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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1957
Page
3
The 29th Plainview Pioneer Roundup drew an estimated 5,500 residents for a daylong celebration honoring oldtimers. Highlights included a parade, chuckwagon supper, reception, square dancing, and performances by the Wayland College Quartet and local entertainers.
Texas Tech's Alpha Phi Omega chapter installed fall officers for the men's service fraternity and initiated 12 pledges. President Lloyd E. Leusing of Lubbock leads a roster including Grundy, Morris, Lawton, Sanders, Riojas, Pinson, Ballew, Lovel, Schoenfeld, Mellvain and others with pledges from Brownwood, Canadian, Dallas, Levelland, Lubbock, Kathlene, Carey Nisbet, Midland, Yoakum and more.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary I. Smotherman age 64 will be held 2 p m Sunday at the First Methodist Church Littlefield. She died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a broken ankle worsened to a heart attack. Burial in Sudan Cemetery. Survivors: three sons Harold and Clifford and Emerson and four daughters Helen Pauline Wilma Lorado.
Europe’s initial automatic bookstore begins service in Vienna as a large vending machine at a street intersection offers 20 works from Goethe to Agatha Christie. Readers select via a press button and the catalog is updated regularly.
Denton students celebrate lawmakers' approval of renaming the Texas State College for Women to Texas Woman's University. Fire trucks and police cars led a victory rally to a bonfire as President John A. Guinn and university officials praised decades of achievement awaiting Gov. Price Daniel's signature.
Members of Local 1884 Carpenters' Union will travel to Silverton next Saturday and Sunday to help rebuild 27 homes destroyed by Wednesday's tornado. Eleven carpenters have committed to the trip, with others urged to contact Curtis Arnold at Cobbs Fixture Store, 1108 25th St, to join the effort.
A trade association member code asserts right to place job seekers in suitable positions with open postings and clear service charges. It emphasizes client authorization, confidentiality of client policies, non-solicitation of placed candidates, and applying the Golden Rule to guide efforts for job seekers and employers.
Funeral services for Sam L. Martin 62 a Crosbyton area resident since 1939 will be held at 2 30 p m Sunday in the First Baptist Church. The Rev Wayland Boyd will officiate burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home. Martin died Friday in Methodist Hospital Lubbock after a two month illness. Survivors include wife Alta Martin two sons Lane Martin Dallas and Cleveland Martin Glendale Ariz two daughters Mrs Adrian West and Mrs David Rape both of Floydada three brothers Roscoe Lee and Otto.
Petersburg votes 60 to 12 to approve a 325000 tax bond issue for school expansions. Funds will finance a dining hall agricultural building a high school addition and an elementary school building with construction set to begin early summer and completion hoped for September 1. The financing method ballot passed 59 to with a light turnout.
Police and sheriff's deputies investigated burglaries thefts and vandalism on Saturday with minor losses. About $50 in change was taken from four vending machines at Twin Lakes Golf Course on Levelland Highway Friday night. A car jar under the seat yielded $38.42 in downtown Lubbock Saturday. A section of sewer pipe was tossed through a windshield. Police suspect teenage pranksters.
Martin of St. Jo and seven grandchildren are named alongside two sisters Mrs. Alva Dowd of St. Jo and Mrs. Laura Bateman of Houston. Pallbearers are Carl Simpson, Jimmy Edwards, Ferrin Smith, Richard Proctor, Alonzo Atchinson, and Gene Green.
Robert Turner in fair condition at Methodist Hospital after burns to face and eyes from water thrown during an altercation at his home about 2 a.m. Police seek a suspect. Chief Bill Daniel of Slaton in good condition at Methodist Hospital for a kidney ailment. Mrs. E C Cowan in good condition at West Texas Hospital recovering from earlier surgery.
Mrs. T. N. McClendon, 78, longtime Lamesa resident, died in a Big Spring hospital. Funeral services will be in Higginbotham Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Rush Barnett officiating. Burial at Lamesa Memorial Park. Survivors include her husband, two daughters, one son, one sister, one brother, ten grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
IRONTON Ohio May 18 Donald McIntyre of Ironton was arrested and charged with speeding 65 mph in a 50 mph zone on Ohio 75 near here. He was stopped by state highway patrolman Emmett McIntyre his brother. Donald posted 50 dollar bond and will have a hearing Monday.
Mrs. W. W. Meador a former Post resident died at 10 30 am in Duncan Ohio Funeral services set for 2 pm Sunday in Duncan with graveside burial in Post at 4 30 pm Monday Terrace Cemetery She moved to Duncan about ten years ago Survivors include niece Miss Lucille Meador Lubbock sister Mrs Monty Smith Duncan brothers J B Murray San Saba Dick San Saba Weston La Grange Ga and brother in law T W Meador Meridian
Funeral services for Mrs W E Angley age sixty a Morton resident for twenty three years will be at 2 p m Sunday at the Morton Church of Christ with Denton Thompson and Rev Clarence Stephens officiating. Burial will be in Morton Cemetery under Singleton Funeral Home direction. Mrs Angley died at 4 p m Friday in West Plains Hospital Muleshoe after a twenty year illness.
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