Major mobile home plant planned for Lubbock site
Guerdon Industries and the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce announce a mobile home manufacturing facility to be built on Loop 289 east of the Texas Highway Department. Initial employment is 75 to 85 workers, with potential growth to 175 to 200. The project uses land from a 700 acre industrial park leased by the Lubbock Industrial Foundation.
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Lubock
Detroit
Mich
Lubbock
Guerdon Industries, Inc
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce Board of City Development
Chamber
City of
Lubbock Industrial Foundation
F. L. Cappaert
Guerdon
Loop 289
Texas Highway Department
Mobil Homes
Local Lubbock Bank Deposits Rise 28 Million Year Over Year
Six Lubbock banks show total deposits of 328.532 million as of June 29 up 28.527 million from a year ago and 7.42 million above the April call. Loans and discounts stand at 194.658 million, up from 171.723 million a year prior. Savings deposits across four associations total 104.424 million, vs 98.075 million a year earlier.
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Lubbock Bank
Lubbock
Savings and Loan
West Texas Air Terminal passenger boardings surge in 1968 half
Through June 1968 West Texas Air Terminal enplaned 76,913 passengers, up 22.1 percent from 1967's half year pace and 141.8 percent above five years earlier. June alone set a 13,455 passenger record with all three airlines Continental Braniff and Trans-Texas posting gains.
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West Texas Air Terminal
Edward L. Colby
Aviation
Colby
Continental
Braniff
Trans-Texas
Increases Showed by Most Texas Banks in June
Texas banks report deposits as of June 29 up from a year earlier with Harris County totaling 4.43 billion and Dallas County up 340 million. Sharpstown State Bank leads gains rising to 46.1 million after an extra 7.5 million. The mid year call hits 4.35 billion.
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State Banking Department
Dallas County
Far South Trip Planned for Antarctic Grant to Tech
A $54 000 National Science Foundation grant to Texas Tech funds a three person geology team to continue Antarctic work. Led by F Alton Wade, the effort includes Kerby Laprade and Charles King with Bill Scheaffer also on the team. Wade remains in Lubbock to compile previous data as the expedition launches a Byrd Coast Survey followed by Shackleton Glacier studies.
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National Science
Texas Tech
Astarctica
Washington
Tech
F.alton Wade
Wade
Lubbock
Kerby Laprade
East Texas State University
Laprade
Antarctic
East
Texas State
Charles King
Bill Scheaffer
Byrd Coast Survey
Shackleton Glacier
Texas cities receive first local sales tax rebates
State Comptroller Robert Calvert issued more than 2.3 million dollars in first quarter rebates to 14 Texas cities under local option sales tax. El Paso led with 709,686 dollars, Austin 641,003, Corpus Christi 544,765, and Wichita Falls 236,235, while Lubbock and others received smaller amounts.
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Austin
UPS
Texas
Robert S. Calvert
Lubbock
Bill Blackwell
el Paso
Corpus Christi
Wichita Falls
Aransas Pass
Brackerville
Elgin
Henrietta
Ingleside
Nacogdoches
Orange Grove
Port Aransas
Taylor
Texarkana
Steve Matthews
The
Municipal League
Fileaso
Matthews
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