Soap Box Derby Prelim Inspections Set in Lubbock
One week remains as 150 South Plains boys prepare for Saturday preliminary inspections at Kuykendall Chevrolet Co. for Lubbock’s third annual Derby to be held July 4. Winners earn Akron trip and a $5,000 college scholarship. top runners receive Chevrolet prizes and special awards for best built and sportsmanlike cars.
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Lubbock
South Plains
Avalanche Journal
Kuykendall Chevrole, Co
Lubbock Exchange Club
Akron
Collins & Aikman
Shell of Co
Stanley Tool Board
Elongated Lions Club Proxy Accepts Civic Derby Challenge
Marvin Hilburn Jr and Tom Ingram of Lubbock announce Lions Club interest in a Soap Box Derby race during Lubbock’s third annual event on U.S. Highway 87. Ingram, over six feet tall, agrees to race if a car long enough is built for him. The civic club heats occur within a two and a half hour race schedule.
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Marvin Hilburn, Jr
Lubbock Exchange Club
Lubbock
Tom C. Ingram
Lubbock Lions Club
Ingram
Civic Club
Amarillo Road
Santa Fe
Lions Club
Brownfield Cub Pack Attends Weekend Camp
Seventeen members of Cub Scout Pack 45 joined by several fathers participated in the annual summer encampment at Camp Post over the weekend. Cub master Newell Reed led the group with local Scouts Joe Cloud George Fugitt Jimmy Rodgers Don Copeland Johnny Patterson Gene Purtell Gene Mason Mike Smith Kenneth Baldwin Curtis Bryant Jimmie Warren Kenneth Lee Kendrick Herbie Pickett Claudie Lee Scooter Roscoe Jerry Don Huckabee Don Fulter. Fathers present included Henry Fugitt J O Rodgers Lal Copeland James Warren Clovis Kendrick A T Pickett Fred Baldwin W L Patterson Kenneth Purtell W L Lee and Thomas Doss.
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Cub Scout Pack 45
Camp Post
Newell Reed
Joe Cloud
George Fugitt
Jimmy Rodgers
Don Copeland
Johnny Patterson
Gene Purtell
Gene Mason
Mike Smith
Kenneth Baldwin
Curtis Bryant
Jimmie Warren
Kenneth Lee Kendrick
Herbie Pickett
Claudie Lee
Scooter Roscoe
Jerry Don Huckabee
Don Fulter
Henry Fugitt
J. O. Rodgers
Lal Copeland
James Warren
Clovis Kendrick
A. T. Pickett
Fred Baldwin
W.L. Patterson
Kenneth Purtell
W. L. Lee
Thomas Doss
Texas Tech Students Return From Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly
A group of 33 Texas Tech students returned to Lubbock at 4 p m Saturday after a two week trip to the Southern Baptist Assembly for students at Ridgecrest North Carolina They left Lubbock June 4 for the Ridgecrest gathering which opened June 7 and ended last Wednesday The Tech delegation totaled about one fourth of the assembly attendance and traveled through nine states visiting Little Rock Nashville Atlanta Newton and Dallas The group also toured the Great Smoky Mountain National Park Accompanying staff included Ardelle Hallock Doris Stoneham and Mr and Mrs Bill Mead
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Texas Tech
Lubbock
Southern Baptist Assembly
Ridgecrest
N.C
Paul Geren
India
Geren
Baker James Cauthen
Southern Baptist Missions
C. Oscar Johnson
St. Louis
The
Baptist World Alliance
Joel Sorenson
Stockholm
Sweden
Ralph Overman
Oak Ridge
Duke McCall
Chester Swor
Southern Baptist
Tech
Texas
Little Rock
Ark
Nashville
Tenn
Atlanta
Newton
Miss
Dallas
Great Smokey Mountain National Park
Ardelle Hallock
Texas Tech Baptist Student Union
Doris Stoneham
Disputed Dispositions of Minor Status and Construction Plans
Lubbock Courts order removal of minority disabilities for JR Strain to build a business structure at 204 North College. Mrs Louie Alverson plans a residence move and general repairs at 2308 Main. Graves proposes a residence addition at 2016 Sixth. McGowan seeks a residence at 3209 Itasca and 2311 Tinsen with substantial costs. Additional projects include a carport at First Place and a residence at 3201 First Place with varying sums.
Frost Family Reunion Planned by Vernon Kin
The sons and daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Frost of Vernon and their families will gather Sunday June 26 at the Party house in Mackenzie State Park. Basher lunches will be served at noon followed by a program. Attending members include Edna Arnold Lub bock Obg Blanchard Amherst Rudolph Hofmann Jerry Bell Dale Baldwin John Frost Hiram Frost Sue Frost all Vernon and Bill Frost of Erick Oklahoma.
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T. C. Frost
Vernon
Mackenzie State Park
Basher
Edna Arnold
Lubbock
Obg Blanchard
Amherst
Rudolph Hofmann
Jerry Bell
Dale Baldwin
John Frost
Hiram Frost
Ode Frost
Sue Frost
Bill Frost
Erick
Okla
Dictatorship Ended Half Century of Colombia’s Constitutional Rule
The Book of Knowledge year book asserts that last year Colombia established a dictatorship, ending an uninterrupted fifty years of constitutional government in the country.
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Colombia
Book of Knowledge
Three Levelland Men Face Theft Charges
Three Levelland men Donald L. Jones Wesley Qualls and Odis Barker are jailed in Morton on felony theft charges bonds set at one thousand dollars. Cochran and Hockley County officers tracked the group from an alleged oil field theft operation to their Levelland headquarters and coordinated arrests in Whiteface Levelland and nearby areas south of Whiteface.
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Morton
Levelland
Cochran
Hockter
W. W. McKay
Whiteface
Levellands
H. D Crockett
Donald L. Jones
Wesley Qualls
Odis Barker
Crockett
Qualls
Barker
Jones
McKay
Texas Tech Student May Return Home From Dallas
Kenneth Shipp a 19 year old Texas Tech student under Dallas specialist care may return home late today His uncle said he travelled from Dallas to Lubbock last Saturday after suffering a rare blood leakage that required 30 transfusions Treatment by Dr Patterson in Dallas has halted the bleeding and healing the esophagus while an earlier operation proved unnecessary He has been hospitalized four weeks and began to sit up last weekend while liquor sales from nightclubs are cited as providing about 58 percent of income and a 300 percent gross profit over costs
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Kenneth Shipp
Texas Tech
Dallas
Henry
Lubbock
Kenneth
Cecil Patterson
Reese Air Force Base
Patterson
Shipp
Charleston
Miss
Sarah Lee Moore
Sarah Moore
EB. W. Ryan
Jim Moore
Lillie Walk
Idalou Evangelist to Tour Vermont and New York
Evangelist B Drake of Christ will leave Idalou for two and a half months of preaching In Barre Wisconsin hubbardsville New York Camp Hunt and nearby Krum and Lorenzo Texas after summer engagements Mrs Drake and two children will accompany him He will conduct Bible school work en route and assist in youth camp activities during the trip
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B. Drake
Christ
Idatou
Barre
Alvin Bryan
Eastside Church of Christ
Lubbock
Hubbardsville
N.Y
Camp Hunt
Texas
Krum
Lorenzo
Idalou
219 Texas Oil Wells Completed During Week
Austin reports the Railroad Commission tallied 219 oil well completions for the week, bringing the year total to 4,847 versus 4,034 a year earlier. Gas wells reached 21 this year for 348 total, with 66 dry holes, and wildcat drilling yielded six oil wells two gas and 32 dry holes. Seventy oil wells and 17 dry wells were plugged.
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Texas
Commission
Austin
Railroad Commission
Wildcat
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First Baptist Church
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Rainn Carlile Tucker
Edna Airene Hampton
Lupbock
Elmer Wayne McClenkes
Garnie Louise Besmour
Dewey
Burdrite Carriion
Hallie Calit
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Charles E Daughters
Fortes
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Vaapeaai
Mrs
M. B. Norris
Mr. Norris
Charles James Jefferson
Norris
Jefferson
D. W. Robertson
Young's Feed and Seed Company
Twenty-seventh
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South Plains Funeral Home
United States
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Avalanche-Journal
Sun
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