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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1961
Page
10
A long reader letter set asks about teaching a three year old to sleep in her own bed and resisting parental ultimatums. A columnist reply urges consistency, not giving in, and explains the child’s manipulative tactics as a test of parental authority.
A guide on proper social greeting emphasizing direct eye contact with the person being introduced. Focuses on respectful attention, clear acknowledgment, and courteous posture during first impressions.
Guests registered on a Wend en chopping block attended a kitchen shower Saturday night for Miss Ann Adams elect of Tam Amos Fatls Wende as director. The event centered on red and white decor with gadgets and an electric mixer as hostess gift. Attending were the engaged couple’s mothers Mrs K A Matchett of Vernon and Mrs Ray C Amheld of Wichita Falls and their grandmothers Mrs A B Adams and Mrs T P Duncan of Wichita Falls.
Mr and Mrs Roy L Debusk Hobbs announce the engagement of their daughter Sandra to Ronald Logback of Antonio iGolo The marriage is planned for August 10 in the First Methodist Church of Hobbs Miss Debusk a Hobbs High School senior and New Mexico State University junior is active in student government and campus organizations The prospective bridegroom is a NMSU junior majoring in physical education and plays for the Aggie football and basketball teams Also notes a currency hike policy allowing French currency to be taken abroad up to $100.
Plainview and nearby communities share news of forthcoming weddings and engagements. Anita Toye Durham and Nelson Ross Walford plan marriage at First Baptist Church after fall studies. Manhelen Garrson and David Wilks to wed July with McMurry ties noted. Meredith Mere Sodeman and D D Jordan announce July 8 nuptials in Pawnee links. Ray Donna Cargill and Ray E Ravage Jr. set August 2 at College Heights Baptist Church with Wayland ties. Sandra Kay Miller and Lin Jones, both Plainview High and McMurry students, to wed in August at First Methodist Church. Owen Miller and Sandra announce. overviews include academic majors, honors, and church affiliations.
The second lesson of Texas Tees summes artisis camp is jammed with J1 enthusi a Wah and elementary stunts an estment of 213 in hands has i nevexatated the formatem oft three groups for the camp's final concert June 30. The orchestral section has 127 students and the choir. 35. All the students are junior high schoolers except part of the or chestra group which has been invited into two units junior high and elementary school. The students are receiving instr uction in theory and in the playing of specific instruments in band and orchestra sessions. The three bands will open the Final camp concert by playing on the Ad building green al 7 am. t June 28. The concert will move to the Union building ballroom for presentations by the two orchest ras and the choir. In case of that weather,B bands will play in the Union ball.
A Texas Tech workshop gathers school business officials and administrators for a two day program on code of ethics purchasing and public relations. Led by Glenn Paying and panelists from Fort Stockton Austin and Lubbock area districts, the event features sessions on in service training and auditing with a $10 registration fee and included meals. Lodging arranged at the Plainsman Hotel for out of town participants.
Chairman Holifield of the atomic committee said Kennedy agreed the U S should renounce the voluntary moratorium on nuclear tests. He noted progress toward resuming talks at Geneva while Britain hints in the House of Lords it might not oppose tests due to public opposition. A separate incident in Jackson, Mississippi involved African American travelers who were denied a whites-only railroad waiting room.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved 22 million dollars to support United Nations military operations in the Congo. The action followed a brief hearing with a State Department official, and funds cover through the next fiscal year including 14 million for annuities and small treasury items plus 2.2 million for U.N. needs, totaling about 18.2 million. The package also contemplates an additional 152 thousand from force funds to offset costs.
During the 1800s more than 200 ships were wrecked off Sable Island near Nova Scotia known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Reports from Lubbock cover a felony marijuana charge against Hershel Crabb in Hegal precinct, a local ambassador briefing for a South American trip sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, and a Crosbyton hospital update on five year old Edward Michuika after a car crash. South Pacific reforms and women’s club programs in Suva are noted as part of regional outreach.
Industry executives argue they are not responsible for leaked details about toy models and military equipment. Laban, vice president of Renwal Products, says declassified information supplied by the Navy defines what can be shared. Toy Manufacturers Association president Darker defends openness while noting risk of misinterpretation from press reporting.
Fragmentary text from a New Mexico page mentions Eunice Doane Giffin and Emory Wiel with scattered names and dates. Other lines reference a public sale or tract and upcoming sanitization in August and September with incomplete context.
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