Texas Plyboard Cutout Display Of Barbed Wire
Rex Voyles of Lubbock creates a 48 inch square plyboard Texas cutout with 125 ranches named and branded on it. He affixes 18 inch barbed wire strands for 48 specimens and used Texas Tech University Museum records to place locations across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Rex Voyles
66Th St
Voyles
Texas
Texas Tech University Museum
West Texas
Council, county keep 78 cent tax plan. fund Lubbock Lake Site
Lubbock County Commissioners approved budget items to stay within a 78 cent tax rate. They added three jail matrons and one deputy, increased travel allowances for three justices of the peace, and set aside a half cent of the tax rate for development of the archeological site near Lubbock Lake in Yellowhouse Canyon, with local matching funds possible for federal aid. The move aims to finance park road improvements and the site’s tourist appeal, See Travel Page 8.
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Eugene Smith
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock County
Lubbock Lake
Yellowhouse Canyon
Alton Brazell
Brazell
Arch Lamb
Marker to be dedicated for Lubbock Lake Site on South Plains
Texas Historical marker dedication for the Lubbock Lake Site set for Thursday on Loop 289 near Clovis Highway. Truett Lattimer will speak. the site chronicles man from 12 000 years ago to modern times, with finds from mammoth to beer can.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerry Burton
Avalanche-Journal
el Punto de Agua
South Plains
Lubbock Lake
Truett Lattimer
Texas Historical Survey Committee
Loop 289
Clovis Highway
Bill Griggs
Clovis
Coronado
Cibola
Santa Fe
San Angelo
Lubbock firms win county contracts for courthouse and park work
Pharr Construction Co of Lubbock awarded $99,109 contract to renovate parts of the Lubbock County Courthouse into offices for the criminal district attorney. Foster Construction Co wins $15,862 bid to build a storage building and picnic shelter at Shallowater county park. Completion times set at 150 days for the courthouse project and 45 days for the park work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pharr Construction Co
Lubbock
Foster Construction Co
Shallowater
Pharr
Sunflower crop study shifts West Texas view
Sunflowers once deemed a garden weed may become common on farms after U S and Soviet research. The push to breed high oil content seeds has grown in the United States for about 15 years with work centered in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Butler
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
No Charge Defensive Driving Class To Be Taught In Lubbock
The National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course sponsored by the Citizens Traffic Commission will run Monday and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to noon at Lubbock Power and Light’s Holly Avenue station. Lt. Fred Marshall of DPS Region 5 leads the eight hour class open to the public with no fee. Registration may be made by calling 762-6411 extension 448.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safety Council
Lubbock
Citizens Traffic Commission
Holly Avenue
Superman
Airport fire station costs eyed in city budget plans
Aviation Director Marvin Coffee told Lubbock Airport Board a new staffing proposal could trim operating expenses. The plan lowers manpower to nine and uses existing maintenance staff to meet FAA rules, while security spending of about 17 000 is included in the 396 000 budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Coffee
Lubbock
Airport Board
Coffee
Herschel Sharp
Sharp
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George Singer
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Cash Marty Robins Ther
Eee
Agere
Freddie Hart
Capitol
Merle Haggard
Sonny
Buck Owens James
the Tops
the Mange
Jerry Wallace
Conway Twitty
Sat
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Loretta Lynn
Jerry Clower
Charley Pride
Elvis Presley
RCA
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34Th Street
Avenue Q
Savior
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