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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1946
Page
3
The Texas Poll reports that fewer than 50 percent of Texas adults attend church regularly, with 7 percent not attending at all. Thanksgiving week attendance rose only slightly to 44 percent, and the survey notes many adults attend church casually or not at all, with attitudes similar to prewar levels.
Japanese seismologists warn of a series of minor shocks in the Tokyo Yokohama area and expect a disaster in the home islands. Chief Kiyo Sagisaka notes most major quakes occur without warning. U.S. scientists join to build two experimental stations to foresee quakes hours ahead by electrical current changes.
Funeral services for Mrs. Millsap 73 who died near noon Friday at her home 802 Ave X will be held at the Rix Funeral Home at 10 a m Monday. Rev O A Graydon retired minister and Rev A A Brian of Brownfield will officiate. Burial will be in a Lubbock cemetery.
A long list of Lubbock families and friends plan Christmas visits and travel over the holidays. Local residents like Mr. and Mrs. Pat Muckleroy host and send greetings as sons, daughters, and relatives stationed at Randolph Field Fort Sill Chicago and other places return home for Christmas. The report notes multiple reunions at homes in Lubbock and nearby towns with students, military personnel, and faculty visiting for the season.
In San Francisco on December 21, two Alcatraz inmates Miran E. Thompson aged 29 from Texas and Sam Shockley aged 36 from Oklahoma were sentenced to death for their roles in the May riot at the federal prison. Clarence Carnes, 19, Oklahoma, already serving 99 years, received a life sentence on the jury’s recommendation.
A note received at the local post office asks for a 1947 model convertible coupe a bank account of 1000 dollars an apartment or a house and a girl either a blond or a redhead.
Fragmentary note describes a recipe using Ru-Ex Compound. Instructions mention a two week period and mixing with a quart of water. It notes taking the mixture twice daily and hints at an outcome within 48 hours.
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