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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1950

Page

3

Graduation Exercises Set for 535 Summer Grads at Tech

Texas Tech will hold 1950 summer commencement for about 535 graduates at 7 15 p m Wednesday in Recreation Hall. 1 627 total grads this year, 118 above August 1949. Don Emery of Phillips Petroleum to deliver address. list of graduates to be finalized after dean’s meeting Tuesday.

Kenneth May Avalanche-Journal Texas Technological College Recreation Hall Don Emery Phillips Petroleum Company Emery Independent Natural Gas Company D. M. Wiggins James G. Alien Gordon Gaines New York City Bobby Scoggin Lubbock Russell B. Brown Independent Petroleum Association of America Robert Smith Pioneer Airlines American Bar Associations C. E. Canterbury St. Paul's Episcopal Church Howard J. Powers St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church J. J. Willingham Tech Dairy Manufactures Department Marshall Kline Nall William Pearce T. L. Leach L. G. Harmon James W. Day Horace E. Woodward Burl Hubbard Reginald Rushing Fenton Harding Byron Bennett Ivan Little Doris Nesbett Martha Graves Horton Russell Ralph Lacy Linton Wadley

So You Can Hear brochure offered to deafened persons

Free brochure titled So You Can Hear promotes a happier life through sermons music and companionship. Deafened readers may obtain a gratis copy by sending name and address to Beltone Dept 8377 1450 W 19th St Chicago 8 IL. Share this notice with friends or relatives who may be interested.

P Pstcard Beltone 19Th St Chicago Tearine

Rough Rice for Sale by Federal Department in Dallas

The Dallas PMA office offers 82,803 hundredweight of rough rice for sale at 10 warehouses. Bids must be received by 11:59 a.m. Wednesday. Inspection starts Monday. Locations include Alvin, Pearland, Bay City, Houston, Port Lavaca and Rosharon in Texas.

Dallas The Production and Marketing Administration Latham White PMA Newman Drier Alvin Tex Southern Warehouse Corporation Farmers Warehouse American Rice Growers Pearland Union Warehouse Bay City Gulf Coast Water Co Independent Rice Warehouse Southern Warehouse Houston Port Lavaca

Unusual Chicken Salad Mix With Fruits And Olives

A different chicken salad uses diced cooked chicken with celery olives diced pineapple and bananas moistened with mayonnaise. Serve in crisp lettuce cups with brown bread and butter sandwiches and potato chips.

Bolshevism Led by Stalin Erased Trotzky’s Mexican Target

Ten years ago Bolshevism reached Mexico City and killed its deadly foe Leon Trotsky, while Stalin moved to consolidate power. The piece discusses Stalin’s rise, Trotzky’s opposition, and the Kremlin’s view of Tito as a major rival in the postrevolution era.

William L. Ryan Associated Press New York Mexico City Seon Trotzky Bolshevism Stalin Mexico Trotzky Lenin Trotzkoy Bolsheviks Communist Party Social Democratic Party

Stalin consolidates power and purge deaths in Soviet history

The narrative traces Stalin’s rise to dictatorship through Bolshevik alliances and purge campaigns. It follows Leon Trotsky’s fall from power, exile from 1927, and travel through Alma Ata, Turkey, Norway, and Mexico, ending with his assassination in a Mexico City suburb on August 20, 1940.

Communist Party Stalin Trotzky Cominterm Alma Ata Central Asia Turkey Kremlin Soviet Union Russia Norway Moscow Mexico Mexico City

West Germany Reaps Export Boom From Allied Orders

West Germany is benefiting from export orders amid wartime rearmament and rebuilding needs. Britain France and the United States placed large steel orders with Ruhr plants, with officials predicting more growth if production limits are raised.

Frankfurt Germany Korea Britain France United States West Germany Ruhr Valley

Chinese War Glossary Translates War Terms Literally

From Formosa Aug 19 the dispatch mocks Chinese translations of American Korea war terms. It lists examples like gas blowing machine for jet and flaming arrow pipe for bazooka, plus crude renderings for aircraft carrier antiaircraft gun camouflage and trench mortar.

Taipei Formosa Korea

Itinerant from Wichita Falls Dies in Nebraska Railroad Accident

Falls City Nebraska reports John J. Odom a 37 year old itinerant worker from Wichita Falls Texas died in a hospital from a broken neck and fractured skull after sleeping near the Missouri Pacific railroad right of way with companion Elmer Lee Nulf. Nulf reported finding Odom unconscious beside the tracks at dawn. Survivors include his parents Mr and Mrs Martin Odom of Wichita Falls.

Lubbock Tex Wichita Falls Nebraska Falls City Neb John J. Odom Elmer Lee Nulf Carney Okla Sun Pacific Railroad Nulf Round House Odom Adam Martin Odom

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