Rain That Makes You Homesick in the Panhandle
The piece humorously debates the origin of a three day wet spell in the Panhandle. Weather observers rely on a radar tool while residents imagine various regional rains. Nostalgia colors the calm, overcast days as locals recall other places where rain is more dramatic.
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Panhandle
Bill Gunn
Tennessee
Lowell Brown
New York
R. R. Gilbreath
California
Fred Post
Kansas
Bill Gilstrap
Georgia
Aubrey Jackson
Gulf Coast
Letters and comments from readers and critics
A compilation of reader letters from Walter McLaren about Colonel Goodnight and Bascom Timmons, a postal exchange on dialing metropolitan telephone exchanges, an inflation anecdote from Whit Whitney’s The Right Hand, notes on Canada’s Mounties versus workers, Washington whispers about Secretary Stevens and Schine, plus a quip from Wes Izard.
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Walter McLaren
Claude
Buena Park
Cal
Bascom Timmons
Colonel Goodnight
Mr. Goodnight
Amarillo
Rose Marie
Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Two-car crash near Canyon kills six and injures four
A slick Highway 60 collision in a rainstorm killed George Penny and Delbert Burk from Oklahoma and James Clayton Davis from Dimmitt, with Offie Stout and Naomi Damron of Elk City among the dead. Five others were injured, two critically, as responders worked at Neblett Canyon Hospital.
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South Plains
Oklahoma
California
Canyon
Randall County
Amarillo
George Penny
Lubbock
James Clayton Davidson
Dimmitt
Offie
Delbert Burk
Canute
Okla
Burk
Penny
Jim Burrell Stout
Elk City
Neblett Hospital
Georgia Burk
John Wesley Wade, Jr
San Antonio
Davidson
Wade
San Diego
Burks
John
Soaking Rains Bring Cautious Hope to Panhandle
General rains eased drought in the Central Panhandle and South Plains, filling terraces and greening ranges. Water rises threaten Lake Buffalo and Lake McClellan levels, with forecasts of lighter showers in parts of the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma.
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Tri-State
Southeastern
Panhandle
South Plains
Western
New Ni
Wiexico
Swottn Ragins
Oklahoma Panhandle
Buffalo Lake
Lake McClellan
Pampa
Amarillo
Ninth
Harrison
West Texas
New Mexico Line
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Big Spring
Charlie Stout
Memphis Democrat
Expressway bond votes fall short in Amarillo area
Expressway bonds in Amarillo and Randall County failed to reach the required two to one margin. Highway Commissioner Marshal Formby says the issue remains live and plans may proceed in Amarillo and Potter County.
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Paul Timmons
Amarillo
Randall County
Marshal Formby
Plainview
Potter County
Expressway Bond Issue Sparks Hope in Amarillo Area
Marshall Formby of Plainview urged Randall County to reconsider the expressway bond in a bid to proceed with the Amarillo Potter County segment. Amarillo voters approved bonds 7076 to 5594, Randall County incomplete so far 2110 to 1654. other Amarillo measures passed 70 to 89 percent. Officials expect plan review by the Texas Highway Commission on May 24 and emphasize no four lane alternative.
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Marshall Formby
Plainview
Panhandle
Texas Highway Commission
Randall County
Commission
Potter County
Amarillo
Mary E. Bivins
State Highway Commission
Roy Joe Stevens
Austin
Stevens
Formby
Canyon
Highway Commission
8S. T
Bud” Curtis
Fancher Upshaw
Upshaw
Curtis
Highway Department
Art Jordan
Daily News
Highway Commission of Texas
PFC Parade Set Today in Amarillo
The Paint-Fix-Cleanup parade resumes today at 3:30 PM on Polk Avenue after weather delays. Mayor S. T. Bud Curtis will read a proclamation from a waste truck at Fifth and Polk, as the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event with Jaycees Carpenters Union Painters Union and Garden Club assisting.
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Polk
S. T
Bud” Curtis
Fifth and Polk
Amarillo
Garden Cb
Baseball Results From The Day In Major Leagues
New York defeated Cincinnati. Philadelphia beat Chicago. Milwaukee lost to Brooklyn 0 5. St Louis at Pittsburgh postponed due to rain. In the American League Washington beat Detroit 5 3. Baltimore 2 0 Philadelphia. New York 5 Cleveland 3. Chicago 2 Boston 1.
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New York
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Chicago
Milwaukee
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Washington
Detroit
Baltimore
Cleveland
Boston
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Izzard
Whit Whitney
Schine, Cohn & Co
Wes Izzard
Pulie
Randall
Benes and
J. T. Harp
Penney
Barger
Tierra Blanca Creek
Forestry Service Information
W. J. Caserta
Caserta
Memphis
Stout
KPDN
Lorene Locke
Pampa City
Plainview Area
Luren Brown
Billy Forbes
Amarillo College
Patricia McFarlin
West Sixth
Weather Bureau
REAU
Marillo
Ceevesss
Sevese
Editoriais
PFC
Houston
Dallas
City
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