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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1947
Page
4
More than 300 farm and business leaders are set to attend a Cotton Council program. The WTCC announced a one day meeting focusing on staple and variety values and market themes. Prewar gasoline in Berlin was 38 cents a gallon.
Opening day parade for the Panhandle South Plains Fair will feature a 14-foot high rubber zoo and giant figures from a Pittsburgh supply house Jean Gros Inc. The three mile procession along Broadway to the fairgrounds is expected to draw 75 000 to 100 000 spectators with bands and a wild west section among other attractions.
Judge Dan Blsir will impanel the 72nd district grand jury in Cochran county Monday morning and call dockets. Only two formally filed cases expected for jury referral, including burglary and disposal of mortgaged property. Trial of criminal cases to follow the week of April 28.
Local authorities located Fannie Whitet at a city hotel after her beat was found late yesterday. No further details were released, and investigators are pursuing standard procedures to understand the circumstances.
In Warsaw officials announced that Poland is accelerating the removal of Germans from western territories, especially Lower Silesia, with about 400,000 remaining. A group planned to leave Wroclaw on April 20 for Russian and British zones, as western lands were part of former German territory east of the provisional German Polish boundary. The foreign ministers council discussed reviving the boundary to return agricultural lands to Germany. Aluminum is noted as Earth's most abundant metal.
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