Entries Sought for Annual Miss Lubbock Contest
Jaycees seek entrants for the annual Miss Lubbock competition to be held June 8, with entries due by June 1. James H. Kimmel Jr. announced, inviting eligible local women to enter and be coached. The winner advances to the state pageant in Galveston and then possibly to Atlantic City, with scholarships and travel paid.
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Miss Lubbock
Jaycees
Lubbock Junior Chamber of Commere
James H. Kimmel
Jaycee Committee
Lubbock
LaFawn Davidson
Jaycee
Galveston
Atlantic City
Dorothy Carmack
War Bond Theft Probe Ties Ex-Convict to Port Arthur Heist
Harris county officers chase a stolen $1,000 war bond after ex convict Adrian Leo Roark, 23, allegedly kidnapped the bond from a Port Arthur refinery worker. In a written confession Roark says he fled to Kirbyville Missouri during his eight days eluding authorities and faces assault to murder charges for wounding his estranged wife Evelyn on May 14.
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Houston
Adrian Leo Roark
Greenville
Harris County
Missouri
Port Arthur
Roark
Kirbyville
Evelyn
Chapter Of Exchange Club Organized In City
Lubbock announces formation of an Exchange club to be chartered around July 1 with preliminary officers Roger Kuykendall and Warrick Carr, focusing on ex servicemen, crime prevention, and youth programs. A luncheon planned next Friday with about 125 members expected, mirrored by a similar Amarillo club and the national council motto Unity for Service.
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Exchange Club
Lubbock
L. Z. Nickell
Roger Kuykendall
Warrick Carr
Civic Club
Nickell
Amarillo
Texas
Tom Clark
United States
Texas Technological College
Washington Exchange Club
Detroit
Mich
Charles A. Berkey
National Exchange Club
Man Accused of Killing Wife at Addicks Inn
Roark confessed he shot his 24 year old wife at Edward L. Davis inn near Addicks. Lewis stated Roark was angry and would be returned to face charges within two days.
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Edward L. Davis
Addicks
Roark
Lewis
Bills Approved by Governor Jester Involve University Property Gift
Gov Beauford H Jester signed a slate of measures including a Texas state university for negroes to accept donated property from the Texas college for negroes in Houston as a nucleus for the new institution next fall The approval also covered bills to permit commissioners courts to lease or sell airports and to authorize annexation of any common or independent school districts
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Austin
Beauford H. Jester
Texas State University For
Houston
Texas College For
Heflin
State Negro University
Commissioner's Courts
Unclear Legislative Proposals Reported in District Proceedings
Proposals include changing license plate transfer to February 1, allowances for payments to University of Texas School of Medicine and related hospitals for crippled children care, branding for Bangs disease infected livestock, life insurance investment limits in reinsurers, mutuals writing fidelity bonds, and leasing irrigation systems by water districts. The text outlines multiple standalone provisions without final enactment details.
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University of Texas School of Medicine
State Hospital
John Sealy Hospital
Rome Beauty Apple Harvest Sets New High After War Losses
The 1946 Rome Beauty apple crop topped eight million bushels, up 83 percent from 1945 and 23 percent above 1944, signaling a strong rebound after wartime shortages.
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Rome
Condensed Opinions Favored by Texan Judge Conference
Texas Bar association representative urged federal judges to condense opinions and even eliminate written opinions in many cases at the Fifth Circuit and District Judges conference in New Orleans. Attendees included six southern states judges and Justice Hugo Black.
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New Orleans
G. W. Parker, Jr
Texas Bar Association
Fifth Federal Circuit
Hugo Black
United States Supreme Court
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