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GATORS

“Gene Autry, western movie star, arrived in
El Paso Wednesday to inspect the site of a
proposed hotel at our International Airport.”

AT LA PLACITA

CLARK GABLE
AT BIGGS FIELD

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some time but I waited
September 1953 -Jack until I just couldn’t take

Biggs Field Army Base Meanwhile noted LieuJanuary 27 1943 -Gable tenant Gable, who can’t

and Jill, a pair of peppy alligators who outgrew their
backyard diggings, were
donated to the City and
joined the alligator family at the plaza pool. Mrs.
Myrtle Price, of 3508 Bisbee St., bought the alligators a few days after they
were hatched seven years
her pets were becoming
a handful. “They were
great pets and would rear
back whenever I brought
them their horse meet,”
Mrs. Price said, “but they
started snapping and hissing at strangers now. My
children have been wanting to get rid of them for-

care of them any longer.”
Most of her aquatic livestock is in a pond 15 by 20
feet and 6 feet deep. But
the alligators were kept
separately to protect the
other critters. They outgrew two private pools
before being evicted. Her
four gators were sent from
Louisiana by mail, back in
1946, inside a cigar box.
Mrs. Price is a tad nervous
about Jack and Jill’s new
home. “They’re small, as
alligators go”, she says,
“and with their pep they
could slip out between
the posts of the retaining
wall.” She plans to visit
‘em often.

MOVEMENT

MR. CONSERVATIVE
■ BARRY GOLDWATER

January 3 -Arizona’s two-term
Republican senator Barry Goldwater announces his candidacy
for president of the United States.
Nicknamed “Mr. Conservative,”
Goldwater and his campaign spark
a conservative revolution within
the Republican Party that will detics for generations.

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Resort Hotel in the making! Famed western movie
star Gene Autry arrived in El Paso today to inspect
the site of a proposed 250-room resort hotel at our
growing EP International Airport. The proposed
resort to be built by Autry will be located adjacent
to a planned 27-hole municipal golf course sited
immediately east of the airport terminal.
Autry, who has been a frequent visitor to El Paso in
the past, expressed an interest in the layout of the
course that will include another nine-hole par three
lighted course, with the 18th green adjacent to the
resort complex.

just reported to Biggs to
train with and accompany
the 351st Bomb Group to
England as head of a sixman motion picture unit.
Gable was promoted to
captain while he was with
the 351st Bomb Group at
Pueblo Army Air Base,
Colorado.
Female civilian employes at Ft. Bliss and Biggs
Field were in a frenzy
today over Clark Gable,
who arrived at Biggs
Field to train for combat
duty. We want a transfer
to Biggs Field,” several
Ft. Bliss girl employes
chorused when they heard
the heart-throbbing news.

wherever he goes, stuck
to his guns in his Flying
Fortresses.
He’s training for combat
duty as an aerial gunner.
He is staying at the bacheGable retains the dash and
looks that have stirred the
hearts of millions of moviegoers world wide over.
Lieutenant Gable, pronounced a “regular guy”
by soldiers, may soon see
combat duty overseas.
terday after spending a
short furlough on the West
Coast.

EL PASO TEXAS

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■ FIRST SMOKING REPORT

January 11 -U.S. Surgeon General
port on Smoking and Health. After
reviewing more than 7,000 scientee concluded that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer as well as a
host of other medical issues.

The Pass Of The North

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

El Paso is at the far western tip of Texas, where
New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet in a harsh desert environment
around the slopes of Mount Franklin on the Rio
Grande, which has often been compared to the
Nile. As they approached the Rio Grande from
the south, Spaniards in the sixteenth century
viewed two mountain ranges rising out of the
desert with a deep chasm between. This site
they named El Paso del Norte (the Pass of the
North), the future location of two border cities—Ciudad Juárez on the south or right bank
of the Rio Grande, and El Paso, Texas, on the
opposite side of the river. Since the sixteenth
century the pass has been a continental crossroads; a north-south route along a historic
camino real prevailed during the Spanish and

In the late 1650s Fray García founded the mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe on the
south bank of the Rio Grande; it still stands
in downtown Ciudad Juárez. The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680 sent Spanish colonists and

west axis in the years following 1848, when the
Rio Grande became an international boundary.

WORLD CENTER 1966
■ DESIGNS RELEASED WTC

January 18 -The Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey releases designs for the original World
Trade Center buildings.
March 1966 Construction begins
on March 21 at the WTC site with
the demolition of 78 Dey Street.
August 1966 Excavation work
begins for the WTC. First use of
“slurry wall” method in the United
States.
October 1970 The North Tower
of the WTC exceeds the height of
Empire State Building, making it
the tallest building in the world.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
The El Paso area was inhabited for centuries
by various Indian groups before the Spaniards
were Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three
companions, survivors of an unsuccessful Spanish expedition to Florida, who passed through
the El Paso area in 1535 or 1536, although their
exact route is debated by historians.
Several years later, in 1540–42, an expedition
under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explored an enormous amount of territory now
party of Spaniards that certainly saw the Pass
of the North was the Rodríguez-Sánchez expedition of 1581; its arrival marked the beginning
of 400 years of history in the El Paso area.
This was followed by the Espejo-Beltrán expedition of 1582 an BF