An Act to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain tracts of land in El Paso County, Tex., to the city of El Paso, Tex., in exchange for certain lands to be conveyed by the city of El Paso, Tex., to the United States Government
PL 84-929 (H.R.5519), enacted 08/02/1956

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August 2, 1956 
[H. R. 5519] 
El Paso, Texas. 
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Public Law 929 
CHAPTER 889 
AN ACT 
To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain tracts of 
land in El Paso County, Texas, to the city of El Paso, Texas, in exchange for 
certain lands to be conveyed by the city of El Paso, Texas, to the United States 
Government. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asserribled^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized, upon such terms and conditions as he may 
determine to be in the public interest, to convey to the city of El Paso, 
a municipal corporation organized and existing under and by virtue 
of the laws of the State of Texas, the lands and improvements com-
prising those portions of Fort Bliss Military Reservation and the 
Biggs Air Force Base situate in El Paso County, Texas, as described 
in section 2 of this Act, in exchange for that land described in section 
3 of this Act and owned by the city of El Paso, Texas, situate in El 
Paso County. 
Among its terms and conditions, the deed to the city 
shall be conditioned upon the agreement by the city of El Paso in 
(1) the construction by the Department of the Air Force of an inter-
connecting taxiway between Biggs Air Force Base and El Paso Inter-
national Airport; and (2) the use of El Paso International Airport 
by military aircraft. 
The conveyance to the city shall also provide 
for a reverter to the United States, at the election of the Secretary of 
the Army, for breach of any of the terms and conditions by the city 
of El Paso, its successors and assigns. 
SEC. 2. The lands to be conveyed by the. United States to the city 
of El Paso, Texas, consist of portions of Fort Bliss Military Reserva-
tion and Biggs Air Force Base with an aggregate of 2,255.453 acres 
of land and improvements thereon, in several tracts as follows: 
(a) East-West runway extension area, a tract of land being and 
lying in block 80, township 2, parts of sections 32, 33, 34, 35, 41, 40, 39, 
and 38 of the Texas and Pacific Railway survey. El Paso County, 
Texas, and part of the Juan and Jacinto Ascarate grant, more par-
ticularly described as follows: 
Beginning at the southeast corner of the city of El Paso Inter-
national Airport, formerly known as Ed Anderson Field, same corner 
being in the northerly right-of-way line of United States Highway 62 
known as the Carlsbad Road and said corner being north 81 degrees 
10 minutes east a distance of 6,300.6 feet, plus or minus, from a monu-
ment marking the easterly right-of-way line of the Texas and New 
Orleans Railroad Fort Bliss spur as established by the Office of 
Quartermaster General Construction Division in November 1937, and 
the northerly right-of-way line of United States Highway 62; 
Thence bearing north 81 degrees 10 minutes east and parallel to the 
northerly right-of-way line of United States Highway 62 at 10,936.0 
feet, plus or minus, cross the approximate centerline of the El Paso 
Natural Gas parallel pipelines and continuing on a bearing or north 
81 degrees 10 minutes east for a total distance of 13,728.3 feet, plus 
or minus, to the proposed southeast corner of this tract.; 
Thence bearing north 1 degree 1 minute 50 seconds west for a dis-
tance of 5,183.76 feet, plus or minus, to the proposed northeast comer 
of this tract; 
Thence bearing south 82 degrees 20 minutes 55 seconds west at 
6,670.0 feet, plus or minus, cross the approximate centerline of the 
El Paso Natural Gas parallel pipelines and continuing on a bearing 
of south 82 degrees 20 minutes 55 seconds west for a total distance of 
13,692.56 feet, plus or minus, to a point in the present easterly bound-
ary of the city of El Paso International Airport, same point being 
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the proposed northwest corner of this tract and bearing south 1 degree 
1 minute 10 seconds east from the present northeast comer of the air-
port property; 
Thence bearing south 1 decree 1 minute 50 seconds east and running 
with and parallel to the existing easterly boundary of said Inter-
national Airport property a distance of 5,468.82 feet, plus or minus, 
to the northerly right-of-way line of United States Highway 62, the 
southwest corner of this tract and the point of beginning of this 
description ; 
Containing an area of 1,663.08 acres, more or less; subject, however, 
to an easement for a right-of-way from the Secretary of War, dated 
May 30, 1944, to the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Com-
gany and the El Paso Electric Company for a period not to exceed 
fty years; beginning in the west line of section 40 and ending in the 
east line of section 36, said line being along and parallel to United 
States Highway 62 and 10 feet inside the boundary line of the Fort 
Bliss Military Reservation; and subject to a further easement for a 
sixty-foot wide right-of-way to the El Paso Natural Gas Company 
which bears approximately north 40 degrees 40 minutes west crossing 
the area as herein described. 
(b) Northeast-southwest runway extension area, a tract of land 
being and lying in portions of sections 29, 28, 21, and 22, block 80, 
township 2 of the Texas and Pacific Railway survey. El Paso County, 
Texas, more particularly described as follows: 
Beginning at the present northeast corner of the city of El Paso 
International Airport, marked by an iron pipe and a fence corner, 
same corner being north 88 decrees 58 minutes 10 seconds east a dis-
tance of 7,970.67 feet, plus or minus, from the east boundary of section 
19, block 81, and the west boundary of section 30, block 80; 
Thence south 88 degrees 58 minutes 10 seconds west and running 
with the northerly boundary of the international airport for a dis-
tance of 83.37 feet, plus or minus, to the most westerly corner of this 
tract; 
Thence north 49 degrees 58 minutes 10 seconds east along the north-
westerly boundary of this tract, for a total distance of 12,000.0 feet, 
plus or minus, to the northwesterly corner of this tract, crossing the 
southerly boundary of the Biggs Air Force Base property at 312.57 
feet, plus or minus, and the easterly boundary of the Bi^gs Air Foice 
Base at a distance of 10,215.32 feet from the point of beginning of this 
course; 
Thence south 40 degrees 1 minute 50 seconds east along the northerly 
line of this tract for a distance of 2,000.0 feet, plus or minus, to the 
southeasterly corner of this tract; 
Thence south 49 degrees 58 minutes 10 seconds west for a total dis-
tance of 13,512.29 feet, plus or minus, to a point on the present east 
boundary of the El Paso International Airport which is the south-
westerly corner of this tract, crossing the east line of section 21, which 
is the easterly boundary line of Biggs Air Force Base at 3,460.34 feet, 
plus or minus, and the south line of said section 21, which is the south-
easterly boundary of said airbase, at a distance of 5,868.74 feet, plus 
or minus, from the point of beginning of this course; 
Thence north 1 degree 1 minute 50 seconds west along the present 
easterly boundary of the El Paso International Airport, a distance 
of 2,506.01 feet, plus or minus, to the point of beginning; 
Containing 550.443 acres more or less; subject, however, to an ease-
ment to the El Paso Natural Gas Company, which bears north 40 
degrees 40 minutes west and extends through section 28; and subject 
further to the continuing right of the United States, acting by and 
through the Civil Aeronautics Administration of the Department of 
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Commerce, or its successor in function, to erect, maintain, and operate, 
in the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 29, a middle 
marker for the adjacent airport. 
(c) Lynchville area, a tract of land being and lying in the Morn-
ingside Heights addition numbered 1000 and part of the north El 
Paso Heights addition, located in section 21, block 81, township 2, 
of the Texas and Pacific Railway survey, more particularly described 
as follows: 
Beginning at the centerline intersection of Van Buren Avenue 
(sixty feet wide) and Pollard Street, which is sixty feet wide: 
Thence bearing 00 degrees 15 minutes east alon^ the centerline of 
Pollard Street a distance of 2,239.85 feet, plus or minus (plat distance 
2,212.0 feet) to the intersection point of the north line of Truman 
(Buchanan) Avenue with the centerline of Pollard Street; 
Thence bearing south 89 degrees 45 minutes east along the north line 
of Truman (Buchanan) Avenue, same line being also the south bound-
ary of the Texas National Guard area, a distance of 1,075.44 feet, plus 
or minus (plat distance 1,064.4 feet), to a point in the westerly right-
of-way line of the Southern Pacific Company (E. P. & S. W.); 
Thence bearing south 13 degrees 45 minutes west along the said west-
erly right-of-way line a distance of 1,492.58 feet, plus or minus, to the 
point of curve to the left, said curve having a radius of 5,779.65 feet 
and a long chord distance of 705.69 feet and a bearing of south 10 
degrees 15 minutes west; 
Thence running with the arc of said curve along the westerly right-
of-way line of the Southern Pacific Company (E. P. & S. W.) a dis-
tance of 706.10 feet, plus or minus to the point of tangent; 
Thence bearing south 6 degrees 36 minutes west a distance of 94.61 
feet, plus or minus, to the intersection of the centerline of Van Buren 
Avenue extended; 
Thence bearing north 89 degrees 43 minutes west along the center-
line of Van Buren Avenue a distance of 594.0 feet, plus or minus, to 
the centerline of Pollard Street and the point of beginning; 
Containing an area of 41.93 acres, more or less, including 1.93 acres 
in Pollard and Van Buren Streets. It being the intention of these 
notes to describe the area between the centerline of Van Buren Avenue 
and the north boundary of Truman (Buchanan) Avenue and between 
the centerline of Pollard Street and the westerly right-of-way line of 
the Southern Pacific Company, subject to existing right-of-way for 
utility lines. 
SEC. O. The lands to be conveyed by the city of El Paso, Texas, to 
the United States consist of approximately 318.88 acres of land situate 
in the city and county of El Paso, Texas, known as the Valdespino 
area, being a tract or parcel of land lying in section 17, block 81, town-
ship 2 of the Texas and Pacific Railway survey. El Paso County, 
Texas, more particularly described as follows: 
Beginning at a point which is the southwest corner of this tract, 
and which bears north 1 degree 14 minutes 49 seconds west a distance 
of 35.0 feet, plus or minus, and then north 88 degrees 41 minutes 7 
seconds east a distance of 50.0 feet, plus or minus, from the common 
corner of sections 16, 17, 21, and 20, in block 81, township 2; 
Thence north 1 degree 14 minutes 49 seconds west along the west 
boundary of this tract and the east boundary of Sheridan Road, a 
distance of 5,271.75 feet, plus or minus, to the northwest corner of this 
tract, said point also being a corner of that portion of the United 
States military reservation known as Logan Heights; 
Thence north 88 degrees 49 minutes 29 seconds east along the north-
erly line of this tract, and the southeasterly line of the military reser-
vation a distance of 3,327.42 feet to a point; 
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Thence south 1 degree 10 minutes 31 seconds east a distance of 212 
feet to a point; 
Thence north 88 degrees 49 minutes 29 seconds east a distance of 
758.90 feet, plus or minus, to a point for the northeast corner of this 
tract, said point being on the westerly right-of-way line of the Southern 
Pacific Company; 
Thence south 28 degrees 24 minutes 39 seconds west along the said 
westerly right-of-way line of the Southern Pacific Company, a distance 
of 3,115.80 feet, plus or minus, to a point; 
Thence north 61 degrees 35 minutes 21 seconds west along the right-
of-way line of said railroad company, a distance of 75 feet, plus or 
minus, to a point which is a common corner of this tract and the 
right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Company; 
Thence south 28 degrees 24 minutes 39 seconds west along the west-
erly line of the Southern Pacific Company right-of-way line, a dis-
tance of 2,742 feet, plus or minus, to a point on said railroad company's 
right-of-way line and the north line of the Fred Wilson Road seventy-
foot right-of-way, said point also being the southeast corner of this 
tract; 
Thence south 88 degrees 41 minutes 07 seconds west along the north 
of line of Fred Wilson Road, said line being 35 feet north of said 
road's centerline and along the south line of this tract, a distance of 
1,122.32 feet, plus or minus, to the point of beginning, together with 
all the improvements thereon. 
Approved August 2, 1956. 
Public Law 930 
CHAPTER 890 
AN ACT 
To require certain safety devices on household refrigerators shipped in 
interstate commerce. 
August 2, 1956 
[H. R. 11969] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That it shall be 
unlawful for any person to introduce or deliver for introduction into 
interstate commerce any household refrigerator manufactured on or 
after the date this section takes effect unless it is equipped with a 
device, enabling the door thereof to be opened from the inside, which 
conforms wuth standards prescribed pursuant to section 3. 
SEC. 2. Any person who violates the first section of this Act shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be 
subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not 
more than $1,000, or both. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of Commerce shall prescribe and publish in 
the Federal Register commercial standards for devices which, when 
used in or on household refrigerators, will enable the doors thereof 
to be opened easily from the inside; and the standards first established 
under this section shall be so prescribed and published not later than 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. As used in this Act, the term "interstate commerce" includes 
commerce between one State, Territory, possession, the District of 
Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and another State, 
Territory, possession, the District of Columbia, or the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico. 
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on the date of its enactment, 
except that the first section of this Act shall take effect one year and 
90 days after the date of publication of commercial standards first 
established under section 3 of this Act. 
In the event of a change in 
H o u s e h o l d re> 
frigerators. 
Interstate s h i p -
ment. 
P u b l i c ation in 
FR of safety stand-
ards. 
Effective date:.