Lubbock engineer tours terrain with a homemade slingshot
Buster Hicks of Lubbock a consulting engineer and sportsman carries a 50 year old slingshot on trips between sites. He uses a cedar stock two rubber strips and leather pouch with improvised ammo to shoot rocks or ball bearings at targets including rabbits and even golf balls on course, claiming playful precision and years of hobbyist skill.
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Buster Hicks
Laibhock
Hicks
Ward St
Lubbock
Comanche County
Burle Pettit
Pettit
Van
FTC finds 85 percent of auto ad claims unsupported
A government sponsored analysis shows 85 percent of automobile ad substantiations were irrelevant or inadequate. The FTC ordered the study and released it through New York City consumer affairs chief Beas Myerson at a Consumers Union meeting.
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Alexandria
New York
City
Consumer Affairs
Beas Myerson
Consumers Union
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Bob Beranek
Reading conference in Lubbock highlights reading importance
The Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading hosts a two day conference at Estacado High School in Lubbock. Dr. Tea Aaron of the University of Georgia and Dr. Robert Galvan of Our Lady of the Lake University discuss evaluating progress in reading and the right to read programs. Texas Tech officials and local educators organize the event aimed at boosting reading certification and literacy.
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Ee Are Dane
Texas Association For the Improvement of Reading
Lubbock
Estacato High School
Keyhole Spa
Ségaida
Tea Aaron
U ‘University
Fof
Georgia
Robert Galvan
Our Lady of the Lake University At
San Antonio
Aaron
Galvan
John Thorton Jr
Stéphen F. Austin University
Nacogdoches
Aido
Texas
Bonnie McCullough
Lubbock Public Schools
John Rogers
Reading
Texas Tech
Thornton
Our Lady of the Lake College
Juanita Avinger
Abilene Christian College
Chrysanthemum Colorama Opens With Plant Sale
Lubbock prepares for the Chrysanthemum Colorama as deliveries start Friday. The Chamber of Commerce offers main plants to businesses retailers and mailing list members at 2 dollars per plant marking the annual colorful salute to a local product.
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Lubbock
Chamber of Commerce
Early radar concept origins in the 1886–1900 era
The text notes that radar ideas existed by 1886 with Heinrich Hertz proving reflections of radio waves by solids and a 1900 magazine article describing ship tracking by radio-wave echoes, marking early steps toward radar.
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Berlin
Heinrich Hertz
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