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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1960
Page
2
Nine area schools hold competitive matches to qualify for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal Spelling Bee on April 9. County champs rise to 14, with events listed in Yoakum Lynn Daw son Crosby Lamb Terry and Hockley counties at various times and locations.
A new over the counter anti cough tablet named Condril claims relief up to six hours. It combines an antitussive a decongestant and an antihistamine to reduce coughing without narcotic effects. The ad promises money back if not satisfied and notes the product is trademarked.
A sprawling gossip column reports on an Academy Award nominee in domestic trouble, Alfred Kilgallen and Lynn Fontanne planning theater years, Noelle Adam’s wedding and Charlie Chaplin, Eileen Barton’s post club collapse, Truman’s public statements, Dinah Washington’s dieting worries, Plummer and Susan, Jennifer Jones’s live TV plans, Broadway production tensions, Van Johnson quips, Doris Duke’s Chateau Madrid visit, Basie’s anniversary, and links among Finnish, Norwegian, and English high society figures.
Adrian Vaughan of Texas Tech will direct activities of the American College Public Relations Assn in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico during 1960 61 Vaughan who heads Techs public information department was elected director of the association's Southwest district at a meeting of 67 representatives from colleges and universities this last weekend in Waco. Currently Vaughan is representing the district on the association's national board of directors and is a member of the editorial board for Pride, national magazine of ACPRA. Speakers noted included Dr. Robert C. Anderson of Atlanta, Ga., Marvin Osborn of Washington University in St. Louis, and Dr. W. R. White, Baylor University president. Special brochures of Oklahoma State University and Texas Tech won awards as the two outstanding publications since September 1958. Pictures from St. Mary's University and Texas Tech were judged the two most outstanding photographs in the period. Attending from Tech were W. R. Tatum, Miss Meriam Jackson and Vaughan.
The Inter American Press Assn directors in Montego Bay denounced interference with press freedom from U S executive privilege and Latin American dictatorships. They adopted resolutions criticizing those who bar press freedoms across both continents.
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