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| | Don Pierson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Donald Grey Pierson was born October 11, 1925 and died age 70 on March 30, 1996 at (Click link for more info and facts about Eastland) Eastland, (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico) Texas. |
 | | In 1957 he reopened the long-closed grass-strip Eastland airport which he renamed "Eastland International Airport." Later, in the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s, he became the first person to land a jet aircraft in Eastland. |
 | | Soon thereafter, Eastland again found itself in the headlines when, as president of the local (A group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace) Rotary Club, Mr. |
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