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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1947
Page
9
Mass services are arranged for the blast victims in Texas City. Officials outline simple rites with Protestant and Jewish leaders to lead services. Mourners are asked to gather near the site as authorities prepare to identify 63 bodies and lay them to rest with funeral rites and music.
Police responding to a riot in a Chicago southside apartment found a 24 year old professional gambler named Lark Turner dead and two others seriously injured. The melee involved craps games and the chaos continued despite police efforts to quell the violence.
Author Cavitt, 24, of Roby, pled guilty to two forgery charges and drew three years in the penitentiary on each count, to run concurrently. Judge G V Pardue imposed the sentences after consideration of the state’s case that Cavitt signed J C Kendall’s name to two checks for 28 and 24.46 dollars and passed them to J M Haggard and Mary Agnes Nichols.
The crew of the freighter Eastern Guide retrieved a substance they believed to be ambergris worth 480000 dollars near the Azores. Ship owners say another chemist may confirm it is not ambergris, leaving the crew with the burden of disposal if the finding holds.
Tokyo police announce a bounty system with points for capturing pickpockets on streets and at events. Officers earn more for incidents on trains or in theaters and for multiple captures. J H Arnett notes 468 bodies recovered with about 100 more missing from the disaster and will hand records to Texas City officials.
At Amarillo on June 21, Paul W. Fulks of the Wolf City Sun was elected president of the Texas Press association and M. M. Donosky of the Dallas News was named president of the Texas Newspaper Publishers association. The Joe Taylor award for best editorial went to the Dalhart Texan while the Mission Times won best all round weekly. The Star Telegram award for agriculture news and promotion went to the Paris Daily News. Goose Creek Sun publisher Matherne elected vice president of the Texas Press association and Wellington Leader editor Deskin Wells reelected vice president of the Texas Newspaper Publishers association. Houston Post’s A E Clarkson reelected treasurer. W K R Beaumier of the Lufkin News invited a future meeting in Lufkin. A soil conservation editorial prize of 100 was announced by Walter Humphrey of the Fort Worth Press. Fourteen states and DC had no reported smallpox cases in 1946.
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