Olton General Store to Regional Center of Agriculture
Vivid history of Olton tracing its rise from a 1903 general store to a county seat in Lamb County Texas. Growth driven by Santa Fe railroad settlement, irrigation expansion, and a robust school system.
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Olton
Vance Johnson
Panhandie-Plains
A. B. Powell
Lamb County
Bexar County
George A. Lamb
San Jacinto
O. Ewing Hassell
Santa Fe
Littlefield
Sudan
Uncle Sam
Orion
Texas Almanac
Orton
Borger Man Dies From Gasoline Fire At Booster Station
Zell Tribble 35, a Phillips Petroleum employee, died at Borger hospital after his gasoline soaked clothing ignited when he attempted to close a high pressure valve at a booster station northwest of Borger. He ran to a coworker’s home where the fire was extinguished. Funeral services planned for Monday at First Baptist Church. Survivors include widow Annie Tribble and three sons Joe Kennard and Wilton, plus a brother in Arizona and four sisters.
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Borger
Zell Tribble
Here
Tribble
Phillips Petroleum Company
First Baptist Church
J. N. Hunt
Carver Funeral Home
Clovis
N. M
Five To Be Tried In Slaying Case
LAS CRUCES N M March 21 Four men and a woman will be arraigned here tomorrow on murder charges in the kidnap slaying of Robert Aubuchon a camp ground employee from Deming New Mexico District Attorney Martin Threet said all four men have admitted participation in the abduction and slaying but none has implicated the woman Those held here and at Deming are Delbert Lord his brother George Alfred Lord Jr Emmer Church Powell Walter Buck Smith and George Alfred Lords wife Mrs Helen Lord
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Las Cruces
N. M
Robert Aubuchon
Deming
Campground
Martin Threet
Delbert Lord
George Alfred Lord, Jr
Emmer
Hearing Cancelled in London School Disaster Probe
State Senator Joe Hill of Henderson said the hearing on the London Consolidated School disaster, appointed to investigate the incident, was canceled. The session had been scheduled in Henderson for tomorrow.
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New London
Joe Hill
Henderson
London Consolidated School
Earhart’s Cool Nerve Amid World Flight Crash Landing
Army fliers praised Amelia Earhart for her calm in the crash of her $80,000 flying laboratory near Honolulu. Brigadier General Yount noted the accident's cause may remain unknown and that repairs will guide a new world flight attempt aboard the liner Malolo, with the plane sent to Los Angeles for factory work.
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Army Fliers
Earhart
Honolulu
Amelia Earhart
Karton K. Yount
Army Air Force
Yount
Malolo
Miss Earhart
Los Angeles
Sound Pictures to Feature C C Campaign in Amarillo Drive
A sound film on Amarillo development will open the Chamber of Commerce drive showing Jericho Gap underpass and the new Amarillo College home. J P Harrison shot the video with a gallery of CCC work, a parade of workers, and city progress. The campaign mobilizes workers and firms with captains and a sales army led by Colonel Clay Thornton and four majors.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
J. P. Harrison
Paramount
Jericho Gap
Amarillo College
Buchanan Street
CCC
Memoe
Jim Florey
Tech Activities Fund Committee
Activities Fund
Tom Cotten
John Maynard
Robert H. Epperson
Erwin Ochsner
Walter Barlow
G. A. McCullough
Cotten
Glenn McDavid
Walter C. Irvin
C.S. Lambie
Jay Taylor
Charles M. Holt
John Boyce
Ted Taylor
Sharpe McCullough
Phil Purnum
Clyde Smith
C. P. Woody
R. C. Diefenbacher
G. C. McSwain
N. O. Glenn
A. D. Lydia
Riley Strickland
Hugo H. Loewenstern
E. B. Burgess
C. M. Williams
R. C. Martini
John C. Fain
Jerry Radcliff
F. B. Poole
John Smithee
John Cowan
Borger Chamber honors youths at fat stock show
The Borger Chamber of Commerce honored three youngsters at a Black Hotel meeting for their role in placing Hutchinson County on the map at the Amarillo fat stock show. Eual Chisum’s call was purchased, and a 168.96 dollar check was given by County Agent Clyde Carruth with Merle Harlan and Shelby Weatherford also receiving calves sold proceeds. Chisum’s calf will fund a county barbecue later, and the chamber voted to set aside funds to buy a Hutchinson County calf next year.
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Borger
Borger Chamber of Commerce
Black Hotel
Hutchinson County
Amarillo
Eual Chisum
Clyde Carruth
Merle Harlan
Shelby Weatherford
Chisum
Chamber of Commerce
Spanish Loyalists Advance on Guadalajara Front
Government forces pressed forward northeast of Madrid driving insurgent retreat and occupied several towns. Reports place the main army near Almadrones, thirty two miles northeast of Guadalajara on the road to Aragon.
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Madrid
Guadalajara
Almadrones
Aragoja
Masked Slayer Sought After Double South Side Assault
Police hunt a gunman in a Halloween mask suspected of killing Mrs. Mary Irwin and assaulting Anna Weiner, 20, and robbing her escort Harold Shapiro, 21, of $5 and a car on Chicago’s South Side after a party.
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Chicago
Mary Irwin
Anna Weiner
Isaac Weiner
Weiner
Harold Shapiro
FDR Mediation Sought to Bridge Pension Dispute
Washington officials report President Roosevelt may mediate a conflict between treasury and railroad interests over a proposed rail pension system. The plan, voluntary by management and labor, faces treasury objections that taxes are too low to cover pension outlays. If shortfalls occur, funds would come from general government. The tax would start at 2.5 percent for employers and workers, rising to 3.5 percent by 1949.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
The
Congress
Opponents Begin Senate Hearing on Court Plan
The opposition to President Roosevelt's Supreme Court revamp will present its case to the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow with Senator Wheeler as lead witness. After finishing testimony, supporters plan a week of radio speeches to sustain the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wheeler
Montana
Weather outlook for West Texas and New Mexico
Partly cloudy and colder conditions forecast for south and north Texas regions Monday and Tuesday. In New Mexico, partly cloudy days with a chance of rain in the northwest, temperatures showing little change.
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West
Texas
New Mexico
Negro Held After Sheriff Shot in Lamb County
LUBBOCK March 21 Leroy Kelly a 30 year old Negro is jailed in Lubbock after Sheriff F A Loyd of Lamb County lay critically wounded at Littlefield He was shot while attempting to arrest Kelly Kelly charged with assault to murder Deputy Hutson wounded Kelly armed with a 38 automatic A crowd gathered at the jail and authorities planned to ask troublemaking Negroes to leave Littlefield Loyd 48 from Olton was hospitalized in Lubbock with the sheriff paralyzed from the neck down and in grave condition
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Lubbock
Leroy Kelly
F. A. Loyd
Lamb County
Littlefield
Kelly
Loyd
Sheriff Loyd
Olton
Lubbok
Palm Sunday Observed in Rome With Palm Branches
Fresh green palms and olive sprigs filled Rome as Catholics mark Palm Sunday. The Bresca family of San Remo, long trusted to provide the gift, delivered palms to the Vatican, where Cardinal Pacelli accepted on behalf of Pope Pius. The pope remained in his apartment ahead of Holy Week solemnities.
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Rome
Jerusalem
Vatican City
Pope Pius
San Remo
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Vatican
Stratford Man Injured in Fall From Wind Mill
J. I. Mooney, 51, was in serious condition at North West Texas Hospital after falling about 30 feet from a wind mill near Stratford while repairing it for a farmer. The accident occurred about 1 p.m. Sunday. he was rushed to Amarillo for treatment of a serious head injury.
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J. I. Mooney
Northwest Texas Hospital
Stratford
Mooney
Amarillo
Twelve Die in Puerto Rico Nationalist Riot at Ponce
In a nationalist riot at Ponce, about 50 miles southwest of San Juan, 12 people were killed and 125 wounded. Nationalist parades were planned in Ponce and Mayaguez. Col. Enrique de Orbeta led police reassigned from Mayaguez to Ponce as details unfolded.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Ponce
Mayaguez
Enrique de Orbeta
Insular
Dallas 13th Boy Die At Intersection In Traffic Toll
Dallas March 21 Jack Walker aged 13 died after a car struck him at a street intersection, becoming Dallas County's twenty fifth traffic fatality of the year.
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Dallas
Jack Walker
Dallas County
Reporter Flying Home Sees Bodies and Stench of Dead
The Globe News accounts a grim flight back to New London Texas after a catastrophic plant disaster. Reporter Bill Sherila recalls the dead, the smell, and the difficulty of moving on as families mourn.
Field Foreman Denies Unnotified Gas Connections
Field foreman D L Clark of Parade Gas Company testifies no gas connections have been made without his knowledge in two years as he faces questions from Senator Joe Hill and a Texas blast expert. He says the school gas line came from a single direction with no other local connections.
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New London
D. L. Clark
Parade Gas Company
Joe EF. Hill
Henderson
Clark
E. P. Schoch
University of Texas
Ross Maddox
Maddox
Overton Man Describes Horrors of School Blast
An Overton man visiting Amarillo recounts the chaos at the school where an explosion occurred. He describes guiding debris removal, aiding bodies of children, and the relentless efforts over the first 24 hours as he faced the gruesome scene and sought to help victims.
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Overton
Geologist Warns U S Could Become Gobi Desert
University of Oklahoma geologist J Willis Stovall warns floods and dust storms threaten the U S similar to Mesopotamia. He links overgrazing to erosion and says Oklahoma could dry like the Gobi within 50 years unless action is taken. He urges replanting grasses and using quick spreading Russia thistles to stabilize soils.
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Norman
Okla
Mesopotamia
University of Oklahoma
J. Willis Stovall
Ohio River Valley
Stovall
Oklahoma
Gobi Desert
Russia
Tear Gas Seen as Blast Preventive
In San Francisco on March 21 Lieutenant Commander R. H. Hunt of the Navy Medical Corps proposed introducing small quantities of tear gas into gas supply mains to detect leaks or accumulations. He cited the malodorous gas as a warning aid for illuminating and heating systems.
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San Francisco
R. H. Hunt
Navy Medical Corps
Hunt
Road Work Resumed North of Wellington
Concrete pouring on Highway 4 north of Wellington resumed after a weather delay. Two miles laid so far with progress at 1,200 feet daily. The project starts eight miles north and will extend to the Wheeler County line as the county’s first through hard surfaced highway.
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Wellington
Here
Wheeler County
Double funeral for Hathcock couple in Haskell
In Haskell on March 20 double funeral services were held for Mr. and Mrs. O G Hathcock who were shot to death yesterday. Justice of the Peace B T A decided the case as murder and suicide.
London school disaster day of mourning and gas line inquiry
In New London a day of mourning for 455 victims unfolds as a military inquiry probes the London community school tragedy. D L Clark Parade Gas Company foreman testifies that no one had permission to connect the school gas line to Parade Gas's resident line.
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New London
London
Bes
D. L. Clark
Parade Gas Company
Residue
Clark
London School Board Denies Gas Tapping Accusation
NEW LONDON March 21 E W Reagan president of the London Consolidated School Board branded as absurd the testimony of D L Clark oil company employee that the school tapped Parade Gasoline Company pipeline without permission. He said we are not stealing gas and that proper officials are involved with the court appearance to follow.
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New London
E. W. Reagan
London Consolidated School Board
D. L. Clark
Oil Company
Parade Gasoline Company
W. C. Shaw
Gas line connections blamed for New London school tragedy
Clark testified about gas residue line connections in East Texas schools and a ditch found months before the disaster. An analysis traced gas from the stripping plant to the New London school, and authorities prepared safety checks as communities fear repeats. Schools suspend. London mourns as funerals continue.
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Clark
East Texas
James V. Alired
Gaston
E. P. Schoch
University of Texas Chemical Engineering
Hengeyson
London Consolidated
London
W. C. Shaw
A. J. Belew
Dallas
Shaw
Joinerville
Gaston School Board
Schoch
New London
Henderson School
J. H. Bunch
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Burro College
Hale County
Valley View
H. P. Webb
Hart Camp
Rence
C. C
FDR
Lamb
Bill Sherila
Globe-News
Henry McLemore
United Press
McLemore
H. L. Slaughter
Vincent Lockhart
W. S. Edwards
George Pratt
U.S
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