Three More Men Enter Lubbock Ambassador Contest
The Lubbock Avalanche Journal reports ten entrants for the Community Ambassador contest after three new applications. Names include Robert Vernon O Neal, Rodney Culver Hill, and Stephen Frank Pickett, with bios noting education at Lubbock High School and Texas Tech. Interviews are set for Wednesday with four finalists to be chosen and a Brazil goodwill ambassadorship for the winner.
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Lubbock
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce
Robert Vernon O’neal
R. V. O'Neal
46Th St
Rodney Culver
J. Culver Hill
22Nd St
Stephen. Frank Pickett
John C. Pickett
27Th St
O’neal
Tom S. Lubbock High School
Lone Star
Monterey
Monterey High School
Pickett
MHS
Tech
James Tennison Wharton
J. T. Wharton
Tohoka
Richard Terry Singleton
A. R. Singleton
Alva Gene Calvert
George W. Calvert
Jerry Mack Robertson
Donald Robertson
57Th St
Robert Smith Brown
R O. Brown
Ernest Ray Cox
William P. Cox
W. D. Hord
Lee
Lubbock Plans Civil Defense Drill Operation Alert
Lubbock joins a nationwide Operation Alert civil defense drill Tuesday to train government, industry, and private groups for a nuclear attack. The test causes a 30 minute national Conelrad radio blackout and signals via local warning systems, with Lubbock listed as a likely target.
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Lubbock
United States
Civil Defense
Richard Davis
Conelrad
Davis
Texas
Wayland Re Recognition Day Program Slated Friday
Wayland Baptist College prepares its Recognition Day with honors for Who's Who in American Colleges and Spinning Wheels leaders. Dean Maurice J. Sharp leads the 10 a.m. Friday chapel as A. Hope Owen greets attendees. Harold Reese presents Association plaques to top freshman. New Sigma Tau Delta writing award named to an underclassman. Musical numbers feature Linda Caudle organ solo and choir sextet. Departmental awards cover speech drama athletics and sciences. Academic Award goes to top senior.
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Plainview
Wayland Baptist College
Spinning Wheels
Maurice J. Sharp
A. Hope Owen
Harold Reese
Sigma Tau Delta
S. B. Neff
Linda Caudle
Restrictions Lifted for Hungary Travel
The State Department ends four year passport curbs allowing U S citizens to travel to Hungary without restrictions. Press officer Lincoln White said the move has no political motivation and is not linked to improving relations, though it may ease tensions with the Communist satellite.
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Washington
Hungary
State Department
Lincoln White
White
Negro workers hired in capital mark race breakthrough
In Washington two Negro rodmen were hired on construction sites, praised by Eisenhower's Committee on Government Contracts as a break through against prejudice. Rodmen's Local 201 AFL-CIO had been accused of an all white policy. Marshall Brooks works on a federal office building, Elijah Telham on a private downtown project. The report notes two weeks of no trouble. The piece ends with a historical note: the Republican Party name was adopted in 1854 at Jackson, Michigan.
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Lubbock Civil Defense Center
Davis
Lubbock
Cone
Washington
Eisenhower
Civil and Defense
Leo A. Hoegh
Conelrad
Committee On
National
Rodmen
Afl-Cio Ironworkers Union
Marshall Brooks
Fedral
Elijah Telham
Trading Stamp Just Won't Carry Mail
In Lynwood California an empty envelope arrived at the water department on Friday. The trading stamp inside had been canceled as if it were a proper 4 cent postage stamp, though no mail was inside.
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Lynwood
Calif
Water Department
Ex-War Prisoners Mark 15th Liberation Anniversary
About 200 Americans gathered in Dayton Ohio to mark the fifteenth anniversary of liberation from Stalag Luft 3. Attendees included a Harvard Law School professor and David Pollack managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and Cincinnati company executive who led the commemorative event.
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Dayton
Ohio
Stalag Luft 3
Harvard Law’ College
Chicago Sun-Times
Cincinnati
David Pollack
Faithful Dog Leads Searchers To Body
A loyal hound guided volunteers to the body of Fritz Schultz a 73 year old man missing since Monday The find occurred on a Westhoff ranch about five miles from his home sixteen miles west of Cuero Sheriff Ray Markowsky ruled the death natural Schultz had been located by his dog who appeared to guard the body since Monday night
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Cuero
Fritz Schultz
Westhoff
Ray Markowsky
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Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Caprock Hotel
Wayland
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Tahoka
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Jan Butler
Clovis
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Gene Boswell
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Kordes Perfecta
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Bermuda
Welfe
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Fornia Spectacular
Floribundas
34Th St
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Jackson, Mich
Jesse Owens
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