Brooklyn Bridge 70th Birthday Faces Truths And Traffic
As the Brooklyn Bridge marks 70 years, officials debunk rumors of a crime scheme and note the bridge once charged tolls, but now carries no traffic beyond pedestrians and cars. Reconstruction will double capacity, though it still isn’t a money maker, contrasted with other major spans.
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Saul Pett
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
City Department of Public Works
Police Department
District Attorney's Office
Steve Brodie
Fourth Ward
Brodie
Simpy
Brooklyn
George Washington Bridge
Lincoln Tunnel
Big Paying Business For a Man in His 40s
Midlife men across the United States are urged to join a high earning opportunity. The ad claims top earners from five to eleven thousand dollars yearly with no investment and advance earnings. It seeks a 40s area representative in the Lubbock region, inviting letters to Dayton Ohio.
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U. S
Lubbock
P.O. Box
Dayton
Ohio
Lubbock Marine Teague Commissioned as Second Lieutenant
Charles E. Teague of 2827 Bates Street was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U S Marine Corps Reserve during a meeting of the 40th Special Infantry Company. He is the unit s first commissioned member after enlisting May 24 1951 and serving as platoon leaders class and courses at San Diego and Quantico. He earned a B S in agriculture economics from Texas Tech and plans summer camp then five month officers school at Quantico.
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Charles E. Teague
F. S. Teague
Bates St
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
40Th Special Infantry Company
Teague
U.S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Marine Corps Schools
Quantico
Texas Tech
Russell Hardin Cleaners
Lubbock
Japan Reports Russian Seizures of Nine Boats in Year
Japanese police in Hokkaido say Russia has captured nine fishing boats this year and released six of them within two or three days after seizure. The report notes the captures occurred on the northern island of Hokkaido and concerns nine vessels.
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Tokyo
Hokkaido
Russia
Petroleum Colors Range From Black To Water Clear
A concise note describes crude oil as it emerges from the earth showing a color spectrum from deep black to nearly water clear.
Picnic For R. W. Matthews Junior High Band Is Held
A Friday picnic at Mackenzie State Park drew more than 150 attendees including band and orchestra students, parents, and friends from Matthews and area schools. The event honored band director Paul Lovett with a gift from the students as organizers Mrs. H A Dane and Mrs. Jack Mary coordinated arrangements. A massed concert by regional students was conducted the previous Thursday under Howard Price, Mrs. Pat Vickers, Mary Lois Henson, Ellene Portwood, Robert Dean, Randal Raley, and Lovett.
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R. W. Matthews Junior High
Mackenzie State Park
Paul Lovett
H. A. Dane
Jack Mary
Matthews School
Matthews
Jackson
Wolfforth
Arnett
McWhorter
Howard Price
Pat Vickers
Mary Lois Henson
Ellene Portwood
Robert Dean
Randal Raley
Lovett
Berlin Border Clash Wounds Woman As Police Fire
May 23 Communist police opened fire on a refugee truck at the East West border wounding a woman passerby on the Russian sector side. The incident marks a tense flare up in border policing and refugee movements in Berlin.
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Berlin
Graduation Held at Slaton High School Auditorium
Abilene Christian College president Don H. Morris delivered the commencement address for Slaton High School seniors. The ceremony included processional, invocations, songs by a girls sextet, diplomas, scholarships, American Legion awards, and a three day senior trip to Carlsbad and Ruidosa New Mexico.
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Slaton
Don H. Morris
Abilene Christian College
Slaton High School
M. G. Davis
Edwin W. Goram
First Christian Church
Carolyn Fondy
Dr. Morris
John M. Gilbert
Robert Hall Davis
Board of Education
Mr. Gilbert
American Legion
Wayne Liles
Bryan A. Ross
First Baptist Church Extension
Ray Aylesworth
Shirley Ball
Johnette Berkley
Tim Bourn
Donald Bownds
Joyce Brookshire
Mazie Brookshire
Don Brush
Ruth Burton
Bill Butler
Harley Castleberry
J. W. Clifton
Shirley Edwards
A Eliott
Dan Ondy
Linda German
Ann Grabber
Barbara Grochowsky
Betty Guthrie
Dennis Henry
Johnny Hogue
Patsy Holloman
Myrna Hoover
Larry Shonston
Billy Kendrick
Mary Lou Kitten
Ruby Jo Lamb
Bettye Sue Layne
Jerry Leman
Jo Nell McCaffaty
Geraldine Maxey
Rick McKaughan
Carol Milliken
Alice
Neu
Charles Peer
Kay Porter
Wesley Reed
Ronald Schilling
Jerry Short
Donald Sikes
Grady Smith
Duane Souter
R. A. Thompson Jr
Glenn Wilson
Annette Wilson
Noel Wilson
Juanita Wood
Val Wyle Jr
Roger Sokol
Rebecca Bolding
Charlene Mayhew
Patsy Hickman
Carlsbad
Ruidosa
New Mexico
Locust Swarm Hits Southern Italy Crops
Swarms of locusts from North Africa invaded parts of southern Italy around Cozenza causing extensive crop damage and threatening harvests.
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Cozenza
Italy
North Africa
Levelland Junior High Honors 1952 53 Graduates
Twenty one students at Levelland Junior High School earned averages of 91.3 or higher for the 1952 53 year. Valedictorian Sandra Brown led with 95.49 and salutatorian Marilyn Guetersloh had 95.23. Other honorees include Ann Dupre Marilyn Marconi Mary Helen Jones Martha Mays Oliver Watson Barbara Blair Carroll Jennings Joy Harrison Jessie Neeley Sandra McGuire David Benningfield Dorothy Mae Sodek Carolyn Sue Ratliff Linda Sutherland Gwen McMurray James Tipps Earline Leath Tommy Sibley Hillry Rawson. Plutarch notes bread dipped in wine as a former breakfast favorite.
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Levelland
Sandra Brown
Marilyn Guetersloh
Ann Dupre
Marilyn Marconi
Mary
Helen Jones
Martha Mays
Oliver Watson
Barbara Blair
Carroll Jennings
Joy Harrison
Jessie Neeley
Sandra McGuire
David Benningfield
Dorothy Mae Sodek
Carolyn Sue Ratliff
Linda Sutherland
Gwen McMurray
James Tipps
Earline Leath
Tommy Sibley
Hillry Rawson
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J. Frank Johnson
Division of Bridges
East River
California
Lubbock High School
FBLA
Future Business Leaders of America
Jerry Ann Spence
Shirley Kyle
Beth Gordon
Betty Rutledge
Jim Leming
Max Macon
Charles Isbell
Bill Pittman
Jeanette Farris
Virginia Fite
Lubbock Marine
Americas
Best Buy
Emerson
Heinecke Brds
Broadway
R. W. Matthews
Slaton School
Levelland Junior High School
Plutarch
Mee
Hamiston
America
Hamilton
Carlton
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