Helium output soars at Soncy plant near Amarillo
The Soncy helium facility five miles west of Amarillo reports May production of 1 230 350 cubic feet with 97 93 percent helium content, surpassing Fort Worth and previous Amarillo outputs. Costs per thousand cubic feet were record low, with 9 76 dollars net cost after residue gas returns. Path unit testing and second separation unit completed, capacity not yet reached.
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Navy
United States Treasury
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Treasury
Graves to Speak for Young Tonight on Courthouse Lawn
Rep. Harry Graves of Georgetown will address the public in support of governor candidate Jim Young on the courthouse lawn at 8 p m tonight. Mrs Lloyd Fletcher will introduce the speaker.
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Harry Graves
Georgetown
Jim Young
Lloyd Fletcher
Amarillo and West Texas Thursday Weather Outlook
Fair to mostly fair conditions dominate West Texas with generally fair skies in the north and partly cloudy in the south. New Mexico expects unsettled weather Thursday with possible local showers and thunderstorms in the west and north portions. Temperature readings for Amarillo show daytime highs near mid 80s and overnight lows around 60s.
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Scinity
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New Mexico
Amarillo Yesay
Texas Population Surges to 5.81 Million in 1930 Census
Texas adds 1.15 million residents in the decade to reach 5,810,683, a 24.26 percent rise. The state edges California for fifth in nation, with New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio ahead. Growth concentrated in Panhandle, West Texas, Rio Grande Valley, and coastal areas due to oil, citrus, and shipping. Continued on Page 15.
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Goldsborough Dies Sudden in Plane Crash
Frank Goldsborough 19, holder of junior trans continental flight records, died after his airplane crashed in fog near a mountain while en route to Keene New Hampshire. His companion Donald Mockler was slightly injured as rescuers found Goldsborough buried in wreckage for 18 hours.
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Frank
Ocean Flier 10 Beheres Here Friday in Amarillo
Commander Charles Kingsford Smith with Captain Saul navigator and Ray Stannage radio operator, heroes of the Southern Cross world flight, will land in Amarillo Friday at 3 45 p m aboard a Western Air Express plane bound east. They began in San Francisco two years ago and completed hops around the globe from Australia to England and across the Atlantic.
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Ray Stannage
Southern Cross
Amarillo
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Australia
England
Atlantic
Los Angeles
Kansas City
New York City
Bishop H A Boaz Returns as New Texas Bishop
Bishop H A Boaz, newly assigned to cover three Texas conferences, spoke at a Polk Street Methodist Church reception saying he feels like returning home to the Northwest Texas Conference and plans extensive travel. Amarillo district churches were well represented as speakers were introduced.
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H. A. Boaz
Texas
Polk Street Methodist Church
Amarillo
Senator Clint Small Tour Planned Across Panhandle
Senator Clint Small will make a two day swing through the Panhandle Plains tomorrow and Saturday with rallies at Pampa and Lubbock as major events. Lavish plans are being made at all points he is to visit to give him a wide reception.
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Pampa
Lubbock
Small gains ground in Texas governor race say Houston official
Lynch Davidson of Houston said in a telephone talk with Mayor Ernest Thompson that Senator Clint Small is gaining ground daily in the governor’s race and now has the best chance to lead the ticket. He noted large shifts in central, east and south Texas votes toward Small in the past week.
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Clint Small
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Senator Small Campaign Swing Through Texas Panhandle
Senator Small plans a rapid Texas campaign swing with speeches in San Antonio Memphis Pampa Lubbock Canyon Tulsa Plainview Hale Center Abernathy and other Panhandle towns. Organizers expect large crowds and a major rally in Pampa at 8 pm and an all South Plains rally in Lubbock at 8 pm Saturday.
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Mel Davis
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Hale Center
Stunt Flier Killed As Wings Drop Off Over New Jersey
Roy Ahearn a Ware Massachusetts resident and stunt flier died when the wings separated from his biplane at about 10 000 feet above the Te terboro airport in Hasbrouck Heights New Jersey The Associated Press reported.
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Mass
Amarillo Boys Begin Tree Siting for Endurance Fame
Three youths from Amarillo George Wesley Tomberlin 13 Junior Buzzard 13 and Freddie Parr 12 start a tree sitting challenge aiming to outlast competitors. Tomberlin says he plans to stay aloft through Sunday or Monday tying a rope at night to sleep and believes he can last longer than any previous sitter.
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Sweetwater
You Can t Keep Small Out of Runoff in Texas Campaign
The Dallas rally circuit kicks off as seven gubernatorial hopefuls campaign across North Texas. Rosé S Sterling spoke in Dallas with Dexter Hamilton introducing him. supporters including former Gov W P Hobby joined a luncheon. Clint Small and allies tour West Texas while Pink Parris Carl Hardin push for a runoff.
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Victoria
Crackup Stops Monoplane Flight From New York to Buenos Aires
In Monroe Georgia today the monoplane K from New Haven to Buenos Aires crashed near Bostwick after eight hours at sea with three crew members Garland Peed Jimmy Garcngan and Randy Enslow leaping to safety by parachute. They survived and planned to continue toward New York in two days despite low visibility and fog.
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Monroe
New Haven
New York
Buenos Aires
Garland Peed
Jimmy Garcngan
Randy Enslow
Peed
Bostwick
Young Negro Shot Twice in West Second Avenue Event
T. B. Whatley, 16, was hospitalized after a shooting in the 400 block of West Second Avenue. Police seek Andrew Tucker, a bellhop at the Amarillo hotel, after five shots were fired leaving Whatley injured in the stomach. doctors operated but declined to promise recovery. Eyewitnesses reported the suspect approached while Whatley spoke to a girl, Aileen Lewis.
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T. B. Whatley
West Second Avenue
Andrew Tucker
Amarillo
Whatley
Aileen Lewis
Key artist Bowman recaptured in Nebraska return to Pampa jail
Johnny Bowman, a known escape risk labeled a key artist, was recaptured at Imperial Nebraska after using a makeshift key and rope escape from the Potter County jail. He faces a 99 year murder sentence in Pampa once extradition papers are secured.
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Potter County
Imperial
Neb
Pampa
Gray County
Bowman
Bill Watkins
Nebraska
J. W. Graves
Graves
Howman
Sheriff Escorts Negro Murder Suspect in Shamrock Case
Sheriff W. K. McLemore ferried Jesse Leo Washington, jailed for the murder of Mrs. Henry Vaughan, to the Gray County jail in Pampa while Texas Rangers guarded the courthouse. Rangers Gonzalezullas and team vowed protection as authorities planned to move Washington to Miami for trial on July 28 before Judge W. E. Ewing.
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Jesse Leo Washington
Henry Vaughan
Shamrock
W. K. McLemore
Gray County
Panhandle
Oklahoma
Doughty
Wheeler County
Fampa
Rangers
Texas Rangers
Lone Wolf Gonzaullas
W. A. Kirby
J. P. Huddleston
Robert G. Goss
Miami
W. E. Ewing
Bist
Washington
McLemore
Escaping Gas Ignites Vernon Man Dies
A Vernon oil field worker, B. H. Smith, 27, died from burns after a tractor back-fired while igniting escaping gas at Empire Gas and Fuel Co. No. 11 A. The incident occurred near Vernon.
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Associated Press
Vernon
B. H. Smith
Grayback
Empire Gas and Fuel Company
Negroes Eligible in Val Verde Democratic Primary
Del Rio report that Val Verde county Democratic executive committee has opened the July 26 primary to negroes and that an absentee ballot was cast by a black voter.
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Val Verde County
Democratic Executive Committee
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