Dr. Hunt's Competition

Besides having to worry about Dr. W. R. Newton there was the Medical Arts Clinic and Hospital just two blocks away at 5th and Littlefield Drive next to the Methodist Church. It was the big local competitor in Littlefield. This continued long after the deaths of Dr. Roy Hunt and Dr. Thomas Duke in 1943. Dr. I. T. Shotwell began practice in a local hotel while the building was being built in 1937.

Milam County Museum

The place to start in Cameron for information about the W. R. Newton family is the Milam County Museum. The two plaster Newton lions reside at the old county jail museum. Artifacts like the one pictured are on display in the museum annex on the square. Mr. Charles King is the director and we visited him on two occasions in the summer of 2009 to gather basic information on the Newtons for Clovis Road and to purchase a copy of Matchless Milam a great resource on the +W. R. Newton family.

Clovis Road II, the second edition, is available by writing Highgate Publishing, 6257 Highgate Lane, Dallas, Texas, 75214 and sending a check or money order for $36.81. First editions are still available at a discounted price.

Researching Clovis Road Writer Dana M. Samuelson with Mr. Charles King, Milam County Museum Director- 2009

Clovis Road Producer Named By Mulligan Life

Mulligan Life  announced yesterday via +Anna K. Nupson that a producer has been named for the motion picture production of Clovis Road. This is a great step in the process of beginning production. Highgate Publishing joins Mulligan Life in celebrating this announcement.

Jim Thomas - "Man of Many Roles"

In the early investigation of the Roy Hunt Murder it was thought that +James Clyde (Jim) Thomas might be a physician also because of his use of chloroform. Like many other leads about him this one turned out to be false. Also, he filled out a draft registration form but was not "drafted out." From the Lubbock Avalanche Journal Oct. 30, 1943

We received an email yesterday from +Traci Havins Odom, Director of Development, Texas Tech University Libraries about placing Clovis Road II in the Southwest Historical Collection. Traci has expressed an interest in the publication since we first met her in Dallas in 2010. She has accepted and will soon assume the position of Director of Membership for the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

Chloroform in the MO in Clovis Road

The arch villain in Clovis Road , Jim Thomas, used chloroform as part of his modus operandi along with head injuries, tying people up, masks, and gun battles. Hollywood villians of Spectre used chloroform in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball.  In his January 2012 article, “Good Drugs, Bad Doctors,” in Anesthesiology News, A J Wright discusses several notable true crimes associated with chloroform and other anesthetic drugs. He states these types of crimes began in the mid 1800s and the latest he cited was the “Mormon sex in chains” alleged kidnapping case from 1977. While Jim Thomas was not a doctor he was trained in anesthetic technique in the Nebraska prison hospital he was confined to until he returned to Texas. The article can be viewed at: www.anesthesiologynews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?

Dr. Zuck Helped Edit Clovis Road II

The verses Titus 2:11-14 at the end of the second edition and numerous corrections to Clovis Road first edition were suggested by +Dr. Roy B. Zuck, who went to be with the Lord on March 16, 2013. Dr. Zuck was a senior professor emeritus of Bible exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary, editor of Bibliotheca Sacra, our Adult Bible Fellowship teacher,  and his help was greatly appreciated. A favorite of his was Isaiah 43:2-3.

Clovis Road II Available

Here is +David A. (Sammy) Samuelson who has just unloaded 1232 pounds of the second edition of Clovis Road II for Highgate Publishing. In 2009 he went to Littlefield and Plainview and assisted with basic research at the two court houses on records relating to the Dr. Roy Hunt murder in 1943. Supplies of the new edition are limited.