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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1963
Page
3
The National Education Association says 40 percent of married male teachers moonlight or take summer work, with nearly 7 percent holding two jobs or both. The study, based on 1,881 teachers, notes higher education levels among men, long weekly hours, and a strong willingness to return to teaching.
The State Board for Hospitals awarded a $366 000 contract to J W Cooper Construction Co of Big Spring for a medical and surgical building at the Big Spring state hospital. The board also named L W Cain of Austin to succeed Dr Charles Cleland as superintendent of the Abilene state school. Cain has been business manager at the Austin state school.
Services for Mrs. Pearl Darling who died at 3 a.m. Monday at Retirement Ranch Clovis will be held at 2 p.m. today at Fourth Street Church of Christ. Grover C. Ross will officiate with John Gay assisting. Burial in Portales Cemetery under Wheeler Mortuary. Survivors include daughter Miss Gladys Darling son Duane of Larbuddie sister Mrs. Maggie Maize of Oklahoma City and 14 grandchildren. Pallbearers will be grandsons D L Gene Leonard Dan Jerry Smith Eugene and Terry Darling.
Services for S L Eason 91 Plainview will be at 2 p m today at First Methodist Church Abernathy with Rev R H Campbell Amarillo and Rev Carlton Thompson officiating. Burial at Abernathy Cemetery. Eason died Sunday in Plainview Hospital. He was a retired farmer long-time South Plains resident and Hale County resident since 1924. Survivors include his wife two daughters three sons 15 grandchildren 33 great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren.
Five gifts were dedicated during a service at St Stephen's Episcopal Church on Sunday. The altar, lectern, pulpit, and altar rail were dedicated in memory of five individuals by Bishop George H. Quarterman of the Northwest Texas Diocese.
A number of local notices share details of a fatal race track accident involving Dave Fawcett and a collision injuring Aubrey J. Box. The piece covers a grand jury reconvening on home loan irregularities and notes relatives traveling from St. Louis to Lubbock for surgery.
Snyder special edition notes services for William J. Strickland 81 who died Monday at Cogdell Memorial Hospital. Funeral 2:30 p.m. at Avenue 10 Baptist Church with Rev. Hall and Rev. Carpenter officiating. Burial Dowell Cemetery near Rotan. Survivors include wife three daughters four sons a sister and a brother plus twelve grandchildren.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson says President Kennedy will push for equal opportunity in federal employment and in jobs under government contracts. Johnson spoke at an Agriculture Department executives meeting addressing the civil rights issue.
Services for Dolph Huffman 74 will be at 2 p m today at Assembly of God Church Seagraves with Rev Frank Postelle and Rev H L Klepper officiating Burial in Plains Cemetery Webb Funeral Home in charge Huffman a native of Arkansas lived in Seagraves since 1926 a retired farmer and blacksmith survived by wife Ella two sons eight daughters 29 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren pallbearers will be grandsons
Funeral services for J. Macon Taylor 62 a retired Reese Air Force Base fireman are at 2 pm today at Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home Chapel. Rev W R Dale of the Primitive Baptist Church will officiate. Taylor died Friday in New Iberia Louisiana after an apparent heart attack. Burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. Survivors include his wife three sons seven daughters four brothers two sisters 23 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Mrs. J. D. Smith 79 a Hale County resident since 1923 will be buried at College Heights Baptist Cemetery after services at College Heights Baptist Church Plainview officiated by Rev. John Traylor and Rev. Hamilton. She died Sunday at Medical Center Hospital after six weeks illness. Survivors include sons Deck W. of Kansas City and Fred W. of Boston. daughters Lloyd Moffett Waterloo Neb Louella Neil Plainview and C G Lambert Skintook Okla. sister Mrs J C Hopkins Edinburg and brother J W Ewing Cleburne. six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Services for Eddie Williams aged 61 of 2821 Bates are set for 3 p m at Pioneer Memorial Methodist Church with Rev James P Patterson and Rev Homer Sally officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park under Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home direction. Williams died on arrival Sunday at St Marys Hospital after a probable heart attack. He was a retired machinist who lived in Lubbock since 1942, previously from Anton, and was a member of Pioneer Methodist Church. He leaves two sons, two daughters, four sisters, two step-brothers, two step-sisters, eight grandchildren and a great grandchild.
Service set for 10 a m at Asbury Methodist Church for G W Martin 60 Lubbock resident died Friday in a Houston hospital He moved from Brownfield after 17 years burial in Resthaven Memorial Park Sanders Funeral directing Survivors include wife five sons five daughters four brothers three sisters 22 grandchildren and his mother Mrs Mary Martin Shamrock
J S Boydstun 74 former Denton County commissioner died Monday at Methodist Hospital. Services are 2 30 p m Wednesday at Vandelia Village Church of Christ with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. He lived in Lubbock since 1955, previously farmed in Morton and Denton County, was a Shriner and former mayor of Sanger. He is survived by a daughter two brothers a sister and two grandchildren.
The Supreme Court in a 7 to 2 decision struck down Louisiana's use tax as applied to certain interstate operations. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. of Duncan, Oklahoma, sought a $43,000 refund paid under protest in 1956. The ruling's practical effect was uncertain. Justices Clark and Black dissented, warning it could deprive Louisiana of millions in sales tax revenue.
Fred Moore age 45 a Wascom Texas construction worker died when a large scoop from a concrete mixer fell crushing him as it lifted cement and gravel near Sherman on U S Highway 75.
Survivors include her husband four sons six daughters her parents three sisters a brother and six grandchildren services set for Wednesday with interment to follow in the family plot.
An old advertisement urges immediate use of CAMPHO PHENIQUE at the first sign of a cold sore or fever blister. It claims local anesthetic and antiseptic effects, non staining skin, cooling drying action, and rapid healing. The ad urges keeping a bottle ready in every medicine chest.
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