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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1955
Page
2
Avalon Studio offers a Christmas special with one 8x10 portrait and six billfold photos for 2.98 dollars. Located at 218 South Main. Valid through November 27, 1955.
Speaks of greeting cards Christmas ecards clocks jewelry bill folds costume jewelry and gift wrap available. Mentions Dunn's Trading Post and Gifts 1004 S Main phone 5436 and Cotton sacks repair service. Also notes repair drop at Co op or with Frank Howard five miles of Hobbs on Denver City road. December 4 to 3tp.
Multiple rental ads list rooms and apartments at 314 North 6th 515 West Avenue C 525 West Avenue A and 519 W Ave F with contact numbers. A public auction December 10 1955 offers Harber Apartments Jar New Mexico to be moved or salvaged with 30 day removal and information from W E Harber Route 2 Grove Oklahoma. Wolf proof fencing offered by W D Sterritt Route 2 Box 137 A Roswell New Mexico with phone MA 2 5099.
The Spirit of Christmas drives card sending as two billion greetings are expected to mail nationwide before Christmas Eve. Designs reach 25 to 30 thousand yearly with new sizes shapes and colors including pink and mauve. Religious cards rise to 25 to 30 percent while humorous and floral designs grow. High quality art and parchment paper appear as cards target varied recipients from mother to newsboy.
This shopping guide notes new wrapping papers featuring embossing and sequins, self sticking ribbons, three-D trims and ready made bows. It urges mailing gift notes and packages by December deadlines with out of state items due December fifth and local items by December tenth.
One sure way to make a hit with any male on your Christmas list is to give him something he would not buy for himself. The camel seat offers comfort for camel riders and, in modern versions, is imported for sale at 69 50.
New York reports reveal a bright Christmas for dolls with an expected 22 million dolls purchased, totaling about 100 million dollars. The trend features highly realistic dolls with talking, crying, and other actions, plus celebrity linked designs and varied premium gifts nationwide.
Kansas City report says the American Hereford Association board passed a resolution restricting artificial insemination calves to registered Herefords only when the sire is alive at the time of insemination.
A boy orders forty eight hamburgers from a waiter, then jokes he has three buddies waiting outside and will not eat them all. The exchange plays on the boy's exaggerated appetite and humor.
USDA releases outlook noting heavy soybean stocks keep price gains next spring modest. After a strong 1955 crop, soybean product price spread likely to widen. Supplies of soybean oil and fats exceed domestic needs this year, with continued exports possibly rising if demand from Iron Curtain nations remains strong. Peanut support prices may fall in 1956.
A brown box bears the phrase So you have everything and reveals a note reading Here's a bag to put it in. The cryptic exchange hints at a puzzle or scavenger style clue embedded inside the package.
Haysville Kansas pupils will attend classes in improvised rooms such as hallways, private homes, churches, and a bus barn as the district struggles with enrollments rising to 1,464 in facilities designed for 350. The town’s enrollment has more than quadrupled since three years earlier.
Silver-haired Mrs. Dan Raymond of Muskegon Michigan says her 7421 mile solo ride to the West Coast was not dangerous. She notes many warned her, but she found the journey exciting and unusual rather than risky.
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