USDA Lubbock Soil District agrees with federal help
Bill Reece presented a first of its kind memorandum of understanding between the USDA and the Lubbock County Soil Conservation District. The agreement aims to coordinate soil and water conservation efforts, with the district setting work priorities and departments assisting through research, technical aid, and cost sharing. John Key received a Freeman letter praising the district’s progressive action and urging rapid advancement in resource management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Foster
Avalanche-Journal
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Lubbock County Soil Conservation District
Lubbock National Bank
Bill Reece
Lubbock
Reece
United States
USDA
Ser. of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Ance
Lubbock County
John Key
Freeman
McClellan Releases Book On Committee
Sen John L McClellan released his book on the Senate Labor Management Committee and said more hearings on national crime will begin early next year. As chairman of the investigations subcommittee he noted narcotics and gambling in sports as possible topics and claimed the panel has extraordinary investigatory powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock, Ark
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Labor Management Committee
McClellan
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Louisiana Oil Find Dominant In 1950s Louisiana Offshore
Louisiana accounted for about 40 percent of new oil and gas discoveries in the United States during the 1950s, with offshore Gulf areas south of the state contributing substantially to that total. Delaware previously shared a legislature and governor with Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Oil
Baton Rouge
UPI
United States
Louisiana
Gulf
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Texans Urged to Observe Newspaper Week Oct 14 20 1962
Gov Price Daniel designates October 14 to 20 as Newspaper Week in Texas in a proclamation praising the free press as a cornerstone of democracy. The decree accompanies a national observance with the theme Newspapers make a big difference in people's lives and urges citizen recognition of newspapers and newspapermen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Price Daniel
Texas
Daniel
United States
Committee Members Named New Officers For Museum Group
The West Texas Museum Association elected new officers at its annual meeting in Lubbock. Mark Hailey became president, Roy Bass vice president, J D Rosson treasurer, and Mrs Russell Bean secretary. An executive committee and numerous trustees were named along with ex officio members from local and state groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas Museum Assn
West Texas Museum
Mark Hailey
Weldon Gibbs
Roy Bass
J.D. Rosson
Russell Bean
Gibbs
Dorothy Rylander
Luta P. Walker
Hailey, Bass, Gibbs
Hobbs
Bean
Clem Boverie
J. C. Chambers
L. G. Pierce
J. D. Rosson
Robert L. Snider
George Wilson
John Whitcomb
J. C. Allensworth
James G. Allen
W. B. Blankenship
Clem B. Beverie
J.C. Chambers
Bob Crump
Giles Dalby
George W. Dupree
Bryan Edwards
Joe Kirk Fulton
Don G. Farr
Harold Hinn
O. Brandon Hull
Dorman Igo
John B. Joiner
Alexander S. Kline
Arch Lamb
John Lott
J. Edd McLaughlin
J. Mark McLaughlin
W. G. McMillan Jr
Walter S. Posey
W. D. Rogers Jr
B. E. Rusing Jr
Marion Sanford
Ivy Savage
Preston E. Smith
Wilmer Smith
James W. Spears
Dudley Strain
David F. Tipple
Fred
Retha Martin
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Federal troop cuts deepen Meredith desegregation crisis
Oxford embraces further Army and National Guard withdrawals while James H. Meredith faces ongoing threats. Defense officials return 5 900 troops to bases and release 900 Mississippi guardsmen. Meredith denounces NAACP involvement and calls for fair handling of his desegregation effort as incidents persist around the campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avalanche-Journal News Services
Oxford
University of Mississippi
James H. Meredith
Army
Cyrus Vance
Washington
Memphis
Tenn
Columbus
Miss
Mississippi
Meredith
NAACP
Statewide Historical Heritage meeting set in San Antonio
Dr. Rupert N. Richardson of Abilene, president of the Texas State Historical Survey Committee, says 240 county committees and societies and 46 state and regional organizations will attend the two day gathering in San Antonio. Featured speakers include Dr. Richard Howland of the Smithsonian Institution and Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College and guest lecturer at the University of Texas.
Mrs. Roosevelt Reported Better in Hospital
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt was reported in satisfactory condition at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center where she was admitted on September 26 for a lung infection. A hospital spokesman said her temperature was normal and she was up and around. She was reading and answering mail with no indication of discharge date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Roosevelt
Philippines Seizes 8000 Pornographic Paperback Editions
Manila customs authorities seize 2 000 imported copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover and 6 000 copies of Secrets of Sylvia declaring them pornographic. The action underscores a government effort to curb obscene material entering the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Toastmasters Install Officers at Hub Club
Fifty two members and guests attended the Hub Toastmasters Club installation at Moore's Cactus Inn. Gordon Climer became president with Al Rettig Roy L James J W Elrod Dick Linden and Dr Glenn Gay named officers. District 44 governor Dendell Henry and district secretary treasurer Charl ie Eubanks attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Hub
Toastmasters Club
Moore's Cactus Inn
Gordon Climer
al Rettig
Roy L. James
J. W. Elrod
Dick Linden
Glenn Gay
Dendell Henry
Amarillo
Toastmasters International
Charliei Eubanks
Gutierrez Rites Set At Roswell
Roswell special report of funeral services for Joseph G Gutierrez 65 owner of Imperial Plumbing and Heating Co. Roswell died at St Marys Hospital after a heart attack. Roswell native since 1929, survivors include wife two sons Tom and Joe Jr three daughters Helen Josephine and Virginia. Requiem high mass set for Thursday at St Pius X Catholic Church with burial in South Park Cemetery Mason Funeral Home in charge. Burial will follow in South Park Cemetery here under direction of Mason Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Pius X Catholic Church
Bernard Burns
Adam Wethington
Ronnin Einhaus
South Park Cemetery
Mason Funeral Home
Gutierrez
Imperial Plumbing and Heating Co
St. Mary's Hospital
Washington
Roswell
Tom
la Paz
Bolivia
Joe Jr
Helen
Lubbock
Josephine
St. Louis
Virginia
Summerlin Rites Scheduled Today
Services for Wylie L. Summerlin 42 of 1514 18th Street will be at 3 p m at the Tabernacle Baptist Church with Dr. Ben D Johnson and Rev E L Bynum officiating Burial will be in City of Lubbock Cemetery under Sands Funeral Home direction Summerlin moved to Lubbock in 1929 and died after arriving dead on arrival Monday at a Houston hospital following an apparent heart attack He was a trucker visiting Houston He is survived by his wife a father a brother and a sister Pallbearers are W E Morris Jim Fortenberry Virgil Ratliff L R Shropshire Vaughn Campbell and W P Maynard Honorary pallbearers are Fred Fortenberry and Wilson Nancy
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wylie L. Summerlin
18Th St
Lubbock
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Ben D. Johnson
E. L. Bynum
City of Lubbock Cemetery
Sanders Funeral Home
Summerlin
Houston
W. E. Morris
Jim Fortenberry
Virgil Ratliff
L. R. Shropshire
Vaughn Campbell
W. P. Maynard
Fred Fortenberry
Wilson
Nancy
Satterfield Rites Held for Dallas Resident Walter H. Satterfield
Walter H. Satterfield 77 of Dallas died Monday in Methodist Hospital Dallas. Services set for 2:30 p m today at Tyler Street Methodist Church Dallas with burial in Laurel Land Cemetery. Survived by wife Mildred two sons Walter E. Satterfield Fort Worth and Frank H. Satterfield Dallas sister Mrs Oscar Adkins Bardwell and two grandchildren.
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Tyler Street Methodist Church
Dallas
Emmett Miller
Lubbock
Satterfield
Swift & Co
Methodist Hospital
Laurel Land Cemetery
Mildred Satterfield
Walter E. Satterfield
Fort Worth
Frank H. Satterfield
Oscar ‘Adkins
Bardwell
Ralls Mourns Mayor Earl Tinnin Aged 56
Services for Mayor Earl Tinnin will be held at Ralls First Methodist Church at 3 p.m. with Rev. Conrad Ryan and Rev. W. R. Beaird officiating. Masonic graveside rites follow at Ralls Cemetery under Carter Funeral Home direction. Tinnin, longtime Ralls resident and former city official, leaves a wife, three grandchildren, three brothers, two sisters, and his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralls
Earl Tinnin
Methodist
Lubbock
Ralls First Methodist Church
Conrad Ryan
W. R. Beaird
Carter Funeral Home
Tinnin
Lynch-Tinnin Department Store
South Plains Council
First Methodist Church
Stewards
Mrs. Maude Goodwin rites set for Spur church
Mrs. Maude Waggoner Goodwin 80 a longtime Dickens County resident will be funeralized today at 10 a m in Spur First Baptist Church with Rev H T Harris and two local ministers officiating. Burial follows at Spur Cemetery under Eudy Seale Funeral Home. She died Monday in West Texas Hospital Lubbock after living in Afton since 1918. Survivors include two daughters two sons 11 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Grandsons will pallbearers.
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Afton
Maude Waggoner Goodwin
Dickens County
First Baptist Church
Spur
H. T. Harris
Childress
Ben Pate
Afton Baptist Church
L. Kite
Spur First Baptist
Spur Cemetery
Eudy- Seale Funeral Home
Matador
Goodwin
Minden
West Texas Hospital
Lubbock
San Augustine
H. H. Goodwin
Poplar Grove
Afton Baptist Church. Her Survivors Include Two Daughters, Mrs. Jack Lawson
Drue Byrd
Aston
Andy
Lefors
Ted
Dickens
Sidney Goodwin
Milford Byrd
Waldee Goodwin
Tommie Lawson
Harold Goodwin
Larry Lawson
Howell Services Planned Today
Rites for William M. Howell 78, longtime resident of Dimmitt and recent Lubbock dweller, will be held at 3 p m today at First Baptist Church with Rev M A Smith Jr officiating. Burial at Castro Memorial Park. Survivors include his wife two sons Paul and Henry of Dimmitt a daughter Mrs J H Dunn and eleven great grandchildren. Burial will be at Castro Memorial Park under Dennis Funeral Home direction. Spent last years in Lubbock with daughter before death at Methodist Hospital.
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Dimmitt
William M. Howell
Lubbock
First Baptist Church
M. A. Smith Jr
Earl Lawtroop
Clovis
Castro Memorial Park
Dennis Funeral Home
Howell
Methodist
Mothers mold noble men a tribute to JULIEN C HYER
A poetic tribute extols motherhood shaping strong men through faith. It cites scripture Acts 17 11 and honors a mother named JULIEN C HYER for endowing a son with nurture discipline and prayer to guide his character and right living.
Rites Set For Swisher Pioneer Sorrenson
Services for H. W. Sorrenson 89 a pioneer Swisher County resident will be at 3 30 p m today at First Methodist with Rev H B Coggin officiating Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery under Wallace Funeral Home direction Sorrenson came to Swisher in 1906 farmed near Houston then retired in 1947 moved to Tulsa He was Master Farmer of Swisher in 1935 and a former Houston community trustee Survivors include wife Bertha three daughters a son a sister eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren
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H. W. Sorrenson
Swisher County
First Methodist Church
H. B. Coggin
Rose Hill Cemetery
Wallace Funeral Home
Sorrenson
Kanakee
Ill
Houston
Tulsa
Bertha
A. D. Parker
Elbert Sweatt
Julius Hansen
Tulia
E. R
Clare Strait
Grand Island
Neb
J. E. Weir Rites Set At Snyder
Services for John Ed Weir 81 longtime Scurry County resident will be at 3 p m today at Ave D Baptist Church Snyder with Rev Jack Dean and Rev T L Nipp officiating He died Tuesday at his home 1409 30th St burial in Ira Cemetery Bolger Funeral Home directed Weir a retired farmer lived 31 years in area member of Ave D Baptist Church survived by wife Flora L Scholler three daughters three sons two brothers 30 grandchildren 27 great grandchildren
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Ave. D
Borger
Sim
Dallas
John Nix Rites Set At Midland
Services for John Douglas Nix a Midland building contractor who was found shot to death will be held at 2 pm Thursday in the Newnie Ellis Funeral Chapel. Justice of the Peace John Biggs ruled the death an inquest verdict of a personal safety related bullet wound. Nix's body was discovered Tuesday by his partner and Mrs. Nix in a shop behind the Nix home. He leaves a wife a son J D Nix Jr and four daughters plus six grandchildren. Burial will be in Resthaven Cemetery with the Rev. O A McBayer officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
John Douglas Nix
Nix
R. E. Klebold
Tom Nix
O. A. McBayer
St. Mark’s Methodist Church
Newnie Ellis
Resthaven Cemetery
Services Slated For Mrs Isbell
Funeral services for Mrs. T. E. Isbell 81 of 3808 28th St. will be at 1 p m Thursday at the Methodist Church in Sanger with burial in Sanger Cemetery under Rix Funeral Home direction She died Tuesday at her Lubbock home Surviving: three sons O M of Stamford J B of Sanger and Toledo Wagon Mound N M a daughter Mrs L B Skinner of Lubbock five siblings and two brothers Olimer Smuler and P A Smulcer also listed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Isbell
28Th St
Lubbock
Sanger
Rix Funeral Home
Isbell
Methodist Church
O. M
Stamford
J. B
Horace Hudgins Services Pending
Horace Arvid Hudgins age 20 died Tuesday at the home of his sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Farris Campbell. He was a cerebral palsy victim. He lived in Hobbs most of his life and recently moved to Portales with his parents Mr and Mrs Willard Hudgins. Arrangements are pending Griffin Funeral Home. Survivors include a sister Mrs Lyman Arnspiger Portales and brothers Jimmie and Gene in the armed services.
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Hobbs
Horace Arvid Hudgins
Farris Campbell
Hudgins
Portales
Willard Hudgins
Griffin Funeral Home
Lyman Arnspiger
Jimmie
Gene
Armed Services
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Associated Press
Jobe
North Lubbock
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
John A. Morsell
Sec
Roy Wilkins
Meek Hall
Peabody
U.S
L.L. Love
Love
San Antonio
Fdr
I. B. Stitt
Horace E. Mitchell
Howard G. Denison
Ben R. Young
Austin G. Harris
Alton Griffin
Dick Wagnon
John Thurman
Charles Finley
Paul Johnson
Joseph G Gutierrez
Helen. Gutierrez
25Th St
F.D.I.C
Julien C.hyer
Swisher
J. E. Weir
Snyder
John Nix
Horace Hudgins
DR. J. Davis
Armistead Optometrist
Soth
Resthaven Memorial
Levelland Highway
Miller
Western Oxygen, Inc
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