Precautions urged as July Fourth weekend nears
National Safety Council figures warn 365 violent deaths over the long weekend with 100 in Texas. Lubbock police and the Texas Highway Patrol urge motorists to drive within limits, pass only when safe, avoid distractions, and abstain from drinking while driving. Local police caution about heavy traffic, open highways, and multiple causes of death beyond crashes.
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Avalanche-Journal
National Safety Council
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Texas Highway Patrol
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The
Gilbert Newton
Newton
Buffalo Lakes
Jap Students May Attend Tech Soon
Texas Tech president Dr. D. M. Wiggins said he received an inquiry from Tokyo about enrolling Japanese students at the college. Photographs of campus life were sent to Tokyo as Japan eyes American study options, with reports that about 300,000 Japanese seniors will seek university study after graduation.
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Texas Technological College
D. M. Wiggins
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Yoshio Akzo
United States
Texas Tech
State Training School For Negro Girls Relocated To Crockett
The Youth Development Council voted to move the State Training School for Negro Girls from Brady to Crockett East Texas with about 225000 dollars for four dormitories. The site was donated by Crockett citizens and 90 girls are currently enrolled with construction to begin soon and occupancy planned by January 1 1951. Local crash near Levelland claimed one life on the Fourth of July weekend.
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Austin
Youth Development Council
Crockett
Texas
Brady
John H. Winters
Levelland
Tom Whitley
Lubbock
Administrative Conference For Texas Tech Area Officials
Lubbock hosts a two day administrators conference at Aggie Memorial auditorium to discuss practice administrative problems Gilmer Aikin regulations and vocational education with W B Lowry L P Sturgeon Hal Griffin and Dr W B Irvin among speakers more than ten administrators expected plus invited students and a barbecue at Mackenzie State Park on first day.
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Lubbock
Aggie Memorial Auditorium
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Texas Education Agency
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Hal Griffin
W. B. Irvin
Highland Park
Dallas
Wiggins
D. M. Wiggins
Tech
E. N. Jones
Lubbock Public Schools
Jones
Supt
R. W. Matthews
G. B. Wadzeck
Lamesa
Matthews
W. W. Swinburn
Tulsa
Fred Miller
Abernathy
Lowry
Mackenzie State Park
Aggie
Irvin
Model Airplane Contests Slated in Plainview
More than 100 model airplane builders are expected to participate Sunday July 9 in the Plymouth Model Plane contest on the Wilson farm two and one half miles east of Plainview on the Lockney highway. Trophies awarded only to Hale county entrants. winner advances to the international Detroit contest August 14 to 21. Contests include free flight and U control with senior junior and open divisions.
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Wilson Farm
Here
Lockney Highway
Lubbock
Hale County
Detroit
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Newman Motor Companies
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Plainview Evening Herald
Optimist Club
Coffee stocks rise in United States
New York reports green coffee stocks on March 31 reached 3,884,000 bags, up 12 percent from March 1949 figures, signaling stronger supply.
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United States
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