Full Week Of Park Playground Activities Announced
City playgrounds schedule a week of events led by Rack Johnson. Play Day at Carlisle Park Monday features songs drama and active games with staff help. Doll show at Wagner Park Tuesday open to girls with dolls judged for multiple prizes. Wheel parade at Pioneer Park planned for Tuesday night with costumes and tricks. Caroms croquet at Booker T. Washington Park and croquet at Reedgers Park to follow. Tennis instruction at Booker T. Washington Park Monday 4 20 pm led by Coach Damon Hill. Winners from all parks advance to Rodgers Park 6 30 pm Thursday for a croquet tournament. Miss Post 1997 Charlene Baker, 17, crowned at Post High School.
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Rack Johnson
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Farus
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Directa
Pioneer Park
Pat Howard
Booker T Washington Park
Doris Bunton
Damon Hill
Rodgers Park
Gene Williamson
Spontaboe
Girls Vie For Southwestern Junior Rodeo Queen Title
Four judges will select the 19 and under rodeo queen at a district courtroom contest in Garva County. Entries close Monday noon via Joyce Josey. The winner receives handmade boots and leads the parade and grand entry. Contests offer over 3500 dollars in cash prizes plus multiple rodeo events and a goat-sacking kids' contest. Buddy Thompson of Dallas is the rodeo clown and Alsin Dallas of Brownfield is the announcer with Texas All-Stars providing music after shows.
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Garva County
Leon Miller
Joyce Josey
Buddy Thompson
Dallas
Alsin
Service-Connected Death Pay Unaffected By Widow's Income
VA official clarifies death compensation is not reduced by a widow's income when a veteran dies from a service connected condition. Income limits apply only to VA death pension for widows of wartime veterans who died from non service connected causes. In Dallas six month old Judith Crouch died. police say she likely suffocated in her sleep with her mother Thelma Crouch.
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Veterans Administration
Sisson
Dallas
Judith Crouch
Thelma Crouch
Late Summer Revival Begins In Dawson County Churches
Late summer revival meetings are under way in Dawson County churches. Bryan Street Baptist Church hosts Rev. Dr. D. N. Jackson as guest minister with services at 10 am and 8 pm through August 11. Welch Baptist Church also began revival led by Rev. TL Lynn Strewart with 10 am and 8 pm services through August 11. First Baptist Church plans revival August 18 to 25 with Dr. Albert McClellan as guest evangelist.
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Lamesa
Dawson County
Bryan Street Baptists Church
D. N. Jackson
North American Baptist Assn
Welch Baptist Church
TL Lynn Strewart
Grapevine Baptist Church
Albert McClellan
First Baptist Church
Lubbock Men Attend Annual Sea Fair in Seattle
Two area sailors join Sea Fair activities in Seattle aboard USS Forester for a 10 day visit. Bark W. Flint of Lubbock and William N. Washburn of the area are radioman third class and fireman respectively, sons of local residents. The Forester is among 22 ships visiting for the annual event, with another sailor Bobby Herron arriving Wednesday aboard USS St. Paul to take part in the activities.
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Wash
Forester
B. A. Flint
26Th St
Ares
William N. Washburn
Ruth McAfee
Post
Bobby Herron Radarman
Robert Herron
Lorenzo
St. Paul
Coolidge Home Transferred to Vermont in Ceremony
John Coolidge, son of former president Calvin Coolidge, deeded the Coolidge homestead to Vermont governor Joseph B Johnson in a ceremony that drew many political figures and spectators. The event recalled the 1923 oath when Calvin Coolidge became president with a lone oil lamp illuminating the parlor.
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United States
Vermont
John Coolidge
Jaseph B Johnson
Calvin Coolidge
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Phrase origin explains "on tick" in U.S. cash history
The note explains that buying on tick means purchasing without cash, tracing the slang to England where a promissory note is a ticket. It notes Coolidge becoming president after Harding’s unexpected death in San Francisco.
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England
Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
San Francisco
Post Completes Plans For Golden Jubilee Activities
Paul Haagen of John RB Rogers Producing Co outlines Post’s Golden Jubilee events set for September 14 to 17. Pioneer Day opens with a street parade and the historical pageant featuring 350 local performers at the Stampede Arena. Faith of Our Fathers Day has no pageant, followed by Belles and Brush Day with costume and heard contests, then Youth Day dedicating efforts to Garza County youth. The pageant ends that night.
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POST
Paul Haagen
John RB. Rogers Producing Co
Mgrit
Garza County
Pioneer
Lamesa Budget Expands Storm Sewer Construction Funds
Lamesa City Council in an abbreviated session approves adding funds to the budget for storm sewer construction near North First and Lynn Streets after State Highway Department advice that state aid is unavailable. Flooded businesses prompted the move.
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Lamesa
North First
Lynn Streets
State Highway Department
Eight Lubbock ROTC Cadets Complete Fort Hood Camp
Eight Texas Tech students from Lubbock joined 1,324 cadets in concluding ROTC summer training at Fort Hood. Cadets studied leadership, nomenclature, maintenance and use of individual and team weapons during six weeks of instruction and field work.
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Lubbock
Aspen tax on hotel beds struck at district court
In Aspen Colorado yesterday a district court was asked to block the city’s 2 percent bed tax on hotel, motel, and lodge rentals. Gerald Sanderson, operator of the Aspenhof Lodge, sought an injunction against the levy approved by the City Council to raise about $20,000.
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Aspen
Colo
Gerald Sanderson
Aspenhof Lodge
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