Enrollment Up Near 1000 as Lubbock Schools Begin Second Semester
Lubbock secondary schools prepare for the second semester after nine weeks of exams. Grades for the first semester are issued Monday with full-day schedules starting Tuesday. Openings of new buildings reduce crowding, including M. C. Overton elementary. Enrollment totals rise to 10,550 by the fourth month.
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Lubbock Secondary
Lubbock
Dorothy Lomax
Ishmael Hill
Floyd Honey
Carroll Thompson Junior High School
R. W. Matthews
P. F. Brown
McWhorter
Dora Nell Carroll
Overton
Roscoe Wilson
Chris Harwell
George R. Bean
Roscoe Wilson and
Ivy Savage
Lennon Hill
Dr. Houston Peterson To Address Knife and Fork Club
Educator Dr. Houston Peterson, descendant of Sam Houston’s sister, will speak to the Knife and Fork Club Tuesday at 7 PM in the Lubbock Hotel. Secretary-treasurer Lewis B. Rix announced the event.
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Houston Peterson
Sam Houston
Knife and Fork Club
Lubbock
Lewis B. Rix
California
Dr. Peterson
Rutgers University
Peterson
Boston
Galveston
Huxley
Science
Water Rights Safeguarded In West Texas Against New Code
West Texas municipalities are urged to defend domestic water rights as the Amarillo WTCC committee opposes the Texas Water Conservation Association code. The letter warns against repealing recovery provisions aiding municipal water supplies and stresses existing rights under Art. 7472 and Sec. 160. Signed by WTCC officers, it was sent to Texas officials to seek defeat of the code provisions.
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Avalanche Journal
Abilene
West Texas
Amarillo
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Texas Water Conservation Association
Lawrence Hagg
West
Texas
Alba
John D. Mitchell
D. A. Bandeen
WTCC
Water Rights Committee
J. E. Sturrock
The
Rites Set Today For Levelland Farmer
Levelland Texas January 22 Oscar Orville Kirby 61 a retired farmer died at home He will be buried Sunday at 2 30 p m in Tech Memorial Park Levelland under Plains Funeral Home Survivors include his wife five daughters Martha Johnson Nadine Nichols Nell Hightower Edna Ruth Payne Ruby Lambert three sons Orville Littlefield Orby Billy Joe and five sisters
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Levelland
Oscar Orville Kirby
Austin Street
Church of Christ
Tech Memorial Park
Lubbock
Plains Funeral Home
Kirby
Martha Johnson
Nadine Nichols
Nell Hightower
Edna Ruth Payne
Ruby Lambert
Patterson
Calif
Orville
Littlefield
Orby
Billy Joe
Calvert Congratulates Calvert On Comptroller Appointment
In Texas there are two Robert Calverts not the same man. Robert S. Calvert of Austin was appointed state comptroller and receives congratulations from Robert W. Calvert of Hillsboro who writes of his long public service and the joy of the promotion.
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Austin
Robert
Robert W. Calvert
Hillsboro
Texas
Robert S. Calvert
Water Conservation Association Meeting Discusses Legislation
The Water Conservation association authorized committee members to take necessary steps in organized efforts in Austin and elsewhere to defeat the proposed legislation while praising other features of the bill as worthy of passage.
Hearing Set In Condemnation Action On Sauz Ranch
Federal Judge Allan B. Hannay ordered a preliminary hearing next week to transfer to federal court a condemnation dispute over 1 760 acres of the 122 000 acre Sauz ranch in Willacy County Texas The Atwoods heirs seek to void the Navigation Districts condemnation The Attwoods longtime attorney Thomas Hart Fisher questioned the district's authority to unite TX and non TX properties in one suit.
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Houston
Allan B. Hannay
South Texas Sauz Ranch
Hannay
Edwin K. Atwood
Alice B. Atwood
Thomas Hart Fisher
Willacy County Navigation District
Atwoods
Henrietta King
Navigation District
Sauz
Fisher
The
King
South
Texas
Willacy County
Kenedy County
Fred Wagner
Brownsville
Freestone Sheriff Dies From Bullet Wound in Head
Fairfield Texas January 22 Sheriff Jim Sessions 35 of Freestone county died in Corsicana hospital at 11 15 p m Friday night from a self inflicted bullet wound found by family in their back yard. He had served ten consecutive terms and is survived by his wife and five children. He previously worked in the cattle business with his father.
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Fairfield
U.P
Jim Sessions
Freestone County
Corsicana
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Avalanche-Journal
Sun
Thornton & Minor Clinic
McGee
Kansas City
DR. Houston Peterson
Roscoe Wilson School
Calvert
Texas Ranch
Freestone
Wayland D. Kt
ITH
United States Patent Office
Sweetbriar
Our Bank
Lubbock National Bank
Lester's Jewelers
Oregon
Louise Benham
Breckston
W. J. Burns
Falls Drive
Dallas
Fellows
J. Brod
Howard Street
San Antonio
Myrtle Thompson
South Hempton Reed
H. O. Hensen
Shermen
Leatrice Bryant
South 15Th
Waco
Helen Beasley
Bext Belknep
Fort Texas
Rene Barnes
Hawkins Street
Fort Worth
Mes. F. P. Melvey
1600 Avenue
Becumen
Vees Fellows
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