Medals To Honor Local Heroes At Lubbock Air Field
Sindrea residents to receive 16 medals in an all post event at Lubbock Army Air Field next Saturday. The ceremony honors sons and husbands of six families for aerial service in the European theater and includes postwar tribute as some recipients learn loved ones have been liberated. Families to be feted include Newsom Billingsley Williams Bolch Harris Owens with awards totaling DFC Air Medal and clusters.
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Lubbock
South Plains
AEF
Germany
Lubbock Army Air Field
Newsom
Frances V. Newsom
Tenth Street
Young B. Newsom
LAAF
Eighth Air Force
Texas Tech
Billingsley
Howell M. Estes, Jr
Erx Williams
Floydada
Cpl
Walker L. Williams
Frances Bolch
O’donnell
Don N. Bolch
Ith
Italy
Wilmer L. Harris
Morton Route 2
Lester L. Howell
Eighth Fighter Command
Hungary
Harris
Continent
Vera L. Owens
Floydada Route 5
James E. Owens
Europe
War Department
Senior Class Gifts Plaque To Lubbock High School 1945
The 1945 senior class will present a bronze plaque to Lubbock High School featuring the Westerner slogan Sportsmanship, Then Victory. Roberta Niblack drew the high school building background. the slogan sits in a rope loop tossed by a cowboy. The plaque aims to embed the Westerner motto in every student. The article notes an average human jaw bite power of 171 pounds.
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Lubbock High School
Roberta Niblack
Chiropractor’s Adjustments Restore Nerve Flow After Birth
The chiropractor and Gow 3 found severe nerve pressure from an instrumental birth. After several adjustments the boy returned to school with weight gain and has been well since. Chiropractic rests on brain energy traveling via spinal nerves, which can be pinched by vertebrae. Adjustments release the interference to restore energy flow.
Memorial Banquet for Tech Men Killed in Action
Texas Tech Alumni banquet in Lubbock features memorial service for Tech men who died in World War II. Marine Cpl Hop Halsey to speak. Mrs. O L Byrd as alumnae speaker. Rev Frank Beauchamp to give invocation. Four Blues and a Bob sing as Lubbock High graduates attend Tech. Geo Long reports 300 expected. tickets on sale with Wednesday cutoff.
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Texas Tech Alumni Association
Lubbock Hotel
Geo. Long
Long
Halsey
Tech
Arch Lamb
Marine Cpl
Hop Halsey
Pacific
O. L. Byrd
Frank Beauchamp
First Methodist Church
Abernathy
Blues
Bob
Lubbock High School
Milton Butler
Bill Feity
Joe Arrington
Memorial Services for Johnny Everett Held
Memorial services were held Thursday in Everett Seminole for Pfc. Johnny Everett 19, killed in action in Germany on April 14. He served in the 69th Infantry Division, First Army, and graduated high school in May 1944. Survived by his mother Mrs Gracie E Everett and five brothers and six sisters. brothers Elmo and Gordon serve in the Philippines Calvary unit.
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Johnny Everett
Germany
Everett
Gracie E. ‘Everett
69Th Infantry Division
Elmo
Gordon
Calvary Unit
Philippines
Meetings Set Here On New OPA Plans
District Office of Price Administration staff schedule two Lubbock meetings on May 22 to brief meat slaughterers and dealers about new programs affecting them. Mil ler said the sessions on the courthouse’s second and third floors will cover the meat program diverting more slaughter to Federally inspected pens and will extend invitations to residents of numerous Texas counties including Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cottle, King, Dickens, Crosby, Lubbock, Hockley, Cochran, Yoakum, Garza, Kent, Stonewall, Gaines, Dawson, Borden, Terry, Lynn and Scurry.
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District Office of Price Administration
Lubbock
OPA
J. Bryan Miller
County Court House
Court House
Miller
Bailey, Lamb, Hale
Floyd
Motley
Cottle, King, Dickens
Crosby
Hockley
Cochran, Yoakum
Garza
Kent
Stonewall
Gaines, Dawson, Borden, Terry, Lynn
Scurry Counties
Returned servicemen visit family and safe gas blast near miss
Pvt Melvin G Scott, back from 18 months in a German camp after Sicily and North Africa duty, visits sister Mrs C E Waggoner and also plans to see Viola and E W Garrison in Celeste. David W Kennedy Jr on 30 day leave from the Southwest Pacific calls on his mother Mrs H V Rice and brother Fred Kennedy. Pearl Smith of West Texas hospital narrowly escaped injury when a gas leak blew the stove door off at 1310 Ave M. Greater United Shows, led by J Geo Loos, opens a ten day run at the showgrounds and East Broadway under Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsorship with no performances tonight.
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Pvt
Melvin G. Scott
C. E. Waggoner
Ave. U
Sicily
Viola
E. W. Garrison
Ave. E
Celeste
David William Kennedy, Jr
Southwest Pacific
H. V. Rice
Fred Kennedy
Seventh
Pearl Smith
West Texas Hospital
Ave. M
Greater United
Lubbock
East Broadway
J. Geo. Loos
Texas
Post of
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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Sindrea
Leone Billingsley
Thirtieth Street
Air Meda
Granville R. Billingsley
Ger
NEW Business
Gow
Chorea
Chiropractic
Chiropractic Clinic
Dial
Schebler
Eisemann
Fairbanks
Morse Magnetos
Just
Willard Batteries
City Electric
Plainview Highway
War Production Board
Ben Lowe
Carolyn Cole
Lamb
Dickson Supply Company
Wilson L. Dickson
Main Street
Mother
Ave
Wonder
West Texas Gas Company
Batiste
Seersucker
Areeo
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