Lubbock CAP appoints Joe Kelly as executive director
Joe Kelly, veteran Lubbock newspaperman, named executive director of the Community Action Program for Lubbock County effective immediately. A grant of slightly over 11 500 from the state office in Austin approved. Gov Connally authorized activities. CAP aims to mobilize local resources to combat poverty through Youth Corps, Head Start, adult education, and related measures. The board, drawn from civic leaders and economically deprived areas, will study poverty causes and remedies while stressing nonwelfare approaches.
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Joe Kelly
Lubbock
CAP
Lubbock County
D. M. McElroy
Kelly
Office of Economic Opportunity
Austin
McElroy
John Connally
Connally
CAP Board
Memorial Day Meeting Planned at Lockney Cemetery
The Lockney Cemetery Association will hold its annual Memorial Day meeting at the Lockney Cemetery. A minister is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. Bert Bobbitt is president and Mrs. L. M. Honea is secretary treasurer.
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Lockney
Lockney Cemetery
Tex Tech Coach to Speak at Inter-Club Meeting
Bert Huffman Texas Tech coach will be speaker at an inter-club meeting in Floydada on Wednesday. Lions and Rotary clubs will meet jointly at a Colonial House luncheon with Wendell Tooley as program chairman. Attendance over 100 expected.
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Floydada
Bert Huffman
Texas Tech
Lionsland Rotary Clubs
Colonial House
Wendell Tooley
Flags Stripped From Graves Of War Dead
About 300 flags were removed from graves in two American Legion plots in Albuquerque on Memorial Day weekend. About 60 flags were found crumpled under a bush, and officials said the majority of affected graves will remain undecorated as a memorial to those who took the flags.
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Albuquerque
N.M
American Legion
Bobi Klicker
Memorial da
Six Injured As Car Hits Pole Near Slaton
Six persons were injured when a car ran into a water puddle on U S Highway 84 2.8 miles northwest of Slaton, struck a utility pole, and knocked loose a 40 000 volt line. Police rerouted traffic from 11 30 p m Friday to 4 a m Saturday. Driver William Norman Kinnard and passengers Earline Pittman Lynne Leslie Louis were treated and released at Mercy Hospital. Investigators were Highway Patrolmen Wayne Baker Ted Court and Leon Feazell.
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Earline Pittman
Lynne
Leslie
Cherokee Chief Aids Coney Island Weather
Chief Running Horse a 67 year old Cherokee from Brooklyn performed a sun dance on the rainy Coney Island boardwalk Saturday. The Chamber of Commerce hired him to lift the gloom over Memorial Day weekend as the Weather Bureau forecast fair and seasonable weather for Sunday.
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New York
Running Horse
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Weather Bureau
Detroit auto stylists test vacuum ashtray model
Detroit designers install automatic vacuum cleaning of ash trays in an experimental model to study efficiency and user convenience in vehicle interiors.
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Detroit
Texas oil demand study urges more exploration and drilling
A UPI report from Austin notes the Bureau of Business Research says Texas needs stepped up exploration and drilling due to high demand and underproduction. The analysis covers oil output, price incentives, and April index trends showing improvement but a 1 percent April decline overall.
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Austin
UPI
Bureau of Business Research
Texas
University of Texas-sponsored
Bureau
Dickens Memorial Day Observed at Dickens Cemetery
Memorial Day will be observed Monday at Dickens Cemetery with a short program. Officers of the Dickens Cemetery Association will be elected for next year. A basket luncheon is planned at noon. Current officers are Willow Strett, president. Fred Arrington, secretary. and Mrs Watt Holly, treasurer.
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Dickens Cemetery
Dickens Cemetery Association
Willow Strett
Fred Arrington
Watt Holly
Picasso and Braque Founders of Cubist Painting
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are credited with founding Cubist painting, shaping a new approach to form and perspective in modern art. The collaboration marked a watershed shift in early 20th century art history.
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Pablo Picasso
Georges Braque
Iubist
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