Apartments At LAAF Provide Good Quarters For Veterans' Families
The Lubbock Army Air Field housing project run by the Housing Authority of Lubbock offers wartime quarters for 140 family units with a long waiting list. Residents, mostly veterans, push for reconversion of the entire LAAF to expand living space, with plans to add church services, a store, and theater, while continuing to provide meals in the cafeteria and shared recreation facilities.
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Lubbock
Victory Village
Hurlwood Heights U.S.A
Crescent City
Federal Public Housing Authority
B.O.Q
WAC
Texas Tech
FPHA
LAAF
Resereation
Ivan Zickefoose
Tech rodeo crowns Miss Hollis Holt queen
Miss Hollis Loraine Holt a freshman arts and sciences student from Big Lake was crowned rodeo queen at Texas Techs first All Western days celebration reflecting the campus rodeo week festivities.
Scout And Cub Groups Formed In South Plains Region
One new Cub pack and four new Boy Scout troops formed in the South Plains area this week. Wilson hosts Cub pack 94 sponsored by local churches with leaders noted. Bledsoe adds troop 48 led by Homer Altman. Meadow Lions sponsor troop 107 led by Norris G Norman. Southland school sponsors troop 108 under Lewis Price. Liberty school near Plainview sponsors tribe 109 with W A Lindsey as scoutmaster. Also notes funeral for John A Fogarty 70 at Post Methodist Church with burial in Post Cemetery.
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John Fogarty
John A. Fogarty
Gertrude Wayland
Lubbock
College Avenue
Methodist Church
Post
Post Cemetery
Plains Funeral Home
Ophelia Fogarty
Paul
Joe
John
Jim Fogarty
South Plains Council
Wilson
H. D. Seago
D. K. Shepherd
F. E. Smith
Ira Clary
Bledsoe
Homer Altman
R. E. Knowlton
M. W. Ellington
John Kennedy
W. T. Day
The
Lions Club At
Meadow
Norris G. Norman
Fred L. Sinson
Tom Brown
J. Roland Evans
John A. Roberts
Truett Babb
Sam S. Ellis
Southland
Southland School
Lewis F. Price
J. P. Hewlett
I. J. Duff
Emmett Brooks
Liberty School
Plainview
W. A. Lindsey
E. F. Readhiner
J. H. Meyer
Charlie Parks
Parent-Teachers Association of the
Political Parties Train Their Sights
Washington dispatch notes both parties target six key states New York Pennsylvania California Illinois Ohio Missouri as pivotal for House control in November. Republicans claim window to gain much of the 27 seats needed while Democrats insist they will hold. Senate balance also looms with 35 incumbents seeking reelection and a net ten seat shift Republicans must achieve.
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Washington
House of Representatives
New York
Pennsylvania
California
Illinois
Ohio
Missouri
House
Senate
Fayetteville Mayor May Hold Record for Service
AUSTIN April 20 The League of Texas Municipalities says Fayetteville Mayor W. C. Lang Lotz may hold the state record for continuous public service. Elected mayor in April 1916 after eight years as alderman, he has 38 years in public office.
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Austin
League of Texas Municipalities
W. C. Langlotz
Fayetteville
Hearing Set On Harold Hellums Vacuum Lease
The Railroad Commission scheduled a May 24 hearing on Harold Hellums request to use a vacuum on his Yoast leases in Bastrop County's Yoast field. The article notes 45 House seats to fill and a split representation of 22 Democrats, 22 Republicans, and one American Labor. It also reports New York electing a senator and CIO PAC backing a Progressive Democratic ticket.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Harold Hellums
Yoast
Bastrop County
New York
Sidney Hillman
CIO Political Action Committee
Moravian matchmaking by lot in 18th century Salem
A 1946 note recalls Moravian church customs in Salem North Carolina where marriage proposals were conveyed to girls after a lot was drawn to judge divine approval. The item contrasts this with modern shipping, noting Soo Canals handle more traffic than Panama and Suez combined during the ice free season.
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Lubbock
Texas
Salem
N. C
Soo Canals
Lakes Huron
Superior
Panama and
Suez Canals
Ships Magazine
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Dallas
William Fogarty
Waco
Bryant’s Taxi Hunter
Cotten & Shorty Bryant
Casella
Mark Halsey Drug
Bondex
Cook Paint & Varnish Co
Newsom-Gibson Company
Lubbock Sash & Door Co
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Sansom Paint & Paver Co
13Th
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C.O.D
K&k Sales Company
Pittsburgh Life
Pittsburgh
Zale
Zale’s
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