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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1962
Page
5
Mid year shows Dawson County's economy brighter with gains in oil potential and bank deposits. Construction lags but permits rise. cotton, postal receipts, and utilities improve. Oil output reaches 10 850 barrels by June while banks report deposits near record levels and loans climb to 23 664 450.
A meeting of Allen Bros Post 148 American Legion is set for 8 p.m. Monday at post headquarters 2412 Ave Q according to commander Ralph Spencer. The report notes additional local civic updates and community amenities.
A South Plains woman claimed three badmen forced her off U S 84 while en route to her mother’s funeral. Officers found no incident and that her mother died in 1959. She was fined for drunkenness.
The Lamesa school board in a special session set a tax rate of 3. LT per 100 valuation for 1982 63 after a district wide revaluation. The rate yields about 630263 on a 90 percent collection with a 1963 trimdown budget of just over 628000. Of the 1.37 rate, 1.03 funds local maintenance and 0.34 pays bonds.
Portales asks the State Public Service Commission to refund 5100 000 in joint water and sewer bonds and secure 60000 for new money for extensions. City officials Jay Morgan Florence Miller and James Riker testified in Santa Fe as part of a hearing. The plan seeks re issuance at parity with lower interest rates and issuance of 60000 additional bonds.
Quitaque Independent School District voters approved school integration by 199 to 54 on Saturday. Superintendent John Mason noted integration was voted down four years earlier and credited the change to the financial impact of integration.
The Post School Board favors adding sex education to high school and junior high curricula. A committee of faculty and ministerial alliance members will plan the program, with Dr. John F. Carter also serving. Courses hoped to start in 1962 63, with a proposal to be presented at the next August board meeting.
Six cadets from Mexico's military college are visiting the United States Military Academy at West Point. Colonel Manuel Fontes Buena says they will voluntarily familiarize themselves with newly developed weapons concepts with parental notice to students. A proposed education course would fit into daily counseling periods, with a physician and health nurse leading the sessions.
A. J. Cowley of Cone questions safety of horse versus tractor after breaking his ankle in a tractor power lift on his farm. While driving from Lubbock to Idalou he struck a wandering horse, suffering cuts and bruises.
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