Winter's First Howl Finds Snow Plows Out On Patrol
Avalanche Journal staff details how District 5 of the State Highway Department mobilizes 300 workers and a fleet of 110 snow plows and 4 rotaries to keep 17 counties of the South Plains open during snow and ice. J. D. Willson explains patrols, salt operations, radio links, and rapid mobilization from Lubbock to guard highways against icing, drifts, and flooding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Highway Department
South Plains
District 5
Lubbock
J. D. Willson
Palmer, Castro
Swisher
Caprock
Amarillo
Bailey, Lamb, Hale and
Floyd
Willson
Bruce Bryan
U. S. Weather Bureau
Bryan
Nouth
Seminole
Lamesa
Floodada
Plainview
Muleshoe
Dimmitt
Brownfield
Plains
Ports Willson
Highway ‘Department
Rock Society To Meet Today In Lubbock
Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society meets 7:30 p.m. today at Slide Road Clubhouse W 50th St near Slide Rd to plan projects for 1963. Refreshments and a door prize. Officers include W. Ie Foster president Bruce Bryan vice president Miss Bula Beard secretary FG White treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society
Slide Road
W. 50Th St
Slide Rd
W Ie. Foster
Ropesville
Bruce Bryan
Main St
Bula Beard
Lubbock
FG. White
53Rd St
Bob Goodson
Earl Siefert
W. T. Beard
W. B. Smith
Pat Lo Cascio
L. F E. Davis
Frank Lynch
Herbell Pigg
L. E. Davis
Pat van Ribber
Dr Carl Hereford to retire as Corpus Christi pastor
Dr Carl Hereford, pastor of First Baptist Church Corpus Christi for 17 years, will retire May 1 and move to Lubbock to join the Kingdom Building Foundation of Texas. He has led missions efforts, aided church construction, and helped establish the Latin American mission and a university relocation, with a record amount of mission gifts since 1946.
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Corpus Christi
Carl FE. Hereford
First Baptist Church
Lubbock
Kingdom Building Foundation of Texas
Texas
Hereford
Foreign Mission Board
Executive Board of
Texas Baptists
Home Mission Board
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Ministerial Alliance
The
Baptist Convention
South
Ocean Drive
Aod
First Baptist
Dr. Hereford
University of Corpus Christi
Zephyr
Mathis
South Texas
Nigeria
Holy Land
Jamaica
England
Europe
Alaska
South America
Central America
Mexico
Mrs Edna Arnold Visits Vernon for Frost Birthday
Mrs Edna Arnold visited Sunday in Vernon at the home of her brother O W Frost and son Larry who were honored with a birthday party. She was accompanied by her sister Pearl Blanchard of Amherst and niece Poe May of Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shallowater
Edna Arnold
Vernon
O. W Frost
Larry
Frost
Arnold
Pearl Blanchard
Amherst
Poe May
Lubbock
Blocking Cold War Objectives in Atlantic Community
The piece notes a forthcoming effort by Allied leaders to break a logjam on major cold war aims as Sino-Soviet tensions rise. It outlines NATO, the EEC, and Congo issues with George Ball and Thomas Finletter flying to conferences while tensions grow among France Britain and the United States over economic and military strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Roberts
Associated Press
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
European Economic Community
Congo
George Ball
NATO
Thomas E. Finletter
Ball
Africa
United States
France
Britain
Europe
Commonwealth
Germany
Paris
Belgium
United Nations
Portugal
Angola
Unusual Bridge Collision Involves Car And Horse-Drawn Buggy
In Minneapolis a minor crash on a narrow bridge surprised police. A car driven by Thoms Madden, 70, Hopkins, collided with a horse-drawn carriage piloted by Leland E. Wyman, 23, Edina. One buggy wheel was damaged.
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Minneapolis
AP —l
Thoms Madden
Hopkins
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By Jo Fischer
Hemphill-Wells
Frank L
White Avalanche-Journal
Ull
Rock Society
Carl Hereford
Era
Atlantic
Katanga
Soviet Union
European Economic Communit
F.D.I.C
Drs. Pettey
Dean
Optometrists
Association of
Drew A. Browne
Optometry
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