Lubbock Public Schools Adopt 1942 43 Budget With New Teachers
The Lubbock public school board adopted a 1942 43 budget totaling 695 712 35 initiating September 1. It adds 15 teachers, raises instructional salaries by 5 2 percent, increases sinking funds for new and ongoing buildings, and notes a defense shop operation funded by the government. Expenditures compare to 1941 42 at 688 394 63, with a large rise in instructional costs and capital outlay planned.
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Lubbock
Luibbock
Board of Trustees
Watere
National Defense Shop
A. C. Jackson
Jackson
Defense Shop
Roscoe Wilson School
George Bean
Sanders
Alaska Brown Bears Enjoy Hunting Ban for First Time in Years
Anchorage dispatch notes Alaska’s 30 000 brown bears roam undisturbed as hunting ends. Only two sport hunters have traveled north from the States to western Alaska for brown bear trophies, George Petty and his son George Jr both successful in taking fine specimens.
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Anchorage
Alaska
U.p
George Petty
Esquire
George, Jr
Dupree Seeks Army Air Corps Commission in Brief
George W. Dupree Jr formerly of Lubbock and now an engineer for an eastern utility company has been accepted as a candidate for an Army Air Corps commission. He will report to officers training school after leaving Pawtucket, Rhode Island, this week. The piece also notes local business and church activities and an August Parker County resident reunion at Mackenzie State Park.
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George W. Dupree, Jr
Lubbock
Eastern Public Utilities Company
U. S. Army Air Corps
Young Dupree
Seventeenth Street
Pawtucket
R. 1
Officers Training School
Parker County
Mackenzie State Park
C. C. Williamson
Lubbock County
Lubbock Jr. High
Lubbock Odd Fellows Plan To Buy Bomber For Government
Lubbock Odd Fellows and Rebekahs in Texas spearhead a drive to fund a high powered bomber for the government. A public meeting in the IOOF hall will outline details with Earl Orebaugh and George Benson presenting. Committee members and visiting officials attended the Friday session as plans advance.
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Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Texas
IOOF
Myrick Building
Earl Orebaugh
George Benson
Lubbock
M. E. Stone
Dallas
J. J. Smelser
Noble Grand
Rebekah Lodge
Lubbock Rebekahs
M. A. Sanders
Stone
Jim Johnson
Ann Baze
R. L. Phillips
O. L. Plyler
Rebekah
Pearl Harbor
Minister Preaches His Own Funeral Services
Bear Creek Arkansas August 15 An 85 year old minister Rev F J Firestone preached his own funeral to a crowd of several hundred saying he expects to die soon He has completed burial plans including a grave dug and a casket made under his direction nearly twelve years ago Buy A WAR Bond TODAY Earthquake Reported New York: Fordham University seismograph records three shocks since yesterday afternoon centered about 2280 miles from New York City no direction given
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Bear Creek, Ark
F. J. Firestone
Firestone
New York
Fordham University
New York City
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Altus Samson
Sansom Paint and Paper Company
Thirteenth and
Avenue K
Sandsom
Hugh V. Roberson
Morton
West Texas Hospital
A. R. Watson
First Union Gospel Mission
Avenue D
C. R. Wortham
Enid, Okla
Church of Christ Evangelist
Whitharral Church of Christ
Western Union
Aerocrafts Institute
Lubbock, Texas
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
C. H. Batchelder
Divn
Aero-Crafts
Ume
Eric Gott
Featuring
Eric
Chow Chow
Hilton Hotel
Lubbock Odd Fellows and
Welman
Claude L. Hale
B.E Goodrich
B. F. Goodrich
Sally
Rmer
of Sporting Goods
Mantola Port
Reg
Mantola Radio Reg
Harry Cooper
Ashable
Jia Tone
Mantola
Motorola Auto Radio
Glasstex
B. F. Goodrich Glasstex
B.F. Goodrich
Emential
BE Goodrich
Silvertown Stores
U. S. War Savings
United States War Bonds
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