallas...
...spring itself, bubbling up from volcanic depths beneath Southern California's San Jacinto Mountains, has been there for aeons. But in the 60 years since vacationers first discovered Palm Springs, nobody paid much attention to it except the bedraggled Indians who owned it. Visitors reveled in the crystalline desert air, the handsome golf courses, and the magnificent views of the mountains rising out of the desert. Movie stars vacationed there and built luxurious holiday homes. Dwight Eisenhower came out to try the golf. But the Agua Caliente Indians, who found the place and had been granted the acreage immediately...