Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give light," proclaim the mastheads of all 19 Scripps-Howard newspapers, "and the people will find their own way." By generating heat as well, Scripps-Howard's El Paso Herald-Post (circ. 39,794) has long made its way as one of the chain's most profitable and independent-minded dailies. Under Editor Ed Pooley, a Tabasco-tempered maverick who has run the paper for 20 of his 59 years, the Herald has earned Texas-wide renown as an ardent defender of underdogs, whom Pooley, in deference to the border city's heavy Spanish-speaking population, invariably...
...past month, during El Paso's mayoral campaign, few citizens have been able to ignore the heat. Pooley's evening Herald has campaigned splenetically for a Juan Smith slate ("The People's Ticket") headed by the county clerk, a third-generation El Pasoan of Mexican extraction named Raymond Telles. The usually mild-mannered morning Times fought a spirited battle to re-elect Mayor Tom Rogers and his board of aldermen. When the Times boasted that its candidate had trimmed the budget, Ed Pooley, a onetime bank clerk, promptly crowed that "the little bitsy budget cut" entailed...
...smear the city administration, the papers even scrapped over details of a drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such big, bold, efficient lawmen...
...victory. By a margin of 2,754 votes (out of a record 34,883), Telles routed the incumbent mayor, and his People's slate won by a landslide in the Democratic primary, which in Texas is really election. Juan Smiths rejoiced, for Telles' triumph meant that El Paso, for the first time in its history, will have a Mexican-American mayor. One Telles supporter, who had heard the glad tidings south of the border, wrote Pooley last week: "Mexican citizens were giving Americans abrazos [embraces]. It was the damndest thing I ever heard of." Wrote another: "I have...
From Houston and Albuquerque, El Paso and Denver, tough-trading oilmen from every major company have been converging on the Four Corners area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico to get in on one of the biggest oil rushes in U.S. history. The sellers: the Navajo Indians, who are fast learning to play what oilmen call "grunt and groan." As the bids for oil lands are announced, the tribesmen merely grunt, and as the prices soar higher, the oilmen groan...