Barracks Set for Single Veterans at Lubbock AAF
At Lubbock Army Airfield seven barracks will house 385 single veterans including Texas Tech students. FPHA approval clears conversion, with study halls to be set up in supply buildings. Occupancy may precede fall term while married units face delays and material shortages.
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Texas Technological College
J. A. Maynard
Lubbock
Fort Worth
FPHA
Maynard
Chamber of Commerce
Army Engineers’ Office
Washington
Capitol
George Manon
College
City
Chamber
Swimming Classes Scheduled In City
City pool hosts week long swimming classes for youths ages 12 to 15 as the City Recreation department and Lubbock County Red Cross chapter advance the program. Beginners meet at 9 a.m. intermediates at 10 and 11 a.m. Life saving from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and adult swimming at 7 p.m. daily. out of town students may attend.
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City Pool
City Recreation Department
Lubbock County
Rites Pending For Former Lubbock Man
Funeral rites for 2nd Lt. Claude K. Hubbard, former Lubbock resident, one of four Army Air Forces men killed in a B 25 crash in Mississippi, had not been arranged. Local friends said rites might be held in Graham. Hubbard was son in law of Mr and Mrs J C Hindman of 2207 Twenty fifth. He and his wife resided at 2501 Twenty second while stationed at Lubbock Army Airfield. He was an overseas veteran. Family members, including Mr and Mrs Hindman and Hubbard's brothers in law, F A Hindman and Jol Hindman, left for Mississippi after notification.
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Claude K. Huobard
Lubbock
Army Air Forces
Mississippi
Graham
Hubbard
J. C. Hindman
Lawell Hindman
Lubbock Army Airfield
Hindman
Lt Hubbard
F A Hindman
Ave. O
Jol. Hindman
Paducah
Japs Face Bitter Pill as Chinese Fleet Flown to Tokyo
In Tokyo Chinese generals Chin Teh Chun and Ho Ying Chin inspect eight small ships donated by the United States. The fleet, comprising two destroyers two submarine chasers and four minesweepers, will sail for China soon after the inspection.
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Tokyo
Tokyo Bay
Chin Teh- Chun
Ho - Ying-Chin
America
United States
Negro School Expansion Favored by University of Houston
Dr. E. E. Oberholtzer said the University of Houston regents would welcome expanding the Houston College for Negroes to first class university size. Leaders from Texas A and M and UT recommended a first class university for Negroes, preferably in Houston, with the Houston campus seen as the logical site amid a Texas education study.
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Houston
E. E. Oberholtzer
University of Houston
Board of Regents
University
Houston College
University Regents
Oberholtzer
Boards of Regents
University of Texas and
A. and M. College
Texas
Plains Co Op Stockholders Meet Wednesday
Plains Cooperative Gins Inc stockholders plan an annual meeting Wednesday at the Plains Cotton Cooperative Oil Mill 2901 Ave A. Roy B Davis secretary says meet from 11 am to about 4 pm with auditor president and manager reports and election of directors and officers for the coming year. Houston Bank for Cooperatives officers will attend. Members urged to bring wives and families. A noon fish fry is planned.
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Plains Cooperative Gins, Inc
Plains Cotton Cooperative Oil Mill
Ave
Roy B. Davis
Houston Bank For Cooperatives
Terrell Sledge Visits Lubbock In Senate Bid
Terrell Sledge of Kyle candidate for U S Senator from Texas visited Lubbock and the South Plains area. The 42 year old Rhodes scholar and World War II veteran outlined positions on price controls education health care and anti discrimination while promising vigorous representation for Texans in Washington.
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Terrell Sledge
Kyle
U. S
Texas
Lubbock
South Plains
Sledge
England
University of Texas
Tom Connally
Senate
United States
Connally
Times
United States Senate
Sailor Rex Driscoll Dies in Houston Traffic Crash
Rex Driscoll an 18 year old sailor on leave died of injuries from a motorcycle collision that occurred three days earlier. He obtained leave July 4 and traveled from California to Fort Worth before visiting his mother in Houston with his grandmother Mrs Margaret Driscoll. The death marks Houston's 38th traffic fatality of the year.
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Houston
U.P
Rex Driscoll
California
Fort Worth
Margaret Driscoll
Sweden’s 1749 census pioneer of national counting
The passage notes Sweden began national census taking in 1749, followed by the United States which conducted its first census in 1790 as the second nation to do so.
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Sweden
United States
City Seeks Writ to Clear Land for Nineteenth Street
The City of Lubbock filed in 99th district court a petition for a mandatory writ to clear a strip at the east end of Nineteenth Street between avenues seeking to establish a public right of way. Defendants Franklin D. Brown and Charlie Lockhart allegedly refused to surrender the land and a recent sale attempt is unrecorded.
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Texas
City of
Lubbock
99Th District Court
Franklin D. Brown
Charlie Lockhart
Brown
Lockhart
Wichita Falls
Crenshaw, Dupree and
Milan
Vaughn Wilson
Agricultural Award Goes To Nebraskan
John Ward a 19 year old farmer from Litchfield Nebraska is named winner of the W G Skelly award for superior achievement in agriculture. He will receive a $100 savings bond scroll and gold lapel button at a breakfast July 20. Ward and his mother have run the family 400 acre farm since 1944 producing beef pork butterfat eggs and multiple crops totaling 18 to 19 tons of hay and grasses.
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Chicago
John Ward
Litchfield
Nebraska
W. G. Skelly
Ward
Friends Aid Dick Evins Family After Farm Fire
The Dick Evins family near Shallowater lost their home to a fire and receive $585, plus furnishings and clothing from local help. Forty women organized a quilting party at the clubhouse with a covered dish luncheon, producing six quilts and three more donated, while additional goods were given to start afresh.
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Dick Evins
Shallowater
Dean Com
Pipeline Authority Grants 2.26 Million Texas Line
The power commission authorized a $2,260,442 pipeline and dehydration plant by Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co. The 16 inch pipeline will extend 95 miles from San Salvador field in Hidalgo County to a connection with the main line in Nueces County. The dehydration plant will be at San Salvador field.
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Houston
Washington
the Power Commission
Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company
Tex
San Salvador
Hidalgo County
Nueces County
Evins Family Relocates After Farm Hardship
The Evins family, longtime cotton farmers, received more than $3950 in aid and gifts. They have lived on their farm for twelve years and have four children, one in school and three preschoolers. They currently reside with Mr and Mrs Tom Groves in Shallowater while rebuilding.
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Munity
Evins
Tom Groves
Shallowater
Moisture Aids County's Crops
Crops in Lubbock county benefited from moisture varying from a quarter inch to four inches with rain near Idalou. Cotton making rapid progress while some late feed crops suffered from heat and premature heading due to prior dryness. About 500 acres near Idalou were hail damaged, total county damage undetermined. 70 percent of Irish potatoes in the county are affected.
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Lubbock
W. B. Griffin
Idalou
Flying Boxcar Heads to Europe on First Test Flight
The Army sent its large two engine C 82 Flying Boxcar to Europe for the first time. Eight paratroopers ride aboard as American and British troops will learn the latest parachute tactics and air cargo methods.
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Washington
Europe
Research Contract Given University
ST LOUIS July 13 Chan cellor Arthur H Compton of Washington university announced today that the school had been awarded a 103000 Navy contract for research in the use of atomic power for propulsion of warships. A battleship with an atomic power unit would use the unit to propel the ship and at the same time might produce materials from which atomic bombs could be made.
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ST. Louis
Arthur H. Compton
Washington University
Harvesting and Fall Seeding Under Way In Local Farms
Ready has been harvested and land is being prepared for fall seeding of small grains and some spring row crops. Beef cattle are being rushed to market as feed remains scarce with prices from 16 to 18.25 dollars per hundred weight. Recent rains yield little improvement in native pasture. Farm labor is described as adequate with no surplus.
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Avalanche-journal
SAAF
Veterans
C. H. Scape
China
Co-Op
U. S. Senate
Kettering
British Air Ministry
Agricultural
E. Z. Hogan
Precinct No. 1
34Th Street
FE. Z. Hogan
Rabun Battery & Electric
Texas Ave
Fairbanks-Morse
Bosch
Edison
United
Dial
Roger L. Kuykendall
Eugene Alderson
Texas Tech
Vice
European Theatre
Kuykendall Cheverolet Co
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Ralston Purina Co
Navy
Kuykendall Chevrolet CO
Chevrolet
13Th Street
Roddy Kilowatt
Uthwestern Public Servile Company
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