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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1968
Page
14
Earl Aronson reports on top prize winners in geranium and zinnia trials. Carefree Scarlet and Carefree Deep Salmon earn silver medals with Carefree Bright Pink bronze. Zinnia Wild Cherry blooms six inches across. Celosia Golden Triumph and Orange Jubilee earn honors. Seeded geraniums germinate in about a week, reach 12 inches, and contrast with seedling branches.
Gardening notes highlight the 1968 All America gladiolus selections Royalty red Purity white and Bluebird blue and white. Royalty bears eight of twenty buds open, Purity valued for health and whiteness, Bluebird described as a miniature with eight blooms per spike. Blooming intervals and dates given for each variety and planting guidance offered. Also mentions prize winning verbena Blaze and vegetable winner Spartan Valor cucumber with details on resistance and traits. Additional vegetable winners include Bell Boy tomato, Bush Winter squash Gold Nugget and Butter King lettuce.
Large lodgepole pines Pinus contorta ratiofolia have been planted behind Austrian pines on the Texas Tech campus. The trees, transplanted over 20 years ago, grow tall and straight, ideal for lumber and reforestation. They require large root balls and careful winter handling to prevent damage.
Lubbock County commissioners at a special meeting approve changes to a warehouse for Precinct 2 and additions to the new courthouse. The warehouse adds second floor storage, painting, plumbing and electrical work to install a new air compressor at a net $492 raise to $30,342. Courthouse change orders include a boiler room ramp costing $380 and a suspended ceiling substitution at $948.50. Two orders yield a net saving of $1,312, with partition revisions and stain proofing and exterior facing changes. The Commissioners Court will convene in a regular session Monday.
Waco Dist. Judge Vice Hall paid his $1200 filing fee Friday as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for associate justice of the 10th Court of Civil Appeals at Waco. Will D. Davis announced Hall's filing and payment of fee.
UPI reports Josef Haydn returns to circulation with 11 symphonies played by the Orchestra of Naples under Denis Vaughan. Highlights include Nos 82 through 92 and the Oxford, La Reine, LOure, and La Poule. Also noted are Stravinsky recent works conducted by the composer and Toscanini RCA reissues of Brahms symphonies with Haydn Variations and overtures in a four-record set.
New York dispatch notes Beatles and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass enduring after doom predictions. It highlights Sergeant Pepper era shifts, Magical Mystery Tour, I Am a Walrus, Flying, and Alpert’s Ninth with Carmen and My Heart Belongs to Daddy, noting flexible trumpeting and enduring appeal.
First Lt. Pember W. Rochp, 26, son of Mr and Mrs. Don Rocap, 6007 Nashville, receives the Air Force Commendation Medal for outstanding service while stationed in Takli Thailand. He will headquarter at Randolph AFB after returning stateside in February and teaches English to 6th graders in his off hours in Karat, Thailand. He earned a BA in English from Texas Tech in 1963 and an MA in English there in 1964. His wife Celeste resides at 221 Indiana. Tommy Atchison, 22, RM3 U.S. Navy, visits his parents at 1526 EB Ist St. He served as radioman on the USS Rigel, traveled the Caribbean and Mediterranean, and plans to return to Texas Tech after completing service in May. He will report to Norfolk, Virginia, next Tuesday and expects another tour with the Sixth Fleet.
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