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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1960
Page
5
September rainfall in Lubbock totaled .34 inch, 2.51 below normal, lifting year-to-date to 15.11 inches. The month averaged 73.5 degrees with 15 days at 90 or higher, and a high of 97 on Sept 14. Australia bans 20 films in 1959.
In Buenos Aires Argentina the national Congress rejected a bill to curb foreign cartoons and comics in newspapers drawing opposition from critics who argued the move would restrict press freedom and limit cultural content.
The PreLaw Club sponsors a weekly debate in the Student Union Building at 7 30 p.m today on whether the Democratic domestic policy serves the nation best. Tech students Bill Sherbert Harold Hammett Kip Glasscock and Franz Helbig speak for the two parties. Public invited.
Lubbock County residents displayed farm products and handmade items around the old courthouse square before the railroad arrived, helping seed the forerunner to the Panhandle South Plains Fair. Miss Mae Murfee recalls women trading seeds and cuttings and how exhibits varied with dry years.
A pair of juveniles snatched the purse of Miss Margaret Hill as she made a phone call in Dallas. The bag contained a snub-nosed revolver and a police identification card, revealing Hill’s occupation as a policewoman.
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