Shorter staple cotton deemed key to high plains future
At Texas Tech Friday, extension workers and cotton leaders from 20 counties discussed the role of 15/16 inch and shorter staples in world markets. Speakers urged careful harvesting, thorough drying, clean ginning, and a one variety program to improve price and seed supply while noting May plant dates and irrigation impact.
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High Plains
W. N. Williamson
Extension Service
Texas Tech College
Fred Elliott
Cotton Belt
L. FE
Fred Lichte
Don Jones Sobdaks
Don Jones
Jones
Real Estate Group Outlines 1947 Program in Lubbock
The Lubbock Real Estate Board held its semi monthly meeting at the Hilton hotel presenting a 1947 program focused on licensing laws to curb unscrupulous operators and boost ethics. Walter Price outlined the plan as members discussed new committee appointments including Harold Chapman as secretary and panels led by Jynley Jr., Robert Wright, L D Casey, John Spikes, and J Chelry.
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Lubbock Real Estate Board
Sata
Hilton
Walter Price
Brtapain
Harold Chapman
J. Ynley, Jr
Robert W. Wright
John Spikes
Chelry
Vampire Bait Trap Fails To Snare Rueil Sex Maniac
A girl reporter describes a police trap in Rueil France aimed at the so called vampire of Rueil. The attacker remains at large after the bust attempt ends with the reporter scared off by a guardian correspondent. The latest victim was found nude and mauled, now recovering in hospital.
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United Press
Rueil
France
Guardian
Bride Held on Murder Charge in 44 Slaying
Modessa Bingham Light, 25, wife of a few months, stood under a $2500 bond in Dyersburg Tennessee as extradition to Albuquerque New Mexico loomed. Sheriff John Yarbro said Keith led officials to bone fragments near Albuquerque and accused Light of killing an older man with a wrench after alleged advances in August 1944. Light denied the accusation, calling it trumped up, while her attorney E T Palmer claimed Keith harassed her.
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Dyersburg
Tenn
Modessa Bingham Light
Liberty
New Mexico
John Yarbro
Albuquerque
N. M
L. B. Keith
Bernalillio County
Keith
Light Charged With Larceny Withdrawn in Warrant Case
A Lubbock case reports a warrant against Mrs Light for larceny withdrawn after initial charge. Separate item notes the Dust Bowl era states produced about 556 million bushels of wheat in 1944. A Kansas University baby contest at Sunflower Village featured 18 children of fathers enrolled and 13 prizes.
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Lubbock
Texas
Dyersburg
Light
Lawrence
Kan
University of Kansas
Sunflower Village
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C. S. Ameen
Raleigh Martin
Taxeen
Ed Allen
G. R. Kennedy
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