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...beyond the Texas panhandle, Gene Howe, publisher of the Amarillo Globe and News, was fondly known as "Old Tack." His folksy daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was the most popular newspaper column in the state, and across Texas he was known as "Mr. Panhandle, Amarillo's one-man Chamber of Commerce." Ranch hands named their pet horses Old Tack, and readers named their children after him. Texans seldom recalled that "Mr. Panhandle" had actually been born in Kansas...
...highly significant movement." He announced that Federated, the third biggest department-store chain in the U.S., will invest $20 million in a new link of seven department stores, called Fedway, in small and medium-sized cities. First to get the new Fedway stores will be fast-growing Amarillo and Wichita Falls, Texas. After the first seven are finished, Lazarus says confidently, there will be "many more in the West and Southwest...
...later, Cal Farley, a 55-year-old ex-professional baseball player (Amarillo, Texas "Gassers") who was in New York for the World Series, offered Richard a new start in life. Farley is president of Boys' Ranch at Tascosa, Texas-a sort of cattle-country Boys Town at which hundreds of homeless or once-delinquent lads have been educated. He asked for custody of Richard until the boy is 18. Richard, delighted at the chance to ride horses, agreed as soon as it was understood that he wanted to take his rubber hammer and rubber hatchet along...
Buffalo Hunt. The site of Matador's main ranch in the Panhandle between Fort Worth and Amarillo was a buffalo hunters' camp when Henry ("Paint") Campbell, an old trail driver, bought the land in 1878. Within four years, he expanded the ranch to 1,500,000 acres and 40,000 head of cattle, sold out to a Scottish syndicate for $1,250,000. As Matador's manager, the new owners later chose Murdo Mackenzie, a strapping (6 ft. I in.) Scotsman who became a legendary figure in the West. Old Murdo never carried...
...insecticide. The cow just rubs against Old Scratch, is automatically smeared with bug-killer, made happier, puts on weight faster as a result. Kirk, who started out with 11? in capital last year, has already shipped 4,500 models of Old Scratch to ranchers. Price: $198.50 f.o.b. Amarillo, Texas...