NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Guy, Charles A. 4

Date of interview: April 25, 1973
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (45 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Retired Avalanche-Journal editor Charlie Guy recalls his association with former governor Preston Smith and suggests additional people to interview.

Topics:
Politics—Texas
H. J. "Doc" Blanchard
Waggoner Carr
John B. Connally
Price Daniel
Dorsey Hardeman
Ben Ramsey
Sharpstown scandal

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Guy, Charles A. 5

Date of interview: October 19, 1976
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (50 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: In this interview, conducted by author Etta Lynch for her book, The Tactless Texan, Charlie Guy discusses his friendship and working relationship with Amarillo newspaperman Gene A. Howe.

Topics:
Journalism—Texas
Amarillo Globe-News Company
J. Lindsey Nunn
Houston Harte and M. B. Hanks
Wilbur C. Hawk
Ed Howe and Howe family

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Guy, Charles A. 6

Date of interview: February 7, 1979
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (20 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Charlie Guy discusses politics in Lubbock during the 1920s and 1930s, and the role his Avalanche-Journal played in it.

Topics:
City government and officials—Lubbock
Journalism—Texas
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce
Texas Senate Finance Committee
Texas Tech University—Board of Regents
James V. Allred
James E. and Miriam A. Ferguson
B. Davis
Parker Prouty

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Guy, Charles A. 7

Date of interview: August 4, 1979
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Charlie Guy discusses Lubbock’s early medical history and the role M. C. Overton and other pioneer physicians had in the shaping of society.

Topics:
Lubbock-Crosby County Medical Society
Medicine and the medical profession—Texas
Hospitals and clinics
Physicians and nurses
Land sales and development
Prohibition—Churches and bootlegging
Public health programs

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Guy, Charles A. 8

Date of interview: April 21, 1982
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 45 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Retired Avalanche-Journal editor Charlie Guy discusses his life and newspaper career, Texas Tech and Lubbock during the 1920s and 1930s.

Topics:
Journalism—Texas
Agriculture—irrigation
Lubbock, Texas—civic affairs, attorneys and elections
Railroads—Texas
Ranches—land divisions
Texas Tech University—founding and presidents
Prohibition—bootlegging
Patent medicines
W. H. Bledsoe
Houston Harte and M. B. Hanks
Dorrance Roderick
J. Lindsey Nunn
Walter S. Posey

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Hacker, William Albert (Bill)

Date of interview: October 24, 1975
Location of interview: Hereford, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (20 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: William A. (Bill) Hacker, Texas Panhandle farmer and artist, discusses his background, his interest in drawing, and his move to Hereford.

Topics:
Family life and background
Agriculture—family farms
Great Depression—Dust Bowl

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Hagy, Lawrence R. 1

Date of interview: January 14, 1971
Location of interview: Amarillo, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Lawrence Hagy, Amarillo businessman, discusses conditions in Amarillo during the Depression of the 1930s.

Topics:
Great Depression—Bank holidays
Petroleum and gas industry—Texas Panhandle
Mothers-in-law Club
New Deal measures
Works Progress Administration—Conchas Dam
Weather conditions—Dust Bowl
Herbert C. Hoover
Gene A. Howe
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Hagy, Lawrence R. 2

Date of interview: August 1, 1975
Location of interview: Amarillo, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (1 hour)

Brief synopsis of interview: Lawrence Hagy speaks about his career as an early day geologist in the Texas Panhandle, particularly with his experiences in the oil boomtown of Borger, Texas, during the 1920s.

Topics:

Family background
University of Oklahoma
Geologists—Charles N. Gould
Petroleum industry—Texas Panhandle Field
Carbon black plants
Crime and law enforcement—Borger, Texas
Texas Rangers
Asa Philip "Ace" Borger
Quanah Parker
Ward A. "Tex" Thornton

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