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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1955
Page
5
More than 3,000 toys were collected in Lubbock by over 325 Scouts from 16 groups, adding to 2,500 already gathered and barrels in local businesses. Girl Scout Troop 103, Sea Scout Ship 8, Cub Packs 9 and 2, and multiple Boy Scout troops contributed, with unregistered dens assisting. Wheelock School students plan a party to donate their toys after play.
Slaton High School opens its doors from 2 to 5 p m with guided tours by the student council. The 750 seat auditorium with air conditioning hosts band performances at 2 15 and 3 50 and chorus at 2 50 and 4 20. Board president Robert Hall Davis speaks at 3 30 alongside the board presentation.
Servando Trevino of Chihuahua Mexico will present the Mexican Christmas program at the Association for Childhood Education meeting at 7 50 p m Tuesday in the O L Slaton Junior High School auditorium. Mrs Mary Curlee program chairman says performers will wear native costumes and share Christmas customs and schools from their countries. The musical numbers will feature native instruments. ACE invites the public to the Tuesday meeting chaired by Mrs Margaret Waghorne.
Chief E H Linenbroker after 32 years leads to Hawaii on January 13. Chief W J Spivey succeeds him as Lubbock recruiting officer, having previously served in 1948 to 1952. Missing Community Chest contributors will reduce services by 20 percent for 17 agencies.
At the last Den meeting cars were slated for a Christmas collection for families in need. Marine Reservists and Navy Mothers Club assist with Toys for Tots by dressing dolls while firemen at five of six stations, Simmons Machinery Co, welding and straightening large metal toys, and the Girl Scouts dress dolls and collect toys.
Funeral services for L. F. Locke Tr. who died at Treadaway-Daniell Hospital will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Crescent Hill Church of Christ with Elder Joe Chisolm presiding. Locke lived in Yoakum County since 1937, was a farmer, and is survived by his wife, four sons Thurman Tokio Weldon Redondo Beach Calif Roy G Manhattan Beach Calif Eugene Kentucky, two daughters Allene Tokio and Mrs Donald Brock Fort Worth, three sisters and four brothers. Burial in Terry County Cemetery under Brownfield Funeral Home.
A man, intoxicated, entered a police station asking to visit a prisoner. He was placed in the same cell as the inmate, after a prior nightclub incident involving both men.
An advertisement for a non hormonal youth cream claims to erase crow’s feet and facial lines as skin dries. It sells two ounces for five dollars with COD through Chemical Research Briarcliff Manor New York and lists P O Box 226.
A Saturday event saw Cub Scouts from Den 5 Pack 2 and Den 4 Pack 2 helping with Toys for Tots. They posed with a rocking horse and added 104 new metal cars to the contributions, while families Pat Spears and Dean Thomas assisted.
Twenty-one seniors from Lubbock and six from nearby towns chosen for the all state band to perform at the Texas Music Educators Association convention in Dallas next February. About 100 musicians auditioned at Texas Tech with nine alternates named.
Hooperston Illinois on Safe Driving Day Police Chief Edgar Warner driving his own car skidded on an icy street and crashed into a utility pole suffering head and face cuts.
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