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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jul 21, 1957

Page

4

Texas Tech drops adult education program and faculty contracts

Texas Tech University board voted in a closed session to discontinue the Ford Foundation funded Adult Education Program started in 1952 and did not renew Dr. Per Stensland's contract along with professors Dr. Byron Abernethy and Dr. Herbert Greenberg.

Texas Tech Board Tech Per Stensland Lubbock Ford Foundation Fund For Stensland Byron Abernethy Herbert Greenberg Greenberg Abernethy Fund For Adult Education Ford Foundation Fund For LOS

Items From Lubbock Include Stolen Dress and Education Plans

A Lubbock woman reports a white organdy wedding dress stolen from a car near her home. The article shifts to discuss the Adult Education Program, its growth beyond local aims, and the involvement of Stensland with various institutions and committees in West Texas.

Tech Stensland Brownfield Life Magazine Pampa Spain Mexico White House West Texas Chamber of Commerce Texas Tech South Plains Forum Adult Education Department Texas Department of Welfare West Texas Junior Colleges Lubbock Iris Moore 3Th St College Advisory Committee West Texas Council On Regional Development West Texas

Two plead guilty in County Court at law Saturday

Gale Perkins of Estacado and Raymond Luther Boland of Denver City entered pleas before Judge Robert J. Allen. Perkins pleaded guilty to liquor law violations with a 150 dollar fine and costs, while Boland changed from innocent to guilty on driving while intoxicated, receiving a 75 dollar fine plus costs and a three day jail sentence.

Robert J. Allen Gale Perkins Estacado Raymond Luther Boland Denver City Coats

Lone Star Steel reports six month earnings increase

Lone Star Steel Co announced a six month net income of 6,664,060 dollars, up 39 percent from 1956. Sales reached 51,551,186 dollars, more than seven million dollars higher year over year.

Dallas Lone Star Steel Co

Three Youths Jailed Over Bogus Check Forgery

Police arrested three Abilene youths after one confessed his companions forced him to pass a counterfeit check at Vogue Shop on Broadway. A 20 year old confessed to passing the check and implicated the others. The 18 and 20 year olds also admitted involvement and provided addresses. All three remained in city jail Saturday.

Vogue Shop Broadway Abilene Amarillo

Lubbock Teen Face Trial Over Hub Cap Theft

A 17-year-old Lubbock youth may face theft over five dollars charges after police nabbed him near 19th Street. Mrs. Jack Sanders reported a hub cap taken from her 1955 Oldsmobile at Klapp pool intersections. Patrolman J O Tinsley arrested the suspect minutes later with the car matching her description and the hub cap identified.

Lubbock Jack Sanders 22Nd St Klapp Swimming Pool 42Nd Street Avenue U J. O. Tinsley 19Th Street

Rites Today for Ben Roy Doby in Lamesa

Funeral services for Ben Roy Doby 54 of Seminole will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Higginbotham Funeral Home chapel Lamesa with the Rev W D Sweitzer Brownfield Rev B C Wilkins Sunset Baptist Church and Rev J G Bowerman Lamesa Church of God officiating Doby died at 10 a.m. Friday in Lamesa General Hospital after a long illness Burial will be in Lamesa Memorial Park.

Lamesa Fliat Baptist Church Milo B. Arbuckle R. G. Patrick Memphis Patrick Firman W. Williamson 58Th Pt Lubbock Ben Roy Doby Seminole Higginbotham Funeral Home W. D. Sweitzer Brownfield B. C. Wilkins Sunset Baptist Church J. G. Bowerman Lamesa

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Reer Roe Stensland Laments Board Chambers of Commerce St. Paul's Episcopal Church Rotary Club Phi Delta Kappa Honorary Education Society National Education Assn Texas Gerontological Society Parent - Teacher Assn Lubbock Mental Health Society American Education Assn West Texas Council of Regional Development Harold Griffiths North College Hackberry Harold Honduras Harold Griffith Harvey C. Murdock W. H. Murdock Temple Ave San Diego Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 37 Western Pacific Roy B. Davis Jr Roy B. Davis 29Th St Jerry Need McGown N. H. McGowan 37Th St Ft. Sill Oklo James E. Smith John C. Smith Rt. 2 Cong U. SS. Sixth Fleet Mediterranean Reyce Durham Route 4 Red Canyon N. M Swedesboro N. J Donald G. Smith 47Th St PENN Men's Department Clearaway Stinson Cleaners D. T. Hardin Group FLOOR Ramona Piece Goods Department
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