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Jones, Judy Lee (Johnson)
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Copa Room at the Sands Hotel and Casino featured
glamorous showgirls. For a few years, the Houston Chronicle sponsored a contest that
added the Texas Copa Girls to the line. In 1958, one of the winners was 17-year-old
Judith Lee Johnson. For the "wild" but "naive" Judy, the experience was a period of funfilled
freedom, followed by relentless encouragement of others to attend college, which
she reluctantly did. To her surprise, she embraced the college life, took her studies
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Jones, Nathaniel Vary, 1822-1863
Jones was sent to the Mormon Fort in Las Vegas by Brigham Young to develop lead mines near Mount Potosi
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