Thompson Builds Area Record in Cochran County
Cochran County Agricultural Agent Homer E. Thompson has been selected for the Distinguished Service Award by the County Agricultural Agents of the United States. Thompson, who has 16 years in extension work, led farming method advances and farmer government cooperation across the region. He directed irrigation expansion in Cochran, aided 4-H and FFA growth, and supported soil conservation and crop improvement efforts in Garza, Deaf Smith, Lubbock, and surrounding counties.
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Hank McKee
Avalanche-Journal
Cochran County
Homer E. Thompson
Texas
United States
Chicago
Thompson
Lubbock
Texas County Agricultural Agents Association
United Si iv
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Vio Agricultural Robbn
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Garza County
Guerza County
Extension Service
Scurry
Borden Counties
Texas A. & M. College
Briscoe County
Silverton
AAA
Deaf Smith County
Garza
Lubbock County
Texas A. & M
Plains
South Plains
Duck Creek
United States Department of Agriculture
Korea
Thomason
FFA
Farm Bureau
Farmer i Ist University
Unversity of Virginia
Yale University
Hospitalized Wife Hears of Husbands Death in Plane Crash
Fort Worth report says 20 year old Fay Watts, hospitalized after abdominal surgery, awaits word on Sgt. L G Gene Watts who died in a C 54 crash off South Japan. Defense telegram confirms 11 killed. Watts was to Korea bound. Family in Dallas and Alabama notified, mother says they will tell Fay in a few days.
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Fort Worth
Fay Watts
Watts
L. G.gene Watts
Defense Department
Korea
South Japan
Denham Springs
Jim Watts
Doyle
Ala
Fay
Massengi
Bernice Johnson
General Dean Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, missing in Korea since July 21 near Taejon, receives the Medal of Honor from President Truman. The citation lauds his leadership and his personal courage including an attack on an enemy tank with a hand grenade. Unconfirmed reports say he may be alive as a prisoner in North Korea.
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Washington
William F. Dean
Korea
Truman
Dean
Taejon
24Th
North Korea
Bethel Temple hosts regional pastors conference in Las Cruces
A conference at Bethel Temple 223 North Ave N begins at 10 a.m. with pastors from a wide area. Mex Garcia of El Paso will reside. Attending pastors include Den2ciono Camnos Tucson Maria Frentes Rincon Hendy Mosley Anastacio Pena and Rev Elias Rubio Juarez Mexico. Mexican dinner at 12:30 p.m. A service is at 2 p.m. and another at 7:30 p.m.
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Bethel Temple
North Ave. N
Mex Garcia
el Paso
Den2ciono Camnos
Tucson
Ariz
Maria Frentes
Las Cruces
N. M
Gilberto Maris
Rincon
Hendy Mosley
Anastacio Pena
Elias Rubio
Juarez
Mexico
Construction Awards In Texas Increase to 27.8 Million
Texas construction awards rebounded with 27,793,525 for the week led by non-residential work at 22,081,036. Residential awards totaled 4,010,900 with 349 residences. Engineering contracts reached 1,701,589, lifting year to date total to 773,143,870. prior week was 15,584,904 and the week before 12,133,024.
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Austin
Texas
Trade Journal
Calgarians Question Meaning Behind City Name
Calgarians doubt the Gaelic origin of Calgary name as Col James Macleod named Fort Calgary after Mull. Norman MacLeod’s Scotland trip suggests Calgary may derive from meanings such as hard water a bristle a shelter or a proper name without a definite Gaelic link.
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Calgary
James MacLeod
Mounted Police
Fort Calgary
Isle of Mull
Norman MacLeod
Scotland
German Social Worker Endorses U S Style Settlement Homes
Frau Emmi Benhoeffer a German social worker and founder of a Grone nberg self help center backs settlement houses like those in America as a means to rebuild a more democratic Germany after visiting the Irene Kaufmann Settlement House in Pittsburgh. She is in the United States under sponsorship of church groups.
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Pittsburgh
America
Germany
Frau
Emmi Benhoeffer
Gronenberg
Irene Kaufmann
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