26 Nov 1948
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Newspaper
Lordsburg Liberal
Location
Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1948
Page
1
This piece urges Americans to observe Thanksgiving with faith in God and gratitude. It notes thirty million will attend church or synagogue services and asks readers to participate in local services and give thanks as the day was meant to be observed.
Chief Lalo Sanchez warned residents to cooperate with the police to stop a spate of attempted car thefts. In the past week two incidents occurred with unlocked vehicles on the street. He urged parking in garages or locking cars left outside.
The 1948 Hidalgo County Tuberculosis Association drives Christmas Seals to fund TB work. A boy by the fireplace with stockings prompts community support, led by chairwoman Mrs. Luella Clark as volunteers mail thousands of letters urging Hidalgo County residents to donate.
Schools will be closed Thursday and Friday to give students and teachers a longer holiday weekend.
Dr Marion Hotopp will attend a well child conference at the Health Dept Court House from Santa Fe to inspect infants and preschoolers and advise mothers. Her assistants include Dorothy Hacker and Miss Corbin. Mothers urged to complete immunizations.
Wesley Freeburg superintendent of Lordsburg Municipal schools was thrown from his horse while hunting on the Joe Rouse ranch. He is confined to his home with strained ligaments but expects to return to duties within a few days.
The State P. T. A. conference in Silver City decided Lordsburg will host the District meeting early next fall. The district covers Hidalgo Grant and Catron counties. A training school for P. T. A. workers was proposed.
The St. Paul’s Episcopal Guild will host an antique exhibit and silver tea at the Woman’s Club on Sunday afternoon December 5 from 2 to 6. Funds raised support the church building fund. Antiques exhibitors should contact Mrs Betty Smith, chairman, by calling 86. The public is invited.
The November meeting of the Business and Professional Women's club was led by the International Relations committee under Mrs. Lola Freeburg with assistants Raye Powell Olivia Wells and Pansy Stubbs. A covered dish luncheon preceded talks by Racene Ashton district president of the P T Association from Silver City on legislation and by Strackbein a NMST College teacher who recently returned from four years in Washington. The next gathering is the Christmas party on December 9.
The Lordsburg Lions Club will host their wives for a Ladies Night at the Woman's Club on Thursday night December 2. The Methodist ladies will serve a Turkey dinner with all the trimmings and an after dinner speaker will be invited to entertain. Members without reservations should contact the club president.
The Liberal office will be closed all day Thursday for Thanksgiving Day along with nearly all other business establishments in town.
Special services will be held at the Assembly of God church under Rev. R. 3. Bubb, pastor. The program starts at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 24, with a cordial invitation extended to all residents.
Wesley Freeburg Supt of Schools was reelected chairman of the Hidalgo District Yucca Council Boy Scouts at the District Committee meeting Monday evening November 22 at Lordsburg High School. His son Bernard is an Eagle Scout. Julian Allen was named Vice Chairman for another year and Rev Paul Hively District Commissioner for 1949.
Cris P Fox will headline the Lordsburg Chamber of Commerce annual banquet at the Woman's Club Building on Monday evening November 29th. The event includes election of officers for 1949 and a report on fifteen major Chamber projects.
Miss Virginia Kellogg of Beverly Hills staff writer for Warner Films visited Lordsburg on Tuesday. She gathered helpful historical notes from Emma Muir R. B. Owensby D. S. Pen and Pete Kerr for a fiction set in Lordsburg to be finished in about a year.
The Adult Homemaking class will meet on Tuesday Nov 30 instead of Nov 29. Members are busy making garments for themselves or others.
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