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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 20 year old Nell Turner, Miss Grand Prairie 1959, begins a one day career as an attendant in the retail oil and gasoline business. She is working for the day to earn money for her trip to the state beauty pageant in Beaumont. The Magnolia oil company let her sell gas at four Grand Prairie stations.
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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 20 year old Nell Turner, Miss Grand Prairie 1959, begins a one day career as an attendant in the retail oil and gasoline business. She is working for the day to earn money for her trip to the state beauty pageant in Beaumont. The Magnolia oil company let her sell gas at four Grand Prairie stations.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Miss Grand Prairie],
script,
July 19, 1959;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc861094/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.