Texas House Debates Billiard Tax and Sunday Bowling
Legislative action in Austin turns to legalizing vices with a tax on billiard tables and Sunday bowling. The measure would yield about 50 000 dollars annually if state levies and city permission align. Lt. Gov. Smith presided over a filibuster and honored Marian Anderson as an honorary Texas citizen.
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Sue Flanagan
Avalanche Journal
Austin Bureat
Austin
House Acion
Senate
Preston Smith
Sen
Andy Rogers
Smith
Singer Marian Anderson
Texas
Miss Anderson
Easter Seal Campaign Set In Lubbock
The Easter Seal drive runs March 14 to April 14 in Lubbock with chairwoman Mrs. Sammy Ribble and door to door efforts led by Mrs. W R Moss. Lily Day is April 6 led by Mrs J L Burkholder. Funds aid crippled children and half the proceeds support the Lubbock Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center under Dr Esther E Snell.
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Lubbock
Sammy Ribble
W. R. Moss
J. L. Burkholder
J. E. Maisen
Midland High Dominates Tech Speech Meet With Superior Teams
Midland High School swept the Tech annual High School Invitational Speech Meet with three teams rated superior among about 20 schools and 300 students. Monterey High took second with two superior teams and Lubbock High followed with three excellent teams. The event also featured one act plays persuasive speaking poetry reading and extemporaneous speaking.
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Tech
Midland High School
Midland
Jane East
Linda McCullough
Tommy Wyatt
Lubbock
Monterey High School
Lubbock High
Two Champions at Lockney Junior Fat Stock Show
Lockney Freshman Neil Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Mitchell, won both grand and reserve champion calves and also entered the grand champion heifer at the annual Lockney Junior Fat Stock Show on Saturday.
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Bob Kropp
Paulette Kropp
Bob Brotherton
Charles Ball
Don Henderson
Floyd County
Floydada
Lockney Chamber of Commerce
L. M. Hargrave
Texas Tech
Deanie Henderson
David Mitchell
Johnny Young
Neil Mitchell
Bob i Kropp
Ricky Kellison
Tana Marsnall
Lockney
Lockney High School
Chester Mitchell
Elected C. E. Jackson Named Taylor Junior High Principal
C E Jackson longtime Lovington director of instructions for 11 years has been named principal of Taylor Junior High. The new building is under construction and slated for completion by April 1.
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C. E. Jackson
Lovington
Taylor Junior High
Reception Slated For Cotton Maids
The 1963 National Maid of Cotton Miss Shelby Smith of Albuquerque N M will be guest of honor with Miss Susan Elliott of Lubbock South Plains Maid of Cotton at a 4 30 p m reception at the Kappa Kappa Gamma lodge 2414 Broadway Both are sorority members Miss Smith attends University of New Mexico and Miss Elliott Southern New Mexico University The National Maid of Cotton arrives in Lubbock at 2 27 p m today for a three day visit with radio and television appearances a noon luncheon Monday a tour of the Municipal Building and a cotton fashion show Monday night.
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Shelby Smith
Albuquerque
N.M
Susan Elliott
Lubbock
South Plains
Maid of Cotton
Kappa Kappa Gamma _ sorority
Broadway
Miss Smith
University of New Mexico
Miss Elliott
Southern New Mexico University
Scouts Dedicate New Building Today in Lubbock
South Plains Council of Boy Scouts will dedicate the new Council Service Center at 56th St and Ave Q at 2 30 p m today with an open house 3 to 4 p m. L G Pierce Jr and Charles Alexander will participate, Harold W Leman will speak, and John F Lott will preside. A public open house precedes an executive board meeting. Oslo low calorie foods reach Norwegian market.
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South Plains Council of Boy Scouts
56Th St
Ave. Q
L. G. Pierce Jr
Charles Alexander
Harold W. Lewman
Dallas
Boy Scout Region 9
John F. Lott
Lubbock
Tahoka OKs 550000 School Bond and tax rate change
Tahoka voters approved a 550000 bond for a new high school and upgrades to North Elementary and the current high school. A companion tax-rate revision passed 240 to 150. Ballots totaled 434 with partial voting on both issues.
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Tahoka
Girl From Brazil To Live In Tahoka
Lydia Conrad, 15, of Sao Paulo Brazil, arrives to live with her sister the Rev John Pistone and family in Tahoka to pursue education. The Pistones came from Argentina to serve the Baptist Mexican Mission and Lydia as youngest Pistone sister faces a language gap delaying college entry.
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Lydia Conrad
Sao Paulo
Brazil
John Pistone
Argentina
Lydia
Pistone
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Olen Petty
Levelland
H. G. Wells
Tulsa
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University of Texas
Garwood
A. R
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Galveston
Southdown
South Senate
Annag
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Capitol
H. J
Doc) Blanchard
Bill Parsley
Randy Pendleton
Renal Rosson
Hudson Moyer
Amarillo
Childress
Blanchard
House Committee
Ronald Bridges
Dennis Griffith
Southdown Cross
Jim Kropp
Becky Schelle
Steve Belt
Ernie Widener
Belt
Linda Schelle
Francis Montandon
David Schelle
Barrow
Oslo
Son Tris
Platter
Broadway & Caprock Shopping Center
Jones Blair
Truett Samford
Jerry Collins
Jones-Blair
Sundial House
Paul Graham Co
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Spring Curtain Sale
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