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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1956
Page
8
Time runs short for Lubbock area boys to sign up for the Soap Box Derby as entrants total 51. The course stresses months of prep and strict rules for car construction and racing. Local winners travel to Akron for the All-American Derby with a $15,000 college scholarship prize and a top prize of $5,000.
Texas Farm Bureau President J Walter Hammond will visit Lubbock Tuesday night and urge county officials to call a public meeting for Farm Bureau members He will address the current farm program and the Bureau stance on state and national issues. The visit follows a local note on a proposed Texas Farm Bureau withdrawal from the national group and the 90 percent price supports resolution. H L Hub King Brownfield will preside at the 8 pm meeting at the Lubbock Hotel with Hammond arriving from Waco.
A boy must be accompanied by a parent to sign up. Two more boys joined Saturday, bringing the total to 51 youngsters. New entrants include John Dudley, 12, son of L S Dudley, 3113 31st St sponsored by Shook Tire Company, and Mike Holmes, 14, son of Keith Holmes, 2113 38th St sponsored by Comfort Heating and Air Conditioning.
Dawson County will see over 500 irrigation wells in use this year, per County Agent Leroy Colgan. About 70,000 acres of cropland will be watered at least once, with 33,000 irrigated before planting and 37,000 during the growing season. Fifty thousand acres are cotton driven, and grain sorghums will also be irrigated on limited plots.
Isaac Orsteen Penn 62 of 5408 Kings Ave. died Friday night at Methodist Hospital after a four day stay due to a heart condition. Funeral at 2 p.m. today at Vandelia Village Church of Christ with Earl Cantwell officiating. Burial in Silverton Cemetery. Survivors include wife two sons Toby and Truett two daughters Haskell Turner and Gilmer Dennison five sisters one brother and nine grandchildren.
The nation's first regularly scheduled air passenger river dam project began in 1926 when Stout Air Services started round trips between Detroit and Grand Rapids. The dam is described as 1,000 feet wide and 120 feet high forming a lake more than 16 miles long and is noted as the largest earthwork dam of its kind in the world.
Gilmore and others on cross country routes complete rapid medical transport flights from Lubbock Municipal Airport. A Mayo Clinic patient was flown from Rochester, Minnesota, in a Cessna 310 with an ambulance awaiting at the airport. Ed Castleberry bought a Cessna 182. other pilots earned licenses and new airport staff joined the Lubbock complex as runways reopen after maintenance.
The Maleshire senior class presented a two day run ending successfully with cast including Seigfrid Hoffman Bob Wingo Thurston Garrison Pat Simnacher Lindar June Freeman Buddy Pool Gwineth Cox J is Sowder Bil l Bobby Black stage manager Kenneth Landers. A new water line section was prepared by refilling ditch cut across the airfield and securing with cement before asphalt laying.
A doctor explains Mrs. Browns husband cannot sleep due to financial anxiety. He notes spending loss creates imbalance and advises prudent investing for steady income. The dialogue covers stock ownership myths and dividend growth as a long term plan.
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