Lubbock stores gather used fats to make soap
Forty three of one hundred five Lubbock grocers join the famine emergency program by salvaging fats from customers for soap production. Fats supply glycerine for explosives earlier, now needed for scarce soap. Keeton and Lubbock Packing handle collection and rendering, with barrel drop sites at local stores and pickup when full.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Office of the Emergency Food Program
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Lubbock Grocers
Lubbock Packing Houses
Lubbock Packing Company
Keeton Packing Company
Furr Food
Ralph Keeton
Keeton
Bob’s
Everybody’s Grocery
Any Farr
Griggs
Grinstead
Handy Food
Hastings
Herrtage
Hill
Hilton
Holder
Hord’s
Levelland Highway
Jake’s
Johnson Food
Kirby's
H. Miller
H. Miller’s
Peters
Ave
Saveway Food
City Cleans Up During Drive
Lubbock undertook a clean up and paint up drive Saturday with General Chairman Lewis Kerr noting visible improvements to streets alleys lawns and vacant lots. He thanked citizens campaign committees lunch eon clubs and the municipal government including the garbage collection department in a campaign sponsored by the chamber of commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Lewis Kerr
Kerr
Chamber of Commerce
Rice Mill Owner Is Given $7,000 Fine
Allison Simon 55 owner of Farmers Independent rice mill Kaplan La was fined 7000 by Judge Gaston L Porterie in the U S district court Lake Charles for failing to set aside 3 009 900 pounds of rice for government purchase during 1943 44 and 1944 45 milling seasons. The note mentions Bayonet linked to Bayonne France, origin of the weapon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Allison Simon
Farmers Independent Rice Mill
Kaplan
Gaston L. Porterie
U. S. District Court
Lake Charles
Simon
Tom W. Dawsey
Local Grocery Listings Across City Streets
A sequence of shop names and addresses lists numerous groceries and markets including Stovall Son, Sunset, Taber, Reed, Walthall, Williamson, and Wright along with street numbers on Fifteenth Nineteenth Ave T and K avenues as part of a citywide retail directory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Ave
Service
Fifteenth
Stovall & Son
Ave. T
Sunset
Ave. H
Taber
Ave. K
Reed
Walthall
Eighth
Williamson
North College
Wright Food
Burglary Charge Faces 18 Year Old Mexican
Bond set at 1000 for David Alvarez 18 charged Friday in justice court with burglary for allegedly breaking into B and M Sales on April 28 and stealing jewelry worth 600. Meanwhile a 98th district civil jury is to convene Monday at 10 in Pardue court to hear three cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Alvarez
Justice Court of
C. E. Lynn
Alvarez
98Th District Court
G. V. Pardue
Conservation Field Tours Planned in Two Districts
Supervisors of two soil conservation districts announce field tours inviting farmers and others to observe practices. Floyd County tour May 24 at 1 p m features revegetation of shallow soils to native grass and contour farming among methods. Swisher County tour May 25 at 1 p m covers improved water application and irrigation of pastures with legume use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd County Conservation District
W. F. Ferguson
Swisher County
Soil Conservation District
Victor L. Harmon
Board of Supervisors
Ava
Crop Conditions Improve in Lubbock County
The weekly report from W. B. Griffin shows scattered showers and some heavy downpours across Lubbock county bringing possible moisture for planting. Small grains are mostly poor, grain sorghum is up and in good condition, alfalfa hay first cutting baled, 10,000 acres of sudan planted for summer grazing, and a 3,000 acre rise in cotton acreage indicated. Livestock are fair, feed and pasture poor but improving, irrigation pastures provide good grazing, and Irish potatoes and onions are progressing amid generally similar South Plains trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock County
W. B. Griffin
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Sudan
South Plains
Russell Milling to shut down due to wheat shortage
Russell Milling in Russell Kansas says it will close immediately after normally processing about 1100 barrels of flour daily because of a wheat shortage. The piece notes talc is used in tile manufacture and as a base for talcum powder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell
Kan
Russell Milling Company
Invitations Extended by Both Districts
Both districts extend invitations to any interested individuals to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
lanche-Journal
City Offers Free Life Saving Instruction This Summer
Registration starts Monday for free swimming and life saving courses at Mackenzie State park pool via the city recreation department and the American Red Cross. Classes run mornings 9 to noon for three months with nine cent child and 25 cent adult pool admission and are taught by Red Cross qualified instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Julia Cane
International Stock Show Prizes Raised for Beef Breeds
Chicago hosts the International Livestock Exposition from November 30 to December 7 after a four year wartime lapse. A uniform $6,000 prize per breed will be offered in the Aberdeen Anguss Hereford and Shorthorn breeding classes, about double previous levels. Polled Shorthorns get $2,000 classification, same as 1941. Carlot feeder cattle are dropped, feeder cattle in carlots slated for October 28–29 at the Chicago stockyards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Stock Yards
Tennis Shoes Prices Move Across Men Women Lines
A brief listing shows price tiers for men's boys and women's tennis shoes with multiple price points including 2.25 2.50 1.45 5.00 and 5.98.
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Allis-Chalmers
Fairbanks-Morse
Eed Mills & Water Systems
Woodmanse
Exas
Fortune & Dudley
Corner
Orrock
Texas
Bayonne
France
John Nail
County Wide News
Littlefield
Texas Technological College
Nail
Tech
Clovis News-Journal
T. S. Whitis
West Texas Gas Company
Evansville
Ind
Servel Electrolux Company
Civil Engineering Society
Texas Tech
Dale Foreman
Amarillo
Frank Visher
Doug Anderson
Cisco
Helene Curt
Duchess Elasti
Victoria Elasti
Barber and Beauty Supply
Helene Curtis Industries
Amarillo, Texas
Hamilton
Equitable Family
Equitable
Boston
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Hollywood
Connecticut
Iowa
Detroit
Georgia
Oregon
Equitable Town
Equitable Society
America
Feral Co
New York
United States
Equitable Life Assurance Society OF
New York State
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
J. Partinson
L. W. Klingman
Myrick
John E. Speer
Avalanche-Journal
Puritan
Evelet Batiste
Tan
San-Tan
Chambray
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