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After years of running a flying school at San Antonio and starting a semi-scheduled airline, he landed an airmail route between Brownsville, Amarillo and Houston, sold out in 1937 to Braniff. When World War II began, Long organized four Texas flying schools at the request of the armed forces ("We pitched the textbooks out the window and taught with planes and parts"), turned out 20,000 pilots and 3,500 mechanics. In 1945 he got a CAB certificate, and began flying passengers between Amarillo and Houston. Later, he bought six surplus DC-3s, began using the name Pioneer...
There is no Texan like a Texan born some place else. Texans think this quip perfectly tailored for Amarillo Publisher Gene Howe, who has become the voice of the vast Texas Panhandle by outshouting the natives and trying to forget that he was born in Kansas. In both his Amarillo Globe and News, his garrulous daily column, "The Tactless Texan," is the fountainhead of authentic Panhandle lore...
...itself made plain that while Old Tack had rattled out his folksy nonsense, Publisher Howe had become a no-nonsense businessman. He had built up a string of eleven newspapers and a radio chain reaching to the West Coast. Later, he trimmed to an easily manageable five papers (at Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas; Atchison Kans.), two radio stations, and a deposit box full of blue-chip stocks...
Eleven years later, Gene bolted for Amarillo and started his own paper. He gave his editors free rein, spent most of his time making Old Tack the independent character Gene Howe wanted to be. In his battered Stetsons, his rumpled-and expensive-suits, he soon mastered the look of Texas, then acquired the substance by buying a 15,000-acre cattle ranch and a herd of Herefords. But it was not until Texas mothers and fathers began naming their children "Gene Howe" and cowhands took to calling their ponies Old Tack that he knew, for sure, he had arrived...
...Home Again. In Amarillo, Texas, onetime Trusty Robert C. Stewart, sent back to Potter County jail from West Virginia, explained why he had failed to come back in August 1949 when a jailer sent him out to get a morning paper: "He didn't tell me what kind of paper...