Plains Farmers Hope For Dry Spells To Start Seeding
West Texas cotton and row crop farmers await drier surface conditions as rains hinder planting of cotton and grain sorghum and delay wheat harvest. Prospects foresee higher yields but storage and transport shortages loom with 112,425,000 bushels Texas forecast and per acre yields rising from 10.5 to about 15 bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains Wheat Belt
Swisher Yee
Texas
Sota
Plains
Plainview
J. B. Kidd
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
John H. Williams
SEF
Cone Company
Williams
R. F. Bayless
Santa Fe
Panhandle-Plains
Lubbock
Lower Plains
Lubbock County
Joint Church Meeting Set at Seaman Hall Tuesday Night
A joint meeting of St. Pauls Episcopal church Mens club and visiting clergy is scheduled at Seaman hall Tuesday night at 7 oclock. The supper will climax a clerical conference at the church. Principal speaker will be Rev Arnold M Lewis of New York executive director of presiding bishops conference on laymens work. Bishop George H Quarterman of Amarillo will also be present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul’s Episcopal
Spring Initiation Ceremony For Fraternity Planned Wednesday
The Texas Alpha chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon at Texas Tech held its spring initiation ceremony at the Party House on Wednesday evening with a reception and dessert coffee for new members. Attendees included officers and chaperones. initiates listed include Boyd Ball Douglas McCoy and Joe B. Cope among many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Alpha Chapter
Kappa Mu Epsilon
Texas Technological College
Party House
Lida May
Joe Luckett
Mortis E. Jones
Shirley McRee
Virginia Bowman
W. M. Whyburn
Emmett Hazlewood
Texans Split Over Reform School Whipping In Poll
The Texas Poll finds a slim majority oppose outlawing corporal punishment in reform schools while about 40 percent support allowing officials to whip inmates. The Senate passed a bill to outlaw whipping and sent it to the House. Public opinion on spanking children remains mixed, with strong support for parental and teacher authority but less for reform school punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
Senate
House
Adulia
Greek Course to Be Offered at Tech 1947 48 Term
Texas Tech will offer Greek for the first time in the 1947 48 term. Dr James M Gordon dean emeritus of arts and sciences will lead the course as professor of classical languages teaching Latin and Greek. Gordon formerly taught at Trinity University and appears in a 1904 Trinity catalogue as professor of classical languages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tech
Texas Technological College
James M. Gordon
Gordon
Trinity University
Velville Weekly first issue published at Veterans Village
The Velville Weekly debuted at Veterans Village near Lubbock Army Air Field with editors Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Harran. Harran, a senior agricultural education student at Texas Tech, plans to graduate in June. A children’s contest is set for Friday June 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Velville
Velville Weekly
Veterans Village
Lubbock Army Air Field
Edward F. Havran
Harran
Texas Technological College
Merry
Eighth Air Force
Texas Tech
Tech
Texas State College For Women
Denton
Kibitzers Watch Shawnee Department Store Rise
In Shawnee Oklahoma workers build a department store with a sheltered grandstand for onlookers. Observers kibitz from the area as site activity continues and construction progresses amid ordinary delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawnee
Okla
Also Mentioned on This Page
Belt
Kidd
Winnie Gardner
Hede
Hobbs
Ves JK
Patterson
Fay
City
Lester
Cester
America
Shuelerd
Winthrop
Collier's
Winthrop Shoes
Broadway
Chnest Roberts Men’s den
Avalanche-Joy
Ial
Sidewalk Superintendents Club
Chrysler Corporation
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!