City Urged To Be On Alert For Polio Outbreak This Summer
Lubbock residents urged readiness for polio outbreaks this summer as a chapter leader from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reported at a Houston workshop. Mrs. Dennis Scaling noted no vaccine is ready, gamma globulin is in short supply, and home care can ease hospital strain while early diagnosis improves outcomes.
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Women Activities
National Foundation For
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National Foundation
Slaton Pool Sees Record Attendance and New Classes
The new $60,000 fan shaped Municipal Swimming Pool opened June 3 drawing growing interest. A single day record of 368 is expected to be surpassed with morning classes for ages 6 to 12 and 13 up running 9 to 11. Registration totals 130 and 36 for the two groups. New classes start June 29 with potential night sessions for adults.
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Truett Fulcher
Fulcher
Arizona
Twenty-Five From Slaton Leave For Rainbow Girls Assembly
Twenty-two Rainbow Girls and three sponsors depart Slaton by chartered bus for the Grand Assembly in Galveston. Attendees include Joan Haliburton Barbara Wilke Janice Gordon Helen Ann Norris Linda Smith Judy Thomas Viola Mae Walton and others. They will return June 26.
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Slaton
Grand Assembly
Galveston
Joan Haliburton
Barbara Wilke
Janice Gordon
Helen Ann Norris
Linda Smith
Judy Thomas
Viola Mae Walton
Jeannette Burrell
Shirter Lange
Mae Lela Wyatt
Karen Deavers
Joen Pember
Barbara McCoy
Marian Foster
Annette Wilson
Ova Sue Wilson
Billy Palmer
Beverly Kercheval
Nancy Moseley
Mary Ann Klattenhoff
Nancy Clifton
Sue Hodge
Mesdames Bruce Pember
W. J. Thomas
Dudley Berry
Floydada GI Arrives in Korea for Duty
Pvt. George H. Mize, husband of Betty Mize of Floydada, has arrived in Korea for duty with the 501st Harbor Craft Company. His unit supports UN commands in the southern Korean peninsula as part of the Base Section. Mize entered the Army six months ago after graduating from Floydada High School, and was stationed last at Camp Roberts in California.
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Korea
George H. Mize
Betty
501St Harbor Craft Company
Korean Peninsula
Mize
Army
Pope to receive Japanese Crown Prince Akihito
The Vatican announced that Crown Prince Akihito of Japan will have an official audience with Pope Pius XII on Monday. The visit is reported as scheduled for the Vatican City.
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Japan
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Cigarette Lighters Smuggled into Mexico Seized
Customs agents in Nuevo Laredo seized U S made cigarette lighters valued at 11560 dollars and arrested a man in connection with the smuggling operation.
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Mex
U. S
Mexico
Masieri asks Wright to design Venice arch school
A wealthy Italian, Paolo Masieri of Udine, requests permission from Venice's monument commission to build a modern architecture school on the Grand Canal in memory of his son Angelo Masieri who died in a traffic accident last year. He has asked American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design the building.
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Italy
Monument Commission
Grand Canal
Angelo Masieri
Paolo Masieri
Udine
Frank Lloyd Wright
Teacher Returns From Alaska To Slaton For Summer
Miss Leona Burton a public school teacher from Palmer Alaska arrived in Slaton to spend the summer with her parents Mr and Mrs John Burton. Born and reared in Slaton she plans to teach the 1953 54 school year after an Alaska trip via the Alaska Highway to Dawson Creek Seattle and then to Lubbock. She notes Alaska temperatures are warmer than Slaton at times with a high around 70 degrees. Burton taught previously in Roy and Cimarron New Mexico and attended Abilene Christian College.
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Palmer
John Burton
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Lubbock
Miss Burton
Alaska Hwy
Dawson Creek
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Seattle
Wash
Virginia Read
Canyon
Miss Read
Espanola
N. M
Roy, N. M
Cimarron
Abilene Christian
Post Stampede Rodeo Receipts Exceed $10 Thousand
The 1953 Post Stampede Rodeo, held May 27 30, posted receipts of 10 446 64 with expenses at 9 917 29 leaving a 529 35 balance. Admissions led receipts at 5 877 90 and prizes totaled 2 556. College and New Mexico Highlands University.
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Rodeo Directors
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Rodeo Association
Open House At Slaton Bell Building
Slaton residents can tour the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company building from Wednesday to Friday with hours 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. J C Oakley announces an exhibit of the long distance radio relay system and a miniature microwave relay that beams music via air waves.
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Oakley
Slaton
North Platte Victory Brings Home 156 Korean War Mourned
The S. S. North Platte Victory arrived from Japan bearing the bodies of 156 Americans killed in the Korean War.
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Houston
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