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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1948
Page
6
The Panhandle Medical Society holds a two day meeting in Lubbock with four sections including obstetrics gynecology eye ear nose throat and surgery. Noted speakers from Lubbock Amarillo Dallas and St Louis discuss cardiac arrhythmia arthritic management lupus orbital implants prenatal care and gastric procedures.
Denver mother of five, Mrs. Cora Perez, 25, hopes to adopt two abandoned baby girls found in a blanket at her doorstep. The twins, four to five days old, are in Denver General Hospital with diarrhea. Perez and her husband Moses, a railroad foreman, say they can provide a home despite shortages and costs.
Cordell Hull celebrated his 77th birthday in Maryland with an hour long drive with Mrs. Hull. He appeared in good health despite lingering illness since his 1944 collapse and spends time under care at the Naval Medical Center, while reaffirming faith in peaceful co existence with Russia.
Dr J Rowe of Southwestern Medical School Dallas discusses Management of Obstructive Lesions of the Colon and Rectum with Dr John Hogan Big Spring set to lead. Panhandle District Medical Society officers include Dr C E High Pampa president Dr H H Larson councilor and Dr Kenneth Flamm secretary. A dinner dance and entertainment is planned for 7 30 pm Tuesday in the main ballroom of Lubbock Hotel for attending doctors and their wives with golfing at Lubbock Country Club available to visitors.
Rep. Rees of Kansas denounces the FCC decision requiring time for atheists on radio religious programs as dangerous and ambivalent. He argues government broadcasting rules should not allow slander against religious beliefs and urges clarification of the policy. He warns left wing voices cannot enter the field without public outrage.
Slaton Oct 2. Special funeral services for Mrs. W G Jenkins 64 who died Friday in Mercy hospital will be held at 3 30 p m Sunday at Staton Church of Christ with Rev Loyd Mover officiating. Burial in Inglewood cemetery. Survivors include husband two sons six daughters and two brothers.
Reports from Cheju Island say ten police officers killed or missing after a fighting clash with Communist guerrillas. Guerrillas burned a village leaving 309 residents homeless as reinforcements of 600 police move toward the island.
A council wide Cub leaders pow wow will be conducted from 3 to 9 p m Tuesday at the First Presbyterian church by the South Plains council of Boy Scouts of America attracting about 100 to 125 Cub leaders. Dr C C Schmidt council Cub commissioner will preside at general assemblies with all Cub packs in the 20 county council invited to send four delegates each.
Florence Iva Begay, a Flagstaff high school honor student chosen for a four year Sarah Lawrence College scholarship, turned back en route to New York after being forced to sit at the rear of a Jim Crow bus near Amarillo Texas. Oliver La Farge and D Keon Taylor condemned the incident as a "piece of stupidity" and noted Begay had never traveled far from her reservation before this trip.
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