B'nai B'rith Youth Meet Winds Down With Banquet
About 45 West Texas youths attended the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization convention in Lubbock. Activities included workshops this morning, a 2 to 5 p.m. swimming party, and a 7:15 p.m. banquet at the Lubbock Hotel with Dr. Adolf Philippsborn as principal speaker and Jerom Brachman as master of ceremonies.
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B'nai B'rith
Lubbock
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
West Texas
Congregation ‘Shaareth Israel
Leonard Jarett
Decal Bbyo
Jerom Brachman
Fort Worth
A.Z.A
B'nai B'rith Boys Organization
Miriam Reisel
el Pio
B'nai Brith
Herbert Ehrlich
el Paso
el Paso A.Z.A
Sondra Wilk
Lubbock B.B.G
Jarett
Adolf Philippsborn
Congregation Shaareth Israel
BBYO
Kattman's
Houstman_ Hall
Sam Skibell
Judith Friedman
Stanley Silverman
Hinda Kahn
Linda Friedman
Jaret
Houstman Hall
Philippsborn
el Paso B. B. G
Oscar Rosen
Binai B’rith
Merom Brachman
Lubbock Bbyo
B.B.G
B'nai B'rith Girls Organization
Mimi Reisel
el Paso B.B.G
District 7
Swimming Lessons Start Monday At Three Lubbock Pools
A. C. Hamilton, superintendent of the city recreation department, announced two week swimming lessons begin Monday at Glasses for 16 and older run 9 to 10:30 a.m. daily. Registration starts 9 a.m. at K N Clapp Park pool. Fees apply for admission. About 640 enrolled last session. final classes run Aug 10 to Aug 22 across the three pools.
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Lubbock
A. C. Hamilton
K. N. Clapp Park
SBE
Hamilton
Funeral services for Howard Kennedy Richey held in Spur
Howard Kennedy Richey, 33, lifelong Dickens County resident, died at 1 45 p.m. Friday at his home in the Cretan Commune. Funeral at 3 p.m. Sunday at Spur First Baptist Church with Rev. T B Allen officiating. Burial in Dickens Cemetery, Chandler Funeral Home of Spur directing. Richey graduated Patton Springs High School and attended Texas Tech before joining the Army in 1942. He served overseas 39 months.
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SPUR
Howard Kennedy Richey
Dickens County
Cretan Commune
Spur First Baptist Church
T.B. Allen
Dickens Cemetery
Chandler Funeral Home
Khey
Albuquerque Girl Recovered by Parents for Second Time
Police report a 11-year-old Albuquerque girl whose theft incident led to recovery by her parents for the second time in under 24 hours. Investigators linked the girl to a jewelry store burglary and noted $500 in diamond rings taken. She was released to her parents after restitution and was later found safe and kept in custody overnight.
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Albuquerque, N. M
Thomas Jewelry
College Ave
Belew Among 2500 Candidates Training At Quantico
Edward Robert Belew son of Mr and Mrs R H Belew Tahoka Texas is among 2500 candidates undergoing officer training at the Marine Corps Schools Quantico. Belew a member of the Platoon Leaders Class trains six weeks over two college vacations. Successful candidates become second lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve and serve two years on active duty after graduation. Belew attends Texas Tech and is a graduate of New Home High.
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Quantico
Edward Robert Belew
R. H. Belew
Tohoka
Marine Corps
Belew
Marine Corps Reserve
Texas Tech
New Home High
Houston Hosts State American Legion Convention
Houston prepares to host the state American Legion convention for the first time in 26 years with about 6000 Legionaires and families registered. Albert D. Brown Jr. says Texas senators Lyndon Johnson and Price Daniel and Attorney General John Ben Shepperd will speak as the convention runs Thursday through Sunday, featuring a downtown parade, 31 bands at the Houston Coliseum, two dances, and a tour to San Jacinto battleground and monument.
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Houston
American Legion
Texas
St. Louis
San Jacinto Battleground
Stab Wound In Home Attack Feared Not Serious
A 45 year old Lubbock man Frank Fortice was treated at Porter Clinic Hospital for a stab wound to the right arm. He said two Negro men spent the night, one attacked him with an ice pick about 7:30 am after a dispute. The ice pick pierced the bone. Fortice was not believed to be in serious condition.
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Lubbock
Porter Clinic Hospital
Frank Fortice
Ash St
Fortice
Aga Khan Battles Old French Rule Over Sea Water Pool
In Cannes the aging Aga Khan fights a medieval French law that bans transporting sea water to private property for his new pink marble pool at his villa. Doctors advise frequent sea bathing, but the post is 300 feet above sea level and tied to the law.
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Cannes
France
Aga Khan
Kansas Contractor Withdraws 10000 Offer To Buy Eye
Frank Benbow a retired Wichita contractor who lost his left eye and wears a glass one withdrew his $10000 offer to buy an eye from a Texas woman. He had sought a replacement eye after his right eye failed to read print but a doctor advised it could not be done and replacing his right eye risked total blindness. The publicity drew offers from Colorado Springs to Santa Ana California and he said he was tired of the attention and hoped this ends it.
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Cascade
Colo
Frank Benbow
Wichita
Kan
Texas
Benbow
Knox City
Colorado Springs
Cole
Betty Clark
Santa Ana
Calif
Union Burglar Plans Appeal After Conviction
Tyler Texas July 5 Defense counsel for Grady Alexander a Houston union official convicted of burglary planned an appeal to the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals. Alexander was denied a new trial by District Judge Connally McKay and sentenced to five years. The case arose from a shotgun blast into the window of Israel Smith president of Western Foundry Co during a labor dispute last March 18. McKay said new evidence did not justify a new trial.
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Tyler
Tex
Grady Alexander Houston Union
Texas Criminal Court of Appeals
Alexander
Connally McKay
Israel Smith
Western Foundry Co
McKay
Otto B. Mullinax
Dallas
Marine Son Of Post Residents Promoted At California Base
Cpl. Charles T. Hudman, son of Mr and Mrs S C Hudman Post, promoted to corporal at the Marine Corps Air Facility Santa Ana California the world’s largest helicopter base. Enlisted May 1952 he has served mainly with aviation units and is now a helicopter electrician with Marine Air Group 16 at the base.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Charles T. Hudman
S. C. Hudman
Marine Corps Air Facility
Marine Corps
Hudman
California
Marine Air Group 16
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Officer's School
Legion
Kansas
Eye
Union ‘Burglar
Marine Son of Post
California Base
19Th St
Scott Ballard
Herb Bannister
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