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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1955
Page
3
The CAA control tower reports 11 556 operations in July at Lubbock Municipal Airport including landings and takeoffs. This is the highest monthly total since the tower began operating on Oct 15 1949, beating the 11 441 August 1950 figure.
James Herod, son of Mrs. Stel la Herod, at Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation for six months of frame confinement due to polio. He aims UT extension courses after graduating Lubbock High School. Other items note Pvt William C. Jackson’s Camp Pendleton training and Lt Cdr Melvin L. Burks’ return to New Orleans after a two week cruise.
Six Spanish cadets and a senior instructor will complete a 10 day tour of New Mexico with a Hobbs stop. They arrived Saturday and will tour a petroleum refinery and oil fields, enjoy a western barbecue and a Saturday night dance. The group is part of the International Cadet Exchange under US sponsorship hosted by Hobbs Civil Air Patrol members. The cadets have traveled from Santo Domingo Santa Fe Farmington Las Cruces Albuquerque and Carlsbad in the state.
Muleshoe will host a Red Raider Club meeting Monday at 6 p m in the American Legion Hall. Texas Tech staff including Coach DeWitt Weaver will attend and a Texas Tech Arizona game film will be shown.
Charlie Andrews of Aiken is chosen director for the Floyd County United Chest Fund drive with Claude Brown of Lockney and E C Carter of Floydada as assistants. Last year the county chest raised over $11 000 for six agencies. The drive, under a 21 member board, will be held this fall with date and amount to be set.
The dispatch reports a rain filled forecast with hot humid conditions mainly in the eastern U S and cooler drier air moving into the upper regions. Separate items note cadets unhappy with water dunking rules and a local Fraternal order burial service details. An $18000 Hamilton College medical scholarship funded by the Lillia Babbitt Hyde Foundation is announced for undergraduates pursuing medicine.
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