Road Work Set In Hale County
Hale County engineers announce start of special work next week on a 15 mile stretch of Highway 87 from Hale Center to Abernathy. The project stabilizes the east side for about nine miles and resurfaces the entire strip with added eight inch caliche shoulders. Long range plans include hard surfacing shoulders and extending improvements similar to the 30 miles of Highway 70 done last year.
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Plainview
Hale Center
Abernathy
H. C. Weaver
State Highway Department
Weaver
Hale County
Cotton Center
Hale
Post Stampede Cowboys Parade Schedule This Week
The Post Stampede Cowboys will ride in two parades this week. At 3 p.m. Wednesday they appear in the Boys Club Rodeo parade at Lubbock, and at 5 40 p.m. the next day in Snyder for the AIL Girls Rodeo parade. On May 2% they will be units in the Post Stampede and Rodeo parade opening.
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Post Special
Post Stampede
Tom Fower
Lubbock
Snyder
Lee Tedford Elected Head of Gaines County Sheriff's Posse
Seminole resident Lee Tedford was chosen president of the Gaines County Sheriff's Posse at a recent meeting. Other officers named include Jeff Singleton of Seagraves as vice president Sheriff R L Mc Reynolds as parade marshal Hardy Dalmont as assistant parade marshal J D Mitchell as secretary Ray Black Seagraves W A Harris Seagraves and Claud Lane as rectors.
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Seminole
Lee Tedford
Gaines County Sheriff's Posse
Jeff Singleton
Seagraves
R. L. McReynolds
Hardy Dalmont
Arthur Ward
J. D. Mitchell
Ray Black
W. A. Harris
Claud Lane
Leaflets on Gamma Globulin Distributed to Lubbock Students
A total of 16 000 leaflets on gamma globulin were distributed to Lubbock school children to take home to parents. The leaflets, by the Lubbock County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, note how gamma globulin fights polio and how it is distributed. John Scoggin chairs the foundation. Nat Williams and Bruce Kattmann arranged distribution.
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Lubbock
Lubbock County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
John Scoggin
Supt
Nat Williams
Bruce Kattmann
Communist Leader Killed by Malayan Security Forces
The Malay government announced that security forces killed a Communist district committee chairman who had a bounty of 14000 Malayan dollars on his head.
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Kuala Lumpur
Lubbock Attorney to Speak at Hale Center Graduation
Hale Center High School will hold its commencement Friday night May 22 in the auditorium. Roy Bass of Lubbock will deliver the commencement address while Rev. David L. Zachari will give the class sermon on Sunday May 17 at the Baptist Church. Valedictorian is Minnie French with a 92.30 average, daughter of Mr and Mrs Mac French. Salutatorian is Dennis Oliver, son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Oliver and a three year letterman on the football team.
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Hale Center
Roy Bass
Lubbock
I S
David L. Zachari
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Baptist Church
Minnie French
J. E. Fannin
Mac French
Dennis Oliver
Raymond Oliver
Seagraves Seaman Serves Aboard Valley Forge Carrier
Seaman Carl W. Cottrell, son of Mr and Mrs D C Warren, serves as signalman aboard the USS Valley Forge attack aircraft carrier off the Korean coast near Seagraves. The deployment marks his entering duty with the ship as it operates in the western Pacific theater.
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Seagraves
Korean Coast
Sig- Carl W. Cottrell
USN
Nalman
D. C. Warren
Valley Forge
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Strain and Brown
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Kress
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Albert P. Owens
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U. S. Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Ill
Owens
Bainbridge
Lubbock Senior High
Texas Tech
Gaines County
Lewis
Lewis’ Jewelers
New Court House
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Cottrell
Brownfield High School
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Navy
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Camern
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Carter
Warner
Hanna-Pope.e Co
ABC
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