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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1946
Page
4
South Plains communities prepare for graduation as sermons and commencements spread across the region. Notable speakers include Sam Culpepper in Olton and Rev. W. G. Self in Spade. total graduates run from 18 in Amherst to 171 in Lamb County across six schools.
Texas Tech prepares for a Monday 7 p.m. mock trial in C-101 with ten TWVA members facing charges from attempt on murder to bribery and conspiracy. Lead defendant is Troy Davidson, head of the Tech War Veterans association, among a list of indicted students.
About 76 Texas Technological College freshmen and sophomores in agronomy took part in the annual crop judging contest sponsored by the Plant Industry club. Winners will be announced at the Aggie club meeting in the Aggie auditorium. Prizes cover six classifications with first through third places in various divisions. Earl Burnett oversaw the event. judges were A. H. Lehdigh Cecil Ayers E. L. Mader and A. W. Young. Clerks were Bobby Armstrong and Barton Willingham.
Charles Hinson, brother of F W Hinson a Lubbock attorney, died at Methodist hospital in Fort Worth on Saturday. Funeral set for Graham at 2 p m Monday with Charles Arnold and John Wright listed among attendees. Police staged arrest of Davidson Thursday night with Bob Adkinson and Billie Daniels aiding. pistol and document recovered. State plans death penalty. defense led by Robert Cole Amos Howard Oliver McMahan and James Bowman. Chief Justice Darrell Carpenter to select the jury.
Firemen from Central station were called to Swain's hatchery on the Tohoka highway at 11 40 a m Saturday to extinguish a fire in a storeroom. Damage was slight. Sheriff Ted Andrews of Hale county reported Friday night theft of a 342 ton concrete mixer at Ab ernathy. The mixer was moved by vehicle. Eight women and two men were fined 15 each for vagrancy in corporation court with women held for the venereal disease clinic. Rev C J McCarty will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at 8 p m tonight in Wolfforth Baptist church for Frenship high school's 20 graduates. Graduation exercises are next Friday night with Dr H I Robinson as principal speaker. None of 27 airmen killed in a collision near Munson Florida were from this area according to the Navy casualty list. A single root will produce pop epminant plants for about four years.
U S and Mexican agricultural experts will start an experiment in Torreon to control and eradicate the pink boll worm in Mexico and along the Rio Grande. About 10 000 pounds of DDT will be spread over cotton fields to kill the pest led by A J Chapmann T R Stephens and Guillermo Torres Torreon chosen for its heavy infestation as the U S border remains closed to Mexican raw cotton and seed due to the worm.
Mrs. J. D. Lindsey, widow of the Lindsey theater founder and a major Griffith theaters stockholder, remained in fair condition at Lubbock Memorial Hospital after a heart attack last week. She lives at 1520 Avenue M in Lubbock and has long been a pioneer in the city.
A long standing custom requires each state bearing a battleship name to donate a silver service for the ship officers’ mess. The narrative recalls Josephine, wife of Napoleon, bathing in a perfume rich liquid made from crushed strawberries and milk.
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