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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1947
Page
8
A $60,600,000 building program for colleges is sought under a constitutional amendment to be submitted in August. The plan funds restoration of the main building at Pie w university destroyed by fire and allocates funds for improvements and repairs elsewhere.
Reported at the Texas Flys meeting in Cole ne Gand with J. M. Bustan ex service mint and Hoyle among speakers. The debate centered on expense and inconvenience of piloting and repairing planes slowing farm aviation efforts, with plans for a spring Texas A session and committees outlining Our Flying Farmers and a program to support agricultural aviation initiatives.
Hal Boyle reviews the prewar Ernie Pyle collection Home Country noting its portrait of the American traveler. The piece traces Pyle’s rise from quiet chronicler to wartime icon and examines how his daily newspaper work shaped his later fame and the awaiting book.
A narrator tells a publishing firm that a manuscript contains material written prior to the war, describing it as a book about his own country and home. The exchange underscores themes of national identity and personal history tied to a prewar era.
In a Rome radio address Alcide De Gasperi urged Italians to back his first postwar cabinet, a Christian Democrat led group excluding leftist parties. Communists and Avanti condemn, while L Unita calls it a chancellory not reflecting the constituent assembly.
Four more entrants join the forthcoming Miss Lubbock contest as ten dozen girls are counted for the state selection. Names listed include Sue Son Eugenia Watkins Evonne Bowles Texas Tech student Jo an Robertson employed by the Veterans Administration in government.
James H Kimmel, chairman of a Junior Chamber of Commerce committee sponsoring Lie contest, extended deadline to June 4 for entries. The winner, likely announced June 8, will be outfitted at state contest June 12 14 in Corpus Christi with chaperone, expenses, and wardrobe. The winner advances to Miss America in Atlantic City. India records show cotton used 3000 years before Christ.
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