Aviation Day Fly-In Pancake Breakfast At Lubbock
National Aviation Day celebrated with a fly in drive in pancake breakfast at Lubbock Municipal Airport sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Assn Eldon Love coordinated event runs from 7 to 10 am for a dollar main hangar at Champ and Aviation hosts posters sent to El Paso and New Mexico towns inviting pilots area residents may attend without flying Edwards Colby Ed ward L Colby Airport Manager notes five year service pins will be awarded at a mayor and city commission barbecue dinner alongside road resurfacing and a storm damaged area update
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Fairbairn
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock Municipal
Assn
Eldon Love
Champ’ & Aviation, Inc
Glen Callahan
Bob Gilmore
el Paso
New Mexico
David Balli
Colby
Mason City
American Assn
Congress
Civil Aeronautics Assn
Coiby
Edward L. Colby
Ray Salter
Juventino Sanchez
Pablo Mercado
Winners Announced in South Plains Duplicate Bridge Play
Thirty eight players attended the South Plains Duplicate Bridge Club event Friday night at the Caprock Hotel. Winners were Mrs Nat D Heaton and Mrs W Calvert Curry first, Mrs Sam Jondahl and Mrs Warner Wilson second, Mrs Henry Gresham and R K Flege third, Mrs B W Gaignat and Mrs A N Norman fourth. Mr and Mrs Roy Thompson, Mrs Rufus Rush and Mrs Bob Cope tied for fifth and sixth. Director Flege noted others performing above average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Plains
Bob Cope
Flege
Hollis Keyes
Mary Ruth McCrory
Forrest L. Lindsey
Jim Bragg
James G. Allen
Street Sweeper Tested As Floydada Street Help
Floydada, Aug. 18 Special. A small street sweeper bought by councilman L. L. Clark is operating on Floydada streets. Observers report favorable results and officials Matsler and Clark hope to work out a city plan agreeable to both parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. L. Clark
Leonard Matsler
Tale of Two Stories on Two Story Homes Rebound
Two story houses are gaining popularity as land costs rise, with observers noting a rebound. Lot prices have jumped seventeen percent in a year in certain localities, signaling stronger demand for higher density housing.
Indian Guides Camp Set At Mackenzie Park In West Texas
About 200 people from Abilene Amarillo Midland Plainview and Lubbock expected for an overnight Indian Guides camp in Mackenzie State Park next weekend Registration runs 2 to 5 p m Saturday 50 cent fee covers items and insurance from 24 hours A Big Braves assembly Saturday afternoon and a council fire at 8 30 p m are planned Lubbock families join guiding activities and Sunday school Sunrise trip to Prairie Dog Town Sunday morning Officials include Tessie Pantil Tracy Roberts James Tecter Cliff Brown Bill Cox Royal Ferguson J G Pierce and others with officers for the new West Texas Longhouse to be elected An Indian Guide Council will meet Sunday morning and Big Braves assemble at 11 15 a m Admission to the camp ranges from 15 to 50 cents according to age
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Indian Guides of
West Texas
Mackenzie State Park
Abilene
Amarillo
Midland
Plainview
Lubbock
Hwy. 87
Ave
Tessie Pantil
Tracy Roberts
James Tecter
Cliff Brown
Big Braves
Bill Cox
Ray Adrean
A.m
H. S. Anglin
Prairie Dog Town
New West Texas Longhouse
Big Braves Assembly
Royal Ferguson
J. G. Pierce
Local residents attend conventions and events around Lubbock
Mr. and Mrs. C N Kennon plan to attend the State Reserve Life Insurance convention in Austin August 26 29. Mrs T R K Odell sails to Purdue for a Women Underwriters meeting. Royallys visit from Hyattsville Md visit Lubbock relatives as he works for the Federal Power Commission. William Marton Jones 65 is freed on $3000 bail after a minor fondling charge. Fire calls smoke at two West Lubbock homes. Campl Tasigi completes Signal Corps course at Fort Monmouth. Gunns honored at going away party. they move to Seymour. Reunions planned for Hill County residents and Southland High School classes 1940-42 in Mackenzie State Park. Mrs Eugene Elder Amarillo visits and attends Nile temple event. Mrs Hugh Newton improves after hospital admission, with visitors restricted.
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C. N. Kennon
23Rd St
State Reserve Life Insurance Company
Austin
Kennon
Lubbock
International grain visitors study Canadian wheat methods
Ten representatives of the Wheat and grain industry from Belgium The Netherlands and Norway visit Ottawa this month to study Canadian wheat and grain production and handling at the invitation of the Canadian Wheat Board.
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Ottawa
Belgium
Netherlands
Norway
Canada
Canadian Wheat Board
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New Orleans
National Convention of Flying Farmers and Ranchers
Chester Gilmore
Alvin Ryals
Buster McNabb
Fred McNabb
Chesley Hobgood
Bill Champney
J. T. Davis
Flying Farmers
Dewayne
Dwight
San Antonio
Diane
T. E. Davis
Vernon
Davis
Champ’s
Champ
Earl Cowley
Airways
Colorado
Charlie Davis
CAA
Victor Halliburton
Weather Bureau
Airport Farm
John Lynch
Gilmore
Stevie Quan
Carroll Thompson
Stevie
Eldon Lave
Champ's Aviation
Wes-Tex
Randy Jackson
Idalou
Joe Dale Scott
Tommie White
Bob Roberts
Jack Rigney
Roy Neal
J. R. Billington
Loren Scoggin
Gerald Janeway
Buddie French
Emmett Morris
Presidio
Rudolph Minor
Little Rock
Ark
Pecos
Dick Henderson
Ozona
Wes- Tex
Floydada
U.S
Depth. of Commerce
Rein
U.S. Weather Bureau
Dept. of ‘Commerce
Mississippi Valley
California
Great Lakes
Southern Plains
Dakotas
Cascades
Indian Guides
Mackenzie Park
Little Braves
Mackenzie Pool
Rudolph Perez
Perez
Kelly Air Force Base
Chicken Tacos Aztec Inn
Anica
Knowine Diamonds
Lubcock
T. RK. Odell
27Th St
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Henry
Royallty
Hyatsville
J.C. Royality
Ave. R
Frank R. Barton
26Th St
Charles J. Brewer
30Th St
Royality
Federal Power Commission
Washington, D.C
William Marton Jones
35Th St
Justice of the ‘Peace
George H. McCleskey
J. O. Means
Hartford St
Aaron Rawlins
Rd St
Anna B. Odell
Institute For Life
CLU Hal L. Nutt
Life Insurance Marketing Institute of
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Sxth
Paul F. Tasigi
302Nd Signal Company
Tashbark
Signal Corps
Signal School
Fort Monmouth
N. M
U. S. Army
Tasigi
Virgil Gaunn
T. C. Porter
Gunns
Seymour
G. I. Jones
1St St
Hill County
Southland High School
Florence Blair
Eugene Elder
C. R. de Armand
10Th St
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Elder
Abihk
Daughters of the Nile
Hugh Newton
F. Erskine
West Texas Hospital
Oxford
Nunn - Bush
Broadway
Great Plains
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