Landscape trees for the Plains area include unusual attractive options
The article discusses Ginkgo Biloba Pistacia chinensis Smoketree and Zizyphus Jujuba as valuable landscape choices for the Plains region. It notes Ginkgo resilience and slow growth, Pistacia chinensis fall color, Smoketree's smoky blossoms and color changes, and Jujube’s ornamental trunk edible fruit. It mentions local availability and a Tech campus geese anecdote.
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Lubbock Experiment Station
Experiment Station
Cotinus Coggygria
Lubbock
Tech
Understanding Plant Wilting and Its Causes
The article outlines how wilting in plants signals problems from watering to root damage and pests. It stresses examining whether wilting is gradual or rapid, and considers overwatering, drought, fertilization, and insect or disease causes.
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Wolfe Nursery
GI Forum To Crown Queen In Lubbock Dance
Miss Helen Maris 17, daughter of Mrs. Maria Maris, 319 N Sherman Ave, will be crowned queen of District 13 American GI Forum at a 9 p.m. Caprock Hotel dance. Gregory Coronado will perform coronation duties and Gilbert Garcia will speak. Miss Maris, a Tom S. Lubbock High junior, was elected district queen and will compete for state queen in Houston July 4.
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Helen Maris
Maria Maris
N. Sherman Ave
Caprock Hotel
Gregory Coronado
Lubbock
Gilbert Garcia
Fort Worth
Miss Maris
Tom S. Lubbock High School
Houston
Lodge Host To Grand Master Visits Texas District Lodges
Lubbock Lodge No. 609 hosted an official visit by Howard Kemp Grand Master of Texas. A joint session at Plains Co-Op Oil Mill conferred Past Master and Grand Lodge degrees on J. D. Bryan. Rebekahs held a Friendship Night. Kemp and party toured lodges in Districts 8 9 and 10 including Lubbock Morton Plains Sundown Whiteface Brownfield Seagraves Seminole Denver City and Lamesa.
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Lubbock
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Howard Kemp
Corpus Christi
Grand Lodge of
Circle Lodge
Tahoka
Levelland
Morton
Plains
Sundown
Whiteface
Brownfield
Seagraves
Seminole
Denver City
Lamesa
Cuba’s new mining laws curb exploration activity
Havana reports that Cuba has enacted mining regulations that discourage exploration for the time being, signaling a pause in resource prospecting as the government reviews properties and environmental safeguards.
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Cuba
Havana
Cuban President Corticos Receives Warm Welcome in Mexico City
President Osvaldo Corticos of Cuba hailed a warm reception in Mexico City during his six country Latin American tour, praising the reception as the warmest he has received on the trip.
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Mexico City
Osvaldo Corticos
Cuba
Chicago Population Loss Hits 150 000
Chicago has lost 150 000 residents in the past decade, said Theodore Olson regional census director. The decline, due mainly to slum clearance and highway projects, concentrates on the north and northwest sides. Cook County’s population rose by about 500 000, with 1950 county total 4 508 792 and city at 3 620 962. The city appears likely to remain the nation’s second largest city.
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Chicago
UPI
Theodore Olson
Olson
Cook County
Los Angeles
GE Wins Navy Contract for Polaris Submarine Propulsion
General Electric Co. announced it has been awarded a $1 million Navy contract to supply a 15,000 horsepower diesel electric propulsion motor and a propulsion generator for the first tender ship built to service atom powered Polaris firing submarines.
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Schenectady, N.Y
UPID
General Electric Co
Texas Tech Horticultural Club Plans Fall Festival
Students in the Texas Tech Horticultural Club schedule a Fall Horticultural Festival for October 22 to coincide with Homecoming. The show features blooms from a test garden with 4 000 Chrysanthemums and 10 000 planted on campus. New classes include Roses and Chrysanthemums with variety competition and a collection class of 25 non disbudded varieties plus a 12 large flowers disbudded class. All gardeners may enter material grown in these classes.
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Texas Tech Horticultural Club
Texas Tech
Nationalist Agent Executed in Yu Men Trial
Chinese Communist authorities reported that 20,000 spectators watched the trial and execution in Yu Men in Kansu province. The defendant was blamed for killing a Communist agent who operated on the mainland before the Communist victory.
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Hong Kong
Fri
Yumen
Kansu
Communist New China News Agency
World War I Vets Schedule Meeting In Lubbock
Members of the Veterans of World War I Inc plan an organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the old Lubbock County Courthouse to lobby for a $100 monthly pension for veterans and widows. Mrs Eula Hudson will direct a women’s auxiliary as speakers Roger Evans and RR McKinney urge veterans, wives, widows and sisters to attend.
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Veterans of World War I, ‘Inc
Lubbock County
Eula Hudson
Lamesa
Roger Q. Evans
Baird
RR. R. McKinney
Big Spring
McKinney
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