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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1959
Page
2
A check addressed to Onihanke, who lives in Durham New York, is being returned by the tax office in Durham North Carolina. The notice indicates the payee does not accept the funds and the check is being sent back.
Cotton group members and Texas Compress Association representatives met to address storage charges and damaged cotton in warehousing. They urged a full review, reporting cases of compresses failing to notify owners and condemning damaged shipments before notice. Named officials and regional compress operators attended at Caprock Hotel to discuss reform.
Cooper community member Griffin of Cooper High School in Lubbock County won an Anderson Clayton & Co scholarship at the Texas FFA convention in Austin. Griffin will study agriculture at Texas Tech after four years of cotton production under Earl Madding with acre increases and irrigation. Other winners include Talley, Batson, Hensz, and Feaster as the convention continues through Friday in the Municipal Auditorium.
Members of the Lubbock Heart Association will elect officers at 7:30 p m today during the annual meeting held in the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing Education Building. Donald De Rosen Texas Heart Association area consultant will discuss membership and year planning. A film titled A Matter of Time on heart disease parity will be shown after the meeting.
A 1999 Lubbock County Farm Bureau queen will be selected from 73 entrants at 8 p.m. in the Slide Road Clubhouse. The winner advances to the district contest en route to the state pageant in San Antonio. Carnettia Burgett will crown the winner. Bill Ball will MC. Contestants include Joan Barnes and others from Roosevelt, Slaton, Abernathy, New Deal, Woodrow, and surrounding areas.
A Rolls Royce car sparks a complaint from an Australian sheep farmer who recently traded in a high year old model. He writes the vehicle is useless with no outside running board and asks where to place dead sheep. Derby, England reports on the odd grievance and factory response.
Prime Minister Nkrumah announced in Accra that Ghana will advance the Volta River power development phase. In Johannesburg reports, Transvaal headmasters express displeasure as women teachers now outnumber men in high schools.
Paris deputy asks the government to explain how moving 20 U.S. fighter bombers affects France's security. The transfer will shift about 6,200 air personnel and 6,000 dependents to bases in Germany and Britain, with NATO cost undisclosed.
Detroit Lions tackle Bob Miller rejected a trade to the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday and said he would rather quit football than leave Detroit. He cited family and business reasons for refusing to relocate.
The Third Court of Civil Appeals ruled William A. Guinn's will invalid after his widow Mozelle Guinn contested it. Earlier, Run nels County’s 119th District Court had found the will invalid and the colleges appealed.
A Houston woman claims a tonic helped her shed 17 pounds in a few months. She praises the product as a safe, effective aid and encourages others to try it and return empty bottles for a money back guarantee.
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