South Plains 4-H Members Headed to Texas Round-up
Six South Plains 4-H members from Lynn Garza and Lubbock counties travel to College Station for the Texas 4-H Round-up August 27 28. Rifle team members Walt Rogers Carter Gene White and Robert Knight qualified after district wins. Additional Lynn County youths include Buddy Gene Bragg H R Tankersley Paul Stoker and Bobby Henley. Adults accompanying include O R Moore Jason Gordon Clara Pratt and five extension staff.
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South Plains
College Station
Lynn County
Garza
Lubbock
Walt Rogers
Asevelyt
Lubbock County
Carter - Gene White
Garza County
Robert Knight
Lubbock Army Airfield
Buddy Gene Bragg
Tahoka
H.R. Tankersley
Paul Stoker
Wilson
Bobby Henley
O’donneil
Young Rogers
Dick Davis
Roosevelt
Eloise Woodruff
Shallowwater
Jonell Judd
Devis
Miss Woodruff
New Here
O. R. Moore
Extension Service
Jason ©. Gordon
Clara Pratt
W. B. Griffin
Scaphene Stephens
W. L. Braddy Griffin
Miss Stephens
Rogers
Davis
Woodruff
Gambler Beaten by Two Thugs at Hollywood Restaurant
Gambler James Utley was assaulted with a blackjack by two masked men in Lacey's restaurant, while film celebrities watched. Utley declined to press charges, saying he would not prosecute and requested medical treatment after being left unconscious with a fractured skull and head injuries.
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Virginia MacPherson
Hollywood
U.P
James Utley
Film Colony
Lacey’s
Utley
Hollywood Emergency Hospital
Site Sale at Pantex Ordnance Plant Opens Aug 26
The War Assets Administration runs a site sale at the Pantex Ordnance Plant in Amarillo from August 26 to September 9, 1946. Items include textiles electrical gear hardware furniture office equipment machinery and more with priority given to specific groups on set dates and veterans prioritized by certified forms. Purchases are for business use or resale and not for personal use.
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War Assets Administration
Pantex Ordnance
Amarillo
WAA
Pantex
RFC
SWPC
VAA
Body Identified in Railroad Track Death at Houston
Houston Aug 17 identified by his wife as Anselmo Flores 55 the Latin American man found lying across the Texas and New Orleans railroad tracks. Flores had not been seen since Wednesday night when he went out to pick grass for his rabbits.
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Houston
W.P
Texas and
New Orleans
Anselmo Flores
Flores
Shivers Leads In Belden Poll For Texas Lieutenant Governor
Allan Shivers holds a 52 to 30 percent lead over Boyce House with 18 percent undecided in a Texas Poll taken across the state. The survey shows Shivers ahead regionally, though undecided voters dominate and final results will hinge on the home stretch before the August 24 election.
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Joe Belden
Texas
Austin
Allan Shivers
Boyce House
Shivers
House
Panhandle
South Plains
West
PVT Granville Damron Returns From Furlough
Pvt Granville R Damron son of Mr and Mrs L N Damron of Lubbock route 1 has returned to Camp Kearne Utah after a 20 day furlough with family He enlisted last February and trained at San Antonio and Lowery Field He awaits overseas shipment to join occupation forces.
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Granville Damron
Granville R. Damron
L. N. Damron
Lubbock
Trial Date Set For Jewels Theft Case In Germany
In Frankfurt the trial of WAC Capt. Kathleen B. Nash Durant charged with stealing the Hesse crown jewels was delayed to August 22, the second postponement in three days. The case was to start earlier, with a court martial planned, as the runoff campaign loomed. The Texas Poll prepared its final summer survey for gubernatorial and lieutenant governor candidates, with results to be published just before Election Day by 25 newspapers including the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
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Frankfurt
Germany
WAC
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Hesse Crown
Texas
Lubbock Avalanche- Journal
Water Supplies Still Critical Across Southwest July Report
The United States Geological Survey reports critical water supplies in the southwest during July. East Texas shows extremely low stream flows at up to 30 percent of normal while most of the eastern half is near normal. Central and western Texas runoffs fade though yearly totals stay above average. Red Bluff reservoir nears dryness, and combined storage at Elephant Butte and Caballo dips to 946,800 acre feet, lowest since 1941.
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Austin
Southwest
United States Geological Survey
East Teaxs
East
Texas
Red Bluff
Pecos
Geological Survey
Elephant Butte
Caballo
New Mexico
Three Men Escape Erath County Jail in Stephenville
Three inmates named George Shirley thirty three George Crum twenty five and Donald Jones twenty nine escaped the Erath county jail at Stephen ville this morning and are being sought by county officials.
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Stephenville
U.P
Erath County
George Shirley
George Crum
Donald Jones
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