Two-headed lizard is discovered in Buffalo
Published 11:00 am Wednesday, October 14, 2026
This week in Dallas County history, as recorded in the Buffalo Reflex.
Oct. 13, 1966
Mrs. Jimmie Hayes, Buffalo, displayed an unusual lizard she found on her porch. It had two heads and two pairs of front legs. From the front legs back, it appeared as one animal with a head on each end.
Buffalo Laundry reopened in its new location in the former Charles Croslin building at the corner of Maple and Franklin.
The young people of Plad Union Church were to have a wiener roast.
Buffalo Homecoming queen candidates: freshmen Vicki Garrett and Karen Ballard; sophomores Terri Hoover and Debbie Howser; juniors Sharon Bradley and Janice Wise; and seniors Carolyn Tucker and Kathie McIntire.
Keith Hix, a brother of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reed’s daughter-in-law, Claire Reed, was killed in Vietnam.
Ernest Reed displayed a large turnip he grew in Buffalo. It was 27 inches in circumference and weighed 9 3/4 pounds.
The Mo. Southwest Redbone Champion Wild Coon Hunt, Bench Show and Treeing Contest was to be held in Buffalo.
Showing at Buffalo Theatre: “The Great Race” and “Namu, the Killer Whale,” with Robert Lansing and Lee Meriwether.
Showing at Autoscope Drive-in Theatre: “Finger on the Trigger,” with Rory Calhoun, James Philbrook and Silvia Solar.
Area deaths: John T. Arrowood, Ethel Mae Hale, Agnes Heavner, Maudie Evangeline Allen, Juanita Grace Vickery and Roy Sprague.
Oct. 14, 1976
D.E. Burrell Community Health Center was to open in Springfield, providing mental health services to several counties.
Ron Sullivan and Dave Hendrick, mechanics who moved from Alaska, ran an airplane repair shop at Buffalo’s airport.
Burglars broke into Johnson’s Pharmacy by cutting a hole in the roof. They made off with money and drugs.
Area deaths: Wanda L. Mangione, Charles Wilbur Hemm and Lillian Pauline Darnell.
Oct. 15, 1986
Former Dallas County Sheriff Noble Gower, 81, died at Cox Medical Center, Springfield.
BHS students were rehearsing for “The Night of January 16,” a three-act play by Ayn Rand.
BHS novice debaters Ted Scott and Jimmy Kjar won fourth at Kickapoo’s Speech and Debate Tournament.
Craig Anderson, Skyline soccer goalie, established a school record in a game against Hillcrest, stopping 42 shots on goal.
Robert McMillan, OACAC Dallas County Neighborhood Center supervisor, earned a Master of Social Work from MU.
Highway 65 Drive In: “One Crazy Summer,” with John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bob Goldthwait and Curtis Armstrong.
Deaths: Homer Joe Williams, Edgar C. Hill, Laura Rebecca Paulson, Edith Frances (Patterson) Dowell and Noble Gower.
Oct. 16, 1996
Dallas County’s Alumni Buffalo Gals were to participate in the 71st annual American Royal Parade in Kansas City.
Macks Creek senior Catherine Bonner was named a commended student in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
Octa and Ruth McMillan, Buffalo, marked their 60th anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sturdevant, Windyville, and Kenneth and Bessie Thomas were to celebrate their 50th anniversaries.
Buffalo Kiwanis officers: Bill Shepard, president; Alan Glor, first vice president; Dale Mills, second VP; Jim Brown, secretary; Bob Lyons, treasurer; and George Shaffer, past president.
Pat Templeton opened The Breakfast Nook at 903 W. Dallas St., Buffalo.
Area deaths: John Harvey Drysdale, Naomi Pauline Crystal Spittler, Pete Davis, William Harvey Tomlinson, Roy John McCoy, Philip Eugene Hyde, Mary Takash, William David Lusk, Jerl Wayne Whillock and Virginia F. Scott.
Oct. 18, 2006
Dallas County Car Club, formed in 1985 with six or seven members, now had 30 members. Ron Gilpin was president.
Buffalo Carnival royalty: second-graders Juliette Moore and Kyle Frye, sixth-graders Mallory Kjar and James Ray, and seniors Chris Abercrombie and Dayanna Serrato.
Richard L. Peterson, 59, Brighton, died in a collision on Mo. 38 in Dallas County.
Ray and Shirley Witt, Buffalo, and Don and Dixie Sensabaugh, formerly of Buffalo, marked their 50th anniversaries.
Area deaths: Russell Edward Reavis, Glen Dee Green, Anna Mae Little, Jacob Burkhart Auker, Harry C. “Pete” Wilson, Orrin Paul Williams and Michael Lee Templeton.
Oct. 12, 2016
O’Bannon Bank planned to close its downtown Buffalo facility within the next three months.
Bill Monday, O’Bannon Bank CEO, received the Donald J. Babb Award at the CMH Burgundy Ball.
Area deaths: Nancy Irene Tucker, Linda Lou (Peck) Cooper, James Arnold “Jim” Wiseman, George D. Anderson, Anita Helene Domann Settle, Mary Jane Williams, Janie Alpha (Pennel) Douglas and Rodney N. Barker.
