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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1969
Page
9
Multiple rehearsal dinners are planned today for local couples. Miss Mary Ann Koehler and Juan Luis Cerda host at 3010 25th St with Cerda from Caracas arriving for a 2 pm Saturday wedding at Christ the King Church.
SLATON Special Mr and Mrs Roy Collins are to be honored with a golden anniversary reception from 2 to 4 p m Sunday in the parlor of the First Baptist Church The former Miss Rubyl Westerman and Collins were married August 17 1969 in Goree They moved through Union Community in 1921 farmed 1944 to Pleasant Valley southeast of Slaton and settled in Slaton in 1959 after Collins retired from farming.
The Lubbock Business and Professional Women's Club met at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Pioneer Natural Gas Flame Room with 37 members attending the covered dish dinner The executive board met earlier Mrs Howard Medlock presided and Mrs Helen McElwee gave the invocation The group discussed a trip by Mrs Tessie Dickeson and Mrs Medlock to the National BPW Convention in St Louis Mo Dickeson was honored at the Golden Anniversary Convention having joined BPW in Shreveport La in 1919 She was among the original 22 members at that 1919 convention The next meeting is scheduled for Aug 26 at 7 30 p m in the Flame Room
A humorous column offers practical tips from Heloise and readers on cleaning red clay from carpets, boiling sweet potatoes with oil, repurposing eye cups as bolt covers, salvaging worn sheets by sides-to-middle seaming, sewing liners in sleeping bags, and even grating chocolate to decorate cakes.
The Hub City Duplicate Bridge Club met at the Lubbock Bridge Center 4210 19th St on Wednesday. First place: Mrs. Robert Cope and Kent Jones. Rufus Rush and Ken Wilson second. Third: Mrs. Max Lowmiller and Mrs. Carl Nelson. State gem of New Mexico is the turquoise.
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