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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1946
Page
7
Government savings bonds complete an 11 year cycle from Savings to Defense to War bonds and back to Savings. About 85 million Americans have bought roughly one eighth of the national debt, with record peace time purchases as taxes and incomes rise.
The rain tree of Peru bears large umbrella leaves that condense atmospheric moisture and yield 10 to 15 gallons of water daily. The word jetty derives from the French jetee and means something thrown out.
The grammar school district meet for rural high schools in Lubbock county and Wilson and Southland districts will run April 26 27 at Cooper school eight miles south of here. E A Deering Cooper superintendent directs. Preliminaries start 10 30 A M Friday with finals Saturday at 10 A M except tennis on Texas Tech courts starting Thursday.
New York April 20 housewives will suffer from a 25 percent cut in domestic flour production industry spokesmen said. Restaurant trade could seek substitutes in graham and cracked wheat bread to cope with the reduction.
Lt. Col. Marcus O. Owens Jr. rises to deputy assistant chief of staff in the operations division of the North Atlantic Wing of the Air Transport Command at Westover Field Massachusetts. A veteran of Europe with the 61st Troop Carrier group he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross the Air Medal with three clusters seven battle stars and the French Croix de Guerre. Owens attended Texas Tech before enlisting in 1941 and served with the 10th and 61st groups overseas before returning to the United States.
Reporter Louis P. Lochner notes Berliners largely ignore Hitler's birthday anniversary as the city endures siege. He recalls April 20 once marked by Nazi parades and gifts, now faded amid the Soviet advance and war destruction.
Mexico City enjoyed clear skies and sun after ten days of rain as a heavy shower dropped nine tenths of an inch in an hour. The Weather bureau said the rain benefited crops, especially oranges, easing a year of moisture shortages for farming in the valley and northern areas.
A Russian woman, Mrs. David Yatesky, 33, wife of a Soviet purchasing commission official, delivered the first twin at sea and then, after her condition worsened, gave birth to the second in Port Angeles, Washington. She was under medical care at Port Angeles hospital with Dr. J. L. McFadden reporting the recent events.
The article notes that no one looked at Hitler's enormous desk, now a junked relic lying on a sandpile outside his former grand study, signaling the vacant relics of a fallen regime.
Lubbock Texas Tech students organize a college branch of the Red Cross to aid relief work. Plans include water safety first aid nutrition and home nursing classes and preparation for recreational work teaching or business. Other items note 1860s steel collars and an unrelated birth report.
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