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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 02, 1950

Page

10

Little Theater Postpones Women Play to Avoid Fair Clash

The Lubbock Little Theater postpones the Oct 9 8 p.m. performance of Little Women to next Monday to avoid conflict with the Panhandle South Plains fair. Newcomers include Mrs Tes Mulleneaux Jim ONeill Mrs Eron Thompson Marilyn Watten and Mrs Marian Gregory-Allien. Season tickets $5 single reservations $1.20 general 75 cents student 40 cents at 2023 Broadway and at Green Thumb and Adair Music.

Lubbock Broadway Green Thumb and Adair Music Company

Funeral services held for Vera Edith Cleere

Funeral services for Mrs. Vera Edith Cleere 37 formerly of Lubbock are set for 10 a m Monday at Rix Funeral Home chapel with Rev H S Robinson of the First Methodist Church officiating Burial will be in Tech Memorial Park She died Friday night from burns in a trailer house fire at Odessa Survivors include son Tom W Cleere of Lubbock mother Mrs O N Rice of Tulsa sister Mrs R W Port of Denver and one grandchild

Vera Edith Cleere Lubbock Rix Funeral Home H. S. Robinson First Methodist Church Tech Memorial Park O. N. Rice Tulsa R. W. Port Denver

Communist Jet Planes Sighted Over Korea

U S Far East Air Force pilots reported intensified anti aircraft fire and sighted six single engine jet fighters near Hamhung and other air field activity in North Korea. Bombers attacked targets across the peninsula while air bases saw new revetments and preparations as Strikes continued from Okinawa and Japan based aircraft.

Tokyo INS U. S. Far East Air Force North Korea United Nations 38Th Parallel Wonsan-Pyongyang U. S Konan Hamhung Sinmak Wonsan Fyongyang Okinawa David D. Bradburn Pasadena Calif Pyongyang Kowon Thomas J. Sims Bellmead Texas Sariwon Donald E. Orr Birmingham Mich Charles R. Prettyman Star City Ind

Oil Lease Bundle Worth 1.46 Million Reported

P R Rutherford of Houston and Midland has acquired oil and gas leases totaling 960 acres in east-north-central Howard county for 500 000 cash plus 1 000 per acre to be paid from oil. The deal covers portions of sections 22 23 and 24 in block 27 H&TC survey. Rutherford now holds 2 180 acres in East Wealmoor after adding the new tracts from B D Buckley of St Louis. A drilling program is planned soon.

P. R Rutherford Houston and Midland Howard County Lime Reef East Wealmoor H&tc Survey B. D. Buckley St. Louis and Associates

Rites For F. W. Walters In Tahoka

Funeral services were held at the Tahoka First Baptist church for Floyd Wood Walters 34 of the Draw community. He was found dead Friday night in a field near his home with a gunshot wound and a .32 pistol nearby. Justice of the Peace P D Server ruled death resulted from a personal safety related gun shot wound.

Tahoka Floyd Woodrow Walters Draw Tahoka First Baptist Church Justice of the Peace P. D. Server

Lubbock Services For John Thomas Reames 88

Funeral services for John Thomas Reames 88 were held at Calvary Baptist church at 2 p m Sunday. McDonald Funeral Home directed interment at Tech Memorial Park. Reames a retired farmer died at his residence 1903 Avenue F about 7 a m Saturday.

John Thomas Reames Calvary Baptist Church McDonald Funeral Home Tech Memorial Park Reams Ave

Bargain In Brimstone Chapter 13 in the City Church

A conventional priest in Chicago confronts Aggie Retzinek a self described worst girl in town in a confession scene. Aggie a former reform school inmate taunts the priest while recounting her past and her struggle with faith amid poverty and vice in the abattoir district. The exchange explores guilt and defiance as Aggie admits praying to the devil.

Brimstone Rphen Washington Chicago Big Boy Aggie Aggie Retzinek Agasia Man of God

Posey Elementary Dedication Tonight In Lubbock

Formal dedication events for Walter S. Posey Elementary at 1009 East Fourteenth Street start at 8 p m with a half hour program. Doors open 7 30 to 9 p m as the PTA and officials host. A second dedication, Geo C Wolffart Elementary, is planned for October 1.

Walter S. Posey East Fourteenth Street East Broadway Geo. C. Wolffart North Sixth Street R. W. Matthews Posey Lubbock South Plains

New Oil Project Slated In Terry County

Goldston Oil plans a 10 000 foot wildcat three miles north of the Mound Lake field in central east Terry county. The No 1 Auld and Johnson will be 660 feet from the north and 1 980 feet from the east lines of section 14 block 4X EL&RR survey ten miles northeast of Brownfield. A second wildcat near Lindsley may target the Pennsylvanian lime. Sohio Petroleum holds the lease, expiring 1955.

Goldston Oil Corporation Mound Lake Terry County Auld and Johnson El&rr Brownfield Champlin Refining Company Lindsley Goldston Sohio Petroleum Company Sohio

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