Wolffarth Elementary Dedication Set In Lubbock
A dedication program Thursday night will honor George C. Wolffarth pioneer rancher banker and businessman at the new Wolffarth Elementary School on North Sixth Street. Doors open 7:30 to 9 p.m. with a 6 to 6:20 p.m. dedication service and social hour led by the PTA. The program features Clyde Tatum and R W Matthews, with Rev J Alvis Cooley and community leaders attending.
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George C. Wolffarth
North Sixth Street
Wolffarth
West Texas
Lubbock County
Howard Price
R. M. Henderson
J. Alvis Cooley
Pioneer Memorial Methodist Church
Clyde G. Tatum
Lubbock Public School
R. W. Matthews
Wolfforth
Lubbock
Lubbock Country Club
Lottie Hunt
George M. Hunt
K. Carter P T.A
Draft Board
First Methodist Church
Board of Reward
South Plains
Matthews
A. C. Jackson
Ishmael Hill
Grace Padley
Dorothy Lomax
Price
Clyde Tatum
G. C. Dowell
M. M. Ewing
Glenn Woody
W. H. Evans
Ruel C. Martin
Don L. Jones
Leonard L. Jacobs
Barbara Ewing
Marion Farris
Dolores Jackson
D. W. Stanley
Sherry Roberson
William Ditmore
Ann Gafford
James J. Atchison
Glerna Thomas
M. P. Todd
Jeanette Payne
L. L. Hapke
Linda Hapke
Mary Hext
Barbara Atchison
Lynn Ray
Nan Cooley
L. L. Triche
Nancy Roberson
Cardus Reed
Gloria Sealy
C. M. Pharr
Donna Cannon
L. D. Gibson
Beverly Powell
Jack Mary
Jo Ann Pettit
W. J. Johnston
Tom McMillan
J. J. Throop
Doris Prater
Tom Burleson
Lois Neill
F. W. Reed
A. L. Pack
Weldon Snodgrass
Margaret Hughes
Alfred Smith
W. L. Jenkins
H. A. Allen
E. W. Jackson
Air Force recruit completes basic training at Lackland
Pvt. Rodney Paul Egglescon of Levelland has finished Air Force basic indoctrination at Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio preparing for entry into technical training. Toastmasters guest and program speakers announced for Hilton hotel dinner and Lubbock welfare and music events detailed.
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Rodney Paul
W. S. Egglescon
Levelland
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Louie F. Moore
Toastmasters’ Club
Hilton Hotel
G. G. Beyson
Maj
Dean Brown
Ray Chapman
O. W. English
Waggoner Carr
John R. Moxley
Gene Quest
Leland Culp
Jack Spangler
A. S. Meinecke
Veterans Of Two World Wars Open Legion Meet In LA
About 200000 veterans arrive in Los Angeles for the 32nd annual National Legion Convention. Delegates from all states attend as committees prep resolutions. Controversy erupts over a proposed removal of Secretary of State Acheson. Louis Johnson arrives as a private attendee.
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Los Angeles
James Padgittins
Legionnaires
Legion
Dean Acheson
National Legion
George N. Craig
Erle Cocke, Jr
Georgia
State Department
Louis Johnson
Defense
Washington
Sharp Enrollment Rise Noted in University of Texas Education
Austin October 7 The University of Texas reports a 40 percent rise in education college enrollment from 1949 and double the 1947 total. Graduate education adds nearly 50 percent more students than last year. Deans credit Gilmer-Aiken reforms and stronger teacher status for the surge.
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Austin
University of Texas Today
H. Y. McCown
College of Education
A. P. Brogan
L D. Haskew
Texas
Gilmer-Aiken
Ochoa Returns to the U S Clearing Extradition Hurdles
George Ochoa agreed Thursday to return to the United States to face two murder charges in Laredo Texas. Victor Velazquez said the voluntary return eliminates legal hurdles as the Mexican and U S authorities reassess extradition procedures. The extradition request was withdrawn and Velazquez noted no grounds remain to keep him in prison. The Laredo case center on a fugitive who had resisted extradition for months while his Mexican attorney said the broker seeks trial to prove innocence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
George Ochoa
U. S
Victor Velazquez
Ochoa
Laredo
Texas
Mexican Foreign Office
Mexico
Velazquez
Petersburg Superintendent Attends Texas School Meet
Petersberg Superintendent H A Owens and family depart for Austin to attend the Texas Association of School Administrators convention on October 8 and 9. They will join the inauguration of Dr J W Edgar as Texas Education Agency commissioner and participate in the Citizens Conference on Education discussing the Gilmer Aiken bill. R A Gregory and J C Alford will join, with wives. In Brussels Alois Pederzani, former Gestapo interrogator, gets seven years solitary after prior hotel killings in Laredo.
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Petersburg
H. A. Owens
Austin
Texas Association of School Administrators
J. W. Edgar
Texas Education Agency
Citizens Conference On Education
R. A. Gregory
Petersburg School Board
J. C. Alford
Brussels
Belgium
Alois Pederzani
London
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Tex
Avalanche-Journal
Sun
Elizabeth Sasser
Texas Technological College
Lattimore’s
Broadway
First Christian Church
South Plains Music Teachers Association
KFYO
Lillian Butler
F. E. Sitterly
Association
Texas Retail Grocers Association
Southwest Meat and Provisions, Inc
Ave. H
Lubbock Symphony Orchestra
O. L. Slaton Music Room
William A. Harrod
Aubie Baucum
New Deal High School
Dallas
The
National Foundation For Infantile
Ernest St. Clair, Jr
A Meath
Aeneas
KeyStone-Fleming, Inc
Fort Peck Dam
Montana
Petersberg
Mexicali
Citizens National
Osit Insurance
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