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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 10, 1948

Page

8

Yatthors Avaisa Community Chest Drive Opens in Lubbock

The Yatthors Avaisa Community Chest drive in Lubbock kicks off with a goal of 97 800 to fund child services, delinquency prevention, and aid for needy families. Co chairs Lula Mae Cravens and Miss Cravens lead women’s sales teams while workers from Kiwanis Rotary American Business Club and Junior Chamber organize units and captains.

Lubbock Lubman Lula Mae Cravens Women’s Sales Army Earl E. Kerr Kiwanis Bill Tatum Larry Byrd Frank G. Campbell Wellman Carter Howard C. Davison Jason O. Gordon Clinton Lackey Louie F. Moore A. E. McDonald Garnet O. Reeves J. c. Rernolds Tarbox Prima Ralph Grant Cecil Cagle Robert Dennis Phil Rosen Hub Lee G. R. Kennedy Ben Cowling J. O. Kuykendall Orville Smith Travis White Rotary Ely Fonville Maj Arkley Bell Horace G. Coffin James Reynolds Women's Sales Army R. C. Douglas Allegro Tom Cobb S. C. Rawlings Amiga A. W. Young Athenaeum C. N. McGhee R. J. Watson Business and Professional Women's Club C. A. Spencer Clement Sorosis Garland Newsom Delphian Richard L. Douglas Twentieth Century Charles A. Ross J. A. Fortenberry Lubbock Garden John Mallory Aubrey Woodfin R. O. Bennett W. B. Price

Community Chest approves major allotments for Lubbock groups

The Community Chest board approved allotments totaling 20 295 for Lubbock Boys Club 18 870 for Lubbock Boy Scouts 13 105 for Girl Scouts 12 000 for Milamo Home 2 285 for Junior Optimist Club and 14 355 for Salvation Army An emergency reserve shrinkage allowance of 7 000 was also approved plus 9 590 for central services and a centralized welfare exchange.

The Community Chest Lubbock Boys Club Lubbock Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Milamo Home Junior Optimist Club Salvation Army Lubbock

Patch Tests In Lubbock Schools Report 232 Positive Reactions

A total of 232 students reacted positively to patch tests given in Lubbock public schools last week. The Lubbock County Tuberculosis association announced the results and recommended chest X rays for all positives and rechecking 60 students with doubtful reactions. In total 2,550 patch tests were administered.

Lubbock

Officers Named By Soil Group In Lubbock District

E. R. Davis of the Acuff community was re elected chairman of the Lubbock Soil Conservation district board H L Weems was named delegate to the Brownwood state meeting November 9 and 10 Weems was also named vice chairman and Edwin Merrill of Shallowater elected secretary Other board members include G K Horton and Joe S Walker Visitors at the session included D W Sherrill Lubbock county farm agent and C A Tidwell Amarillo assistant state conservationist The district will meet November 5 to avoid conflict with the state session Backs soil conservation aid for farms on Jackson Harris Hancock Walker Coray Slaton Sullivan Haliburton Lawson Walston Lundberg Boone Weir Hobgood and Porsch plus R L Hooten Acuff community to receive plans and a cooperative agreement A cubic mile of warm air may hold as much as 40000 tons of potential rain or hail.

E. R. Davis Acuff Lubbock D. W. Sherrill Marshall W. Howard Soil Conservation Service C. A. Tidwell Amarillo Soil Conservation Districts Brownwood Weems Davis Association of Texas Soil Conservation District Supervisors G. C. Jackson Abernathy Clyde A. Harris George Hancock Joe S. Walker Slaton W. A. Caraway Shallowater T. J. Sullivan Monroe Grady Haliburton J. W. Lawson Idalon Leon Walston A.G. Lundberg C. E. Boone W. A Bill) Alspaugh C. A. Weir Jack K. Hobgood W. F. Porsch

Dr Will Durant To Speak To Lubbock Club

Historian and author Dr Will Durant will address the Lubbock Knife and Fork club at 7 PM Thursday in the Hilton hotel. Secretary Lewis B Rix notes the talk titled What Are the Lessons in History and cites Durant’s best selling Story of Philosophy and other works.

Will Durant Lubbock Knife and Fork Club Hilton Hotel Lewis B. Rix Greece Durart

Texas Tech Band to Open Brownfield Harvest Parade

Brownfield will host the Rotary Club’s Harvest Holiday and Merchants Jubilee on October 20 with a 105 piece Texas Tech band opening the parade and a concert later the same day. High school bands will also perform. more than 15 000 people are expected. Floats include Continental Oil Broad Way Cleaners and Esquire Restaurant among others. President D M Wiggins will attend with other Tech faculty.

Brownfield Texas Logical College Brownfield Rotary Club Texas Tech Rotary Club Continental Oil Co McWilliams Furniture Co Broadway Cleaners Farm & Home Appliance Co Plains Liquefied Gas, Inc Wilgus Drug Ballard Plumbing Co Primm Drug Esquire Restaurant Haynes Bakery Western Boot & Shoe Shop Price Implement Co The American Legion D. M. Wiggins

Harvest Queen Coronation Night At Ohio Event

A fragment describes a team departing for Columbus to enter a national mitt contest. The program includes the coronation of the 1948 Harvest Queen, with Newsreel cameramen on site and radio broadcasts arranged to cover the day’s events.

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Tee Chest Community Community Chest Soil Group R. L. Hooten Lucky McGuire’s Drive-In Restaurant 13Th Se Gulbransen America Kimball C. A. Rodacks Piano Co Avenue G C. A. Rodgers Tech Band Cheage Seterdeys H. Rogers Breaaway Resere Farising Dick Richards Levolor Hardware Sdatag Toon Ai Columbus Avenue ICO Cook Titekote Hanlon and Goodman Color Merchants L. J Jim Lorimer Marvin A. Fann Verten
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