ELEC TRICALLY CHARGED DEATH REPORTED NEAR VEG A
A woman who crossed live power lines was electrocuted one night last week near Vega. The Camp family reported a bright flash outside their home and a temporary loss of power. The next morning two Camp brothers found the body and notified authorities. The incident remains under investigation with no confirmed cause.
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Baby Department
R. S. Holmes, Jr
Lamar
St. Anthony’s Hospital
K. D. Coon
Vega
Northwest Texas Hospital
Merlin Maness
West Sixth
Wilburn Jennings
North East Twenty-first
Willie B. Jones
Lincoln
R. D. Hamilton
Arch Terrace
Wato Mok
Amarillo
T. P. Proctor
North Grant
William C. Roberts
A. C. Townsend
Clarendon
A. T. Gillen
Houston
Burton L. Weeks
Austin
Howard Lynch
Lucien Upshaw
Luther G. Roberts
Joe Ted Davidson
Claudia Brummett
Mickey Boyles
D. W. Britain
Ralph Harris
Linda Gayle McGinnis
Don Sellars
Paul H. Gray
Bobby Haley
Karleene Horton
J. D. Horton
Taylor
Hunter Hall
Oklahoma Baptist University
Old magazine jokes fade as doctors weed reading in Amarillo
A 1940 survey of ten Amarillo medical offices shows rare antiquated volumes after years of purging. Receptionists weed magazines every three weeks to six months, leaving popular picture and news mags and Readers Digest.
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Amarillo
Everybody's
Colliers
Col
Teddy Roosevelt
Napoleon
West Texas State College
Plains Chevrolet names truck dept head in Amarillo
Buck Carter announces George Parr will head Plains Chevrolet truck department. Parr, lifelong Amarillo resident, joined Plains in 1939 and will lead a 14‑person team. The truck dept sits at 408 Johnson and will move to Eleventh and Taylor with the new block. Other notes include Air Corps candidates from Amarillo College, Bronze Star for Julius Wilson, and local society notes.
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Buck Carter
Plains Chevrolet
George Parr
Parr
Amarillo
Plains
Johnson
Eleventh and
Taylor
Page Chevrolet Company
Qantas
Jack Howard
Prospect
Billy Ray Smith
General Delivery
Grady Rogers
Hereford
William Henry Patrick
Clarendon
Verna Lee Simpson
A Jefferson
Loverd F. Lee
Dumas
Johnny H. Carpenter
Bowie
James A. Holman
West Sixth
Herbert A. Battey
American Hotel
Charles Guinee
Allen Stagg
Vega
Jean Moore
Sunset
William D. Chambless
Hughes
Ida Miller
Pierce
Arch T. Fulkerson
Hill
Joe M. Garcia
Garfield
Julius Weilding
Crawford Butler Reeder
Jackson
Doyle Fletcher
Parker
Bennie L. Hudson
Hilltop Drive
Pleasant Valley
Carl Miller
Harrison
Freddie Lee Townsend
Ong
Ronald Dean Lewis
Dalhart
Surgical
Rex A. Long
Channing
Mary Martha Strange
Madison
Ruth Manolis
West Thirteenth
James G. Stroup
Monroe
Fred A. Burrow
Felt
Okla
D. H. Benton
Buchanan
AIR Corps
Gilbert Eddie Mann
van Buren
William Cleveland Coffee, Jr
Air Force Aviation Cadet Program
Amarillo College
Randolph Field
William C. Stewart, Jr
John J. Mowat
Air Force College
Julius Wilson
Dawson Curry
West
Fort Lewis
Wash
Sergeant Wilson
593Rd Signal Operations Company
Jimmie R. Dendy
W. H. Dendy
Cleveland
Boyd Qualifies for Dependables Honor for 1949 Work
Mr Boyd, with the Thomas N Moody Agency of Fort Worth, has qualified for the companys Dependables honor for the third time since joining in 1934. The recognition reflects an outstanding record in promotion and quality of life insurance written during 1949 and ties him to the Quarter Million Dollar Corps four times.
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Clifford Dunn
Polk
Sadie Beth Hancock
Buchanan
Sadie Bumpus
Taylor
Alpha Hawn
Bowie
Fort Worth
Order of Eastern Star
Amarillo
John Vaughn
North East Twenty-third
North Gear
Robert M. Boyd
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co
Hartford
The
Dependables
Boyd
Thomas N. Moody Agency
When Sleep Won’t Come And You Feel Glum
An old style ad promotes chewing gum laxative as a remedy for sleeplessness and irritability. It claims the medicine acts in the lower digestive tract to ease discomfort quickly. The hype suggests chewing enhances delivery and urges purchase of brand products at 10¢ to 35¢.
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Amarillo
Tex
Earle
Middlewest
Southwest
Rites Held for Valley Veteran Bill Shafer
Mission reports the burial of 74 year old Bill Shafer, longtime valley figure known as deputy sheriff Texas Ranger and guardian of the peace. He came to the lower valley by way of El Paso in 1900 and was portrayed as Bill Lester in Cleo Dawson's novel She Came to the Valley.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
27Th Infantry Regiment
Sakai
Japan
Evans Tollett
H. L. Tollett
Wellington
Mount Fuji
US Air Force
John H. Tilton
Air Force
East Fifth
H. E. Lynn
Fillmore
Charley Thompson
Doss J. Thompson
Brooks
Wichita Falls
Ymca Council
Austin
YMCA
Charley
Leonard Raymond Rush
Paula Rush
North East Fifth
Ellington Air Force Base
Houston
Fort Worth
Dan Bill Pavillard
Bryan Mack
Roberta Wheeler
Duane Cole
Rick Procter
Martha Patterson
Dottie Smith
C. R. Daffern
Harlene Horton
Teddy Bryant
Frankie Blair
Mission
Bill Shafer
Yester
Meer
Cleo Dawson
William Shafer
el Faso
Texas Ranger
Shafer
Bill Lester
Miss Dawson
Second trial set for Houston man in Tex rape case
Paul La Fleur, 30, of Houston, convicted rapist, faced trial on charges of shooting and robbing a teenage boy companion. The case, moved from Orange County, follows a life sentence on the rape conviction.
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Newton
Paul LaFleur
Houston
Pg Tex
Orange County
LaFleur
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Miss Horton
Myer Spector
City Pipe & Junk Co
Pipe and Steel Dealers Association, Inc
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Kansas
Martha Elizabeth Morgan
B. L. Morgan
University of Texas
Waco
San Antonio
New Braunfels
Freitag
I. Rasco
Hubert M. Lewis
Mediterranean
USS
Newport News
W. A. Keeney
North Apache
California
ST. Anthony Medical
Nora E. Blanton
North Polk
Julia Cooke Smith
Wayne Gorman
Hayden
June Lewis
West Twelfth
A. L. Lewis
North West Fourth
C. E. Hogan
Ben L. Freeman
Oe Ingerton
West Tweneth
R. S. Flathers
E. A. Hoppe
Borger
L. D. Moore
River Drive
Harbert E. Karr
Canyon
Hap Johnsons
Talmage
New York
Mary Elizabeth
George and Woodfin
Mrs. Woodfin
Canyon Road
Arabia
Frank St. Jacques
Higgins
Hugh C. Jennings
Yokohama
Joan Daley
William Daley
William
Eighth Army Medical Section
Globe News
Minnis Hall
Frederick Tripp
Associated Press
Daily News
Fay
Harold F. Johnson
Oklahoman and Times of
University of Oklahoma Journalism Department
Fayette Copeland
Oklahoman and Times
J. Howard Miller
Jack Beers
Dallas News
Northwest
Naval Observatorary
Western Union
Naval Observatory
Heeynar
United States
R.S. Scruggs
Mr. Scruggs
William Boyce
Tom Currie
Alec Lumpkin
George
Martha Washingtons
Simon Lumpkin
Albert Boyce
Cynthia Lumpkin
Anna Louise Boyce
the Allard
Ross Hotel
John L. Lewis
John N. Garner
Tom Harris
Panhandle
Carson County
Palice
Mrs. J. Ernest Stroud
Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Beverly Hills, Cal
Floyd Cooper
Gulf Coast
Glenn McCarthy
Shamrock Hotel
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Tacoma
Buck Chambers
Darline
Chambers
Gene Gar
Gary
Nell Baker
Dallas
Hattie Jo Baker
West Sixteenth
Ora Wright
Catherine Childers
Amarillo High School
Future Teachers of America
Katy
G. ©. Childers
Apache
Harold Nall
Horace Mann Junior
T. H. Nall
Globe-News
Alexkanme Umste
FAS
Ciue
Greenpeant
Knobby
Jsi
Lady P
Clara
Norman
Gerd Ig
Cearn
Harry G. Higgins
S. 5Th St
Minneapolis
Minn
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