Tahoka High approves plans to enlarge football stadium
Tahoka School Board okayed tentative plans for a homemaking cottage and a new agriculture building. Arnold Maeker and Associates will draft blueprints with bids due by July 14. The football stadium will be doubled to 2,400 capacity, contracts let to Edgar Roberts and Lubbock Steel.
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Tahoka
Taoka High School
Otis Spears
Arnold Maeker and
Lubbock
Ing
Edgar Roberts
Tohoka
Lubbock Steel Company
Anniversary Held By Tahoka Couple
Tahoka special reports Mr and Mrs W E Smith celebrated their silver wedding anniversary with a buffet supper June 13 at the home of their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Gene Jones. The couple married in 1928 at the First Methodist parsonage in Tahoka. They are pioneer Lynn County residents with Mrs Smith born Joycie Kenner. Their daughters Patsy and Carol Sue attended. Hap Smith has been postmaster 18 years and was once named Good Good Neighbor on radio. Attending were many local families and friends.
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Tahoka
W. E
Happy) Smith
Gene Jones
Smiths
Breedlove
First Methodist Church
Lynn County
Smith
Joycie Kenner
Hall Robinson
John Hill
Buel Draper
Herbert Smith
Jim Atkinson
Ervin Jones
O'Donnell
Coughran Ketner
Seminole
Perle Price
J. E. Ketner
Patsy Smith
Mrs. Carl Webb Elected Temporary Head of Garza Concert Group
Mrs. Carl Webb was elected temporary chairman of the Garza Concert and Town Hall Association. Other officers include Mrs. Irene Rogers as vice chairwoman, Mrs. Fritz Greenfield as secretary, and Miss Maxine Durrett as membership chair. Turner outlined membership drives and a 1953-54 budget based on season tickets with a goal of at least 300 tickets. Oct 5 set for Hubert Craig to lead the drive. the group aims to bring top lecturers and arts to Post. Vincent Schmitt of Galveston was elected president of the Texas Real Estate Association, with Glover Tunnell of Tyler as secretary-treasurer and J. C. Culpepper named director.
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Carl Webb
Garza Concert and Town Hall Association
M. C. Turner Jr
Southern Town Hall Association of Dallas
Irene Rogers
Fritz Greenfield
Maxine Durrett
Turner
Post Group
Post
Hubert Craig
Houston
Vincent Schmitt
Galveston
Texas Real Estate Association
Glover Tunnell
Tyler
J. C. Culpepper
College Station
Plainview Man Sentenced After Mixed Pleas in Court
In Plainview Judge Robert Allen's court three pleas of innocent and two of guilty resulted in bonds totaling 1400 dollars a jail term and a 20 dollar fine. Bill Ervin 30 and Minnie Gauna 46 were placed on 500 dollar bonds. Sam Myrtledove 22 pleaded innocent to theft under 50 with 400 dollar bond. Delbert Buckelew received 10 days for theft under 30. N H Lindley 32 pleaded guilty to a check law violation and was fined 20 dollars plus costs. Bonds returnable July 6.
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Robert J. Allen
Coury Court-at-Law
Bill Hugh Ervin
16Th St
Minnie Gauna
New Deal
Ervin
Gauna
Sam Tomas Myrtledove
Lubbock
Delbert Barney Buckelew
Plainview
N. H. Lindley
City opens new Clapp Park pool. Mae Simmons pool opens
The Clapp Park pool at 45th St and Ave U opens 1 30 p m to 10 p m with dedication set for 7 30 pm Monday led by Hurley Carpenter and Dr Jack Lewis. Mae Simmons Pool at 23rd St and Weber opened Saturday with 8 am to noon instruction and noon to 10 pm public hours. dedication events planned this week.
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Mae Simmons
Dean White
E. J. Johnson Jr
E. J. Johnson Sr
Cedar Ave
Charles Wayne West
Jim West
Birch Ave
Solomon Bunton Jr
Solomon Bunton
Fir Ave
K. N. Clapp Park
K. N. Clapp
45Th St
Ave. U
23Rd St
Weber
Clapp
City Park and Recreation Commission
Mae Simmons Eae
Clapp Pool
Hurley Carpenter
Jack Lewis
N. Clapp
Simmons Pool
Eslates
Lain County Red Cross to Elect New Officers at Meeting
The Lain County chapter of the American Red Cross will elect officers at its annual meeting at Dyer's Cafeteria Tuesday. Current officers include Rev. J. Henry Cox as chairman and J. E. Chisholm Jr. as vice chairman. Reports on the year's activity and recognitions will be presented.
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Lain County
Red Cross
Littlefield
Garth County
The
American Red Cross
Dyer
J. Henry Cox
Olton
J. E. Chisholm Jr
Pat Boone Pr
Wife Douses Self In Alcohol Turns Into Torch
Miami June 13 a housewife soaked her body and clothes with alcohol then set herself afire with a match identified as 46 year old Juana Russeco mother of a 10 year old boy. She was critically burned. Her husband Nicolas a tile setter told police she locked herself in the bathroom shortly before the flames. He said she suffered from diabetes and required daily insulin shots.
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Miami
Juana Russeco
Nicolas
Tam Prichard de
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