County Gets First Shipment Of 49 Car Tags For Feb. 1 Sale
The Lubbock County auto registration office receives 27,030 sets of 1949 license tags manufactured by the Texas Prison system for the Feb. 1 sale. Tags are yellow orange with black numerals and issued by the Texas Highway department. Prices range from 7.56 to 30.00 per vehicle class. Deputy Aura Mae Hamilton and staff face heavy workload with statewide registration increases noted since 1946.
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J. B. Johnston
Texas Prison System
Motor Vehicle Division
Texas Highway Department
Lubbock
Aura Mae Hamilton
Gain Weight With Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
If you are underweight this medicine claims to boost appetite and digestion. It is advertised as a tonic that makes you want to eat and helps your body turn food into added flesh. Available in handy tablets for 50 cents and liquid for a dollar at drugstores.
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Dr. Pierce
Plan Outlined to Choose Texas Judges by Referendum
Law leaders in Laredo present a state bar plan to select judges via a five member panel in each district nominating three lawyers for governor to appoint, with retention votes for judges and a bar member secret ballot before reappointment, requiring a constitutional amendment and statewide referendum.
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Laredo
Texas
State Bar Association
R. G. Storge
Dallas
Supreme Judicial Districts
Courts of Appeals
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Supreme Judicial District
Court of Civil Appeals
Plane Delivers Mercy Supplies to Eskimo Village Mission
An RCAF Dakota transport leaves Trenton for a mercy flight to Creswell Bay 400 miles into the Arctic. The village, 75 miles north of Fort Ross, is reported to be 9 dead with others dying from an epidemic. a doctor will join in Winnipeg and a 1,000 mile trip along Hudson Bay is planned. Parachutists may bail out if landing is blocked.
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Trenton
Ont
INS
Arctic Circle
Ottawa
Creswell Bay
Somerset Island
Dakota Transport
RCAF
Winnipeg
Churchill
Hudson Bay
Fort Ross
New Process Described To Grow Rocks In Quick Branch Science
Description of a rapid rock growing branch of science presented to the American Chemical Society in New York. Dr. G T Kohman of Bell Labs described quartz and tartrate rocks formed from silica and water under high pressure and steam, the quartz aiding military radio and radar needs. Ernest Buehler and Albert C Walker from Bell Laboratories are cited as rock makers. Oyster shells are noted as being reused for next year’s tiny oysters.
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Associated Press
New York
American Chemical Society
G. T. Kohman
Bell Telephone Laboratories
United States
Ernest Buehler
Albert C. Walker
Bell Laboratories
Mount Wilson Telescope Heads to South Africa for Milky Way Survey
Mount Wilson Observatory will ship its 10 inch refractor camera to Bloemfontein South Africa to complete a 30 year Milky Way study. The instrument loaned to the University of Michigan for use at Lamone Hussey Observatory will be operated by graduate student Karl G Hennze and is expected to take three years.
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Pasadena
Cal
INS
Mount Wilson Observatory
Bloemfontein
South Africa
Mt. Wilson
Southern California Observatory
Africa
University of Michigan
Lamone - Hussey Observatory
Karl G. Hennze
Fat Stock Show Meeting Slated for Planning
The South Plains Junior Fat Stock Show Association will hold the first planning meeting at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Colonial Room of the Hilton hotel. Vernice Ford, president, announced the 17th annual show to run March 21, with invites sent to agricultural committees in Lubbock civic clubs. Elections for a new president and a steering committee will be on the agenda. Calves and pigs from 4-H and FFA youths in 26 Northwest Texas and Eastern New Mexico counties are eligible to compete.
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Texas
Hilton Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Vernice Ford
South Plains
George Bond
Agriculture
Lubbock
4-H Club
FFA
New Mexico
Stone in Longfellow village site to form new block foundation
In Cambridge Massachusetts a granite block marking the village blacksmith from Longfellow’s poem will be incorporated into the foundation of a new Georgian style business and professional block after resting alone for over 50 years.
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Cambridge
Mass
U.P
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Avalanche-Journal
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John B. Doe
Lubbock County
Austin
Eskimo Village
A. V. Blake Radio Service
Phonograph Records
19Th ST
Lubbock CT
Dan Ellis
MGR
Welco TC
the Riviera
The
Americas
Casablanca
Acapulco
Reforma
Cook Clinic
Ave
M. W
Doe
Ehi
New Hudson
Kerr Hudson Sales
Citizens National Bank
Citizens National
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