Kefauver Leads Taft In Final Pre Convention Gallup Poll
Independent voters favor Kefauver by a close margin in a June 28 Gallup trial heat pitting Kefauver against Taft for the presidential nomination. The survey shows Kefauver ahead among Independents and strong Eisenhower support in a Kefauver comparison, with national results showing Kefauver at 25 percent to Taft's 55 percent and undecideds at 10 percent.
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George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Princeton
X.J
Taft
Kefauver
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Tennessee
Eisenhower
General Tice
Eral Ike
Tke
Phillips To Operate Texas Plant For Jato Units
Phillips Petroleum Company will run the Bluebonnet plant at McGregor Texas to produce jato units for aircraft takeoffs. Endicott notes potential cost reductions may extend use to commercial planes. The plant, built in World War II as a bomb loading facility, was an ordnance site until 1945.
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Bartlesville
Okio
Uns
Paul” Endicott
Philips, Petroleum Company
U. S. Air Force
McGregor
Texas
Phillips
Endicott
Bluchonnet
Nigerian Good Will Ambassador Ajala Delayed By Jail Time
Topeka Kansas June 28 Mashood Adisa Olabisi Ajala a Nigerian good will ambassador on a 2200 mile bicycle trip aimed at enlightening Americans about Africa made up time after a jail stay. He spent a short term for disturbing the peace after being refused a room at the YMCA. He faces 55 talks along his Chicago to Los Angeles route and five speeches scheduled for Denver. Ajala wears native dress to counter the notion Africans are unclothed. He was sentenced to 30 days more but paroled on leaving town with from the YMCA secretary $5 left at the desk for food.
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Topeka
Kan
R— Mashood Adisa Olabisi
Ajala
Colorado
Africa
YMCA
Denver
Chicago
Los Angeles
W. B Culbertson
Culbertson
Senate Kills Bill For Increase In Salary
The Senate kept its pay at 12,500 dollars plus a 2,500 expense account and rejected a proposal to raise or base pay on commissions. It also passed a 76,889,948 dollar appropriation to fund Congress for fiscal 1953, starting Tuesday.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Russell B. Long
D-La
Practical Nurses Refresher Start Tuesday In Lubbock
Fourteen practical nurses have registered for a refresher course taught by Miss Audrey Decker. The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9 PM at 1112 Avenue M, lasting four months. Registration continues Monday and Tuesday at Senior High School or at the first meeting Tuesday night.
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Avenue M
Audrey Decker
Vocational-Educational Department
Lubbock Schools
Texas Education Agency
Bay City Girl Becomes Welfare Field Worker at Post
Miss Martha Mathes of Bay City has assumed duties as public welfare field worker in Lynn and Garza counties with headquarters in Post. She fills the vacancy from Thomas Canon who resigned to join the Lubbock police. The welfare office is in Garza County courthouse and hours are 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. A separate note mentions a Sen John J Williams amendment affecting tax deductions for congressmen.
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Martha Mathes
Bay City
Lynn
Garza
Mathes
Thomas Canon
Lubbock
Garza County
Vocational Nurse Course Offered by Lubbock League
The Texas Education Agency approves a 64 hour certificate course for those not practicing as practical nurses. A September program for vocational nurses is planned with eligibility open to women 18 to 50 who have a tenth grade education and can pass a physical. The 12 month program includes hospital experience with pay scales rising from 50 to 75 dollars per month across months. Sponsored by the Lubbock League of Nursing Education, details available from Miss Decker at the Senior High School.
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Texas Education Agency
Miss Decker
Lubbock League of Nursing Education
Decker
Lubbock firm tops Salina AFB fuel facility bids
Kansas City district engineers awarded Grandview Mo and Smoky Hill AFB contracts totaling nearly four million dollars. Long Construction Co of Kansas City was low bidder at 216000 for jet fuel facilities at Grandview. Walden Fulton Payne Co of Lubbock Texas was low bidder at 195526 for Smoky Hill fuel storage and distribution work.
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Lubbock Company
Salina Afb
Kansas City
INS
Long Construction Company of
Grandview
Air Force Base
Army Engineers
Chambers and Tarbell Construction Company
Winn-Senter Construction Company
Tetyak-Young Construction Company
Overland Park
Kas
Smoky Hill Afb
Salina
Walden- Fulton-Payne Company
Lubbock, Tex
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Kefauver Rint Taft
Fisenhower
Gen
Defense Department
Francis G. Brink
Pentagon
NEA
Drugeiste
R. H. Fulton
Levelland Highway
Africa Good Will
Post
John J. Williams
Prdel
Wington
U.S
Avalanche-Journal
L's
Owned and Operated
Morris Cooper
Wang
General Electric
Orei
Minoo
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