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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1957
Page
3
Washington lawmakers warn the interstate system cost may rise by at least 3 billion dollars. Fiscal 1960 could mark the start of a slower pace as taxes underfund the project, prompting longer timelines, reduced mileage, or new appropriation requests to keep the plan on pay as you go.
Orville Hodge former Illinois state auditor reflected Friday on his first year in Menard prison at Chester. He told reporters, I’ve been punished enough, after a 12 to 15 year sentence for a mammoth state check cashing swindle. AP Wirephoto.
Numerous county and family reunions are set today in Mackenzie State Park and at Buffalo Lakes. Organizers from Hall, Wise, Cass, Lamar, Harmon, Kent, McWilliams, Landers and other families plan gatherings with reservations at various entrances and a request for attendees to bring basket lunches.
Officials report 31 people killed and about 40 wounded last week in three clashes between local Arabs and nomad shepherds north of Ft. Lamy in French Equatorial Africa. Tensions rise as nomads drive their sheep north into Arab lands each year.
Family night and pre supper set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Citizens National Bank basement, hosted by Lubbock Police and Sheriff's Auxiliary. Local residents reported include Robert Bishop recovering from an August car crash in Andrews, Daniel Rush at Annapolis Naval Academy, and Airman Basie Phillips at Francis E. Warren AFB. Also notes a bridge club win and various travels of residents, plus legal and police updates.
Bernard Carver and friends prepare to lift his 21 foot cabin cruiser through a pin window opening in his living room in Springfield Illinois. The moment captured in AP Wirephoto shows a remarkable home built craft moved from the house to the outdoors with help from neighbors.
Slaton City Commission authorized Police Chief Bill Daniels to buy more tower sections to raise the short wave radio antenna. The upgrade aims to improve communications with Post and Brownfield, currently limited by the antenna height. Commission members B A Hanna T A Worley Jr Chester Williams and Mayor O N Alcorn attended the session.
Three Americans Charles Blaisdell of Odessa Texas Joseph Rollie a New York City salesman and Julio Fuentes a Cuban native and naturalized U S citizen were said by Diario Las Americas to have been charged in Cuba with going to teach rebels the use of firearms after being forced to sign confessions and expelled from the island.
Slaton Lions Club hosts a special program with W W W L Bill Smith Lions International District 2 T 1 governor as guest. He will assist President Richard Perry and other officers and discuss Lions administration and service programs. Smith, Falls mayor, previously led the Lions Club there and has long civic involvement.
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