Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Witt's End. Matusow went to El Paso to testify that he had lied when he helped to convict Clinton Jencks, an official of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. On the strength of Matusow's recanting, Jencks, who had been convicted of falsifying a non-Communist affidavit, was requesting a new trial. The motion was being heard before Federal District Judge Robert Thomason, a onetime Democratic Congressman with a reputation as a liberal and a first-class lawyer. Judge Thomason changed the situation...
...guilty of contempt of court, a finding that avoided the legal complications involved in a perjury charge. He sentenced Matusow to three years in prison, and ordered him held in $10,000 bail. At that point. Matusow's stock appeared to have reached a new low. An El Paso bondsman, only recently released from the penitentiary, where he served sentence for receiving stolen goods, said: "I wouldn't post bond for that S.O.B...
...Texas' Cap Rock, an outcrop of red sand and limestone running from Big Spring north to Amarillo. The rumor: the entire 200-mile stretch was hot. Other promising uranium areas were being opened up just across the Oklahoma line above Wichita Falls, in the Hueco Mountains near El Paso and in Brewster County and San Saba...
...Paso Natural Gas Co. will build a 370-mile, $35 million pipeline from Pacific Northwest's Mt. Home terminal to the California-Nevada border, there sell California's big power companies 250 million...
...Line. To swing the deal, McMahon was aided by some potent allies. El Paso Natural Gas wanted Canadian gas brought in to prolong the life of the San Juan Basin. Californians, whose daily gas consumption (1,400,000,000 cu. ft.) is growing 11% yearly, were worried that 2,800,000 new gas customers in the Northwestern U.S. would exhaust San Juan, thus shut off California's major source. Phillips Petroleum Co., which has big gas reserves in San Juan, also has gas-fields in Peace River that it wants to open...