Tennis Match Sparks Gossip at Lookout Crest Inn
Auburn haired Hildy Sands defeats Miss Graydon in a tense intra mural tennis match watched by Bill Jarvis and an amused crowd. An elderly Mrs. Fasker hints at social snubs and a jailbird father to Hildy while Bill contemplates his engagement to Beverly Coulter amidst hotel intrigue. Fish supply note closes the clipping.
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Bill Jarvis
Lookout Crest Inn
Bill
Oldster
Hildy Sands
Coulter
Coulters
Hilda Sands
Beverly Coulter
Quintuplets Die After Premature Birth in Charity Hospital
Mrs. Albertha Allen a 25 year old Negro sugarcane field worker from White Castle La gave birth to quintuplets in Charity Hospital Tuesday. Three boys and two girls all died by noon with the first born dying at 9 o clock and others an hour apart. She was unaware of the delivery, had convulsions and slept under sedatives. The babies three months premature weighed three quarters to a pound each.
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New Orleans
Albertha Allen
White Castle
Charity Hospital
Allen
Alvin Wexler
Littlefield Host To Plains Clubs
D. H. Reed of Portales will speak at an Inter-City Rotary meeting in Littlefield. Rotarians host seven clubs and local Rotary-Ams for a buffet supper and 8 p.m. program at First Methodist Church. Invited clubs include Portales Clovis Muleshoe Hereford Levelland Lubbock and Plainview. The event was postponed from June 15 due to the Jaycee rodeo opening.
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Littlefield
D. H. Reed
Portales
Eastern New Mexico University
Rotary-Ams
First Methodist
Clovis
Muleshoe
Hereford
Levelland
Lubbock
Plainview
Oldest Murder Trial Record Found on Tablet in Iraq
Archaeologists uncovered a two-by-four-inch tablet in Iraq that reportedly preserves the oldest known murder trial from about 3,800 years ago. The inscription may reveal early legal proceedings and societal norms of the era.
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Iraq
Athlete's Foot Relief Ad Promises Fast Doze
An advertisement from Maxor Drug Company and White Deer Drug Co promotes T-4-L as a potent athlete's foot treatment. It claims 90 percent undiluted alcohol base for deep penetration and germ kill on contact with a one hour relief guarantee or 40 percent refund.
Childress Votes Retirement Plan
City council votes to set up a retirement system for city employees. Arvil Patton and Richard Bird to draft an ordinance for Texas Municipal Retirement System participation. Employees will be polled on participation, with 5 percent deductions matched by the city and 2 percent interest on the fund.
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Childress
Arvil Patton
Richard Bird
Texas
President Truman signs big boost to price support program
President Truman signed a bill boosting by two billion dollars the funds for the government price support program. The fund, now totaling about 6.85 billion, backs prices for cotton wheat corn rice tobacco peanuts and several other crops through the CCC.
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Washington
Truman
CCC
Jets Produce Thunder Claps Over Dayton Mystery
Two F-86 jets at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base bounced sound waves off the ground to explain Dayton’s two mysterious explosions. Flying faster than 700 mph, they climbed to 50,000 feet and dived, creating thunder like noises about 20 seconds later as ground waves struck.
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Dayton
Ohio
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Col
Franklin Paul
Wright-Patterson
Hamburger Father of Houston Councilman Dies at 80
L A Hamburger, father of Houston councilman Phil Hamburger, died at his home in Houston on Tuesday morning. He was 80 years old.
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Houston
U.P
L. A. Hamburger
Phil Hamburger
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White Deer Drug CO
GAR
Conoco
Continental Oil. Company
Jets
Globe-News
Ib.e Goodrich
Silvertowns
F Goodrich
Rand McNally & CO
Fourth
Fillmore
Tire Headquarters
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