All-Time Traffic Record Set During May At Lubbock Airport
Lubbock Municipal Airport set an all-time traffic record in May with 16 073 landings and takeoffs surpassing the previous August 1955 record of 13 413. Airport Manager Edward L. Colby predicts a 18 500 August and a yearly total near 160 000 operations. Five months total 62 288, with 1952 and 1953 full-year totals previously recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Fairbairn
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
CAA
Observer Unit Here Needs Volunteers To Man Watch Posts
Lubbock Ground Observer Corps seeks 100 members led by S Sgt Hadaway and B T Rucker at 121 Temple Ave Meetings at 8 p m Mondays include movies and lectures Observers work one to two hour shifts weekly with practice alerts 2 to 6 p m Saturdays Units may also assist weather and tornado alerts linked with Civil Air Patrol Civil Defense and Aviation Observation in Dallas Top of Great Plains Life Building to be used as tentative post Training spans 12 hours earning certificates wings and bars After training posts manned by two people observers may be assigned during emergencies Contact Campbell at Porter 5 8807 or Swift 9 0805 for information
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Lubbock
Dallas
Rucker
GCC
CAP
Civil Air Patrol
Civil Defense
Great Plains
Tom Campbell
Ground Observer Corps
Campbell
United States
Air Force Base
Poorter
Swift
Last Rites for Fall Victim at Lubbock Hotel
A private funeral will be held for Mrs. Eddie Willenberg at Sanders Funeral Home Chapel with burial at East Lawn Cemetery. She, 33, died after a fall from a sixth floor window in the Lubbock Hotel. An inquest returned an open verdict stating death from multiple injuries. Investigators reported no new developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duane Parker
Dick Standke
Virgil Shell
Leonard Shell
Johnnie Mooney
Woodrow Quinn
Willenberg
Lubbock
Justice of the Peace
George H. McCleskey
Wes-Tex Air Craft
J. R. Turner
Petersburg
M. E. Mosley
Melvin Deardorff
Sondra Patterson
Wes: Tex
L. O. White
City Aviation Office
Little Rock
Ark
Union Parish
P. K. Jinks
Paris Edward Adams Rites Planned at Southside Church
Funeral services for Paris Edward Adams 47 of 511 46th Street are set for 2 p.m. today at Southside Baptist Church with Rev Clifton Igo officiating. Burial will follow at Tech Memorial Park under Rix Funeral Home. Adams moved to Lubbock from McAlester Oklahoma in 1948 and died after a heart attack at home.
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Paris Edward Adams
46Th St
Southside Baptist Church
Clifton Igo
Tech Memorial Park
Rix Funeral Home
Adams
Lubbock
McAlester
Okla
West Texas Hospital
Miss Lubbock Contest Opens First Entry
Donna Evelyn Joines, 18, of 1616 13th St., becomes the first entry in the Junior Chamber of Commerce 1956 Miss Lubbock contest. The pageant is set for July 13. Miss Joines is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W T Joines of Route 2, Sla.
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Donna Evelyn Joines
13Th St
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Beauty Pageant Seeks Contestants In Lubbock Event
Deadline July 1 for entry in the Junior Chamber of Commerce beauty contest. Applicants must be 18 to 28 on September 1 and unmarried. Contact the JCC office in the Lubbock National Bank Building or call Porter 5 6861 for blanks.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lubbock National Bank
Local Miss Beauty Contest Seeks Statewide Winner
Contest held July 13 at the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium will name a winner sent to Miss Texas in Lufkin. The state winner advances to the Miss America pageant.
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Lubbock Municipal Auditorium
Lufkin
Miss Pember Installed As Slaton Rainbow Girls Advisor
Slaton June 9 Joan Pember daughter of Mr and Mrs M A Pember was installed as worthy advisor for Assembly 164 Order of the Rainbow Girls in Slaton Masonic Hall. Other new officers included Viola Walton Jeanette Burrell Mary Ann Klattenhoff Della Scroggins Jinnie Lee Chriesman Mary Jane Lovelady Helen Norris Paulette Dowell with several color stations and observers named.
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Slaton
Joan Pember
M. A. Pember
Assembly 164
Order of the Rainbow Girls
Masonic Hall
Viola Walton
Jeanette Burrell
Charity
Mary Ann Klattenhoff
Hope
Della Scroggins
Faith
Jinnie Lee Chriesman
Mary Jane Lovelady
Helen Norris
Paulette Dowell
Love
June Johnson
Beverly Bland
Barbara Childress
Carolyn Etter
Fidelity
Eunice Wiley
Sharon Boyd
Linda Reasoner
Army scout dogs detect alien scents at yards
U S Army scout dogs can detect alien scents at distances from 1200 to 300 yards.
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U. S. Army
Six New Patrolmen Assigned To Area
Six highway patrolmen were assigned to the Lubbock district, with new posts at Andrews. Graduates from Austin, the six join 28 existing patrolmen serving 21 surrounding counties. Capt. E L Posey announced the appointments and welcomed 54 graduates, emphasizing the lifelong duty of protecting life and property on Texas highways. Names include Roy Smith Killian Smith Roy Doyle Scott Billy Hyman Lee Roy Hargrove and Roy Lee Hilliard.
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Department of Public Safiety
E. L. Posey
Austin
Col
Homer Garrison Jr
TDPS
Texas
Lubbock
Roy €. Smith
Killian K. Smith
Roy Doyle Scott
Semirole
Billy J. Hyman
Andrews
Lee Roy Hargrove
Littlefield
Roy Lee Hilliard
Spur
Posey
Catholic Daughters Install Officers in Slaton
Our Lady of the Assumption No. 1364 Catholic Daughters held installation in St. Joseph's Hall. District deputy Mrs August Kitten presided, assisted by Mrs W H Farschen. New officers include Mrs O F Kitten grand regent, Mrs A Heinrich vice regent, Mrs Ray Miller prophetess, Mrs H Heinrich lecturer, Mrs Paul Momser monitor, Jerry Melcher seminal, Mrs W L Meurer and Mrs A J Gully trustees. Chaplain Mrs T D O'Brien offered congratulations.
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F. Kitten
A. Heinrich
Ray Miller
H. Heinrich
Paul Momser
Monitor
Jerry Melcher
Seminal
W. L. Meurer
A. J. Gully
Mser
T. D. O'Brien
Littlefield Minister To Hold Services At Slaten Tonight
Rev. Henry Haupt of the First Presbyterian Church in Littlefield will preach at 7 30 p m Sunday in the Slaton First Presbyterian Church. No morning services are planned. A meeting will follow to act on a pastoral nominating committee recommendation.
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Lubbock Municipal Airport
Sanders Funeral Home
Eddie Willenberg
Baylor St
East Lawn Cemetery
Ida Florence Davis
Rt. 4
Flying Farmers and Ranchers
el Paso
Ruth Deerman
E] Paso
Rafters Ranch
Seminole
Dub Briley
M. E. Moslex
R. L. Montgomery
Welton Jones
John Wheeler
Ted Danklers
Garwood
Texas Flying Farmers and Ranchers
Murry Becker
Braniff International Airlines
Airlines
Brownsville
Susan
Andy
John Duvka
Pennsylvania
John Dowdy
Temple
Byron Gambel
Stephenville
Duyka
Daway
Gambel
A. N. Dickson
W.&. Barton
Continental Air Lines
Woolfhurst Country Club
Denver
E. L. Coggin
Continental
Durango
Colo
Ralph Hughes
Braniff
Airports and Facilities Department
R. F. Barr
Continental Flight
Iowa
Sue Treadwell
Snyder
C. G. Spicer
Kansas
Wisconsin
Carolinas
Robert Gilmore
Harry Palmer
Champ’s Aviation, Inc
Cessna Aircraft Co
Wichita
Kan
Skyline
Texas Grand Council of
United Commercial Travelers of America
Weather Bureau
Lubbock Municipal
Weather News
Paris
Edward Adam
Ton
Donna Evelyn
Slaton Rainbo Girls
Irene Tomlinson
Outer Observer
Linda McCarver
Confidential Observer
Ann Haddock
Cherie Arrants
Catholic Daughters of America
Union Pacific Investment Corp
Ene
Toren Ua Einy Am
Aristocrat
Chinchilla
N. College
Slaten
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