New Phases Added This Year Camp Post for Area Scouts
Camp Post near Post Texas offers 400 acres donated by the C. W. Post estate and serves as a key Boy Scouts camp in the South Plains Council. This year new phases expand programs with archery rifle ropework and outdoor cooking as about 100 boys attend weekly during four summer weeks while the site remains open year round for weekend visits.
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Jerry Hall
Avalanche Journal
Post
Caprock
South Plains Council
C. W. Post
Phil Pegues
Lubbock
Shelby Berry
Berry
Pegues
South Plains
Paralytic Polio Cases Rise Ahead of 1958 Totals
Public Health Service reports polio activity running well above last year. Through June 13 there were 265 paralytic cases in the disease year and 452 since Jan 1, with Iowa posting the week’s highest count of nine cases centered in Des Moines and spread to Minnesota Nebraska Kansas Missouri and nearby states. Arizona reports 14 cases this year.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Iowa
Des Moines
Missouri
Minnesota
Nebrask
Kansas
North
South Dakota
West North
Dakotas
South Atlantic
California
Arizona
Wife-killers in Tajikistan face firing squad
Moscow reports three weeks of executions under the republic's official newspaper Kommunist, marking a case where a husband stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife to resolve a bigamous marriage.
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Moscow
Tadjikistan
Republic
Kommunist
Five Lubbock Girls to Be Honored at Camp Fire Ceremony
Four Horizon Club members and one Camp Fire Girl will receive Certificates for completion of the program aide course at Lubbock Council Camp Fire Girls resident camp near Antonio Colorado. Diane Montgomery from Vernal Utah will receive the Trail Seeker Wood Gatherer Bank for work with her group in Lubbock. The Camp Fire camp closes Monday with 108 girls returning to Lubbock.
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Horizon Club
Lubbock Council
Monkhaven Guest Ranch
Antonio
Colo
Carolyn Cates
Oliver Cates
Ada Ada Cates
Paul Cates
Jan Justice
Doyle Justice
Luane Todd
Frank Todd
Diane Montgomery
Winston Montgomery
Vernal
Utah
Lubbock
Diane
Jack Strong
Helen Waller
Tyler
Pat Rainer
Latchbock
Jane Baggett
Carolyn Key
Nancy Greve
Mary Kay Pearce
Jo Jean McCook
Mary Lou Miller
Nicky Robinson
Celia Forrest
Sally Sandlin
Glenda Daniel
Justice Hickman Named Defendant in Texas Suit
The Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice J. F. Hickman was named defendant in a $69,000 traffic accident damages suit. Anna Karling, 58, claims injury from a November 25 1957 collision with Hickman's car in 53rd District Court.
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Austin
Texas Supreme Court
J. F. Hickman
Anna Karling
53Rd District Court
Hickman
First Half Year Seen As Best In History
Elmer C. Walzer reports UPI that America enjoys the strongest first half in history across production income and living standards. Analysts forecast a record 474 billion dollar gross national product for the year with a potential half trillion rate late in Q4. Disposable income stands at 328 billion with 307 billion spent and 21 saved. Durable goods spending rises 14.1 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer C. Walzer
New York
UPI
America
Standard & Poor's
Lubbock AAUW Delegates Attend National Convention
Lubbock branch chairmen Mrs Harmon Jenkins and Mrs Leroy Patton attend the 1959 AAUW biennial convention in Kansas City Mo opening today. Eleanor Roosevelt will speak on world leadership as delegates from across North America gather for discussions on education, governance and mass media.
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Harmon Jenkins
Lubbock
Alan
Leroy Patton
AAUW
Kansas City
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Canada
Mexico
Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
America
Wool prices hit 1958 low not seen since 1941
The Agriculture Department reports 1958 wool prices averaged 36.4 cents a pound, the lowest since 1941, with 1957 at 53.37 cents and 1956 at 44.3 cents. Marketings rose from a year earlier as growers sold the 1957 carryover and much of the 1958 crop, with portions of the 1959 crop also moved in key wool regions.
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Washington
Culture Department
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Brownfield
Mike Hancock
Crosbyton
David Abell
Ralls
Johnny Harkins
Bill McGlain
Tom
My Mays
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Plainview
Bob Harvey
Dist St
Chester Payne
Ronnie Helton
GAC
PROM
Chevsen Finance Company, Inc
19Th Street
Tubbeck
Texas
Telephone Porter
Stinson Cleaners
Lowner
Lubbock Girls
G.I
Neil PhiLlips
Copus
NPC
Bred Madison
Sleten Highway
Haiti
Liberia
Cloverboaker
Public Service
Estern
Service
Compas
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