Area Grain Crop May Set Record Across South Plains
Reported July grain sorghum plantings climb in Bailey to Crosby counties with totals near 125000 to 290000 acres. Cotton acreages vary with moisture and rainfall, while blooms of corn and alfalfa appear strong in Hale Floyd and surrounding counties.
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South Plains
Bailey County
J. K. Adams
Muleshoe
Cochran County
Crosby County
W. R. Kimbrough
Crosbyton
Dawson County
Lee Roy Colghan
Lamesa
Dickens County
Charles Taylor
Dickens
Floyd County
Robert Gibson
Floydada
Gibson
Gaines County
L. H. McElroy
Seminole
Garza County
L. C. Herron
Post
Herron
Hale County
Ollie Liner
Plainview
Liner
Hockley
Artie B. Forehand
Levelland
Lamb County
David Eaton
Amherst
Eaton
Lubbock County
Dave Sherrill
Lubbock
Sherrill
Lynn County
Bill Griffin
Tohoka
Motley County
Rufus Emmons
Terry
James A. Foy
Brownfield
Yoakum
H. G. Sprawls
Plains
Senators Oppose Controls as Truman Considers Options
Senator Taft opposes standby powers for the President while Democratic senators hint at a slow approach to any mandatory controls. President Truman says rationing is unnecessary and administration aides discuss voluntary allocations for steel and war materials. Signs of war scare buying appear nationwide with bread and used car prices rising, spurring calls for immediate price controls.
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Taft
Ohio
Truman
INS
St. Louis
New York
New Jersey
Arkansas trainer accepts Florida post
Sam Lankford, Arkansas athletic trainer, notified Otis Douglas he will take a similar position at the University of Florida. Lankford is a personal friend of Florida athletic director Bob Woodruff.
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Fayetteville, Ark
Sam Lankford
University of Arkansas
Otis Douglas
University of Florida
Lankford
Bob Woodruff
Florida
Texas Draft Quota Centers and Local Board Updates
Texas draft operations resume with physical exams set Aug 7 11 at centers in Shreveport Amarillo Dallas El Paso Houston and San Antonio. Inductions begin September as local boards prepare to return examinees and assign quotas across counties.
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Texas
Shreveport
Amarillo
Dallas
el Paso
Houston
San Antonio
Viola L. Younger
Lubbock
Lynn
Crosby
Garza
Associated Press
South Plains
Bailey
Cochran
Lamb
Childress
Collingsworth
Cottle
Hall
Briscoe
Borden
Dawson
Gaines
Ector
Andrews
Hale
Floyd
Motley
Swisher
Terry
Hockley
Yoakum
Younger
Anderson County
Angelina
Trinity
Atascosa
Coak
McMullen
Bell
Bexar
Bandera
Bowie
Brazoria
Brazos
Grimes
Brewster
Jeff Davis
Presidio
Terrell
Brown
Comanche
Cameron
Willacy
Cass
Marion
Deaf Smith
Castro
Palmer
Randall
Coleman
Runnels
Collin
Coryell
Hamilton
Culberson
Huds
Erath
Bosque
Falls
Fannin
Fayette
Austin
Colorado
Fort Bend
Freestone
Leon
Frio
la Salle
Medina
Galveston
Gillespie
Blanco
Kerr
Kendall
Llano
Quonzales
Lavaca
Gray
Donley
Roberts
Wheeler
Grayton
Greig
Guadalupe
Coma
Harris
Harrison
Caldwell
Hays
Henderson
Hidalgo
Starr
Hill
Hopkins
Delta
Madison
Crockett
Howard
Martin
Mitchell
Hunt
Hutchinson
Armstrong
Carson
Jefferson
Johnson
Hood
Somervell
Jones
Haskell
Shackelford
Karnes
Wilson
Kaufman
Rockwall
Kent
Dickens
Stonewall
Kleberg
Brooks
Kenedy
Knox
King
Baylor
Lamar
Lampasas
Mills
McCulloch
Concho
Mason
Meneard
McLennan
Matagorda
Jackson
Milam
Montague
Clay
Wise
Nacogdoches
Babine
San Augustine
Navarro
Nolan
Fisher
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Nueces
Ochiltree
Hansford
Hemphill
Lipscomb
Oranze
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Parker
Polk
Tyler
Potter
Oldham
Red River
Pecos
Reeves
Ward
Winkler
Lovina
Rusk
San Patricio
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Shelby
Panola
Smith
Sutton
Kimble
Schlicher
Edwards
Tarrant
Taylor
Carlahan
Titus
Camp
Morris
Franklin
Tom Green
Irion
Coke
Stalin Offers Korea Peace Plan With Elections and Troop Withdrawal
The note requests all foreign troops leave the Korean peninsula and proposes unified elections for a single government. Nehru sent a personal message to Dean Acheson. Acheson has not disclosed content and is considering it. Lincoln White says a ceasefire and North Korean withdrawal are minimal steps, and the UN should handle talks, not direct Moscow Washington negotiations.
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Washington
UN Legion of Volunteers
Lake Success
Korea
Security Council
MacArthur
Korean Peninsula
North
South Korea
Nehru
U. S
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Lincoln White
State Department
White
United Nations
Moscow
Panhandle South Plains fair unveils premium and facility upgrades
The Panhandle South Plains fair plans paved sidewalks and main gate access, a full repaint of fair buildings in off yellow, and new banners for champions. Livestock premiums rise to 20, 17.50, 15 and 12.50, with hogs at 10 7.50 5 and 3.50. Women's total premiums climb to 1575. Officials include George Scotty Samson as agriculture superintendent and Jason Gordon as county exhibits chief.
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East Broadway
Panhandle- South Plains
United States
Wright
Southwest
George (Scotty) Samson
Post
Agriculture Department
Jason Gordon
Plainview
Farm
E. A. Miler
Texas Extension Service
College Station
John E. Hutchinson
Extension Service
Veterans Vocational Agriculture Department
Earl Fine
Veterans Vocational Agriculture School of Lubbock
T. L. Leach
Agricultural Educational Department
A. H. Lehdigh
Agriculture Division
Texas Technological College
Walter Y. Wells
Production and Marketing Administration
Lubbock
A. W. Young
Cecil Ayers
Plant Industry Department
Tech
L. M. Hargrave
Tech Department of Agricultural Education
Leach and
Lehhigh
South Plains
D. F. Eaton, Jr
Littlefield
Lamb
Frank F. Weil
Morgan Dennis
Dimmitt
W. R. Kimbrough
Crosby
Crosbyton
I. W. Rupel
Texas A
M. College
Ollie Liner
Hale
F. I. Dahlberg
Agricultural and Livestock Department
LeRoy Colgan
Lamesa
Dawson County
Morris Duncan
Lubbock County
Luther Harris
L. E. Settle
W. N. Burleson
Lynn Peveler
Howard Galloway
Poland
China
China Record and Bulletin
Multiple wrecks injure motorists near Lubbock and Plainview
A Friday collision at Fifteenth and Ave E in Lubbock injured three people, with C H Billings and Willie Wilson among those affected. Bills, his wife Daisy and mother-in-law Ollie Smith sustained fractures and internal injuries. Wilson and his wife Mabel were treated for bruises. A separate crash near Idalou east of Lubbock left two young women bruised after an overturn. In Plainview, three people including Marjorie Smith and Wadford Asbill Jr. were injured in a two car crash on Highway 87 north of the city.
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Fifteenth
Ave. E
Lubbock Memorial Hospital
C. H. Billings
Whitharral
Willie Lee Wilson
East Twentieth
Billings
Daisy
Plainview Plainview
Amarillo
Mr. Owen
Floydada
Marjorie Smith
Ninth
Lubbock
Wadford Asbill, Jr
Stinnett
Navy and Marines seek women veterans for active duty
Washington reports July 15 that the Navy and Marine Corps asked women veterans to volunteer for extended active duty. The Marines invited former female leathernecks in and out of the reserve to apply to relieve men in non combat jobs aboard ships and bases. A later Navy message followed.
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Washington
Navy
Marines
Fire department responds to Main Street call after small blaze
Fire crews answer a 4 45 p m call at 2403 Main Saturday with very slight damage. The Wakefields of 2406 Broadway and daughter return from a trip to Austin and Houston where he served as guest designer at the 37th Texas State Florist convention. Mrs Holleman and two daughters from Austin joined them as house guests.
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C. F. Wakefield
Broadway
Austin
Houston
Jerry Holleman
Cotton Outlook Sees Limited Production Risk If Frost Delays
A Texas Extension Service report notes that warm Sep and Oct minus an early frost could keep cotton production from dropping by several hundred thousand bales. First killing frost dates range from Oct 19 to Dec 5. Insect outlook is favorable with aphids thrips and fleahoppers under control though leaf worms appear in two counties for the first time in two years.
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Clapp
Lubbock
Dawson
Texas Extension Service
Guy Carpenter
Navy Calls Enlisted Women to Volunteer for 12 Months
The Navy invites enlisted women in the Naval Reserve to volunteer for a 12 month term with no location specified. Commandants of naval districts and the bureau of personnel will assign postings. Women in all petty officer grades are sought for roles in communications yeomen and fields such as personnel accounting storekeeping aerography and hospital and dental work.
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Naval Reserve
Navy
Naval Districts
Bureau of Personnel
U.S. Forces Halt Red Crossings Near Taejon
Allied forces repelled a third Red crossing attempt northwest of Taejon as North Korean troops widened a Kum River bridgehead. Air strikes destroyed tanks, trucks, and box cars, with 28 tanks and 120 trucks reported damaged.
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Taejon
Kum River
INS
Kimpo
Seoul
Kum
U. S. Eighth Army
MacArthur
Moore
U. S
Eighth Army
South Korea
Pusan
Funeral Services For Spur Child Sechrise
Marilyn Joyce Sechrise eight daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Sechrise Spur will be laid to rest in Spur cemetery after a weeklong illness. Funeral services are scheduled for 3 p m Sunday at First Christian church with Rev J W McCauley officiating Chandler Funeral home directing. Survivors include parents three sisters Norma Betty and Texanita and grandparents S H Sechrise of Ralls and Luvelva Young of Arizona.
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SPUR
Marilyn Joyce Sechrise
J. L. Sechrise
First Christian Church
J. W. McCauley
Nichols Hospital
Chandler Funeral Home
Spur Cemetery
Norma
Betty
Texanita
S. H. Sechrise
Ralls
Luvelva Young
Arizona
Lubbock Woman Injured As Car Hits Awle Here
Miss Virgie Ormes 19 of 3701 Ave H suffered serious injuries when a Kaiser driven by Cadet William M. Edwards Jr. of Reese AFB jumped the curb and struck a parked Chevrolet on College Avenue near the Tech campus. Edwards was handed to air police after investigation. The parked car owner Capt Maurice M. Kersey Jr. and family were in a theater at the time.
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Virgie Ormes
Ave. H
College Avenue
Kaiser
William M. Edwards, Jr
Reese Air Force Base
Tech
Maurice M. Kersey, Jr
Air Force Base
Cadet Edwards
Air Police
Miss Ormes
Lubbock Stal
Births at Lubbock Memorial and West Texas hospitals
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Nutrick of Reese AFB welcome a son weighing 6 pounds 12 ounces born at 12 19 a m Saturday in Lubbock Memorial hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Trenton Morris of Levelland announce a son 6 pounds 3 3/4 ounces born at 7 16 a m Saturday in Lubbock Memorial hospital. The Stephenson and Langford families also announce multiple newborns with fathers listed as truck salesman farmer Bell Telephone employee and other professions.
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Set
C. M. Nutrick
Reese Air Force Base
Lubbock Memorial Hospital
Reese Air Force Ase
Trenton Morris
Levelland
BE. L. Stephenson
Ave. N
V. A. Struve
Abernathy
Porter Clinic
Robert A. Langford
Ave. O
St. Mary's Hospital
Bell Telephone Company
Nick Nunn Winfrey
Thirtieth
Banana
G. D. Jones
West Texas Hospital
Truman Aides Deny Cabinet Openings Amid Bi-Party Moves
A White House source says there are no vacancies in the cabinet and none will be created. Acheson remains in place with close regard from President Truman who praises his abilities. John Foster Dulles is named special adviser to Acheson as GOP leaders are consulted on Korea actions.
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Acheson
Truman
John Foster Dulles
Congress
White House
Johnson
Reds Losses Heavy Martinez Jr Denver Colp
The defense department released a roster listing 11 wounded and 16 injured in the Korean war zone. Names include First Lt. Robert C. Adams from Austin Texas and Capt. Alexander P. Bolding Jr. of Bonham Texas among others.
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Martinez, Jr
Denver
Harold E. Parsons
Aloha
Wash
Defense Department
Robert C. Adams
Austin
Texas
Alexander P. Bolding, Jr
Bonham
Arthur J. Johnson
St. Paul
Minn
Arthur J. McMillan
South Gate
Calif
Albert Vargas
Oakland
Kenneth G. Smart
Truro
Iowa
Newsmen Reinstated Over War Reporting Accuracy
The Army defended dispatches from Lambert and Kalicher as not inaccurate or sensational but argued security and editing limits. The United Press and Associated Press noted MacArthur HQ findings, urging clear security definitions while preserving reporters freedom and factual war coverage.
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Lambert
Echols
United Press Tokyo
Kalicher
Army
Associated Press
MacArthur
Severe electrical thunderstorm hits Lubbock area
A storm moved through the South Plains around 11 45 p m with strong winds and dust. Rain totals varied across towns from trace at the airport to about 1 inch in Levelland and Denver City, with other locations reporting partial showers and dust.
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Lubbock
Plains
Reese Air Force Base
South Plains
Levelland
Denver City
Littlefield
Brownfield
Meadow
Lamesa
Orton
Sundown
Abernathy
Plainview
Trace
Port Arthur Man Dies in Arkansas Auto Mishap
Perry N. Jackson, 58, of Port Arthur Texas, died when his car struck a bridge railing ten miles south of Arkadelphia on highway 67. He had just visited a mortuary about burial insurance and was returning home. He was not accompanied at the time of the crash.
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Port Arthur
Arkansas
Arkadelphia
Ark
Perry N. Jackson
Texas
Here
Jackson
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