State Exchange Meet Set Here For Silver Anniversary
Texas State Exchange Clubs hold their 25th convention in Lubbock with about 200 delegates and wives attending. The Caprock Hotel hosts sessions from Friday through Saturday including a record long Saturday night dance and installation of state officers. Events feature a golf tournament, ladies style show, an old-fashioned melodrama, door prizes, and minerals for attendees.
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Lubbock
Texas State Exchange Clubs
Caprock
James Reynolds
Lubbock Club
Reynolds
Amarillo Air Force Base
John Blakey
Texas Exchange Club
Blakey
Exchange Club
John Robert Moxley
West Texas
Moxley
Lubbock Country Club
Texas Exchange Clubs
Reynolds, Blakey
Milvern Crozier
Hugh McAfee
Horace Humphries
Jean Wages
Paul Payne
David Haymes
Bruce Kattmann
Bill Byrd
Warrick Carr
Roy Bass
Recreation Schedule Revealed In Lubbock City Program
City Recreation Department announced a summer plan with neighborhood park directors. Women craft groups will resume at Mackenzie Terrace with Tuesday 2 to 4 pm and Thursday 9:30 to 11:30 am sessions. New tennis lessons led by Darline Blount at Wagner Park and Ave Q. schedules pending.
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Lubbock
City Recreation Department
Mackenzie Terrace
Gladys Valentine
June Edler
Sue Valentine
Darline Blount
Wagner Park
Ave. Q
Burns Park
23Rd St
Ave. K
Mary Catherine Cole
Bryan Jones
Carlisle Park
26Th St
Ave. W
Helen Hamilton
Robert Hamilton
Pioneer Park
Rodgers Park
Amherst
Mary Frances Oliver
Loyd Hearn
Elgin Ave
Mary Lou Crump
J. P. Tackett
Booker T
Washington Park
Cedar Ave
Doris Bunton
Gene Williamson
Two Workmen's Compensation Suits Filed In District Court
Two suits for ten thousand twenty five dollars each were filed in the 1st District Court. Oscar Bussey, contractor employee at the Santa Fe Depot, sues Zurich General Accident and Liability Insurance and New Amsterdam Casualty, insurers for his employers C. W. Zahn and C. S. Lambie Co. He alleges a Jan 15 dragline injury to his left hand and back. Booker T. Green, Wilk Iron and Metal Co. worker, sues Texas Employers’ Insurance Assn. for a Nov 23 1952 injury to his left leg and spine while loading a truck. Green is represented by Dillard, Cooke and Dillard and Scarborough, Yates, Scarborough and Black.
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1Sth
Oscar Bussey
New
Santa Fe
Zurich General Accident and Liability Insurance Company, Ltd
New Amsterdam Casualty Company
C. W
Pete) Zahn
C. S. Lambie and Company
General Contractors
Bussey
Charness and Shaw
Booker T. Green
Wilk Iron and Metal Company
Texas Employers’ Insurance Association
Dillard, Cooke and Dillard
Lubbock
Scarborough
Yates, Scarborough and
Black
Abilene
Green
Ropesville 4-H Members Attend District Camp
Priscilla Green and Sharon La Juan Campbell represented the Ropesville 4-H Club at the district camp held in Lubbock. Mrs. Wilson Campbell serves as adult leader of the Ropesville Chapter.
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Ropesville
Priscilla Green
Claud Williams
Sharon la Juan Campbell
Wilson Campbell
Lubbock
Six imposters found in crackdown on beggars in Mexico City
Police said six of ten so-called blind beggars in Mexico City were found to have eyesight after a crackdown ordered by federal authorities. The group had staged a demonstration in a downtown square following the ban on begging.
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Mexico City
Longtime Seagraves Resident E. E. Keese Dies at 80
E. E. Keese 80 pioneer resident of Seagraves died of a heart attack at home. A trailer court owner and retired farmer, he lived in Seagraves since 1919. Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at First Methodist Church with Rev. Aubrey Haymes officiating. Graveside rites at Slaton Cemetery follow at 11:30 a.m. He leaves a widow Annie, three sons Jack Dallas Douglas and B M Keese, two daughters Mrs Carl Fite and Mrs Larry Stilewell, a brother Henry Reese, two sisters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Webb Funeral Home in charge.
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Rachel Reese
Webb Funeral Home
Keese
Annie Keese
Jack Keese
Dallas
Douglas Keese
Nepal Students Demand Rename of Mt Everest
In Katmandu on June 6, Nepalese students and teachers called for renaming Mt Everest to Tensing peak to honor the Sherpa Tensing Norgay who with Edmund Hillary conquered the peak last Friday. The claim notes the climb reached a height of 2,002 feet.
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Katmandu
Nepal
Mt. Everest
Tensing Peak
Edmund Hillary
Tractor explodes injures teen in Lubbock area
Miss Mary Frances Sehon and her family suffer burns and a broken ankle when a tractor engine explodes on their farm near Lubbock Friday. She remains in Mercy Hospital Slaton in good condition. event adds to busy police and civic activity in the region.
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Mary Frances Sehon
Frank J. Sehon
Rt. 4
Lubbock
Mercy Hospital
Slaton
Plainview YMCA summer program enrolls 1000 plus
More than 1,000 boys and girls are registered for Plainview's summer YMCA program with four morning swimming classes Tuesday through Friday. Some vacancies exist in beginners groups at 10 and 1 as Bible School enrollees re-register in July. Colonel Pitt directs, with Coach Leonard Ehlers and staff assisting. a community night drew 100 plus people at Booker T. Washington School.
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Plainview
Dan Pitt
Bible School
Colonel Pitt
Leonard Ehlers
Bob Carroll
Booker T. Washington School
Louella Henry
Billy Hisbon
George Morgan
Roland Zeigler
David Moore
Lamar
Former Plainview Teacher Hayes Dies in Hillsboro Services
Tom Pool Hayes 62 former Plainview High School teacher and basketball coach died of a heart attack while visiting friends in Hillsboro He died at Plainview Hospital and Clinic Foundation was moved to Amarillo and then Hillsboro for funeral services Roy G Wood Funeral Home ambulance to Amarillo Funeral service set for 3 p m Sunday at Marshall and Marshall Funeral Chapel Hillsboro Hayes had lived in Tornillo Texas for two years
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Plainview
Tom Pool Hayes
T Roy G. Wood
Amarillo
Marshall and Marshall
Hillsboro
Hayes
Plainview High School
Elmer Anderton
el Paso St
Tornillo
Texas
Postman Bill Signed by President Eisenhower
President Eisenhower signed legislation authorizing the Post Office Department to designate enlisted armed forces personnel. The bill includes a provision waiving the bond requirement for military postmen.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Post Office Department
Sixty seven point three percent of American adults wear glasses
The report notes that 67.3 percent of American adults wear glasses. It also mentions schedule changes for a local event with activities shifted to Lamar School on Tuesdays and Thursdays and tennis at the senior high school courts.
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Pittsburgh
Lamar School
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Lady Baylor
Baylor
Officeat
Broadway
Petamsn
Paul Raynard
Lucuri
Ada
Zale
Seagraves
Lubbock Coin Club
Harvey's
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Sandra
Joyce
31St St
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W. M. Anderson
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YMCA
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