Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goods. In Toledo, three youths arrested for stealing a car told Inspector Anthony A. Bosch that he should take action against the owner because the windshield wipers didn't work, the speedometer showed 94 when they were really doing 85, and the brakes were "awful." Clue. In Del Paso Heights, Calif., after being robbed of $1,470 by a man and a girl. Filling Station Attendant L. B. Rothwell offered police one solid clue: "She was very, very well-built-I mean, she had one of the best figures I've ever seen." Psychic Bid. In Du Quoin...
General Quarters. In El Paso, after deputy tax assessors had been bitten more than 20 times by dogs, Tax Collector Joseph Prudot ordered them to make their rounds armed with water pistols and ammonia...
Storm No. 3. The third storm broke around two El Paso firms, United Lloyd's and United World Life. At the companies' bankruptcy suit, it developed that ex-Texan Spencer L. Treharne (who is now living in New Mexico) got his license to start United Lloyd's on $55,000 borrowed from an El Paso bank and $5,000 of his own. The suit brought out that Treharne also took over a piece of real estate his father had just bought for $30,000 and wrote it up to $322,000. United Lloyd's wound...
Sauce for the Gander. In El Paso, burglars who broke into Michael's Café took time out from their work to remove a 7-lb. goose from the refrigerator, cook...
...winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...