First Inspection For Soap Box Derby In Two Weeks
About 250 South Plains youngsters have entered Lubbock’s sixth annual Soap Box Derby sponsored by The Avalanche Journal Kuykendall Chevrolet Co. and the Lubbock Exchange Club with GM’s Chevrolet Division. Inspections begin June 20 and final checks June 27. the race is July 6 with Akron Ohio as the prize trip in August.
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South Plains
Lubbock
Avalanche Journal
Kuykendall Chevrolet Co
Lubbock Exchange Club
Chevrolet
General Motors
Akron
Ohio
Leland
Larry Marley
W. A. Cathey
Grinnell
Cloverlake Dairy Store
Larry
John Wheeler-Oliver
Wheeler Plant
Magician Sgt Weiss Installed as NYIBM Chapter President
Police Sgt. John P. Weiss was sworn in Friday night as president of the New York chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. An inquiry into the high failure rate at Dacca University is urged in Pakistan.
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Magic Cop
New York
John P. Weiss
The
International Brotherhood of Magicians
Dacca University
Pakistan
Medical impostor led Lackland hospital chief to jail for perjury
Thomas Aden Johnston, assistant chief of medical service at Lackland AFB hospital, was jailed after federal jurors found he lied on a civil service form about never having been jailed or fined. He claimed decades of medical practice and shared dramatic stories of delivering quadruplets with a miner’s lamp.
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Lackland Afb Hospital
San Antonio
Thomas Aden Johnston
Lackland Air Force Base Hospital
Johnston
Civil Service
U.S
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Lackland
Cross Rods
Tenn
Chattanooga Tenn
Times
Ruby Moore
Tom Johnston
The
Valley News
Black Mountain Hospital
Kenver
Paul Adkins
Kentucky Medical Association
Bonham
Sequachee, Tenn
Sequachee
Tremont
Rio Grande Valley
Newark
N.J
Massachusetts
Johnson
Lackland Hospital
North Texas Wheat Harvest Accelerates Across Dallas Area
Texas wheat harvest progresses with reports from Electra area Western Wichita County and Eastern Wilbarger County. Addison grower Guy Dennis yields 48 bushels per acre while others report 30 bushels and 5 bushels per acre, with grain shipments rising and observers calling Dallas area yield the best ever.
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Dallas
Jane Gwine
Texas
Guy Dennis
Addison
Electra
Wichita County
Wilbarger County
Walter Blanton
Carrollton
Dallas Area
Navy sailor killed in Makai club incident in Manila
An American sailor died and seven were injured after a visit to a crowded resort area in suburban Makai. Clarence E. Sheed, 22, of Windsor, Georgia, died in sick bay Friday from injuries suffered Thursday night during the visit. Five others were poisoned by wood alcohol this week, Navy officials said. The Cullinan diamond, found in 1905, was cut into nine large stones.
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Manila
U. S. Navy
Clarence E. Sheed
Winder
Con Row
Makai
Floods Kill Fourteen in Western Japan as Rains Hit
Torrential rains sweeping western Japan from Kyushu to Honshu killed 14 people, injured 2 and left nine missing, National Rural Police headquarters said. The storm caused landslides, broken river embankments at 260 spots and washed away 644 bridges, police added.
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Tokyo
Japan
National
Kyushu
Honshu
Government Meteorological Observatory
Formosa
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Avalanche-Journel
Sun
Avalanche-Journal
Jim Dallas
19Th St
Canada
Alaska
Germany
Rutland
James Shelley Hamilton
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
Arthur Murray
Cpl
Arther Murray
Tad
Dancing
10Th & Ave. K
North Texas
NAVY
Cartel
Pei
Golef
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