Tickets for the game sold out within 30 minutes, leaving thousands of disappointed fans to watch to contest on television rather than in San Angelo Stadium, where it was decided. The Odessa High Bronchos, under new head coach Bill Herron, won the District 2-4A baseball championship, winning 11 of 14 league games. Their deaths, at first feared to be the result of cyanide concealed in candy, proved to be caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. A huge dust storm, driven by winds reaching 75 mph in Lubbock, envelops much of West Texas in January, reducing visibility to 100 yards in some locations. One of the nation's worst race riots occurs in the Watts area of Los Angeles from Aug. 11-16.
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