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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1947
Page
6
City records show a proposed ordinance prepared by H I Kiefer to regulate peddlers within the municipality. The draft outlines licensing and enforcement measures to govern sale of merchandise and curb roadside trading.
Hillsboro adopts licensing requiring a $500 bond for cash down solicitations and $250 for others with a surety period to cover losses. Police note few complaints but warn of aggressive salespeople and potential burglaries when homes are unoccupied. City manager questions need, says vigilance may prompt action if citizenry supports ordinance.
Four new instructors join Texas Tech summer program announced by Dr. Ernest Wallace summer session executive Chaise Winfrey from Austin public schools serves as visiting speech lecturer in the first team Miss Bobbie Beckman joins the women's physics education department The notice also warns against paying deposits to solicitors without identity proof and delivery assurances.
Several Lubbock physicians plan to attend the American Medical Association Centennial celebration June 9 to 13 in Atlantic City. Four doctors from Lubbock Memorial Hospital will go Dr. Hudgins Marsh Gordon Hutchinson and Dr. Stewart plus Mrs Stewart from West Texas Hospital. Up to two more faculty members Ben Logan and Phillips Johnson in engineering were also mentioned.
A Texas Tech geology field course conducts studies at Camp Capitan on the Sierra Blanca flank in New Mexico. Dr. R G Sidwell leads the class with instruction in stratigraphy structural geology and surveying methods. The program has run annually since 1927 and covers formations from Permian to Tertiary.
The 1947 cotton classing short course at Texas Tech, sponsored by the textile engineering and extension departments, starts Monday with 9 am registration in room 205. Fee is 12.50. The program, running through June 20, features lectures, demonstrations, and fiber testing led by L E Parsons, George W Pfeiffenberger, Chicopee staff, and L Buchanan of the USDA cotton branch.
Lubbock reports strong attendance at cotton inquiries with Ervin Conway of the cotton research committee assisting and local buyers and classers present. Parsons notes a good turnout from local and area cotton men. The item appears in the June 8 1947 issue.
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