Route of Slayer Traced After Gunnish Killing Near Shamrock
Sheriff Moncus of Tucumcari follows Highway 66 leads to Amarillo as the man sought in the Gunnish murder, a 36 Dodge radiator hose repair in Shamrock, with witnesses describing a slicked hair, 25 to 30 year old suspect. Gunnish’s body was found October 12 near Tacumcari, and Guthrie, held for questioning, hadrecently left Amarillo jail. Texas authorities assist in the probe, with coordination planned among city and county officers.
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Claude Moncus
Tucumeari
Amarillo
John Gunnish
Ohio Steel
Gunnish
Tacumcari
Shamrock
California
Dekle Motor Company
Tucumcari
Texas
Charles Guthrie
Guthrie
Barstow
Cal
1953 Texas Engineers Convention Slated in Amarillo
The Texas Society for Professional Engineers announces the 1953 convention will be in Amarillo, per J. L. Adams assistant city engineer and Panhandle chapter secretary. The event is set for January 1953, following the 1952 Galveston meeting.
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Texas Society For Professional Engineers
Amarillo
J. L. Adams
Panhandle
Galveston
Ministrel Show Sets Carnival Night at Lamar Elementary
Lamar Elementary PTA hosts a minstrel show October 27 as part of the school carnival. Parents of Miss Marcelle Brewer’s fourth grade will perform under director Mrs. R B Parkinson with G H Minnick as interlocutor and John Wood James Anderson as end men. Admission 10 cents, curtain 7:30 PM, music room venue with nursery care and additional carnival entertainment.
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Lamar
PTA
R. B. Parkinson
Marcelle Brewer
Parkinson
Paris
Paul Nesbitt
Mrs. Willis Rites Held in Amarillo Chapel
Funeral services for 75 year old Mrs W T Willis were held at 2 PM in the Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev Stanley D Letcher and Rev Tommy Hart officiating. Pallbearers were six grandsons and 13 honorary pallbearers. Burial followed in Liano Cemetery. Mrs Willis died Saturday night at St Anthony's Hospital after a long illness. Her home was 203 East Central Avenue Pleasant Valley. Survivors include her husband five daughters two sons and 11 grandchildren plus a great grandchild.
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W. T. Willis
Blackburn-Shaw
Tom Dacus
Foster Harris
John Reed
Mervin Ford
Quincy Ford
C. E. McLeroy
Sam Robertson
Bartley Eager
J. L. McCaleb
C. M. Neeley
James Shewbert
L. O. Riegers
Kay Baird
Robert King
Jack Jerman
Glenn Coffee
L. A. Frampton
W. N. Finger
Ernest Gibson
Liano Cemetery
Willis
St. Anthony
Clarify Duties Of Constable Mel Armstrong
Potter County Commissioners Court clarified the duties of Constable Mel Armstrong in aiding the sheriff's department in civil matters. The court had previously declined adding a civil deputy and suggested Armstrong handle civil papers. Armstrong was asked to contact justices to direct more civil business to his office.
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Mel Armstrong
Sheriff’s Department
Potter County Commissioners Court
Paul Gaither
Armstrong
Gene Jordan
Courthouse Records and Domestic Relations Notices
Courthouse deeds list transfers for multiple properties with prices and lots in West Lawn, Forest Hill Park, S. J. Heights, University areas, and Dixon Acres plus a domestic relations docket showing several divorces and marriage licenses. A damaged line references a master electrician certificate waiting period. An ordinance proposes a sixty day waiting period for a failed master electrician qualification applicant.
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C. L. Munday
R. E. Gatlin
West Lawn No
L. F. Curley
W. C. Roberts
Albert Wedell
Forest Hill Park
E. G. Travis
D. M. Floyd
Wolf Park
Urai V. Barnard
O. A. Reeves
S. J. Heights
Kathleen M. Biasdel
Gertie Crisp
Gilmore N. Nunn
W. B. Celey
Tarter
J. Woolfie
Harry Phillips
Dixon Acres
D. Stella J. Cotten
Ethel Lee Phillips
University
W. R. Ballard
Edna A. Barron
J. O. Wyatt
Lee A. McCallister
University Heights
Luclle M. Leinweber
Max G. Leinweber
Mary Katherine Brock
Leonard Patrick Brock
Alice Elizabeth Thomas
L. D
Britain
Mediterranean
Start Planning Education Week Observances Set for Nov 11 17
Committees for American Education Week were named led by R A Selby as general chairman. The roster includes workers in advertising, civic clubs, church groups, display and motion picture divisions, newspapers, Parent-Teachers Association, and radio. Notable participants include J S Evans, Miss Helen Worley, Howard Lynch, Miss Maude Fletcher, Miss Thelma Stolz, Miss Jessie Mercer, and Miss Greta Mae Cayton.
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R. A. Selby
A. B. Ginn
Oliver Diggs
S. N. Henry
J. S. Evans
Charles Fyfe
American Legion
Charles Eads
B. H. Willoughby
Helen Worley
Howard Lynch
J. R. Shackleford
Maude Fletcher
Thelma
Marie Donnell
J. R. Shackelford
Parent- Teachers Association
Jessie Mercer
Cecil Boykin
E. A. Kimmins
Gertrude Elliker
J. E. Ferguson
V. V. Knnseley
Greta Mae Cayton
Annie McDonald
Bill Dupre
Guard to hear Capt Polk Ivy at Texas State Guard meeting
Captain Polk Ivy of the Texas State Highway Patrol will speak at an eight oclock gathering of the Texas State Guard tonight. The meeting is set for the guard armory at the Ed Mayer warehouses on North Grand, according to Captain Ed Pittman.
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Polk Ivy
Texas State Guard
Capt
Texas State Highway Patrol
Guard
Ed Mayer
North Grand
Ed Pittman
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