Mercado Highlights Spanish Day at Tech Stadium
A Pan American day celebration at Jones Stadium featured a Mercado market with OC L Slaton Junior High and West Texas State High School booths selling flowers hats and souvenirs. Puppets from Wasyland College and a Don Quixote show complemented Spanish music and colorful costumes including a Fiesta Queen Grace Melendez and various bullfighter and señorita outfits.
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Jimmie Henley
Journal
Tech
Jones Stadium
South Plains
Panhandle
OC. L. Slaton
Lubbock
West Texas
West Texas State High School
Canyon
Wasyland College Spanish and Art
Don Quixote
Hardin-Simmons University
West Texas State High 9
Fiesta Tech
O. L. Slaten
la Prensa
San Antonio
Casilda Cintron
Guayma
Puerto Rico
Miss Cintron
West Texas State College
Frances Johnson
G. W. Johnson
O. L. Slaton
Mercado
Orquesta Sotelo
Elizabeth Nixson Junior High School
Amarillo
McMurry College
Las Chapanecas
Wayland
Shelby Collier
Carolyn Abernethy
Plainview
Eugene Caldwell
West Texas State College High School
Abernethy
New Mexico
Sennrita Joyce Jones
A. G. Jones
Lea Hall
Cabbie Encounters Unexpected Passenger on Hospital Run
Denver cabbie Cloud J. McIntosh picked up Mary Gallegos and her mother to Presbyterian Hospital when a newborn baby appeared in the back seat. The infant, six pounds eight ounces, was delivered at the ER with nurses and internes aiding. Both mother and baby were reported doing fine, and McIntosh noted no one paid him due to the chaos.
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Denver
Cloud J. McIntosh
Presbyterian Hospital
Mary Gallegos
McIntosh
Gallegos
Tokyo records highest monthly suicides in 60 years
Police report 129 Tokyo residents took their own lives in one month, the highest monthly total in six decades of records. In other news Eliseo Garrido, a Chihuahua student at Wayland College, plays guitar at the Spanish Fiesta Mercado at Tech Saturday. Some hotels won permit raises of about 10 percent this year despite higher operating costs.
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Tokyo
Japan
Eliseo Garrido
Chihuahua
Mexico
Wayland College
Plainview
Tech
Troy Fort and J. D. Helleyman Draw Even In Levelland Roping
Levelland crowd will see Troy Fort and J. D. Helleyman clash Sunday at 2 p m in a roping match at the Levelland Rodeo arena. Each has one prior win and both are slated to rope and tie 12.
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Troy Fort
J. D. Helleyman
Levelland
Levelland Rodeo Arena
Change of venue denied in Lamesa shooting case
Special Judge Louis B. Reed overruled defense motion for a change of venue in the Victor F. Rogers case charged with slaying city policeman Claud Johnson in Lamesa on March 29. Trial date set for May 1 with a special ven te of about 135 members to be called. Also notes the Morehead Planetarium at UNC, claimed to be the only one on an American campus, drawing thousands annually.
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Lamesa
Louis B. Reed
Victor F. T Jack Rogers
Claud Johnson
Morehead Planetarium
University of North Carolina
Scots to Have Park London Pi
Britain's secretary of state for santtade announced a government purchase of a 12,370 acre estate forming a national park. The site includes Ben Lomond mountain and a 13 mile stretch of Loch Lomond shores in Scotland.
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London Pi
Loch Lomond
Britain
For Santtade
Ben Lomond
Cattle Favor Specific Tree Shoots in Grazing
Cattle show a preference for yellow poplar white ash and black locust shoots when grazing. The detail notes note their attraction to these tree species as forage in certain areas.
Local Ranch Events Include Roping and Cutting Contests
Calves will exceed 200 pounds in the matched roping contest with Fort from Lovington New Mexico and Holleyman from Ozona contributing. The program also features a cutting horse contest and a jackpot roping event.
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Fort
Lovington
N. M
Holleyman
Ozona
Texas Revenue Fund Hits Low
The Texas general revenue fund fell by 12 million dollars in March to the lowest level in four years with a cash balance of 27.2 million as of March 3. March spending totaled 50.1 million, pushing year to date government outlays to 326.2 million, led by education costs at 137.8 million under the Gilmer-Aiken program. Oil revenues lagged 11 million behind last year’s comparable period.
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Texas
General Revenue Fund
State Comptroller's Office
Comptroller
Comptroller’s Office
Gilmer- Aiken
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