Leon Hoyt Sr dies at home in Amarillo at 69
Leon L Hoyt Sr an Amarillo accountant died at 2 30 this morning at his home 824 Louisiana after three months illness He was 69 and had lived in Amarillo two years moving from Custer City Oklahoma He leaves wife two sons Leon Hoyt Jr and Frank Hoyt Potter County Tax Assessor and Collector Two sisters and two brothers and two granddaughters Also survived by two sons he had been affiliated with Amarillo Business College and a milling company in Custer City Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 5 pm Boxwell Chapel with Dr T Edgar Neal and Dr Neal D Cannon presiding Burial at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Leon L. Hoyt
Amarillo
Louisiana
Mr. Hoyt
Custer City
Okla
Leon Hoyt
Frank Hoyt
Potter County
Bloom City
Wis
Oklahoma
Nona Iris Harmon
First National Bank
Methodist Church
Boxwell Chapel
T. Edgar Neal
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Neal D. Cannon
Polk Street Methodist Church
Rolla Cartwright
J. D. Hamilton
Homer N. Wheeler
Clifford Taylor
H. A. Hunter
J. A
Family Reunion Observed Across Claude and Panhandle
A long running family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Stephenson in Claude with a fried chicken dinner and music by Steve Ellmer. Attendees from Claude Panhandle Amarillo and nearby areas gathered including the Crownover, Stephenson, and Maple families and others. Next year the gathering moves to Claude at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Crownover.
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Dick McElroy
Claude
Luke Stephenson
Manhattan
Steve Ellmer
M. H. Crownover
Martha Ann
Frank Crownover
Bobby
John Crownover
Lloyd Crownover
Arthur Eitner
Steve
Carl
Shirley
Donna Beth
Nell Dean
Delmer
Jimmy Lynn
Kenneth
Kerry Stephenson
T. A. Stephenson
Amarillo
Truman signs bill funding OPA and curbing price propaganda
President Truman signed a law providing 75 million dollars for OPA operations for the current fiscal year. The act also bans the agency from using propaganda to support price controls and paves the way for a potential revival of OPA with new price levels to be set within 30 days.
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House
Senate
President Truman
Capitol Hill
Truman
Paul Porter
OPA
Washington
War Profits and War Dept Seek Records on Officers
Former head of chemical warfare procurement and Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt were deemed essential to New York for military service. Record presentation included Hotel Pierre wedding bills dated Jan 2, 1944, involving Murray Garsson. Investigators ordered to verify per diem and travel allowances, with testimony about jail and a forthcoming baby. Mead urged swift War Department record retrieval and proper discipline.
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Chemical Warfare Service
Alden H. Waitt
New York
Englsh
Pierre
Murray Garsson
Natalie
Livestock Markets Report from Kansas City Chicago
Kansas City market notes show hogs and cattle shifts with gains across weights. Chicago figures reflect higher hog prices up to 75 cents to $1, with fed steers and yearlings up, cows and calves mixed, spring lambs near or above $20, and overall active trading across hogs cattle and sheep.
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Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Kansas City
U.P
USDA
Chicago
Venters
Stocx Cattiie
Excerpts of Southwestern Trails to Be in Ads
Professor Walter S. Campbell author of The Old Santa Fe Trail will see excerpts republished by Shamrock Corp. Harold Bugbee, famed Clarendon artist, will illustrate old trail scenes for Shamrock Oil and Gas ads. Vestal, Oklahoma Hall of Fame member and Rhodes scholar, researchers for Rockefeller Foundation, writes under pen name Stanley Vestal. Other trail pieces include works by Haley Hafen Streeter Potter McCarty and others tracing routes and pioneers of the Southwest.
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Stanley Vestal
Walter S. Campbell
University of Oklahoma
Southwest
Shamrock Corp
Harold Bugbee
Clarendon
Shamrock Oil and Gas Corps
Shamrock
Campbell
Santa Fe Trail
Kit Carson
Sitting Bull
Kansas
Southwestern State
Weatherford
Okla
Oklahoma
Oxford
England
Oklahoma Hall of Fame
Society of American Historians
Rockefeller Foundation
Bugbee
Evetts Haley
Canyon
Charles Goodnight
LeRoy Hafen
Denver
Colorado
F. B. Streeter
Fort Hays
Kansas State College
Jack Potter
Clayton
N. M
Tascosa- Ft. Dodge
John McCarty
Paraguay Reports Change in Government After Civilian Revolution
Reports from Asuncion say Paraguay is undergoing a government change following Bolivia's civilian revolution. President Higinio Morinigo reportedly sought permission to resign and flee to Brazil as his cabinet also resigned. Earlier, an abortive army uprising in June left five dead amid ongoing political tension.
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Paraguay
Buenos Aires
Asuncion
Bolivia
Higinio Morinigo
Brazil
Morinigo
Scattered Thundershowers Predicted for Tomorrow
The weatherman predicts widely scattered thunderstorms tomorrow with moderate temperatures and cloudy skies. Tonight will be fair with a low around 68 and tomorrow’s high near 94 after yesterday’s 97 and morning low 68.
Courthouse Records Warrants and Deeds Across Ada and Amarillo
Property transfers include Clyde Bray to Ray Parks and many others in districts like Country Club Park and San Jacinto Heights. District Court lists multiple divorces among Burgess Ashby Morelos Dilbeck Bockes Rund families. Marriage licenses issued to Cecil McMillan and Eunice New twin C Beach and Jessie Jor.
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Clyde E. Bray
Ray E. Parks
O. T. Cc
John Henry Fromseea
Country Club
Amarillo Improvement Co
Charlie Priolo
San Jacinto Hts
G. W. Campetux
F. M. Padgett
N. E. Wadleigh
Tom E Stanley
Bivins. Miles Realty Co
Lille Johnston
Bivina Estate
Joe W. Murphy
J. D. Forbus
San Jacinto
J. W Sullivan
Gertrude Graham
Plemons
W. T. Hendrix
Stanley B. Blaine
Webster
Slade Bassett
Beulah Hall
O. T
Bessie M. Landis Bryan
Jesse B. Briscoe
Wolflin Place
E. O. Breedlove
L. A. Rider
District Court
Lucille M. Burgess
I. J. Burgess
Joan Ashby
Dan
Ashby
Lupe Morelos
George Morelos
Elva Dilbeck
James C. Dilbeck
Estelle Bockes
Charles W Bockes
Johanna Rund
William G. Rund
Cecil CO. McMillan
Eunice E. New
C. Beach
Jessie Jor
Turner eeeeente and associated names tied to ceremony
Turner eeeeente R. Smith and Gladys Hol inger. Keit Latshaw and Jean Evans. J. E. Broome and Mrs. Eula Oliver. W. S. Thompson and Wanda Kedler. James A. Hawkins and Gerline Wiseman. Merle Brown and Maurine A. Austin. J. W. Powell and Elaine Hissinger.
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Turner Eeeeente R. Smith
Gladys Holinger
Keit T. Latshaw
Jean Evans
J. E. Broome
Eula Oliver
W. S. Thompson
Wanda Kedler
James A. Hawkins
Gerline Wiseman
Merle Brown
Maurine A. Austin
J. W. Powell
Elaine Hissinger
Last Day of Scout Camp Near Canadian Texas
Amarillo Boy Scouts at Camp Ki-O-Wah on Lake Marvin near Canadian prepare to trek home at 6 am after a weeklong outing. One hundred scouts attended, including 13 from Moore County and eight from Dalhart. Visitors included Lew Fields and Wilbur J. Hiatt, with Ken Swanson visiting today. Next Llano Estacado Council event is a two week senior explorer camp at Philmont Aug 13 27 led by W M Splawn with W C Weaver and Willie Goodson as assistants.
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Amarillo
Ki-O-Wah
Lake Marvin
Canadian
Moore County
Dalhart
Ken Swanson
Llano Estacado Council
Philmont Boy Scout Ranch
Cimarron
N. M
W. M. Splawn
West Amarillo Christian Church
Water use soars as Amarillo taps new record
The city consumed 19,100,000 gallons of water yesterday, surpassing the June 6 record by 1,100,000. With Amarillo’s 70,000 people, the rate was about 275 gallons per person and over 1,000,000 gallons per hour from morning to night. City officials plan to add two wells by Aug 15, bringing total to 30 as drought drains supply. Public conservation measures target schools cemeteries and parks to minimize use.
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Amarillo
Moss Saili
Jenkins
Amarillo Lake
Ackerman To Install New Officers of KC
Amarillo Council 1450 Knights of Columbus will install new officers at 8 pm Monday July 29 in Cathedral Hall 1110 Washing ton. Fulton G. Ackerman district deputy will conduct the ceremony. On Aug 5 Amarillo Council members travel to Pampa for first degree initiation and installation of Frank Keim Council 2767.
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Amarillo
Knights of Columbus
Cathedral Hall
Washington
Fulton G. Ackerman
Dalhart
Pampa
Ackerman
Conroe Scoggins
Houston
Order
Injured Man Vows Not To Nap Near Tracks
William D. Flemming of Savannah Georgia vowed not to nap near railroad tracks after a train brushed him while he slept beside a track in Houston. He was hospitalized with minor bruises and cuts on the left shoulder.
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Houston
U.P
William D. Flemming
Savannah
Flemming
Political contests swirl as Texas candidates campaign confident
In Texas activity roars as candidates name allies and attack opponents. House Seay defers on Seller charges about Rainey while March blasts Dobie as Darwinian influence. Campaigns span Mesquite to Pearland with taxes, education, and agriculture stakes.
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Harry L. Seay
Democratic Executive Committee
Dallas
Rainey
Seay
South Texas
Case March
J. Frank Dobie
University of Texas
Texas
Turner and Gardner Enlist in U S Army
Two Amarilloans were accepted for three year enlistment in the U S Army with Air Forces unassigned. Francis Leon Turner and Marvin Earl Gardner are both veterans, Turner having four and a half years with the 48th Bomb Squadron and Gardner five years with the 17th Bomb Squadron.
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U.S. Army
Francis Leon Turner
Ruby D. Turner
North West Eighth
48Th
Marvin Earl Gardner
Ethel Mae Gardner
Lincoln
17Th
Family seeks divorce over nightly news signal in bed rule
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on July 23 a wife Mrs Lilly Carrick from Connellsville recounts that every night at five minutes till nine her husband turned on the news program, signaling the family to go to bed. Judge F John presides in the case.
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Uniontown
Lilly Carrick
Connellsville
F. John
Amarillo Auto Laundry W8 Kear Jackson Phone 4930
Amarillo Auto Laundry lists contact details for W8 Kear Jackson with phone number 4930. The brief entry provides no further context or event.
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Amarillo Auto Laundry
Kear Jackson
Jackson Tom Farmer
Komolonivic Divorce Suit Aims To Remove In Laws
In Kansas City Kansas, Thomas D Komolonivic seeks divorce after alleging his wife Beulah crowded 12 relatives into their four room basement home. His petition lists six step children a daughter in law her mother a brother and three nieces and nephews as unwelcome guests. He also seeks protection for 189 frying chickens he says the in laws planned to misuse.
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Kansas City
Kan
U.P
Thomas D. Komolonivic
Beulah Komolonivic
Komolonivic
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