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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1965
Page
3
Cotton receipts on the South Plains slowed by wet weather halting field work. Areawide receipts through Wednesday totaled 865 447 bales, below last year’s 940 051. Lubbock classing totals reached 730 290 with a 5 000 bale carryover. Mesa classed 65 211 bales with a 2 500 bale carryover. Brownfield classing figures incomplete.
Pe Samuel L Ryan 18 son of Mr and Mrs Venice A Ryan 4902 Ave D performed Flying Tackle in Korea this week in the 25th Artillery 1st Target Acquisition Battalion. Pvt Joe W Smithey 17 son of Mr Fielding J Smithey Rt 1 Abernathy attends medical aid course at Ft Sam Houston. Airman Jerry N Burleson son of Mr and Mrs John H Burleson Plainview selected for Chanute AFB training as aircraft maintenance specialist. Airman Bernard J Buecker son of Mr and Mrs Ben Beucker Canyon selected for Kessler AFB training as communications electronics specialist. Cotton trading volume rose in Lub bock market as price quotes show strength for low middling and light spotted grades. Demand was light for middling grades. Cottonseed prices ranged 45 to 55 dollars per ton. A Lubbock group of 20 will travel to Dallas for a USDA briefing on the new cotton program at the Statler Hilton Hotel with Under-Secretary John Schnittker and Rep Bob Poage among attendees.
O'Donnell Special Charlie White longtime superintendent resigns to lead Petersburg schools. He will leave at midterm and Pete Wilson’s successor is not yet chosen. Applications go to Dick Franklin Route 3 O Donnell. White's career spans Helmleigh New Deal Plainview Coronado Junior High and O'Donnell administrative posts.
Downtown Lubbock Inc will present a free 90 minute cartoon program for area youngsters at 10 a.m. today at the Lindsey Theater 1019 Main St. Free Christmas gifts will be distributed and tickets are available at participating downtown stores, said Bert Bernstein president of the sponsoring merchant group.
AP reports large scale potential transfers of federal cotton allotments next year after a referendum in 350 of 1059 counties. Transfers within states require two thirds approval and must be filed by January 3 1966 with county ASCS. County results: Texas 61 of 247 Arkansas 20 of 69 Louisiana 18 of 57 New Mexico 2 of 17 Oklahoma 22 of 74.
Des Moines Iowa AP reports the Yowa Conservation Commission approved a plan to build an island in Storm Lake using old car bodies chained together to form a ring dike. As ice melts the cars sink to create a retaining wall for silt filled in with mud, burying the junked cars and removing an eyesore. About 800 car bodies would be used.
A bi monthly clinic of the South Plains Muscular Dystrophy Chapter treated nine patients Friday in the Physical Therapy Department at Methodist Hospital. The next clinic is Feb 11. Physical therapy and orthopedic appliances are offered free of charge for those with the disease.
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