Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barely three years ago the Southwest's Four Corners area was a 15,000-sq.-mi. wasteland inhabited by Indians, mostly Navajo, whose sheep battled the jackrabbits for meager forage. Last week the mesa-dotted region, where the boundaries of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet, was the hottest petroleum area in the U.S. Each day El Paso Natural Gas Co. piped more than 600 million cu. ft. of natural gas to the Los Angeles market from 3,000 wells; other companies piped huge amounts to the Pacific Northwest, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Oil company pipelines...
...Gavin should be likened to a latter-day Mutiny on the Bounty. Suffice to say that "Slim Jim" must be pretty egocentric if he quits because the other cogs in the military wheel won't operate on the suggestions he made. What a terrific chumpnik! JEFF SPRUNG La Mesa, Calif...
...final game against La Mesa, Calif, (a team that averaged 5 ft. 4 in., 127 lbs.), Coach Faz tried something far more spectacular than extra sleep. He called on his best pitcher, ambidextrous Angel Macias, a twelve-year-old 88-pounder with a fine assortment of curves and sliders, plus a plain, old-fashioned fast ball under disciplined control. Against Bridgeport, Angel had played a flawless game at shortstop. He can, in fact, play any position on the team-becomes a southpaw on first base, a righthander in the rest of the infield, whatever he happens to feel like when...
Pitcher Angel studied the La Mesa lineup, saw mostly right-handed hitters and decided to pitch righthanded. The big crowd (10,000) which had seen him play excellent ball in the field saw him in a perfect performance on the pitcher's mound. He allowed no hits, struck out eleven, walked not a single boy. And his team breezed to the title...
...Grand Junction, Colo., the newsletter of the Mason's Local Mesa Lodge No. 55 dealt with the problem head-on in a poignant little verse...