Flying Fun Is On Again In My Poss
Mary Lou Fairbairn recounts flying lessons with instructor Willard, fellow student Rex Johnson, and others. The piece covers early license histories from Otto Rea, pilots at Mercury Aviation, and local aviation figures in Lubbock Texas including Gerald Martin and Art Johnson. It notes a successful rescue style guidance by Reese AFB B25s for a lost student and touches on airport income records and community aviation figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Fairbairn
Willarder
Rex Johnson
Roy Neal
Willard
Otto Rea
2Nd St
Army
Aerial Club of America
Hollywood
March Air Force Base
Rea
Mercury Aviation Co
Cecil B. de Mille
de Mille
Twodot
Mont
Texas
Brides Survive As Two Newlyweds Die
Two 21 year old grooms died after their car overturned near Syracuse while returning from a wedding party. The brides Shirley Gates and Mary Ellen Hardy, ages 19 and 17, were injured, Shirley hospitalized with possible skull and back fractures, Mary Ellen in fair condition at Memorial Hospital. The wedding party had celebrated earlier as the car, wedding streamers trailing, lost control on a sharp curve 11 miles north of Syracuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
Kenneth Gates
Shirley
Robert F. Hardy
North
Mary Ellen
Memorial Hospital
Here
Marines Await Transfer For Shangri La Carrier
Marine Pfc Charles A Oldham son of Mr and Mrs Earl Oldham of Lorenzo is with the Marine Detachment San Diego awaiting transfer to the support aircraft carrier USS Shangri La now in Bremerton Washington being readied for active fleet service It would be the first carrier in mothballs converted to a cant deck for three way takeoffs and landings Officers for 1955 elected at Abernathy Riding Club meeting with 35 members present New officers listed and next meeting set Dr Robert Rouse Texas Tech spoke at South Plains Underwriters Association meeting about life insurance investments Members up 20 percent to 154 on rolls About 251 cases heard in corporation court 52 moving traffic violations 193 parking 5 other misdemeanors with 73750 in total fines 40350 moving 274 parking and 60 other offenses including drunkenness disturbance and failure to appear Dave Coggin recovering after emergency appendectomy Gideons International to hear Rev Wayne Cook at Caprock Hotel prayer meeting and breakfast Also a fire at 2826 24th St attic clothes closet damage nearly 8000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Coggin
Pioneer Air Lines
San Angelo
E. L. Coggin Sr
Coggin
Dave
Mayer Clinic
42Nd St
Jack Dixon
Pioneer
Slaton
Larry Dorn
Susan
Dorn
Braniff International Air Lines
Dorothy Jordan
Skyline Dining Room
Pat Mays
Harvey Rivers
Ft. Smith, Ark
Army
Japan
Rivers
Skylineing Room
Jerry F. Knight
16Th St
Wes-Tex Air Craft
Branitt
Skyline
Marine Pfc
Charles A. Oldham
Earl Oldham
Lorenzo
Marine Detachment
San Diego
Shangri la
Bremerton
Wash
Abernathy
Graham
Robert Rouse
Texas Tech
South Plains Underwriters Association
Caprock Hotel
David Hobbs
Alvin Griffin
Tech Faculty Folk Song Authority To Speak At Andrews
Raymond P. Elliott of Texas Tech, a folk song authority, will be the principal speaker at the Andrews County Chamber of Commerce membership banquet Friday night. The event at 7 20 p m in the primary school cafeteria will install new officers and outline 1955 plans. L B Parrish presides and will review the year’s achievements.
Ayers Services Tomorrow In Spur for Albert L Ayers
Funeral services for Albert L. Ayers 55 of Houston a former Spur resident who died Friday in Houston Veterans Hospital will be held Monday at 2 p m in Campbell Funeral Home chapel Rev L R Pendley of Spur First Baptist Church will officiate Burial will be in Spur Cemetery He had lived in Dickens County eight years before moving to Houston 15 years ago Survivors include a daughter Mrs Sam Hall of Wills Point three sons Robert E Lester B and Albert L Jr all of Houston two brothers three sisters and four grandchildren
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Spur
Albert L. Ayers
Houston
Veterans Hospital
Campbell Funeral Home
L. R. Pendley
Spur First Baptist Church
Buruial
Spur Cemetery
Ayers
Dickens County
Sam Hall
Wills Point
Robert E
Lester B
Albert L. Jr
Churchill to speak at builders dinner in London
Britain's best known bricklayer is to address a National Federation of Building Trades Employers dinner on January 25. Prime Minister Churchill, a union card holder, learned to handle a trowel during Chartwell remodeling before World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnie
London
Britain
National Federation of Building Trades
Churchill
Chartwell
Rectal and Colon Diseases book offers relief guidance
An advertisement promises a free copy of Rectal and Colon Diseases from Thornton Minor Hospital in Kansas City Missouri. It claims common ointments and home remedies fail to relieve piles fistula and rectal pain and urges readers to write for the free booklet. It emphasizes expert guidance from America s leading pile and general rectal clinic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Thornton Minor Hospital
E. Linwood
Kansas City 8
Lubbock Bar Association hosts UT Law Professor Dr Strumberg
Dr George W Strumberg distinguished professor of law at the University of Texas spoke on family relations divorce and child custody at a Lubbock Bar Association noon luncheon at the Caprock Hotel. Introduced by District Attorney Travis Shelton A W Salyars president in charge about 80 members and guests attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Strumberg
University of Texas
Lubbock Bar Association
Caprock Hotel
Travis Shelton
A. W. Salyars
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Poss
Bullock
Tex
Avalanche-Journa
Sen
Gerald Martin
Ave. L
Gerald
Art Johnson
Navy
Art
Johnson
Barry
Lubbock
CAA
Reese Air Force Base
Reese
Air Force
Levelland
Jan Tom McPhaul
Texas Liquor Control Board
Oklahoma City
Shreve- Port
Norges
Sanorce
Norge
Duces
Fearena Igietow Tener
New
Port-A-Base
Ecsy
Murite Appliance CO
Corporation Court
Dave Coggin
Gideons International
Wayne Cook
Methodist Hospital
Cook
Asbury Methodist Church
Lre
H. E. Bergman
24Th St
Bergman
Eto
Lubbock Bar Association Mears Texas University Law Professor
Strumberg
General Motors
R. E. Penney
Kuykendall Chevrolet Co
Lubbock, Texas
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