Airport dedication plans announced for Lubbock
A dedicated committee of chamber members city officials and aviation leaders will plan a February 19 airport dedication at Lubbock Municipal Airport. Cornerstone will be laid for the $360 000 terminal building with other events including a breakfast inspection of facilities and a hangar dance attracting airline officials and military delegations. The WAA will deliver title to airport property restored to city control following the SPAAF lease termination.
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Lubbock Municipal Airport
Chamber of Commerce
Homer D. Grant
Chamber
W. H. Rodgers
W. B. Price
John Spikes
E. K. Hufstedler, Jr
Clarence Whiteside
Robert H. Bean
Ray Hinchey
Bob Walker
Ed Colby
D. M. Wiggins
Texas Technological College
Reagan Howe
Horace Gearheart
Parker F. Prouty
Clyde Tatum
Jim Crook
G McMillan
Lubbock
Civil Aeronautics Authority
War Assets Administration
Army Air Forces
WAA
Rodgers
South Plains Army Airfield
SPAAF
Dallas Symphony Confronts Snow Day To Save Benefit Concert
The Dallas symphony, touring in Oklahoma, faced a severe snowstorm that stranded instruments and players. Conductor Antal Dorati praised the Oklahoma highway patrol for rescuing the snowbound gear and led a morale boosting performance in Oklahoma City before finishing the three week trek back home.
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Tulsa
U.P
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Minneapolis Orchestra
Fort Smith
Ark
Oklahoma City
March of Dimes
Dorati
Oklahoma City Symphony
Dallas
Texas Geological Society To Meet At Midland Monday
Midland announces the West Texas Geological Society’s first 1949 meeting with a paper by F J Agnich of Dallas Geophysical Service on Geophysical Exploration for Limestone Reefs. The talk focuses on gravity meter and seismograph methods and their reef locating value. Alan B Leeper WTGS program chairman notes strong reception in Dallas last November.
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Midland
F. J. Agnich
Geophysicial Service
Dallas
West Texas Geological Society
Agnich
Alan B. Leeper
WTGS
Russian Clerk Falls to Death at London Hospital
Anatoly Kapilkin, 39, a Russian embassy clerk, reportedly delirious after appendicitis surgery, bolted from a nurse and leaped from a third floor window at Hammersmith Hospital in London. Scotland Yard to hold an inquest. Moscow disputes claim of immunity in the probe.
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London
Hammersmith Hospital
Anatoly Kapilkin
Scotland Yard
Lubbock Clergy Campaign for Needy Aid Amid Weather
The Lubbock Ministerial Alliance led by Rev. Travis A. White asked churches to collect clothing cash and food for the needy due to ongoing bad weather. Items should be brought to churches today for distribution by the Salvation Army which will pick up the articles likely Monday. All city churches were asked to join.
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Lubbock
Travis A. White
Salvation Army
Parasite Drag Defined in Aircraft Aerodynamics
The term parasite drag refers to all air resistance produced by aircraft parts other than the wings. It includes form drag skin friction and interference effects from fuselage tail surfaces and landing gear.
Advertising club talk by Fort Worth executive Taulbee in Lubbock
SPEAKS TO CLUB-E. C. Taulbee, advertising manager of R. E. Cox and Co. of Fort Worth, will address the Advertising club in Lubbock at 8 o’clock Tuesday night at the Hilton hotel. He discusses advertising effectiveness under competition rather than forecasting retail trends and notes his past roles with the Advertising clubs of Waco and Fort Worth, plus public service work with Red Cross, Community Chest, war bonds, Shrine activities, and a Fort Worth publicity director stint before a major bond election.
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E. C. Taulbee
R. E. Cox and Co
Fort Worth
Advertising Club
Lubbock
Hilton Hotel
Taulbee
Waco
Red Cross
Community Chest
Crockett Voters Reject $100,000 Bond For City Improvements
Voters in Crockett defeated a $100,000 bond issue for street, water and park improvements, opposing the size as inadequate to meet the city’s needs.
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Crockett
Program Announced For Teachers Meet In Lubbock
The Lubbock county unit of the Texas State Teachers association sets a 7 30 p m Monday meeting in O L Slaton Junior High auditorium to discuss choral numbers book review and a preview of the West Texas Teachers association annual meeting. Officers and delegates will be elected with a long ballot listing candidates for president vice president second vice president secretary treasurer and 16 delegates.
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Lubbock County
Texas State Teachers Association
O. L. Slaton Junior High School
West Texas Teachers Association
Doyle D. Jackson
West Texas Organization
Carl Bailey
Lennon Hill
A. B. Reese
Marvin Williams
J. Gordon
Dee Hancock
J. B. Caldwell
A. F. Raser
R. W. Matthews
Roy Boyd
W. C. Hodges
G. D. Taylor
Virgie S. Hunter
R. E. Garlin
Merle Walker
Jay Gordon
Ruby Holloway
D. J. Neill
Rogers Orr
Ishmael Hill
Lois Howell
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the Association of
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West Texas
Finest RaDio Shop
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