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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1962
Page
2
A 1962 report highlights relocation center proposals in California and Hyannis as well as desegregation actions across Knoxville Knoxville area and New Orleans. It notes firsts in education and sports including a Negro principal in Rochester and a Chicago Cubs coach appointment.
A garbled note promotes Barcentrate as an excellent tonic sold at a Fort Worth, Texas drug counter. It claims health benefits and urges use despite the unclear text and odd phrasing.
Texas Tech will open its first summer term June 1 with more than 4,000 students expected. Entering freshmen report at 5 a.m. in Chemistry Building 101, registration runs 8 a.m. to noon and 1 30 to 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. to noon Saturday. Classes start 7 20 a.m. and meet daily 90 minute sessions Monday through Friday. Final exams run July 12 13. Second term runs July 16 to August 23. Summer commencement scheduled for late July. A prior term attendance record was 4 152 in 1946.
Don Yarborough blamed John Connally for lobbying for eastern oil interests during a quick visit to Lubbock and the South Plains. He told about 1000 supporters at the airport that he would win Saturday, reiterated a repeal of the general sales tax, and criticized a pipeline tax while visiting Plainview and Formby.
Chemists and chemical engineers from 15 South Plains counties plan a new sectional unit of the American Chemical Society. Dr Arthur Draper of Texas Tech announces formation to provide speakers, information exchange, and a voice in national affairs for local professionals. Prospective members include workers in soil labs cotton oil mills gasoline plants petrochemical facilities hospitals and schools. counties named Bailey Cochran Yoakum Gaines Dawson Borden Kent Garza Lynn Terry Hockley Lubbock Crosby Dickens Motley.
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