Retired Minister William B Jordan Dies in Floydada
Floydada obituary notes William B Jordan a Floyd County pioneer and retired minister and farmer died at 4 p m Saturday after a heart attack. Funeral services at First Baptist Church led by Rev R Farr Miller with Harmon Funeral Home handling burial in Floydada Cemetery. Survivors include wife two sons Rev Arthur Jordan of Baytown J B of Albuquerque a stepson Ray O'Brien of Tulare Calif and two daughters Mrs Ulman Moss missionary in Venezuela and Mrs Leighton Maggard of Plainview.
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R. Farr Miller
Floyd County
Floydada
Harmon Funeral Home
Arthur Jordan
Baytown
J. B
Albuquerque
Ray O’brien
Tulare
Calif
Ulman Moss
Venezuela
Leighton Maggard
Plainview
Rites Pending For Lamesa Resident
Funeral arrangements for John Thomas Blair 73 a Lamesa resident for about three months who died Saturday evening in Price-Black Hospital were pending at Higginbotham Funeral Home Blair born Goodwater Alabama February 15 1882 moved to Lamesa from Taft California a retired oil well driller and Baptist Church member survives three sisters Zina Livingston Hugh McKelvey Goodwater and Mrs Jones Major Benjamin Carlin who crossed the Atlantic in a Duck plans a Flyneyland Australia trip by the same means
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Lamesa
John Thomas Blair
Price-Black Hospital
Higginbotham Funeral Home
Blair
Goodwater
Ala
R. L. Jones
Orl
Taft
Calif
The
Baptist Church
Zina Livingston
Hugh McKelvey
Jones
Benjamin Carlin
Atlantic
Australia
Testimonial Proof of Results From Spears Chiro Practic
Denver chiropractic sanitarium and hospital offers testimonials of results for arthritis cancer polio epilepsy rheumatic fever multiple sclerosis cerebral palsy muscular dystrophy strokes liver skin stomach kidney and many other ailments.
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Spears Chiropractic Sanitarium and Hospital
Denver
Colo
Turkey Shoot At Reese Village Draws 450 Shooters
More than 450 gunners attended the Reese PTA sponsored turkey shoot near Reese Village Elementary School. J W Watkins of Lubbock won about $50 in ham and bacon from eight awards, as 76 prizes were distributed by M Sgt Peter O Keefe and Capt Richard Boswurm. Shooters came from Lubbock Shallowater Wolfforth Levelland and Reese AFB. The event funded school grounds landscaping and netted about $400.
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Reese Village
J. W. Watkins
Lubbock
Reese Pta
Peter O’keefe
Richard Boswurm
Plans Mapped For Tax School In West Texas
The West Texas Association of City-School Tax Assessors announced a tax school to be held on the Texas Tech campus in June 2022. Drs. W. J. Davis and J. W. Jackson will lead the sessions with participation from A. W. Curlee and other West Texas officials.
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Caprock
West Texas
Montie Townsend
Amarillo
Ray Fuqua
Odessa
Ben Armstrong
Wichita Falls
Harvey Austin
Lubbock
Amelia Fry
Plains
Curlee
Lavala Grand Jury Plans Return for Land Probe May 9
Lavala County grand jury will resume hearings on May 9 in Crystal City. The panel continues its survey of the veterans land program and has already held the longest session of any Lavala County jury in South Texas.
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Lavala Grand Jury
Crystal City
Lavala County Grand Jury
Veterans Land Program
South Texas
Rites Set For C W Choate In Lamesa
Funeral services for Arley W. Choate will be at 1 p m Sunday in Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel La mesa with Rev E L Jones of Bryan Street Baptist Church officiating. Choate born Coryell County lived in La mesa since 1927 and ran a gravel business with his brother. He is survived by two sisters Mrs Vada Wright and Mrs Thurman D Pruitt of Carlsbad New Mexico and four brothers H C La mesa Jack Robbinsville N J J B Pasadena and J M Carlsbad Memorial Park burial planned.
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Arley W. Choate
Higginbotham Funeral Home
E. L. Jones
Bryan Street Baptist Church
Coryell County
Choate
iVada Wright
Thurman ‘D. Pruitt
Red Chief Guarded
Delegates from Africa and Asia arrive as authorities seal Dja karta airport before Chou Enlai’s arrival aboard an American made DC6 with two Ree representatives. A recent airline crash killed eight Red Chinese delegates and sparked sabotage claims by the Peiping government. Nehru Nasser and U Nu also land. Formosa issue to be settled outside the UN.
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Djakarta
Chou
Ree
Peiping
U.S
Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Egypt
Abdel Gamal Nasser
1 Nu
Rangoon
Burma
Formosa
Nasser
U Nu
Henry
United Nations
China
Woman Named Potter County Court at-Law Judge
Amarillo dated April 16 reports Potter County commissioners appoint Mary Lou Robinson a 28 year old Amarillo woman to the newly created Court at Law. She becomes the county s first woman jurist and will chair criminal and civil cases while County Judge Bill Adams handles probate and administration. Her husband A J Robinson is a former district attorney. She earns 7500 dollars annually and is to begin duties Monday.
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Amarillo
Potter County Commissioners Court
Potter
Robinson
J. Blake Timmons
Adams
Bonita Potter
State Bar of Texas
Rebecca Ryan
Lorenzo Robertson districts fail to consolidate plan
In Lorenzo and Robertson, Saturday voters rejected consolidation 87 to 1 in Lorenzo and 42 to 33 in Robertson. The defeat keeps the districts separate for now, with Lorenzo hosting high school students and Robertson maintaining only an elementary school. County Judge Cecil Berry ordered the election.
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Lorenzo
Lorenzo and Robertson
Robertson
W. O. Cherry
Cecil Berry
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William B Jordan
First Baptist Church
Turkey
C. W. Choate
Red Chief
Potter County
Robertson-Lorenzo
Ecuadoran Coffee Institute
Jipijapa Province
Dutch New Guinea
Broadway Park
Perey
Lcoudas Optical
En Oi An
Broadway
T.V. Rockers
Rockers
Harold Griffith
Wnorth College
Birdseye
Kaylai
Sore Ecels
Oxfords
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