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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1956

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Betty Bates Weds William English in Dallas Service

Dr. Alfie Carlton officiated at a 7 pm Saturday ceremony at University Park Methodist Church uniting Miss Betty Bates of Dallas and William H. English of Dallas. The bride wore white silk taffeta with Alencon lace and carried a white orchid. Attendants included matron of honor Mrs Eddie Hesson and bridesmaids Addie Lou Crawford and Kitty Bates. Best man J Bryan English and ushers Criss Ward and Stan Marcules. A church reception followed. couple to reside in Dallas. The groom is a former Texas Tech student.

Dallas Alfie Carlton Betty Bates M. C. Bates Clarkesville William H. English J. FE. Ward Tulsa Henry English Lirhbock University Park Methodist Church Joe Rice Eddie Hesson Addie Lou Crawford Kitty Bates Cynthia Bates Clarksville Marilyn English Tulia Janet Cummings J. Bryan English Stan Marcules Criss Ward Texas Tech

Tipps Will I Make Home In Waco

Levelland Nec 30 Special Mr and Mrs Jimmy Tippa wed Christmas Day at 6 p m at First Methodist Church The couple will live in Waco where the bride Barbara Keene is from Levelland Lyford The bridegroom attends Baylor University on a voice scholarship The Rev Don Davidson officiated the double ring ceremony The bridal aisles were decorated with greenery carnations and candles Miss Marilyn Marcom sang I Love Thee

Levelland Nec Jimmy Tippa First Methodist Church Waco Baylor University Barbara Keene Frank R. Keene Levelland and Lyford R. FE. Tipps Don Davidson Rex Hudson Marilyn Marcom

Girl Prods Boy for Clear Answer on Party Date

A girl urges a boy to give a definite yes or no about attending a party. It’s considered rude to hedge with maybe, as no one wants to call again to confirm a date.

Wanda McDaniel to Be Winter Bride in 1957 Plan

LAMESA December 3 Special Mr and Mrs D W McDaniel of Welch announce the engagement of their daughter Wanda Gay to Bob Kelley son of Mr and Mrs R L Kelley also of Welch The couple will wed at 6 pm January 15 1957 at the Lamesa Church of Christ Both graduates of Dawson High School Welch Kelley is a student at Sul Ross State Teachers College Alpine

Lamesa D. W. McDaniel Welch Wanda Gay Bob Kelley R. L. Kelley Lamesa Church of Christ Dawson High School Kelley Sul Ross State

Calendar notes from church groups for today

The First Presbyterian Women executive board meets at 1 30 p m in the church. Emma Mills Circle gathers at Pioneer Memorial Methodist WSCS at 9 30 a m in the church. Arnett Bensam Baptist WMS planned at 8 p m in the church.

First Presbyterian Women of the Church Emma Mills Pioneer Memorial Methodist Church Arnett-Bensam Baptist Wms

Adenauer urges West ties to east security

West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said in a New Year message that security and freedom from misunderstanding with the East can be achieved only by close ties with the West. He pledged that at no time shall Germany forget the eighteen millions in Soviet-occupied East Germany.

Bonn Konrad Adenauer West Germany East Adenauer Germany

BBC Cancels Weather Analysis Amid Rain Delay

London reports the BBC canceled its nightly weather analysis after rain disrupted a signal cable. Dampness stranded government forecaster Jack Armstrong on the subway on route to the studio.

London British Broadcasting Corp Jack Armstrong

Lavish Parisian Lace Gown Weds in Belle Poise

The ceremony featured a bride in an imported Parisian lace gown of peau de soie with a floor length skirt edged in scallops and a front point bodice trimmed with seed pearls. A Juliet cap veil, seed pearl accents, and a tear drop pearl centerpiece enhanced the bridal look. The bride carried three camellias on a white Bible with lilies of the valley streamers.

Sonny Keene Tommy Tipps Lovington N.M Cynthia Tipps Janet Eddie Mitchell Tommy Derington Hillary Ranson Bill Bright Herb Harding Bobby Tipps In-M Ivan Tipps Fellowship Hall M. P. Villarreal Lyford Russell Mitchell Bert Eads Santa Fe Tipps

France Has Higher Traffic Fatality Rate Than U.S.

Paris report says France's 1955 traffic deaths are about three times the U.S. rate when adjusted for cars and highway mileage. Secretary of transports cites winding roads and poor visibility. France tallied 8,058 deaths and 176,329 injuries. the United States logged 38,300 deaths and about 1,350,000 injuries.

Paris France United States Secretary of State For Transports

Stolen Car Escapes During Police Chase

Constable Graham Hills pursued a speeding car for five miles at up to 90 mph. He realized the target was a police cruiser from Oakville, and in the ensuing confusion the stolen car being pursued escaped.

Clarkson Graham Hills Toronto Township Oakville

Japanese Visit China Draws About 2000 This Year

Kyodo news service reports around two thousand Japanese visited Communist China in 1956 mainly from trade, industry, finance groups and labor unions. In total six thousand foreigners including Britons, Indonesians and Indians toured Red China this year.

China Tokyo Kyodo Red China

Fifty-Nour Point Five Million Attend Church Weekly In 1956

George Gallup reports church attendance in 1956 averaged 47,500,000 adults per week, down from 49,600,000 in 1955 and near 1954 levels. Annual figure based on selected weeks in February June August and November 1956 with Easter week reaching about 60,400,000 attendees. The survey notes Catholics and college graduates attend more, and women outpace men.

George Gallup American Institute of Public Opinion Princeton N.J The Institute

Closing of veterans land division announced in Texas

AUSTIN, Dec. 30 (UP) The attorney general said closing of the veterans land division and transfer of remaining cases to the land division was announced Saturday. Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd stated the same lawyers would handle pending cases in the land division, created to manage legal work from the veterans land scandals.

Austin Veterans Land Division Attorney General's Office Land Division Atty John Ben Shepperd Veterans Land

Mr McCormick and Bride to Reside Near Lockney

Miss La Juan Henderson and Larry McCormick wed Christmas Day at 4 pm with Rev. H B Coggin officiating. The couple will live in the South Plains community where he farms. she is a Lockney High School senior and former Rainbow officer. he is a Lockney High School alumnus and Mr. Lockney High School.

Vicki Lynn Rodgers Audrey McCormick Nancy Henderson Janet McCormick Bobby McCormick Warren Mathis Plainview Jimmie Heard Hale Center Deanie Henderson Jim Bob Reynolds Fellowship Hall Corpus Christi South Plains McCormick Lockney High School Order of Rainbow

Hay pellets flow like grain may aid farm storage

Prof William Chancellor of Cornell reports experimental flowable hay pellets produced by compressing ordinary hay. At the AAAS meeting he described pellets that flow to and from transport, into storage, and to use. Pellets reduce storage space to one third to one sixth, livestock accept the feed, and firms are developing field machines for the process.

New York William Chancellor Cornell University The American Assn Advancement of Science

Mints meat taste in oysters yields rare gold coin

In Rennes France Jean Jubin bit into what he believed was a pearl while eating oysters. An investigation revealed a rare ten franc gold piece minted in 1859 hidden inside.

Rennes France Jean Jubin

Yearbook Reflections on Tolerance and the Golden Rule

Julien C Hyer reflects on a year’s incidents through Gen 41 9 asking if greater tolerance and kindness were possible. He suggests reading to uplift a discouraged friend and aiding someone in distress, confessing he could have done more.

Julien C. Hyer

Briton Boitell Memoir Expert Dies at 82

William John Boitell, a British memoir expert who read fifty news daily and studied two Bible pages each morning, died at age 82.

William John Boitell

The Mature Parent Fears Child's Confidante

A grandmother writes that a child confiding in Aunt Madge reveals parental fear of criticism and self centeredness. Parents often mistake such confidences as threats to their virtue, missing the value of the child’s need to express feelings to a trusted adult.

Muriel Lawrence NEA Joan Madge Jean

Bolivian President Ends Hunger Strike After Labor Pressures

Bolivian President Hernan Siles Zuazo ended his hunger strike after labor concessions. He had vowed not to eat until tin miners and railway workers halted actions, seeking higher wages andavoiding inflation. Advices from the interior reported public support as tin miners returned to work and rail workers dropped their strike threat amid a new $25 million IMF loan.

LA Paz Bolivia Hernan Siles Zuazo Siles Zuazo United States International Monetary Fund

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