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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1948
Page
3
A typewritten June 26 letter by an Italian war veteran expresses gratitude to an American couple in Lubbock for wartime aid. He recounts the aid as a “ship of friendship” and notes Italy’s recovery with democracy and civilian help from the United States.
City of Post voters approve an $800,000 bond to buy the water and sewer systems from private utilities and fund extensions. The plan shifts system ownership to the city, with $110,000 for sewer expansions and $300,000 for water system purchase, based on engineer estimates of value around $524,131 after improvements.
Senate judiciary subcommittee heard about thousands of Mexicans crossing the border illegally to work in Texas Arizona and California. President H L Mitchell of the National Labor union AFL said they undercut American farm laborers and urged federal action to tighten controls on foreign agricultural workers. He hoped on the spot hearings would be held in El Paso and San Antonio. The article notes a ship gunwale derives its name from sturdy rails on old muzzle loading cannons.
Four Springfield Ohio residents died in a truck auto collision on U S Route 36 two miles west of Fort Wayne Indiana. The victims were Herman Singer his wife and daughters Mary and Lottie Dixon. Singer attempted to pass a semi trailer driven by Harold Allver of Grand Rapids Michigan in a low place near a railroad underpass. Their car skidded and was hit broadside by the truck. The truck driver was uninjured.
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