Plains Weather And Local Anecdotes Highlight Panhandle
A mix of rural quotes and town notes from the Panhandle region covers drought talk, rainfall jokes, student weather in Canyon, and changes in Memphis along with light vignettes. Subjects include farmer Seth Palme yers remarks, Dayton residents, and a running-board automobile ordinance in Memphis. The report mentions Dry Seams possible revival, a Panhandle museum display of a Piorida sea turtle skeleton, and local curiosities from Bristow to Amarillo.
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B. W. McGinnis
Regional
Soil Conservation Service
Amarillo
Forest Service
Panhandle-Trains Historical Piety Museum
Canyon
Clarendon
Great Wars Started by Tiny Sparks
A historical survey traces small provocations that sparked major wars, from the War of Jenkins's Ear to the 1914 global conflict. It cites incidents like the Boston Tea Party, Dey Hussein’s insult, the Ems telegram, the Maine explosion, and Archduke Ferdinand's assassination as examples of how minor actions led to world wars.
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NEA Service
Helen
England
London
Temple
Spain
Jenkins
Robert Jenkins
West Indies
House of Commons
Rebecca
Britain
Boston
Dey Hussein
Algeria
France
Deval
Algiers
Hussein
Europe
Francis Ferdinand of
Austria
Duchess of
Hohenburg
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Serbia
Santa Fe track washed out near Stratford in flood damage
The Panhandle flood shifted from the South Canadian River to Stratford where an eight inch cloudburst and hail washed out six feet of Santa Fe Railway track three miles south of Stratford. Officials expect quick repair. the through train may run this morning. Meanwhile the South Canadian River receded slightly and search continues for Jim Stevens, 27, who drowned Saturday near Old Tascosa.
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Panhandle
South Canadian River
Stratford
Santa Fe Railway
Santa Fe
South Canadian Falls
Canadian
Dumas
Spearman
Boise City
Okla
Moore
Sherman
Hansford
North Canadian River
Guymon
Okio
Tucumcari
Santa Rosa
Dalhart
South Canadian Bridge
Jim Stevens
Cowboy
Stevens
Old Tascosa
Jay Taylor
Rafter O Ranch
Halliburton Oil Well
Taylor
Steven
Julian Bivins
J M Russell Still in Critical Condition at St Anthony’s
J M Russell father of the late Horace M Russell remained in critical condition at St Anthony’s Hospital. He had a restful day yesterday and resides at 1019 Taylor Street.
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J. M. Russell
Horace M. Russell
St. Anthony's Hospital
Terday
Russell
Tayior Street
Tom Tom Celebration Closes With Queen Crowning
The Yoakum Tom Tom pageant ends its tenth annual event in Bull Dog Stadium. More than 200 children participated and Lillian Witte was crowned Queen with Edwin Templin named junior Tom Tom.
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Yoakum
Bull Dog Stadium
Lillian Witte Queen
Edwin Templin ‘Ting
Scholarships Given London School Pupils
Trinity University funds four $100 scholarships for New London school survivors of the disaster to attend college next fall. The gift includes top boy and top girl scholarships plus two needy student awards, one boy and one girl, with conditions to meet aptitude and capacity for college work.
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London
Rusk County
Trinity University
Frank L. Wear
New London School
Weather outlook for West Texas and New Mexico
Partly cloudy in West Texas for Monday and Tuesday. New Mexico shows fair skies on Monday and Tuesday with warmer conditions in the eastern portion on Monday.
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West Texas
New Mexico
Lipscomb's Quiet Town Life Amid a Toy of Hoofs and Hen Cackles
In Lipscomb the streets echo softly with horses’ hoofs and a hen’s cackle, until a car revs nearby. Reporter Vance Johns visits the Texas county seat, noting the courthouse hush, long-time Sheriff J B Shahan, and Lipscomb’s 1887 founding after surveys for the Santa Fe railroad. The town grew from Dodge City freight and a moved hotel, once a stage stop with two stables and saloons now gone.
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Vance Johns
Lipscomb
Pete Traxler
J. B. Shahan
Christian Babitake
New Santa Fe
Dodge City
Dominion
Oklahoma
Fort Supply
Fort Eliott
Panhandle Vets Seek Hospital
June 6 Panhandle veterans press a campaign for a regional veterans' hospital. American Legion delegates adopt plans to push Texas and Oklahoma lawmakers to meet in Washington after the national convention in New York. Dalhart hosts the next district convention. Van Stewart and W L Cotton named delegates and alternate.
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Panhandle
Eighteenth Congressional District
American Legion
National Legion
New York
Texas Legion
Washington
Texas
Oklahoma
Congress Panhandle
Albuquerque
van Stewart
Perryton
W. L. Cotton
Dalhart
Pat Malone
Dla
Wounds Fatal to Roscoe Mayor
Roscoe Mayor A. J. Parker died in a Sweetwater hospital from three bullet wounds after a street shooting Friday. District Attorney George Outlaw filed an assault to murder charge against 59 year old nightwatchman Bill Dawson, to be pursued as a murder case. Sheriff Tom Wade said the shooting followed the city council’s discharge of Dawson as nightwatchman.
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Sweetwater
A. J. Parker
Roscoe
George Outlaw
Bill Dawson
Tom Wade
Dawson
Agreement on Land Dispute Awaits Court Ruling
Oklahoma land secretary Jess Larson said Texas and Oklahoma negotiations on about 25 000 acres of western Oklahoma boundary land must wait for the Texas Supreme Court decision in the Wortham heirs case.
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Oklahoma City
Jess Larson
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas Supreme Court
Wortham
Gunfire Flares in Canton as Steel Strike Protests Grow
Gunfire erupted near the Republic Steel plant in Canton Ohio with about 100 shots exchanged between pickets and six entrants. Three entered the plant while three vanished. The incident preceded a CIO called mass meeting to press against Republic Steel Youngstown Sheet and Tube Inland Steel. In South Chicago seven died last week in a clash between police and strike sympathizers. A rally in Indiana Harbor aimed to address alleged sabotage by nonunion firms.
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Canton
Ohio
John McDonald
Republic Steel Corporation
CIO, Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Inland Steel Corporation
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Chicago
Steelwork
Four Burn to Death In Car Wreck Near Uma tilla
Four members of the Henry Dexter family died in a wreck near Uma tilla when their car overturned and caught fire. The deceased include Henry Dexter a rancher who lived three miles west of Uma tilla his wife and their 21yearold daughter and their young son.
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Europe
Umatilla
Ore
Henry Dexter
Umaetilla
Palestine Herald Celebrates 35th Anniversary
The Palestine Daily Herald marked its thirty fifth anniversary with a special edition on Sunday. The paper notes its status as one of Texas' oldest Associated Press members and reflects on its long history in the region.
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Palestine
Palestine Daily Herald
Associated Press
Texas
Airliner missing six months found shattered in Utah mountains
In Alpine Utah the wreckage of a missing December airliner is located on Lake Hardy ridge amid snow drifts up to fifty feet. Five men and two women were aboard, including Co Pilot William Bogen and Stewardess Gladys Witt. Rescue teams expect to recover bodies over five to six days as relatives grieve in camp nearby.
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Utah Mountain
Alpine
Utah
Lake Hardy Ridge
Wasatch Mountains
Salt Lake City
Western Air Express
Rex Moyle
Reed Carter
CCC
Moyle
Carter
Melvin Dewey
Emery Andrews
Ed Hamilton
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Ss. J. Samson
Boeing
William Bogen
Gladys Witt
John F. Wolfe
Chicago
Henry W. Edwards
Minneapolis
Carl Christopher
Dwight, Til
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Memphis
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Roy Stockton
The
Lions Club
Jack Hull
Clovis News-Journal
Pe. B. Burrows
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Clayton
Bristow
Ray Miller
Miller
Unaway
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Prussia
Ems
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