Camp Las Leonitas Opens Weeklong Girl Scout Sessions
The first session of summer camping at Camp Las Leonitas Buffalo Lakes opens today with 64 girls attending. They will form four units and report between 4 and 6 pm with activities including swimming crafts hiking and campfires. Second Brownie Day Camp starts Tuesday in Mackenzie State Park for about 70 girls with a circus themed program and a Friday parent presentation.
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Las Leonitas
Buffalo Lakes
MacKenzie State Park
Willepart
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Lubbock
Johnston's
Shaw
American Red Cross
Miss Dryden
Parade Opens Vacation Bible School At First Assembly Church
A parade at 10 30 a m Saturday started the Vacation Bible School at First Assembly of God Church. About 40 children joined the parade and winners were named for decorated oatmeal boxes and bicycles. The school runs 9 a m to noon Monday through Friday with seven teachers and 10 workers guiding the theme Our Place In Gods World.
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Assembly OF God Bible School
Assembly of God Church
34Th St
College Ave
37Th St
Ave. S
Charles Burdine
Bertha Burdine
50Th St
Jerry Hogan
L. D. Hogan
33Rd St
Jimmy Hogan
J. M. Hogan
Rt. 2
Brenda Kay Milliron
Frank Milliron
Linda Hudgeons
Davie Hudgeons
Arlin Smith
Fred Smith
Ave. N
Jerry Hudgeons
C. S. Hudgeons
Morris Sheats
Wayne Hogan
Lewis D. Hogan
First Assembly of God Church
College Avenue
Frank A. Millican
A H Hood Rites Slated In Plainview
Funeral services for A H Hood 75 who died at the Plainview Hospital will be held at 3 p m Sunday in the First Baptist Church. Rev F M Wiley Rev Roy Shahan and Rev L H Welch will officiate. Burial in Terrace Cemetery with Mason Funeral Home directing. Hood a retired farmer moved to Grassland in 1816 and to Post in 1949. Survivors include wife one son M B Hood Plainview three daughters Minnie Fitzgerald Pampa Nobel Mellon Las Vegas N M Sally Belton one sister Myrtis Franks Gatesville five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Pallbearers are E C Haragan Oscar Graham Ruel Smith Orman Francis C R Carey and Claude Thomas.
Three Burglaries Reported To Lubbock Detectives
City detectives probed three Saturday burglaries. Dan's Lunch Bar on Avenue M lost cash from a cigarette machine. Rickett's Butcher Supply on Avenue M saw the cash register and safe opened with about 20 dollars taken. A break in at Bigham Gun Supply left nothing missing. Detectives seek the owner of a large grey cushion found two days ago.
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Dan's
Ave. M
Rickett's Butcher Supply Company
Bigham Gun Supply Company
Final Rites For Alvie Gunnels Today
Funeral services for Alvie E. Gunns 65 of Dickens will be held at 3 PM Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Dickens with Rev. Victor Crabtree officiating. Burial follows in Dickens Cemetery. He died after a heart attack at West Texas Hospital in Lubbock. He had lived in Dickens 32 years. Pallbearers are George Pierce Fred Arring Wi Street Ray Finchum RG Litlefield and Fay Slough.
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Alvie E. Gunn
Dickens
First Baptist Church
Victor Crabtree
Dickens Cemetery
Chandler
Gunnels
West Texas Hospital
Lubbock
Will
Georg Pierce
Fred Arring Wi Street
Ray Finchum
Litlefield
Fay Slough
Forethought Helps Burglar Stay Free
In Plainview an intruder entered Eddie's Drive-In by forcing a window and unlocking the back door. Police officers J. W. Anderson and Dan Coulson pursued but the burglar escaped. The cigaret vending machine was broken open and about $50 was missing, according to Police Chief Hoyt Curry.
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Plainview
J. W. Anderson
Dan Coulson
Eddie
Hoyt Curry
Lubbock Man Receives Army Letter of Appreciation
2nd Lt. Preston C. Lipscomb son of Mrs. Evelyn Lipscomb received a letter of appreciation from the Munsan Ni Provisional Command in Korea. The signal corps officer praised Lipscomb for supporting the POW exchanges at the Post Exchange and serving since December 13, 1950. Col. R W Beggs signed the commendation. Lipscomb has made multiple trips to Freedom Village in Panmunjom carrying supplies.
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Korea
Preston C. Lipscomb
Evelyn Lipscomb
Ave. E
Lipscomb
R. W. Beggs
Lt. Lipscomb
Signal Corps
U.S. Army
Freedom Village
Panmunjom
Infant Hapsburg Princess Baptized in Special Ceremony
Archduke Otto and Princess Regina of Sachsen Meiningen witnessed the baptism of their daughter Andrea Maria in Wurzburg Germany. The ceremony honored ties to Austria with an Austro-Hungarian flag and earth from Hungary. The event drew forty mostly Hapsburg guests and included a bilingual hymn.
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Wuerzburg
Germany
Hapsburg
Austria
Archduke Otto
Regina
Sachsen-Meiningen
Ferdinand Pawlikowski
Andrea Maria
Tisza
Hungary
Kaiser
Meteorites Often Burn Up Before Reaching Earth
Most meteorites disintegrate upon entry, with only a small fraction surviving to reach the surface. Astronomers note that atmospheric friction and heat typically prevent the rocks from arriving intact.
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Earth
Atomic energy seen as future medicine by radiobiology expert
Dr John Z Bowers chairing at the AMA convention said atomic energy has already saved many lives and will treat diseases tomorrow. He cited radioactive carbon tracing hormones and cellular production, iodine for thyroid and cancer, and tracer studies guiding cancer drugs. He noted radiation injury from salt absorption issues and described future saline protein vitamin solutions to boost survival.
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Japan
John Z. Bowers
University of Utah Medical School
American Medical Association
Bowers
Utah
Joseph Goodner
Paul D. White
Boston
Man Charged In Burglary In City
A 31 year old Lubbock man David Turner 3316 Emory was charged Saturday afternoon with burglary of a private residence. Turner an ex convict is accused of burglarizing the home of Winston Reeves 2002 Slide Road on Sept 19 1952. Missing were a shotgun rifles and a vacuum cleaner. A vacuum cleaner matched by serial number led to Turner. Detectives George Hall Ralph White and Charley Stewart assisted in the arrest. Turner said he served time near Denver for writing a threatening letter.
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Lubbock
David Turner
Emory
Turner
Winston Reeves
Slide Road
George Hall
Ralph White
Charley Stewart
Federal Correctional Institution
Denver
Tech Student to Join Staff at Colorado Youth Camp
Dale Dye a Texas Tech student will travel to Durango Colorado to join Camp Silver Spruce staff. He will counsel in tumbling rifle marksmanship archery and hiking as a sophomore majoring in physical education at Tech. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W Dye of 38th Street and 412 Dale Dye.
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Dale Dye
Texas Tech
Durango
Colo
Silver Spruce
Order of DeMolay
Young Dye
Tech
D. Dye
Two Pleas Entered In Court On DWI Liquor Law
In Judge Robert J. Allen's County Court at Law two pleas were heard. Carl Wynne aged 40 from E 19th Street pleaded guilty to illegal possession of intoxicants and received a $200 fine plus court costs. Bobby Hemmeline, 23 of 9th Street pleaded innocent to driving while intoxicated and posted $400 bond for the July 6 term.
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Robert J. Allen
Carl Wynne
E. 19Th St
Bobby Kenneth Hemmeline
9Th St
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Semney's Food & Sun Wren Drain Companimn and
Stewart
Suoypapa
Bat Seed Feed
Moret ‘Farm Chemical Company
Ishway
Heteferd Poultry & Ees Co
Sampson
Baese Poratth Magaly & Sons Roberts Flower & Gift Shop
Littlefield Howard's Feed Seed & Fert
Delano Avenue
DOR Kings Feed & Seed Midland
E. Circle Drive
Richardson
Big Springs
Morton Lindsey Feed & Seed
O'Donnell
O'Donnell Flower & Gitt
Star Farm Supply
Bob Collier Drugler
East Mair
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Prince
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West ‘Broadway
Pribble Bros. Florists
DS. Turner
West
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