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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 21, 1955

Page

9

Lake Texoma Bridge financing talks under way

Talks between Oklahoma Texas and federal officials over higher Lake Texoma bridge costs resume. President Eisenhower urges increased state shares as construction shifts to a lakeside span. Oklahoma and Texas already commit about one million dollars for access roads and six hundred six dollars for the bridge each, with the federal government covering the rest of a six million project.

Lake Texoma Oklahoma Texas U.S Washington P Army Engineers Willis Oklo Eisenhower Budget Bureau C. A. Stoidt Tulsa

KKK Leaders Expected In Texas Invasion Orchestrated Visit

Orange August reports three Ku Klux Klan leaders expected to arrive in Texas to boost organization. Assistant Attorney General William Davis cites activity in 22 counties and notes one leader from Alabama poses as a preacher and collects funds. Davis promises a policy statement from the Southern Association of Attorney Generals. Austin Attorney General John Ben Shepperd declines comment.

Orange Ku Klux Klan Texas Atte William Davis Avis Alabama France Davis Southern Assn Austin Atto John Ben Shepperd

London Zoo destroys 100 birds over parrot disease

London Zoo officials killed 100 homing budgerigars due to psittacosis an outbreak. The birds were a major summer attraction at the facility in London.

London Zoo London

West Germany Crackdown on Barbarous Comic Books

West Germany's Justice Ministry announced stores will be held responsible for selling comic books depicting primitive or barbarous acts. The action targets materials deemed unsuitable, amid a broader crackdown.

West Germany Bom Germany Justice Ministry

Lady with Severe Neurosis Finds Relief at Chiropractic Clinic

Case history from Stephens Chiropractic Clinic notes a woman with neck soreness and brain base pressure, misdiagnosed as a broken neck, who improved after x ray spinography and a series of adjustments begun July 1943. The patient, living out of state, planned annual visits for ongoing care and reported full relief after one adjustment.

Stephens Chiropractic Clinic

Tech approves 20 new faculty and staff for 1955-56

Texas Tech board approves 20 new faculty members and administrators for the 1955 56 year. Appointees include four associate professors six assistant professors six instructors an assistant director of the Student Union two public information specialists and a dormitory counselor and program director.

Texas Tech Tech Board of Department of Public Information Seymour Vaughan Connor Texas State Austin University of Texas Burt M. Abel San Angelo College University of Oklahoma University of Washington At Seattle Russell A. Bosner Tech Purdue University Valparaiso University Ind Stanford University Oil Harold M. Blum Atlantic Refining Company Dallas Northwestern University Mary Agnes Gerlach University of Nebraska Colorado A&m College Arizona State College

Price Boosted For Experimental Monkeys Used For Salk Vaccine

In New Delhi on ng. 20 the demand for Indian monkeys used in polio vaccine production pushed prices to a record 4 dollars each. The price is about 40 cents higher than last year and 2.50 dollars more than in 1953.

New Delhi India

New Mexico El­ected Leaders Named in Rural Carriers Group

Ray L. Hulick of Albuquerque New Mexico was elected vice president and John Moren of Howe Oklahoma named committeeman by the National Rural Letter Carriers Association. Moren has been Iowa State Teachers College publications director for a year. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico and a master’s from the State University of Iowa. Billie Faye Bullock is a dormitory counselor and program director who taught elementary school in South Pecos and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from East Texas State Teachers College. Nelson Henry Longley serves as assistant director of the Student Union and was a Florida State University fraternity counselor. he holds bachelor’s from Southeastern Louisiana College and a master’s from Florida State University.

East Texas State College le Tourneau Technical Institute Odessa College East Texas State Wendell Wilfred Williams Indiana University Audio - Visual Center College of Emporia University of Kansas George Williams College Chicago Colorado University Robert Rekers U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station China Lake Calif University of Rochester N. Y University of Colorado P. M. Windham Rice Institute North Texas State Teachers College Elwyn W. Morton University of Texas Morton Convair Fort Worth West Texas State College R. A. Moreland, Jr Sandia Corporation Albuquerque Tech Keith Robert Marmion University of Denver Colorado Robert Leroy Hartman University of Arizona Brooklyn Museum University of New Hampshire Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown Ohio Cecil Earl Johnson Baylor University Eschel A. Crook Fort Sill Ohlo Crook West Texas Adrian Vaughan Big Spring Daily Herald Baylor Marjorie Wightman Buffalo N.Y National Rural Letter Carriers Association Ray L. Hulick N.M John Moren Howe, Okla Iowa State Teachers College The Sarasota, Fla Herald-Tribune University of New Mexico State University of Iowa Nelson Henry Longley Florida State University Southeastern Louisiana College Billie Faye Bullock South Pecos East Texas State Teachers College

Four Convicts Walk Out Of New Canadian Jail

Four inmates escaped from Prince George's new $60,000 jail just days after opening. Warden W. S. ran faces forgery and breaking and entering charges as the men slipped out through a rarely used door in the ell block. Separately, in New Delhi, hot weather claimed goldfish given to Prime Minister Nehru and one of two Chinese deer.

New Delhi India Nehru

Man charged with rape in attack on niece

A 23 year old Lubbock man Kenneth Lee Brewer was charged Saturday with rape after an alleged assault of his 5 year old niece in a vacant house Friday afternoon. Brewer was jailed on 3500 bond set by Justice George H. McCleskey. The child was in fair condition at home after examination by a family physician. He was arrested at about 4 pm Friday by Sgt. Leonard Krise and Officer Kenneth Holleman and found crouched behind weeds near the vacant house.

Lubbock Kenneth Lee Brewer Ave. Q Justice of the Peace George H. McCleskey Brewer Leonard Krise Kenneth Holleman

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