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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1964
Page
4
Council vetoes two zoning change requests amid debate on public need and area compatibility. Snyder urges keeping area free of unsightly uses while residents question service station plans and the suitability for apartments.
Services for Mrs Thelma Hampton 69 will be at 2 30 p m Saturday at First Methodist Church Idalou with Rev Don Davidson and Rev Hugh MacDaniels officiating Burial will follow in Idalou Cemetery under Sanders Funeral Home of Lubbock direction Mrs Hampton died 11 15 a m Thursday at West Texas Hospital Survivors include three sons Tracy Weaver Petersburg Ruel Weaver Odessa and Walter Weaver Fort Worth three daughters Mrs Sam Garrard 1904 27th St Mrs Herbert Boyd Farmer and Mrs Fred Jones Rt 1 Lubbock her mother Mrs Kitty Penton Denton four brothers Price Penton Gainesville Weldon Penton Rosston Lowell Penton Denton and Victor Penton Sherman four sisters Mrs Mary Settle Gainesville Mrs Lindell Richardson Rosston and Mrs Delia Morgan and Mrs Mildred Mitchelltree Dallas and 16 grandchildren Nephews and grandnephews will be pallbearers.
Taub block City Council vetoes a $25 000 preliminary study for a children's zoo at Mackenzie State Park while approving a $4.7 million bond sale for 1965 capital improvements. The bonds total 11.2 million with 3 million electric revenue and 1.7 million general obligation. funds reallocated to water sewer street and park improvements as Parks Board advised delaying the private amusement park and zoo plans.
Mrs. Lucinda Caroline Hairgrove, 88, longtime Dickens County resident, died at her Spur home at 12:05 a.m. Thursday. Services are pending at Campbell Funeral Home. Survived by son Emmett Parker of Arizona, brother Ike York of Portland, Texas, sisters Mrs. T. G. Cherry of Spur and Mrs. Fannie Kuhen of Moulton, seven grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Dorothy Pittman of Amarillo, 75, died Monday. Graveside services were held Tuesday at Riverside Cemetery in Wichita Falls. Former Lubbock resident, she helped found the Writers Club with Frances Tolbert Marian Blake and Pearl Moore Buckner. Survived by husband four sons and two daughters. DJAKARTA-Indonesia has eliminated some price curbs.
Memorial service for 73 year old Mrs Minnie Leah Pound will be held at 5 PM at Travis Baptist Church in Memphis officiated by Rev Bill Dudley and Rev C Gardiner. Burial at Lakeview Cemetery. Survived by husband Newman three sons and five daughters. Mrs Pound moved to Plainview in 1941 from Memphis and previously lived in Oklahoma. Funeral arrangements handled by Wood Dunning and Spicer Funeral Homes.
Albert Randolph 80 of Lubbock died Thursday at West Texas Hospital after illness at home. He worked as a civil service employee and at several bases, studied at Plainview High School and Valparaiso, was a registered pharmacist, and survived by his wife, three sons, two daughters, two sisters and eight grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending at Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Randy William Bennett three day old son of Mr and Mrs E L Bennett of Odessa will be held at 10 a m today at Andrews Babyland Cemetery. Officiating will be Harold Harrison a seminary student, assisted by Rev C E Wainscott. Burial will be directed by Singleton Funeral Home. The infant was one of twins born Sunday in a Seminole hospital. Surviving are the parents a brother a sister Terri and the grandparents Mr and Mrs Ira W Batchelor Andrews.
President Johnson halted his Georgetown University speech trip when a gardener walked the White House beagle named Him to the limousine. Her, the sister of Him, died after swallowing a stone, a prior Friday incident.
British newspaper vendors discuss potential price hikes amid uncertain sales and inflation. The conversations focus on adjusting cover prices while preserving reader demand and market competitiveness.
Services for H. O. Bear 52 of 2804 2nd Place will be at 2 p m Saturday at Pioneer Memorial Methodist Church with Rev James Patterson officiating assisted by Rev Curtis Simpson Burial will be in City of Lubbock Cemetery under Franklin- Bartley Funeral Home direction Bear died about 10 20 am Thursday in Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital after an ambulance transfer He was a Lubbock Steel Works employee and a World War II veteran Survivors include his wife a son Kenneth D his mother Mrs Phebe Bear two brothers and two sisters Pallbearers are Kenneth Rochet Henry Payne Ronnie Holt Jerry Todd Ronnie Wills and Leonard Peach
Cayce Scott, 72, longtime Ralls resident and World War I veteran, died Thursday evening at his home from an apparent heart attack. He was a retired brick mason native of Anson. Services are pending at Carter Funeral Home. Surviving are four brothers and four sisters listed in the notice.
Funeral services for Mrs Florida Booth 83 longtime Palmer County resident who died in Methodist Hospital Lubbock will be at 2 pm Sunday at Texico Farwell Methodist Church. Rev W C Strickland and Ebb Randol will officiate burial in Sunset Memorial Park Farwell. Body transferred from Lubbock by Rix Funeral Home. Survivors include son Earl Booth daughter Blanche LeVie n and Pur ney Dunlap a brother and a sister nine grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.
Fragmentary list mentions Mrs Jim Brown Seagraves Mrs C C Davis Oklahoma City Okla and Mrs Bill Porkerfield Tuba City Ariz suggesting a printed social or notices section with multiple households or attendees.
The poem recalls a childhood Christmas with simple delights and family church pageants. Warm memories center on lights, corn poppers, cranberry strings, paper chains, apples, nuts, candy canes, stockings, toys, tinsel, and church attendance on Christmas morning.
Vinton Iowa. State conservation officers arrested Richard E Tuttle for hunting out of season after finding 100 pounds of frozen venison in his food freezer. The incident occurred ten days before the official season opener.
Three of six injured in Wednesday crash remain hospitalized in South Plains Hospital. Willie James Clewis, 17, died in the 6:30 p.m. wreck on a dirt road east of Whiteface when Mrs. Sandra Ruthardt's car collided with a pickup driven by Clewis. Remaining injured guests include D. C. Clewis, 37, and John Robert Clewis, 18, in satisfactory condition, while Jesus Medrano, 23, is listed as in fair condition. Mrs. Ruthardt and her 2-year-old son Kenneth Ray were released. Two Mexican nationals employed by Ruthardt’s husband were passengers. Clewis youth survivors include parents, six brothers, four sisters, and maternal grandmother Mamie Taylor.
William N. Rorer Tnc. said it would acquire an 80 percent stake in Farma selecta S. P. A. the Italian pharmaceutical firm near Milan for an undisclosed sum. The move is described as another step in its expansion and diversification program announced a year ago.
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