Leather artist carves biblical scenes and Texas history
Dr. William Allen Maddox of Amarillo has created a wall of leather artworks, including a life sized Will Rogers portrait and a portrayal of The Last Supper. His 100 years of Texas history series features pieces like The Buffalo Hunt of 1846 and The Pioneer. The artist began at 39 and trained after 50, turning leather into public displays in Texas cities.
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William Allen Maddox
Maddox Western Leather Craft Boot
West Sixth Avenue
Will Rogers
Humorist
Dallas
Fort Worth
Texas
Maddox
Dr. Maddox
Lubbock
West Texas
Judge Joins Home Hunters In Shamrock For Amarillo Move
Shamrock native Clayton Heare, newly appointed associate justice of the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals in Amarillo, and his wife searched Shamrock and Amarillo for a home with Heare joking about keeping his future backyard barbecue outfit. Heare recalls Marine World War I service and a humorous discharge note flagged as very good by a commanding officer.
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Clayton Heare
Shamrock
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
Amarillo
John Snider
France
U. S
Kleberg Warns of Meat Shortage Under Price Controls
Representative Kleberg of Texas foresees a severe meat shortage early next year due to the new livestock price control program. He criticizes the Office of Price Administration for lacking knowledge of cattle production and urges Congress to act to correct what he calls perversions of government.
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Washington
Kleberg
Texas
Texan
House
Office of Price Administration
Ex-President Range Riders Visiting Here
Bob Dow former New Mexico attorney general and Range Riders leader, now general counsel for the Farm Credit Administration in Wichita, visits Amarillo for a few days. He praises the four Farm Credit banks and their loans aiding farmers and ranchers in Colorado New Mexico Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Will Rogers Range
Farm Security Administration
Bob” Dow
Amarillo
Dow
Farm Credit Administration
Wichita
Kan
Federal Lard Bank
Intermediate Credit Bank
Production Credit Corporation
Wichita Bank For Co- Operatives
Santa Fe
New Mexico Bar Association
Historical Carvings in Leather by Dr Maddox Book Note
Gladstone bags and leather coverings illustrated in a new Naylor Publishing book titled Historical Carvings in Leather. Dr Maddox describes his long hobby dating to the low mood years and recounts handmade chairs, saddles, purses, bill books, chaps and boots with hundreds of small articles also shown.
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Gladstone
Dr. Maddox
Naylor
Phillips Petroleum and the wartime rubber program
A 1943 article explains how Phillips Petroleum, based in Bartlesville Oklahoma, uses its refineries as huge chemical plants to produce synthetic rubber components and a wide range of petroleum derived products including butadiene and 100 octane gasoline, supporting the war effort.
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Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips
Also Mentioned on This Page
Amarillo Globe
By Pauline McLaughlin
Jesus
Leonardo da Vinci
TWA
Our Savior
Robert E. Lee
Judge
Home
Star Care Control
Floyd V. Studer
Robert C
Grove
Bozeman
Blackburn
Btad Ee
J. M. Hyden
Doctor of Optometry
W. 7Th St
Oriental Cleaners
Vernon Hancock
Ines
Hill & Hill
Tributors
Bartlesville, Oklo
U.S
Poly
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!