O L Weakley Retires After 38 Years at First National Bank
O L Weakley, vice president of the First National Bank in Post, retires after a long career starting in 1917 with service interrupted only by World War I. He received a farewell watch from Ira Lee Duckworth and Irby G Metcalf Jr. and plans to take it easy before possibly resuming business with longtime associate Duckworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. L
Ollie) Weakley
First National Bank
Weakley
Ira Lee Duckworth
Irby G. Metcalf Jr
Bank
Baylor University
Harlin- Simmons University
Post
Ira Weakley
Garza County
Chamber of Commerce
Masonicture
Duckworth
Kate Eason
Hous
Post Dispatch
Advancement Awards Presented To Nine Boy Scouts At Post
Nine Boy Scouts received advancement awards at Troop 16 Court of Honor in POST. Paul Wheatley and Johnny Kemp earned Star Scout recognition. Others, including Jeddy Windham and Marshall Ticer, received special badges and merit badges in poultry raising beef production hog production bookbinding firemanship home repair and first aid. Scoutmaster Paul Simpson presented the awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeddy Windham
Everette Windham
Marshall Ticer
L. O. Ticer
South Plains Council
Comanche Trail
Crosbyton
Paul Wheatley
Johnny Kemp
Tommy Young
Curtis Steel
Joel Morris
Ray Charles Garner
James Minor
Paul Simpson
Lubbock Social Welfare Panel to Discuss Family Life
A noon Monday luncheon at the Caprock Hotel will feature a panel on Marriage Family Life and Child Guidance with Dr. Adolf Philipps and Texas Tech personnel guiding the discussion. Reservations urged by calling Porter 2 8196 before 10 am Monday.
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Lubbock Social Welfare Association
Caprock Hotel
Adolf Philippsborn
Congregation Shearith Israel
Sylvan Kaplan
Texas Tech
Wealthy Bachelor Denies Princess Margaret Marriage Rumors
Billy Wallace, among Britain's wealthiest bachelors, dismissed reports he will wed Princess Margaret as utter nonsense. He follows Captain Townsend in denying a royal engagement, amid persistent rumors of an upcoming announcement before summer.
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Rome
Billy Wallace
Britain
Margaret
Wallace
Herbert Agar
Peter Townsend
London
Townsend
Bus Plunge in Catamarca Kills Sixteen in Andes Crash
A bus carrying Argentines plunged about 1000 feet down a mountainside into a creek near Catamarca on Friday. Sixteen people died and fourteen were injured in the accident.
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Catamarca
Argentina
Here
Dimmitt High's The Locked Room Draws Suspect Lineup
The senior class presents The Locked Room at 8 15 p m in the high school auditorium on Thursday and Friday. Cast includes Jerry Noble Regene Reynolds Mickey Brock Richard Wood Gwen Smith Ivan Sinclair Louise Simpson Monette Kenmore Edgar Dennis Ronald Curtis George Ray Bobby Brock Ted Robb. James W Bates directs with student directors Shirley Tucker and Saundra Hance assisting. Dale Albright handles set work.
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Dimmitt High School
Edgar Dennis
Richard Wood
Ivan Sinclair
Bobby Brook
Dimmitt
Jerry Noble
Regene Reynolds
Mickey Brock
Gwen Smith
Louise Simpson
Monette Kenmore
Ronald Curtis
George Ray
Bobby Brock
Ted Robb
Theda Bara Funeral Held Quietly in Beverly Hills
Hollywood mourns Theda Bara 64 who died Thursday night of cancer. Private rites were conducted at Pierce Bros. Mortuary Chapel Beverly Hills with only her husband Charles Brabin and sister Lori Bara present per her last wishes. Cremation expected. she is survived by Brabin and her mother Mrs Pauline Louise Bara plus sister Lori.
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Hollywood
Theda Bara
Miss Bara
Pierce Bros. Mortuary Chapel
Beverly Hills
Charles Brabin
Pauline Louise Bara
Lori Bara
Last Rites Held For Father Of El Paso Times Publisher
Funeral services were held in El Paso for T. E. Roderick 89 father of El Paso Times publisher Dorrance D. Roderick. Roderick died Thursday with Rev. B M G Williams and Rev. Robert Gibson officiating. Burial is planned Monday in Brooklyn Iowa family plot.
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Father of
el Paso Times
EL Paso
T. E. Roderick
Dorrance D. Roderick
Roderick
B. M. G. Williams
Robert Gibson
Brooklyn
Tahoka Jaycees Install New Officers Monday Banquet
Tahoka Jaycees will install officers at a banquet Monday at 7 30 p m in the school cafeteria Ralph Krebbs of Lubbock will be one of the speakers Members of the Jaycee-Ettes and other citizens are invited Also officers and members from service clubs may attend and anyone interested may join at Jaycee Hall two miles southeast of Tahoka
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Jaycee Hall
Tahoka
Farmer Fanie Grobbelaar’s Dog Protects Seven Piglets
A dog on the Fanie Grobbelaar farm near Wellington South Africa tends seven piglets in a rural scene. The farm lies in the Western Cape region and reflects typical livestock care on smallholdings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanie Grobbelaar
Wellington
South Africa
Mercy flight crash in Australia kills six on board
A Royal Australian Air Force Lincoln bomber on a mercy mission crashed into a New South Wales mountainside killing all six aboard including newborn Anna Huxley and her nurse en route to Brisbane for urgent transfusions. Rescuers recovered the four crewmen and two passengers in rugged terrain 100 miles southwest of Brisbane. Wing Commander John Costello, a WWII air hero, piloted the infant to hospital before death.
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Brisbane
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
Anna Huxley
Townsville
New South Wales
Here
John P. Costello
Lincoln
Britain
Coloradoan seeks hay subsidy revival for drought counties
Chairman Harry Clark of the Colorado Drought Committee urged the U S Department of Agriculture to renew the hay subsidy program for 28 drought disaster counties. The program began August 9 1954 and ended April 1. He cited windstorm damage to eastern Colorado grazing.
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Denver
Harry Clark
Colorado Droughts Committee
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Clark
Colorado
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O. L. Weakley
Post Bank
H. B. Herd
R. W. Strandtmann
20Th St
University of Utah
Dugway Proving Grounds
Eugene Wadsworth
Austin
J. G. Wadsworth
25Th St
Young Wadsworth
University of Texas
Amarillo
Geo. Wilson
Beaniff
New Orleans
Corporation Court
E. W. Harrison
C. N. Harrison
Rt. 3
Lubbock
James W. Bates
Shirley Tucker
Saundra Hance
Dale Albright
Bara
Heabeg
Laster Copper Plumbing System
College Ave
Dial
Bold Griffith Furniture Barn
North College
Tahoka Jaycees
Avetenele-Jocksal
Sen
Pilloned
Coloradoan
Harold Griffith
Kaoehler
Kroehler
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