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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1950

Page

4

Marshall Plan Officials Say Aid Must Extend Beyond 1952

A confidential memo from the Economic Cooperation Administration reveals that U S foreign aid under the Marshall Plan should continue past June 30 1952 to help Western Europe rearm and resist Communist aggression The memo notes the program is being reoriented to support arms buildup in Europe and Southeast Asia while maintaining the aim of strengthening Western European economies and curtailing consumer exports to preserve dollars for strategic materials

William Kerwin INS Washington Marshall Plan United States Europe Economic Cooperation Administration Southeast Asia ECA U. S

Milk Price Hike Planned by Tennessee Dairy Unit

A Dallas based Tennessee Dairy company unit raises milk prices by two cents a quart effective Monday. Dairy distributors in Lubbock say other firms will not raise prices immediately. Carnation in Wichita Falls also boosts producer prices by two cents, with the move aimed at protecting milk supplies from the Dallas and Wichita Falls milk sheds.

Dallas Waco Cowan Wisconsin Minnesota Carnation Mikes Wichita Falls Daliriés Associated Press Carnation Dairy Wichita Falls R. F. Thompson Carnation

Girl Braves Flames To Save Children

In Graham Washington a 15 year old babysitter Bonnie Marie Brown rushed through a burning home to rescue five children from her care. She carried three to safety and threw two others to awaiting help. A motorist evacuated the kids to a hotel near Tacoma while the mother was treated for shock.

Graham Wash WPA Bonnie Marie Brown Lee Hunter Tacoma Longview Bonnié Marie

Two School Elections Planned In Garza County

Two Garza County elections set in week two with Aug. 23 at Southland High and Aug. 26 at Close City. Southland Rural High voters decide on independent district status. Close City voters consider a 4000 dollar bond for school repairs. Election judge L. H. Peel oversees Close City. Taxes and valuations stay unchanged.

Garza County Southland Close City Southland High School L. H. Peel

Small Son of Wichita Falls Coach Dead in Fall

The small son of Wichita Falls high school football coach Joe Golding died after falling from a porch in his grandmother's home in Eufaula Oklahoma. The child Jack Bander Golding, 4, was visiting relatives. his parents and sister Patsy 5 survive. The body will be brought to Wichita Falls for burial.

Wichita Falls Joe Golding Jack Bander Golding Eufaula Okla Patsy

Congress Considers Help For Married Servicemen

Senate Armed Services Committee backs a bill to extend housing allowances to enlisted personnel with dependents and to grant hardship-based discharges for those with more than three dependents. revisions cap potential cost at about 137 million dollars as forces rise toward 2.5 million.

Washington Armed Services Senate Armed Services Committee Korea Senate Congress Army Navy Air Force House

Savings groups lead Chicago mortgage lending in 1949

Mutual savings associations topped all lenders in Chicago last year with 30.8 percent of the 1.328 billion dollars in home mortgages written in 1949.

Chicago Mutual Savings

Red Writer Calls his Gangsters a MOSCOW dispatch

The Literary Gazette war correspondent in Korea described captured American soldiers as uncultured and savage. He named Paul Sanders from Indiana as an example and quoted Sanders saying he has no notion of culture. Another American soldier, allegedly dead drunk, wore a tattoo reading Honor above everything. The Gazette published a photo of unidentified American prisoners signing the Stockholm peace petition.

Moscow Literary Gazette Korea Indiana Oklahoma Alexander Chakovsky Paul Sanders Sanders Chakovsky Charles Dickens Stockholm

Oldster With Broken Ribs Attends Ohio Fair

Perry Doran, 87, a farmer from Licking County, plans to attend the 67th Ohio state fair despite three broken ribs suffered in a Saturday auto accident. While hospitalized at Grant Hospital in Columbus, he has missed no fair since 1874 and may travel by ambulance if needed. The Ohio State Journal notes him as a special friend who learned to read from the newspaper 81 years ago.

Columbus Perry Doran Doran Licking County Grant Hospital Oran Ohio State Journal Yvett

City Seeks 12 Apprentice Police Patrolmen

The city invites applications for 12 apprentice patrolmen with a 21 to 35 age range, U.S. citizenship, and high school education. Candidates must pass a written exam next Saturday at 9 a.m. and meet physical standards. starting pay is 140 dollars monthly plus a cost of living bonus about 84 dollars, rising 10 dollars after six months.

Aly Hall City Civil Service U.S

Noted Baptist Pastor C. Ellis Meredith Dies in Fort Worth

Rev. C Ellis Meredith 39 longtime First Baptist Arlington pastor and Texas Baptist executive committee member dies in a Fort Worth hospital after a three week illness. He led churches in Burleson Archer City Petrolia Dodson and Arnett Oklahoma and will be buried after 4 p m services at the Arlington church.

Arlington Tex C. Ellis Meredith First Baptist Church Fort Worth Texas Baptist Executive Committee Baptist Student Union Baptist District 12 Board Meredith Floydada Wayland College Plainview Hardin- Simmons University Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Burleson Archer City Petrolia Dodson Arnett Oklo

Lubbock real estate man named officer of state group

Joe B. Phillips of Lubbock has been named vice president of the Texas Real Estate Association. The appointment by the executive committee was announced by Owen W Sherrell of Georgetown, the association president. The annual state meeting will be held in Austin on September 23 and 24.

Joe B. Phillips Lubbock Realtor Texas Real Estate Association Owen W Sherrell Georgetown Austin

Philippines predicts giant sugar crop for 1949 50

Due to a favorable growing season the Philippines forecasts a sugar harvest of about 950000 short tons for 1949 to 1950.

Philippines

Business Leader Rebuilds Health with Hadacol Says WWII Service Record

Donald Hedburg of Wichita Kansas an Eagle advertising salesman recounts a run down postwar recovery period and credits Hadacol with restoring energy vitality and health He urges others with deficiencies to try the remedy noting its vitamins minerals and calcium content and its doctor recommended status Copyright 1956 The LeBlanc Corporation Adv

South Pacific Donald Hedburg Parker Riverside Wichita Kansas Great Wichita Eagle Hedburg U. S. Army Donald W. Hedburg The Wichita Eagle Hadacol Adv LeBlanc Corporation

Indiana Musician Dies In Auto Crash En Route To Texas

Richard Peterson jr 28 a New Albany Indiana dance band musician was killed in a three car crash near Memphis Tennessee as he drove from Indiana to Fort Worth Texas to ask Miss Carol Ann Bennington known as Ann Carroll to marry him. Family says she is not yet engaged though a wedding may be near.

Fort Worth Richard Peterson New Albany Ind Memphis Tenn Peterson Carol Ann Bennington Ann Carroll

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