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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 22, 1955

Page

4

Cleaning Costs Are Reduced at Texas Tech Custodial Staff

Texas Tech custodians endure a 12 finals series on cleaning materials duties and job skills under supervisor Charles Libby to raise standards. A perfect score by E A Overstreet leads pride as the 16.6 cent per square foot cleaning cost trails industry 53 cents.

Texas Tech Tech Charles F. Libby Libby William VanMeter 9Th St Sixth Air Force Service Command Southwestern Associated Telephone Company E. A. Overstreet

Seminole Graduates Lead by Valedictorian and Salutatorian

SEMINOLE May 21 Special. Commencement exercises Monday night will crown two top scholars as student leaders. Valedictorian Mary Nell Coffee, daughter of Dewitt and Mary Coffee, holds a 92.38 average while salutatorian Joan Teston, daughter of W B Teston and wife, posts an 89.82 average.

Seminole Mary Nell Coffee Dewitt Coffee Joan Teston W .B. Teston

Cab Driver Fined Passenger Faces Charges At Brownfield

A 24 year old Levelland man Truman Winford Grant was held on forgery and a misdemeanor check law violation after arrest in Sea Graves while riding in a Lubbock taxi. The cab driver faced drunkenness charges, paid a $20 fine, and returned the taxi to Lubbock. The driver and Grant had left Lubbock for Odessa earlier.

Brownfield Levelland Seagraves Truman Winford Grant Lubbock Grant Odessa

Sports Car Races Scheduled May 29 at Ft Sumner Track

FT SUMNER New Mexico May 21 Special Race drivers from several states will compete in the second annual sports car races here May 29. May 28 display at the air base hangar with trial runs on the course. The Bobby Pin Derby will be a cup race for women only.

Af Ft. Sumner Track FT. Sumner N. M Air Base

Dimmit Graduation Exercises Set for 42 Seniors

Cal Farley will deliver the commencement address at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the high school auditorium for 42 seniors in Dimmitt. The graduation sermon will be at 8 p.m. Sunday by Rev. Earl Landtroop. Margaret Odom is valedictorian with 94.44 average and Ivan Earl Sinclair is salutatorian with 92.86.

Dimmitt Cal Farley Boy’s Ranch Earl Landtroop Plainview First Baptist Church Margaret Odom Ivan Earl Sinclair Monette Battles Bobby Brock Mickey Brock Charles Brown Darlene Carpenter Darlene Cates Ronald Curtis Edgar Dennis Bryce Dowell Ann Dowty Heck Luther Follis Clinton Glenn Ted Godfrey Saundra Hance Ronald Henderson David Honea Burt Huggins Jimmie Hyatt Beverly Johnson Monette Kenmore Rose LaGrone Gene Lewis Sonya Lowe Mary Magee Russell Miller Martha Myers Joe Nelson Jerry Nelson Jerry Noble George Ray Regene Reynolds Ted Robb Louise Simpson Ivan Sinclair Gwen Smith Zella Vee Smith Wilda Smithson Ann Speer Troy Stafford Shirley Tucker Mary Witt Richard Wood

Rites Set For Swisher Pioneer in Plainview

Funeral services for Maggie Sue Wood 81 pioneer Swisher County resident will be at 4 30 p m Sunday at the Kress Methodist Church with Dr G K Rogers and Rev Robert Brown officiating She died Friday night at a daughter s home in Amarillo Born in Tennessee she came to Texas with her parents and lived in Ellis County before moving to Swisher County in 1908 The family homesteaded near Kress She later moved to Plainview and then to Amarillo Surviving are four sons three daughters two brothers two sisters and 14 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren Burial will be in Kress Cemetery beside her husband

Plainview Maggie Sue Wood Pioneer Swisher County Kress Methodist Church G. K. Rogers Plainview Presbyterian Church Robert Brown Tennessee Wood Kress Farmers State Bank Farmers Mill D. Angus Minerva Moore Ed Marrinyers Hale Center Harold E. Etter Amarillo J. H. Vaughn Bartlesville Okla J. B. Vaughn Bridgeport Fannie Vaughn Mattie Vaughn Henrietta Wood Mitchell Funeral Home Kress Cemetery

Lea County residents named to ENMU music camp staff

Hobbs High School choral director John Christopher and Eunice High School band director Orin Bartholomew were named to the eighth annual music camp staff at Eastern New Mexico University. The camp runs June 3 to 12 in Portales with 36 staff members and several hundred students expected from West Texas and New Mexico.

Hobbs N. M Lea County Eastern New Mexico University Portales John Christopher Orin Bartholomew Eunice West Texas New Mexico

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