Experts to Demonstrate Easy Fish Cleaning at Panhandle Club Fry
Houston Doughty and Alex Meier, champions in catfish skinning, will showcase a quick method at the Panhandle Outdoor Sportsmen's Club Annual Fish Fry on Tuesday night August 14 at the Bull Barn Tri-State Fair Park. Tickets cost 1 and are sold at Bagot Hardware Tom Roy Gun and Key Shop and Henry Blackburns Sporting Goods. The program includes the World Championship Catfish Skinning Contest and greyhounds chasing rabbits on a fenced track with pink and purple props. Prize winners from Buffalo Lake prize volunteers will attend and the grand prize winner from tagged fish catches will receive a free fishing trip to West Yellowstone Montana. The event starts at 7 pm with halibut and other fish fry specialties for all ticket holders.
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Houston Doughty
Alex Meier
Panhandle
Bull Barn
Tri-State Fair Park
Bagot Hardware Company
Tom & Roy Gun and Key Shop
Henry Blackburn
Sporting Goods Company
Buffalo Lake
West Yellowstone
Mont
Amarillo City Commission Meeting Canceled This Afternoon
The Amarillo City Commission meeting scheduled for this afternoon was canceled due to the absence of Mayor Gene Klein and Commissioner Loren Young. Bids on street and alley paving and sanitary sewer construction were received and will be opened next week. Only routine business was planned.
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Amarillo
Gene Klein
Loren Young
Rites at Chapel For R. J. Sharp
Funeral services for Roderick Jackson Sharp 61 will be held tomorrow at 4 PM in Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel Rev FE L Goodwin officiating Pallbearers include Clay Fuqua Carl Fuqua Orville Davis Luther Mason Elmer Mason and L. J. Fulton Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery Sharp was a former farmer near Wildorado and has lived in Amarillo the last four years He is survived by his wife seven sons three daughters a sister three brothers and 27 grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roderick Jackson Sharp
Blackburn-Shaw
Co ed Fun Night Planned at YMCA
Paul Fowler announced a co ed Fun Night at 8 o'clock tomorrow at the YMCA Eleventh and Jackson for young adults ages 18 to 25. Informal games and dances will fill the evening as Fun Night continues through August with a planning committee of Jerry Ramsey Joyce Miller Harry Beck David Wyatt Bruce Autry and Mildred Zweig.
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YMCA
Eleventh
Jackson
Paul Fowler
Fowler
Jerry Ramsey
Joyce Miller
Harry Beck
David Wyatt
Bruce Autry
Mildred Zweig
Rescue Boys From Led ge On Tucumcari Mountain
Two youths Ralph Wayne Teague and Garland Cummings spent five and a half hours on a Tucumcari Mountain ledge after descending about 300 feet. Dozens of rescuers including James Austin and Russell Murch battled ropes and rugged terrain while residents watched. Danny Ray Cummings stayed atop and alerted grandfather Fred L. Bailey to summon help.
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Tucumcari
Tucumcari Mountain
Ralph Wayne Teague
Jacksboro
Tex
Garland Cummings
Hollis
Oklo
Garland
Danny Ray Cummings
Danny
Fred L. Bailey
Farrel Baston
James Austin
Russell Murch
Dunn Funeral Home
T. M. Sims
Ralph
Cummings
Frank Ramsey
Edward A. Littell
Cliff Moreland
Tuffy Nickle
City Light Department
Ralph Dudley
Chases Return From Colorado Camp Trip
Dr and Mrs Gaylord R Chase of 2223 Hughes Amarillo recently returned home after visiting their daughter Anne at Camp Cheley Colorado. Anne attended the camp a month and the parents drove together through the mountains and Estes Park at the end of the first session.
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Gaylord R. Chase
Hughes
Amarillo
Anne
Camp Cheley
Colo
Estes Park
Early Trial for Slayer Planned
John Michael Hawkins, 16, admitted killing his father Wallace E. Hawkins at their suburban Dallas estate. Defense says an early trial is likely. he turns 17 February 11 and cannot be tried for murder until then. Hawkins Sr. was a Magnolia Petroleum Co. executive. services for him were held today with burial in Austin tomorrow.
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Dallas
John Michael Hawkins
J. E. Newberry
Hawkins
Wallace E. Hawkins
Texas
Runnels County
Young Hawkins
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Austin
Cooks Share Tricks to Remove Bitter Plum Taste
A reader details methods to reduce bitterness in wild plum juice for jelly. Notes include burying plums to ripen, lemon juice or Certo additions, and a soda pinch to neutralize bitterness. Several neighbors from Hereford and Carrouzett report success with cultivated transplanted plums and water bath canning.
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Globe
Hermon Luette
Dumas
Homer Cole
Hayden
W. J. Jones
North Marrs
Wm. Terrel
Carrouzett
Schmeling Crown Contested In 1930 Sharkey Fight
On July 12 1930 Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey fought for the heavyweight throne left by Gene Tunney. Schmeling won in round four on a foul. Schmeling weighed 188 pounds to Sharkey 197.
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Max Schmeling
Davis Oil CO. Spearman
Jack Sharkey
Gene Tunney
Schmeling
Sharkey
Long Island City
Meeting proposal for newcomers over forty announced
Reader praises a column idea to form a get-together for adults over 40. The note argues such a gathering would serve the community by helping participants meet others on a proper level and encourages the columnist to proceed.
Maggie Worked Hard For Korea Success
Relman profiles Maggie Higgins, the only woman daily war correspondent in Korea who earned a Pulitzer, wrote a notable book, and drew film interest. She endured hardship, bravery bordering on recklessness, and a relentless drive to chase the story across front lines and in Tokyo.
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Relman
New York
Korea
Marguerite Higgins
Maggie Higgins
Nix
Decker Visits Here On Hospital Leave In Amarillo
Cpl. Martin Decker former Amarillo soldier on convalescent leave from William Beaumont Hospital El Paso visited friends in the Stone home at 2000 Taylor He was wounded in Korea near the 38th Parallel on April 4 as a squad leader in the 25th Division A World War II veteran he was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and was part of the 82nd Airborne Division now returning to the hospital for another operation
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Amarillo
William Beaumont Hospital
el Paso
Martin Decker
Wallace Stone
Taylor
Decker
Korea
United States
Martin
82Nd Airborne
Belgium
Convair Workers Granted Wage Hike
In Fort Worth on August 7, unions and Convair officials announced a four percent general wage increase for over 30,000 Convair aircraft plant workers. Affected unions include the International Association of Machinists the Federated Independent Texas Union the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Office Employees International Union.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Convair
International Association of Machinists
Federate Independent Texas Union
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and
Office Employes International Union
Ambush Kills 15 on Perak Rubber Estate
In Perak a surprise attack by Communist led terrorists killed fourteen auxiliary policemen and a worker on a rubber estate. It was the year's worst ambush.
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Singapore
Perak
Pacific Ocean Area Reported at Sixty-Eight Million Square Miles
The Pacific Ocean is reported to cover about 68.634 million square miles, an immense global oceanic expanse encompassing vast reaches of the world between Asia Oceania the Americas and Antarctica.
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Pacific Ocean
Pro and Con on The Conley Case reads like a heated letter
The letter from S Mrs J E Deartack questions the Conley assault case involving his wife and mother in law. It argues for child welfare and custody, blames a Massachusetts judge, praises Conley’s dedication to his daughter, and appeals to Texas to aid him.
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Conley
Texas
Massachusetts
Four Injured When Car Flips Near Friona
In Friona area four people were injured when a car driven by Mrs. Tatasco left the pavement and overturned four times. Daniel Tatasco, 28, of Pasadena, suffered a broken neck and was moved to St. Anthony's Hospital Amarillo, where his condition was stated as favorable. Miss Carmelia Alter, 22, a niece, has a broken collar bone and is listed in good condition at St. Anthony's. Mrs. Tatasco, 26, and Mrs. James Elia, 26, a sister of Mr. Tatasco, were treated for head injuries and cuts at Palmer County Hospital. The party was en route from California to Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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Friona
Daniel Tatasco
Pasadena
Cal
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Amarillo
Carmelia Alter
St. Anthony’s
Palmer County Hospital
Tatasco
James Elia
California
Farrell
Elia
Miss Alter
AEC Officials Visit Pantex Plant in Amarillo Visit
A pair of high ranking Atomic Energy Commission officials from Santa Fe operations office in Los Alamos arrived in Amarillo yesterday. Adm. George P. Kraker and R. E. Cole conducted a routine inspection of facilities at the Pantex AEC Plant and planned to depart for Los Alamos in the evening.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Santa Fe
Los Alamos
Amarillo
Adm
George P. Kraker
R. E. Cole
Pantex Aec
Women reporters drive press to Berlin for more news
The speaker notes Maggie and other women reporters are strong. She chose to move to Berlin to cover more news, insisting there will be much more reporting there.
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Berlin
Help wanted and services ads in Texico area
Housekeeping in small family home or motherless home sought by 50 year old. Mrs Honey Cutt, PO Box 127, Texico, wage details requested. Lost blonde six month cocker spaniel Cherry. reward. 704 Forest, phone 27498. Found female boxer puppy seeks home. 4005 Cline Road, phone 3-5419. Crochet work offered by Mrs Marvin Pitt at 2211 Roberts trailer. Trade three books of gold stamps for blue stamps. phone 3-5369. Exchange two room furnished apartment with bills paid for yard work. 2412 Washington. Baby sitting by Christian girl Nina Alison, 2201 Arthur, phone 3-4665. high school girl also available. phone 3-8842.
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Honeycutt
Texico
Forest
Cline Road
Marvin Pitt
Roberts
Washington
Nina Alison
Arthur
Lewis and Holley Attend Philco Convention in Chicago
Bob Lewis and Jim Holley of Southwestern Appliance Company travel to Chicago for the Philco summer national sales convention at the Stevens Hotel. They will view a complete line of Philco home appliances while away, with Lewis as general manager and Holley as sales manager, returning Thursday by train. Lewis resides at 1227 Lamar and Holley at 407 Carolina.
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Bob Lewis
Jim Holley
Southwestern Appliance Company
Chicago
Philco
Stevens Hotel
Lewis
Holley
Lamar
Carolina
Dear editor the friendly city riles a new Amarillo mover
A letter to the editor from a new Amarillo resident complains that the city is unfriendly and inhospitable. The writer derides locals as cold and busy, cites hot dusty climate, high taxes, and poor retail, and jokes about needing track shoes to flee town. The tone mocks neighborhood indifference and urges a move to a colder place.
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Amarillo
Death Valley
Burnett Recovering From Flu Attack
D. R. Pete Burnett owner of the Good Housekeeping Shop is recovering from influenza at Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital and Clinic. His family reports he is much improved and likely to be released tomorrow. Residence listed as 1232 Fannin.
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D. R
Pete) Burnett
Good Housekeeping Shop
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
Fannin
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Colorado
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Tack
W. A. Gentry
East Sixth Hereford
Fort
Davis
Davis Mountains
Sheriff’s Ranch
Toad
Aine
Sincerely, Elizabeth H. Ross
Maggie
Kimpo
Tokyo
Paris
Deartack
Louis B. Conley
AEC
Pantex
By Dick Wingert
Lewis, Holley
Deason
Dial
Burnett
Barfield
W. T. Robbins
Mer
Queen
Tenite
H.p. Studebaker
Studebaker
Jeff Wilson Motors
Borger, Texas
BOB Crudgington, Inc
Fillmore Amarillo, Texas
Frank Craig Motor & Implement Co
E. 1St
Hereford, Texas
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