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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1962
Page
6
Linen Department offers mix and match solid and printed towel sets priced at 3.00 to 4.00 each. Includes bath and guest towels, bath mats, fingertip towels, and wash cloths in blue pink chartreuse. Located on the 2nd floor downtown and Monterey.
Washington reports the Supreme Court begins a new term as President Kennedy attends the opening ceremony and swears in Arthur J. Goldberg, replacing Felix Frankfurter. The court already faces three major issues including racial discrimination, religion in schools, and legislative reapportionment.
A 23 year old man was treated for smoke inhalation after a mattress fire at the St. Francis Hotel 901 Texas. The victim Francis Bertram was treated and released at West Texas Hospital. Owner L H Riggers estimated $50 in damage. only the mattress burned. Fire reported at 6 16 a.m.
The piece presents enthusiasm as a universal flame guiding builders artists writers and inventors. It contrasts varying intensities from a pilot light to a brilliant fire driven by faith and desire. The author emphasizes that without enthusiasm no one achieves goals in human progress.
O J Dutton 56 died in the field at his Hale Center area farm at 4 30 pm Saturday. Tentative services set at Church of Christ Lorenzo with burial in Lorenzo Cemetery. Survivors include wife Viola a son Donald Ray Idalou a daughter Mrs Jim Weatherford Fort Towson Okla three brothers Bill Lorenzo Jess Floydada and J C Idalou three sisters Mrs Harriette Steele Brentwood Calif Mrs Nora Henderson Chickasha Okla and Mrs Elmer Harrel Bandon Oregon and five grandchildren.
Edith A. Johnson 68 died Saturday night at Medical Arts Clinic Littlefield after a year of illness. Funeral at Immanuel Baptist Church Brownfield with Rev. Tom Morgan and Rev. Ed Crow officiating. Burial in Brownfield Cemetery. Survivors: three daughters, a brother, two sisters, six grandchildren, five great grandchildren.
Mrs. Vick Williams, 60, a Plainview resident since 1929, died on arrival at Plainview Hospital after a gunshot wound to the right temple. An inquest is expected. services set for 3 p.m. at First Methodist Church with burial at Plainview Memorial Park. Survivors include husband Jack Williams and three grandchildren.
Paris reports show that French workers automatically receive overtime pay after 40 hours. About 63 percent regularly work overtime. Thirty six percent log up to 47 hours weekly, 39 percent up to 48 hours, and 12 percent exceed 48.
Tahoka born Lub bock resident Mrs Net Rutledge Jackson died at 12 20 a m Sunday in Houston Her funeral will be at 10 a m Tuesday at First Methodist Church Tahoka with burial in Tahoka Funeral Home directs survivors include daughter Mrs Maurice Levitt son John Jackson Jr two sisters two brothers and four grandchildren.
France sold 54,187,849 bottles of champagne in the last year, a postwar peak, with 1960 at 49,265,201. Exports rose to 15,500,000 bottles, up 1.6 percent from 1960, and England remained the top foreign customer.
Mrs. T. W. Woodson 85 died Sunday at Fisher County Nursing Home. Survived by six daughters, 23 grandchildren, 39 great grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral at Weathersby Chapel Rotan with burial in Spring Creek Cemetery near Avoca. pallbearers are grandsons.
Arthur Campbell 83 of 410 N 19th St Lamesa died at 3 30 p m Sunday in a Lubbock rest home He had lived in Lubbock six months and in Lamesa two years Franklin Bartley Funeral Home Lubbock will transport the body to Grant Funeral Home Deport for services and burial in Highland Cemetery Deport He was a native of Deport and a Baptist Church member Survivors include four sons L G Harley Lowell and Ralph all of Texas two daughters Mrs R C Guest Cone and Mrs J R Chalker Lubbock four sisters Mrs A H Rakes Paris Mrs S W Westbrook Clarksville Mrs Neil Duncan Altus and Mrs Clyde Duncan Altus seven grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
A 19 year old Lubbock youth was jailed after a one vehicle crash on Municipal Drive and Highway 87. Police say the pickup, eastbound at high speed, ran a light and overturned, with minor injuries and charges of negligent collision and speeding. The driver refused ambulance treatment.
Services announced for Mrs. Oleta Sanders 22 of 2909 Paris and Mrs. Betty Hicks 25 of San Diego with burial venues listed. E C Wingrove 85 of Alvin to be interred. Dr L G Ballard to speak at District 10 meeting in Johnson House. Six cited for park alcohol violation at Mackenzie State Park. Ed D Allen Sr injured post surgery. South Plains Stamp Club auction at Municipal Garden. Jess Ford 41 injured in a Friday 60th St collision.
UPI reports Tube Turns Plastics in Louisville that plastic pipe, key to modern home plumbing, faces obsolete building codes. Manufacturer expects codes to be swept away, enabling easier installation and better insulation and corrosion resistance by 1970.
Spur High School outlines 1962 homecoming events with coronation at a 6 30 p m bonfire pep rally Thursday Misse Billie Lee Hale Lois Putman Nora Mack and Mary Ann Campbell are nominated queens Ex students register after the rally Parade starts Friday at 4 30 p m in downtown Spur Floats prize at 7 30 p m before Spur Bulldogs versus Rotan Yellowhammers at 8 p m at Jones Stadium Victory Ball follows the game Officers and activities run through Saturday including a barbecue class meetings and a dance at the Ex-Student building
Roland Rhoads 67 died at Mercy Hospital in Slaton. Services set at 3 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church Wilson with Rev. H F Scott and Dr Charles Wood officiating. Burial Wilson Cemetery. Survivors include wife three sons and three daughters, one brother, three sisters, 18 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Milton Taylor West 35 turned himself in to Visalia police and confessed to 10 to 12 killings of hobos from Sacramento to Longview Texas. He claimed to have burned one victim and pushed another from a moving train near Tulare on Sept. 25, with investigators noting the path of crimes and an unidentified hobo found dead near a railway track.
Rites for John W. Ketchum 58 of Lubbock and Archie Lee Harris 35 of unknown address were pending Sunday. Ketchum died in a pickup trailer truck collision 17 miles north of ballinger at 2 30 p m. Harris was struck by a car while crossing U S 62 near Ralls at 7 45 p m. Investigators noted Harris relatives could not be located. Ketchum had lived in Lubbock 39 years and left a large family.
Services are scheduled for 3 p m today for Mary Ida Bolding 74 who died Saturday in a Coleman rest home The Rev F C Bradley pastor J T Bolding of Lubbock will lead burial in Floydada Cemetery Harmon Funeral directs She had lived in Floyd County since 1915 and had been ill since 1955 suffering a stroke a month before death She is survived by two daughters Zo lona C Melton Coleman and Grady Edelman Muleshoe a son D I Jr Houston and three others
The report shows 28 percent of Parisians vacationing by the sea 15 percent in the mountains and 28 percent in the country. In 1951 forty five percent vacationed in the country usually with relatives.
Reader's Digest asks if school prayer is constitutional as argued by a lawyer who challenged it and Bishop Pike who calls a Godless school as neutral as a Godly one. The October issue debates whether to reverse the Supreme Court ruling and features Has the Supreme Court Outlawed Religious Observance in the Schools.
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