Lubbock High Is Contest Winner At Panhandle Event
Lubbock High led a large Panhandle vocational agriculture contest as 525 high school students from Areas 1 2 and 4 competed. Alternates attended films in the Aggie Memorial Auditorium while a noon luncheon by Future Farmers of America Tech collegiate chapter and a Plains Cooperative Oil Mill hosted a supper. Medals banners and ribbons were awarded at 6 p.m. by contest superintendents.
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Panhandle
Tech
Texas
Aggie Memorial Auditorium
Future Farmers of America, Tech
Plains Cooperative Oil Mill
Aggie i Wi
Ray C. Mowery
Jester Vetoes Funds andWarns on State Budget
Ford H. Jester used his first veto of the session to urge trimming or abandoning pending appropriations to avoid breaking his no tax mandate. He warned that current measures could destabilize state financing, noting a planned balance of 12 million dollars and criticizing unequal teacher salaries in districts.
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Ford H. Jester
Jester
Cister
Three Held In 1100 Theft At East Broadway Carnival
Three suspects were in custody over the alleged snatching of about 1100 from a Mexican woman's purse at the East Broadway carnival grounds. Officers recovered the money late last night. Deputies Bob Adkinson and George Eubank helped make the arrests.
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Bob Adkinson
George’ Eubank
Royal Crown
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Weekend Forecast For South Plains Warmer Temperatures
The South Plains may see mainly cloudy skies with scattered showers as a warm front passes. Temperatures hold steady today with a slight rise Monday, after a Saturday low of 20 degrees and a 64 degree high. Rain was reported across the southern and south central state with values in San Antonio 22 inches, Corpus Christi 52, Del Rio .11, Galveston .14 and Houston 31.
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U. S
Reau Station
Associated Press
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
del Rio
Galveston
Houston
Reeder Quits Police Post
Former police chief Don Reeder resigns ending a long tenure. Unclear replacement plans include an acting chief from current department leadership. Key figures cited include Sheriff Grady Harrist and ex assistant chief Bill Mabray, now an FBI agent in Knoxville Tennessee.
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Don Reeder
Reeder
Hunter
Ceromanel
Police
Dermans
Isaach Reeder
Grady Harrist
Bill Mabray
Lubbock
FBI
Knoxville, Tenn
Harrist
Tom Abel
Ornamental radiator cap fatally wounds woman in Atlanta
A pedestrian was pierced through the heart by a decorative radiator cap on a moving car in Atlanta as it turned left. Police hold the driver on reckless driving charges. The incident occurred near King Edward and Edwy streets, with a person identified by station records.
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Atlanta
Investigation Racket Hit After Texas City Disaster
In Texas City on April 26, state highway patrolmen hunt alleged buzzards stealing money and jewelry from envelopes of victims killed in the April 16 disaster. Private investigators offering to locate missing bodies for relatives at 200 each are also called out as a vicious racket. Patrolmen Nelson and Wheeler run a property room at Camp Wallace guarding all items and cash from the dead, with envelopes tallied on the cover.
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Blmilliam C. Barnard
Associated Press
Texas City
Tad
Buzzards
Foster Nelson
Nelson
O. C. Wheeler
Camp Wallace
Highway Patrol
Veterans Village grows as third town in Lubbock County
The Veterans Village at Buffalo Army Airfield now houses about 1250 veterans and families. Residents pursue college degrees and manage work and recreation. The village has an interdenominational church, Friday town meetings, softball and volleyball, mother gatherings, and weekly entertainment. City officials Bradshaw and J A Maynard direct housing authority operations.
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Veterans Village
Lubbock
Air Field
Housing Authority
La.araere
Iz C. Wilson
Normancock
Vets Village
George O. Howton
Guy C. Eagan
3D. Ballew
Ed Yr. Tavern
Opal Dixon Avalanche-Journal
Eterans Village
Lubbock Army Airfield
Lubbock County
City of
Clark and Rayburn to speak at Texas delegation dinner
Attorney General Tom Clark and House minority leader Sam Rayburn will address a dinner honoring the Texas congressional delegation on April 28 at the Carlton hotel in Washington.
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Dallas
Tom Clark
Sam Rayburn
House
Texas
Carlton Hotel
Washington
Marshall to Confer With Sclons Today
Secretary of State Marshall returns from Moscow to draft reports for Congress on the Moscow conference. President Truman welcomes him back and a Monday 7 30 p m CST broadcast will carry the briefing. Attending the White House meeting were Vandenberg Connally Barkley Bridges Taft and Halleck with Dean Acheson also present.
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Moscow
Carolina
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Russia
Truman
Marsh
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Rellew
Marshal
Stalin
Vandenberg
Evaches
Senate Foreign Committee
Connally
D-Tex
Barkley
Bridges
Taft
Ohio
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D-Mass
Halleck
Ind
Dean Acheson
Law
Palestine Showdown Seen At UN Session
At the United Nations special session in New York on April 26 Britain and major powers faced a potential test over the Palestine issue. Arab league support could pressure London to commit to a proposed inquiry commission or to debate the matter despite the agenda. Hungary announced a formal request for UN membership, signaling Axis entry ambitions as the session opened.
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Britain
Palestine
United Nations Assembly
Arab League
London
United States
Holy Land
Hungary
NO MASS RESIGNATIONS EXPECTED AMONG CITY WORKERS
City employees accepted a $16.50 monthly cost-of-living bonus cut with apparent grace. Officials said no mass resignations occurred and most workers would stay with the city, noting some may take other jobs for higher pay but most still earn as much or more with the city.
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H. 1
Kiefer
Settlement In Phone Dispute Near With Major Wage Gains
General Electric, Chrysler, and Jones and Laughlin Steel reach wage increases around 15 cents per hour. GE covers 125,000 workers across 14 states, Chrysler adds 11.4 cents plus holidays for 70,000 workers in five states, and Jones and Laughlin grants 12.5 cents plus benefits for 25,000 in the Pittsburgh area. These settlements align with a broader pattern following recent automotive and steel raises and follow a wave of postwar contracts.
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Associated Press
Gee Electric
Chrysler Corporation
J.— Jones and
Laughlin ‘Steel Corporation
General Electric
Chrysler
General Motors
Jones and Laughlin
Pittsburgh
Comparith
Wesle
Jose Kay Beirne
Ry Electric
Mmne
GE. Agresmest
Youggs
McElroy Named Alumni Secretary for Texas Tech
D. M. McElroy of Houston was named executive secretary of the Texas Tech Alumni Association by president Elmer Tarbox. A 1935 Tech graduate and former Dallas and Longview resident, McElroy is a petroleum equipment salesman and will relocate to Lubbock to begin duties. The One Hundred Club, with about 140 members, funded the new position by donating 100 dollars each and pledging similar gifts for three years.
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D. M. McElroy
Houston
Texas Technological College
Texas Tech
Elmer Tarbox
McElroy
Lubbock
W. S. McElroy
Longview
Dallas
Woodrow Wil- High School
Tech
Kilgore
New Ol Well Location Staked In Petersburg Field
Stanolind Oil & Gas plans a new location No 1 B H Stewart in Petersburg field Hale County southeast of the Fisher discovery. The site sits 660 feet from the south and west lines of section 46 block R ELRR survey and will be drilled to about 7000 feet into the Cisco Pennsylvanian, the Peters burg field’s producing formation.
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Petersburg
Hale County
Stanolind Oil & Gas Company
B. H. Stewart
Fisher Discovery
ELRR
Cisco
Two B-29 Squadrons Escort President Aleman to Washington
Fort Worth dispatch notes two Eighth Air Force B-29 squadrons will guard Mexico's President Miguel Aleman aboard The Sacred Cow as he flies from Mexico City to Washington. The twelve aircraft are to depart Fort Worth Army Airfield at 7 am to rendezvous with the Presidential plane over New Orleans.
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Fort Worth
Army Air Forces
Clocks Turn Back in Many U S Areas
Many states shifted clocks today with daylight saving time ending and standard time resuming. Residents across New York Maine Massachusetts New Jersey Maryland Illinois Missouri Tennessee Michigan and other states adjust at 3 a m. Radio networks relay the time change as schedules reset across the region.
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Midwest
New York
Maine
Massachusetts
New New Jersey
Maryland
Indians
Illinois
Missouri
Tennessee
Michigan
Weather Update for Lubbock and Vicinity
Mostly cloudy with a few widely scattered showers and a noticeable temperature change. Sunday sees partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and a chance of thunderstorms. Regional readings from South Plains Pecos Valley show variable cloudiness and light to moderate precipitation.
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Lubbock
South Plains
Pecos Valley
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