Dallas Leaders Plan Banquet to Launch Traffic Commission
City Manager Steve Matthews announced a November 13 Hilton gathering to form a countywide traffic safety advisory group. Attendees include A A Breeland J O Music L H Rideout and J J Murray. The Dallas plan aims at broad civic representation and reduced fatalities.
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Hilton Hotel
Steve Matthews
A. A. Breeland
Dallas
Texas Safety Association, Inc
National Safety Couuncil
J. O. Music
Austin
State Association
L. H. Rideout
J. J. Murray
Dallas Traffic Commission
City Commission
Matthews
Dallas Commission
Lubbock
Floydada 4-H and FFA Hog Show Crowns Champions
About 33 Floyd county 4-H and FFA youths exhibited 79 hogs at the Achievement Day show in Floydada. Grand champion A C Pratt, Floydada, sold a Hampshire light sow for 32 cents a pound totaling 73.60 to J C Penney Floydada. Judge was Raymond King of Dimmit Castro. Premiums averaged nine cents per pound. attendance dipped due to clear weather and farmers’ field work. Awards listed include champions in several classes with exhibitors from Floydada Lockney Sandhill and surrounding areas.
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Floydada
Floyd County
Gibson
Florrada Chams
Raymond King of
Dimmitt
Castro County
Final Day Draws 5000 At Dawson County Fair Difference
LAMESA Sept. 30. Approximately 5000 persons attended the final day of the Dawson county fair. Winners were previously announced and Saturday featured only exhibits. Superintendent LeRoy Colgan reported a record 15000 visitors for the four day event, one of the most successful in Lamesa history. Many winners will bring livestock and exhibits to the Panhandle South Plains fair in Lubbock starting Monday.
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Lamesa
Dawson County
LeRoy Colgan
Lubbock
Brazil beckons German settlers to Goias after displacement
About 20 000 folk Germans from middle European Slavic states and Hungary live in Western Germany and may move to Goias Brazil. Governor Coimbra Bueno has held talks with German authorities and Prince Albert of Bavaria is due in Brazil for discussions and a settlement survey.
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Rio DE Janeiro
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Hungary
Goias
Coimbra Bueno
Prince Albert of
Bavaria
Court holds hearing over father of children drastic action looming
A court in Lubbock heard the Burns family case with Judge Pardue warning the father that if he does not secure steady work by the following Saturday, he must part with his children. Burns, a city man, argued he could not find farm work despite welfare concerns and community aid. The family, traveling since 1946 by pushcart, drew help from motorists as welfare workers testified the children have had little schooling and little stability.
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Aciusliv Pardue
Burns
Fairgrounds
Pardue
Carr
Daisy M. Brown
San Angelo
Hawkins
Tom Cannon
First Methodist Church
Sne
Ne Fairgrounds
Parane
Robertson
Chappell
Lubbock
Bandits Take Cool Cash From Theater
Omaha theater manager Homer Daniels was bound and gagged by two bandits who stole receipts totaling 271 dollars. They gagged him with a banner reading Its cooler inside. The hearing featured Burns and his wife, with testimony from Clauce Canterbury, Bill Robertson, and others about family distress and local conditions.
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Omaha
Homer Daniels
Former Lubbock Man Killed in Korea
Word came Saturday of the death in Korea on September 11 of M/Sgt. James Morris Shepherd 37 a former Lubbock resident He served in the Seventh Cavalry division and was wounded in action on September 10 His wife Jean and two children live in El Paso Survivors include his wife his parents Mr and Mrs W T Shepherd a daughter Mary Jean nine and a son Jimmy six He had joined the Army in 1936 and fought in Italy during World War II His family had moved to El Paso from Japan after his transfer to the war zone Details of the action were not released by the government.
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W. T. Shepherd
Uvalde
Jean
el Paso
Seventh Cavalry Division
Japan
Sgt
Italy
Mary Jean
Jimmy
Radio Fans Down Under
Melbourne Australia and New Zealand rate high in radio listeners with 36 sets per 100 in New Zealand and 26 in Australia. Britain has 24 sets per 100 people, France 19, Russia 2, as reported in the section covering global listening habits.
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New Zealand
Britain
France
Russia
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