From A to feast seUmnmere Road runner tales and hunting memories
Letters from Clovis and Childress recount road runners and other birds in New Mexico and Oklahoma. A 1935 note recalls a wife chasing a road runner on a Sunday ride, catching it, then releasing it after a brief stay. Dr. Barr recalls cutting road runners with a horse, plus quail drives and saltair quail hunts.
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Clovis
E. Thurston Underwood
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Prague
Soviet Census Completed. Figures Due in December
London AP reports Radio Moscow says the Soviet Union finished its census today and that detailed figures will be released in December.
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London
Soviet Union
Radio Moscow
Texas Receives 3 Billion From Eisenhower Budget
Washington January 23 Texans obtain a 3 295 600 000 share of President Eisenhowers 77 billion budget. The piece notes the 3 498 000 000 request for overseas aid and criticizes rising domestic non defense spending as driven by benefit liberalization and special interest demands. The Council of State Chambers of Commerce urges public support to curb federal spending.
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Washington, D.C
Eisenhower
Council of State Chambers of Commerce
Council
Weather Forecast from U S Weather Bureau
Yesterday temperatures were recorded by the U S Weather Bureau with hourly readings from morning to afternoon. Peak highs reached 45 degrees at 2 PM and 50 degrees noted earlier, with lows near 17 degrees. Sunrise was at 7 51 a m and sunset at 6 07 p m.
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Ostenes
Amarillo Fat Stock Show Opens With Record Entries
The Amarillo Fat Stock Show begins today at Tri-State Fairgrounds with new records in baby beef swine and Quarter Horse divisions. Top show herds from the National Western Livestock Show in Denver will pass through en route to Fort Worth. 4-H and FFA entries pile up in lambs swine and steer divisions. Two major sales of Hereford cattle and Quarter Horses are slated. The Amarillo Junior Amateur Rodeo opens tonight with students from Amarillo Palo Duro and Tascosa High Schools competing. Tickets via schools or Maxor Drug, proceeds assist foreign exchange students. Rabbit show kicks off 500 entries from four states. Cutting horse contest at 2 pm highlights the rodeo program. Continued next page.
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Daily News
Blanchard
Amarillo
American Beef Cattle Assn
Robert L. Newton
Lark
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Denver
Fort Worth
Palo Duro
Tascosa
Coliseum
Maxor Drug
Fisk
E. R. Parks
Phoenix
Ariz
Don Guthrie
Lamona
Iowa
Floyd Stevens
Rodeo Coliseum
Rodeo Opens With Tough Broncs and Fast Calf Roping
Morris Stephens ranch in Quitaque hosts a Friday night show where high school riders tackle drone and bull riding, calf roping, and ribbon roping amid banners and brass. John Billy Koonsman of Snyder earned a bare bronc ride re ride, while top bull rider Floyd Bolton of Odessa posted 167 points. Joe Noland Canyon placed second in calf roping, Rusty Gray Amarillo led ribbon roping with 13.1, and Jill Funderburg Amarillo along with Kathleen Ward Trinidad Colo finished the final dash.
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Morris Stephens
Quitaque
Amarillo
John Billy Koonsman
Snyder
Floyd Bolton
Odessa
Jim Peters
Lubbock
Dwain Adams
Dimmitt
Rusty Gray
Barton Riley
Spearman
Dud Pruit
Lovington N. M
Jill Funderburg
Kathleen Ward
Trinidad
Colo
Babysitter Perfection Sticks By Through Unusual Paint Incident
In Edina Minnesota a 16 year old babysitter remained on duty after the host couple sprayed bathroom equipment with permanent white paint. The sitter stayed seated while the parents and doctor tried solvents and alcohol to free her. The doctor tripped over the stool as efforts continued.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minneapolis
Edina
Crossroads Report Shock Reflections on Political Change
A letter to the editor from D. BE in Wellington SCOTT comments on Congressman Joe Martin losing a leadership role in the House. The writer jokes about privilege and the impact of leaving power, noting how government operates without the former boss and hinting at personal mobility and status shifts.
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Joe Martin
Rail car explosion kills four in Louisiana near Monroe
A chemical tank car explosion near Monroe Louisiana killed four crew members and injured at least 50 as a Missouri Pacific freight train derailed five miles south of the city. The blast sent red, white and blue flames and burned many bystanders. Seventeen treated and released. The 139 car wreck caused several propane and chemical laden cars to explode and burn throughout the day.
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Monroe
Louisiana
Missouri Pacific Railway
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Nearby Cities 1959
The report notes 20 sunny days in Amarillo over 23 days in 1959. Comparative readings at 3 p m show wind and visibility levels with fair to partly cloudy skies in Amarillo Houston Dallas and Oklahoma City.
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Amarillo
Fair Houston
Dallas
Okla
City
Fair
Frigid 1913-Scale Floods Hit Ohio and Pennsylvania
Frigid floods, the worst since 1913, swelled rivers from New York to Ohio and Pennsylvania. Thousands of workers idle, 12 miners trapped near Pittston, PA, and Meadville, PA a record flood paralyzes cities while federal aid is declared. Rescue costs exceed two million dollars as cold intensifies.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York State
Chillicothe
Scioto River
Meadville
French Creek
Fred Carman
Pittston
Eisenhower
David Lawrence
Susquehanna
Shenango River
Close Kin Clowning Turns Theft in East Orange
In East Orange New Jersey William Crute avoids a drunken man who hugged him asking for kinship. The man walked off, Crute later found his wallet missing with eighty dollars gone. Crute confronts the odd scene and notes the irony of his brotherly claim.
Oklahoma Patrolman Shot Down in West of Altus
Ray Young a 29 year old Altus taxi driver confessed to shooting Oklahoma highway patrolman John Barter 32 and dumping his body in a ditch west of Altus. Young and an unidentified woman were arrested east of Randlett near the Texas border two hours after Barter’s death. A Negro man Eddie Mayfield 35 was detained after reporting to help a tire change but found unarmed and hiding near a creek.
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Randlett
Okla
UPI
Ray Young
Altus
Oklahoma
Here
John Barter
Ken Skelton
Young
Barter
Cotton County
Texas
Frederick
Gene Bumpass
Eddie Mayfield
Mayfield
Ships of Steel To Challenge Stars Research Plane To Point Way to Space
The article outlines plans for a hypersonic airplane mounted on a ballistic missile to launch a man into orbit. It details Dyna-Soar as a potential first manned spaceship and explains its operation in a steel industry publication.
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U.S. Air Force
Steelways
American Iron and Steel Institute
Oerelways
Earth
Crossfield Aims For Record X-15 Space Flight
North American Aviation pilot Scott Crossfield plans a daring X-15 ascent from Edwards AFB California to an altitude beyond previous records. After a six minute glide and a dry lake bed landing he would return proclaiming a step toward true space flight.
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Scott Crossfield
North American Aviation, Inc
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Crossfield
Oklahoma Lawmakers Grumble During Warm-Up Period
Oklahoma City lawmakers grumble as the legislative warm-up proceeds. Daily News correspondent Phil Desauer reports on repeal maneuvers and related moves on page 13. Santa Fe sees reorganization moves by Gov Burroughs, with Will Harrison up to date on plans on page 6.
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Oklahoma
Phil Dessauer
The
Daily News
Santa FE
Burroughs
New Mexico
Will Harrison
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Roy E. Barr
Loving County
Brown
Old Brown
Lawson Harman
Southwestern Public Service Company
Harman
Panhandle
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Alaka
Russ Tamblyn
Elvis
Lindsay Crosby
Amarillo College
Memorial Park
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Wes Izzard
By Vernon Louviere
Washington
Weather Forecast
U.S Weather Bureau
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Scottsdale
Olney Springs
Arizona
Colorado
By Charles Rosson
Bob Pruit
Pinwell
Joe Noland
Canyon
Joe Hart
Grover
Doc
Self
Kgnc-Tv
Perry Como
Crossroads Report Shock
Joe
D. BE
SCOTT
Wellington
Daily News Index
Astro-Guide
Seeween
Sylvia Porter
Cabbie
Associated Press
Sharon
State Highway Patrol
Highway Department
East Orange
N.J
William Crute
Crute
Eliot Tozer
New York
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