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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1955
Page
8
Thirty or more died when a crowded bus plunged off a mountain road near Cuatla. Police seek the driver and a change-collector who fled. Thirteen were injured, three severely, as the bus burned after tipping into a ravine. witnesses say the driver turned off lights before the crash.
An confessed slayer Otto Loel 44 who admitted the murder of Elizabeth Henderson 31 of Compton California says there were extenuating circumstances He claims he traveled with her as a couple and that the killing may not have been premeditated He waived extradition and the case goes to court for decision
Members of the Teen Canteen of Lubbock and city officials meet at 3 p.m. today at the KN Clann Party House to map a March of Dimes activity. Canteen reps say details aren’t ready but the event aims to raise funds for the drive and invites all local teenagers to attend. Roland Myers chairs the project. Don Warren is lantern professor.
Lynn County Farm Bureau President Wood will attend a statewide Presidents conference in Waco. Gladys Off publicity chief says the workshop style meeting aims to improve Texas Farm Bureau’s effectiveness for farmers and ranchers through discussion of organization, administration, membership, policy, services, public relations, and activities.
The Lubbock office of 1.1.7 Motor Freight Lines hosts a two day annual affair in Caprock Hotel Room 306 with Loyd M. Lanotte outlining operations sales and terminal management topics. Speakers include W L Weis from Washington DC and numerous regional managers detailing accounting staffing dispatching and safety issues for 1955.
Waterlogged timbers and bronze pins from an old ship, possibly pirate, were uncovered by a dragline at Deerfield Beach Florida near a lagoon. The wreck lay under four feet of mud and twelve feet of water, with parts visible as late as 1907 before sinking again.
1st Lt. Royce H. McNeill, promoted in December, journeyed from London to Nouraseur Base Casablanca to test fly F-81 jets. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. McNeill of 2315 13th Street and left London by ship December 27 for Ose tendo Belgium, then car to Wiesbaden. He later ski trips in the Alps while watching Texas New Year celebrations on television.
Kenon Stephens 49 will be buried or memorialized in Roanoke Alabama Monday with services planned in the town of his birth. He had been hospitalized recently at the Veterans Hospital McKinney before passing Thursday night at his brother Dr W R Stephens home in Waco.
A mysterious donor has given away 650 to three people in eight days in Chicago. Police are puzzled by genuine bills and unusual regularity of the gifts. Cecil Mayes a 28 year old hitchhiker from Eve reports 100, Nathaniel Patterson a 24 year old unemployed man 250 and others describe similar windfalls. Authorities have impounded the money while verifying authenticity. The article notes the Turkish republic began in 1953.
Plainview three man livestock judging team placed second at Swisher County Fat Stock Show in Tulsa. Members Billy Todd Ralph Mires and Eiowyn Ellis, all of Plainview, led with Todd winning top hog judge honors while Mires and Ellis helped beef cattle judging. A junior team also traveled but did not enter the main contest.
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