Chicken Barbecue and All-Colored Revue Planned
The Allen Bros post American Legion at 910 Texas Avenue hosts a Wednesday night event at 7 30 featuring a chicken barbecue to fund a home for the Booker T. Washington Colored American Legion post. Tickets cost 1 50, available at the region home or Mark Halsey No 1 drug store. The revue includes South Plains Spiritualist Singers Eugene Conger Brown sisters hillbilly guitarist and Sol Williams with ten acts such as a jitterbug contest and boogie woogie piano.
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Allen Bros. Post
American Legion
Texas Avenue
Booker T. Washington
American Legion Post
Perry Jackson
Jackson
Mark Halsey
South Plains Spiritualist Singers
Eugene Conger
Brown Sisters
Sol Williams
Texas Farm Prices Rise in April
USDA reports signify higher Texas farm prices from March 15 to April 15 with increases of 30 cents per bushel for sweet potatoes 30 cents per hundredweight for beef cattle 10 cents per hundredweight for mutton 1 cent per pound for chickens 2 cents per pound for cotton 9 cents per box for oranges and 17 cents per box for grapefruit. Most other prices held steady or rose modestly.
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Texas
Austin
United States Department of Agriculture
Towns In Area In Spotlight And Domino Championship Notes
Public contests in Littlefield and Petersburg highlight area news with a nine bottle soda record in a local drink contest and a domino championship in downtown Fort Worth. Reports cover elections in Yoloakun county, Littlefield city hall lease, a county rodeo fund drive, and school activities across Anton Post Ralls and nearby towns.
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Littlefield
Petersburg
Tater Thomas
Fort Worth
Hale Center
South Plains Press
Plains—Yoakum County
Plains
Denver City
Lamb County Commissioners
Littlefield City Hall
Tracy Edwards
Edwin Eberly
Eberly
Spring Lake
Amherst
Sudan
Anton
Anton High School
J. S. Bridges
Orian Dennis
Chloe Anne Herrin
Eddie Hart
Louise Goen
Dell Wells
Post—Post
Post Stampede Arena
Carlsbad Caverns
Ira L. Duckworth
Mexico City
Garza County
Homer E. Thompson
Korea
Ralls
Buffalo Springs
Lubbock
Anna Belle Meadows
Pioneer South Plains Hotel Man Dies
C. E. Howard, 82, a longtime South Plains hotel operator with ties to Hereford, Plainview and Lubbock, died of a heart attack at his home. He is survived by his wife, five sons and two sisters. Funeral 2 p.m. Monday at Rix Chapel, burial at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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C. E. Howard
South Plains
Avenue L
Howard
Hereford
Iowa
Plainview
Lubbock
A. M
M. W. Howard
el Paso
R. K. Howard
Fort Worth
Glenn Howard
Bert Howard
California
J. W. Sheldon
Webster City
H. W. Baker
Albany
N. Y
Rixchapel
Rix Funeral Home
Memorial Park Cemetery
Graveside rites held for infant Anna Marie Alley
Graveside services were held Saturday at Lubbock cemetery for Anna Marie Alley daughter of Cpl J T Alley Jr who died at birth Thursday at Phillips Dupre hospital Levelland Mrs Alley was reported satisfactory Cpl Alley on leave from Camp Pendleton Calif and may be discharged this month Ted Alley USMC son of the family was discharged April 27 in San Diego He earned a Purple Heart for wounds at Okinawa May 16 1945 Dr Archie J Bahm Texas Tech philosophy professor to speak in Chicago at the Western Division meeting May 9 11 County court May term juries drawn Judge Walter Davies presiding Engagements today for Dr L N Lipscomb include preaching at Union Lakeview New Home and a quarterly conference to close each service
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Mary Jane Gray
Melba Barnhart
Ralls
Crosbyton
City Auditorium
Marjorie Allen
Sudan
F. O. Mastern
Wallace Gosden
H. F. Bryant
Raymond Nix
A. B. Porter
A. A. Royal
Wes Terry
Homer Hall
Brownfield
Brownfield High School
R. N. Huckabee
First Baptist Church
D. M. Wiggins
Texas School of Mines
Daina McIlroy
Dorothy Butcher
L. A. Greenfield
Tatum
N. M
Clifford Horn
Court House Lawn
Matador
Jolene Bloodworth
Betty Price
Petersburg
Tater Thomas
Charlie Journey
Main Street
Journey
Fort Worth
Carrs Chapel
Harmony
Ray Ramsey
M. D. Ramsey
Ramsey
Tokyo
Lamesa
Hale Center
Hale Center Methodist Church
Texas
T. G. Craft
Lubbock Cemetery
Anna Marie Alley
J. T. Alley, Jr
Phillips- Dupre Hospital
Levelland
Pfe. Ted Alley
USMC
San Diego
Calif
Alley
Pacific
Okinawa
Archie J. Bahm
Texas Tech
Western Division
American Philosophical Association
Chicago
Walter Davies
Louie F. Moore
L. N. Lipscomb
Union
Lakeview
New Home
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18Th St
Bondex
Cook Paint & Varnish Co
Lubbock Sash & Door Co
Ave. H
Sansom Paint & Paper Co
13Th & Ave. K
Maxey Lumber CO
Avenue
Lesters Jewelers
Grossman’s
Coati
Broadway
Radio Buy
Police
Smart Cabinet
A.C
D.C
PTT
Edd al
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