Local Ledger Names and Advertisers List
Fragmentary newspaper clipping from Lubbock area paper lists individuals such as Robert R. Norris J.C. Rickman Jay Harris Neth May and Robert C McVay with titles Advertising Director and Corporate Manager amid broken OCR text. The readable items suggest a notice or patron listing without clear event details or dates.
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J.C. Rickman
Nos Jay Harris
Neth May Eater
N.C
ROBERT C_MCVAY
Corgation
Giant Ranch Headquarters gains $100000 gift for Bicentennial project
The Ranch Headquarters Association on the Tech campus received a $100,000 donation from Christine DeWitt of the Mallet Ranch to advance restoration of 22 authentic ranch buildings. The annual meeting featured dedication of the Matador Office building and other historic structures, drawing Texas Tech supporters and out of state visitors to view living history of ranching life and frontier heritage.
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Tech
Christine DeWitt
Mallet Ranch
John Lott
Southwest
Matador
Texas Tech University
Richmond clerk gives away thousands yearly despite critics
Postal clerk Thomas Cannon of Richmond with an $11 000 annual salary says he has donated about $8 000 since January to diverse causes including a Nigerian kidney patient and a Christmas fund for ten charities. He accepts suspicion and criticism as the price of living by his creed and doing “his own thing.”
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Thomas Cannon
Richmond
Cannon
Richmond News
Peanut Surplus Persists Despite Shortages Across US
The United States holds a peanut surplus costing taxpayers about 70 million dollars last year and an estimated 537 million over four years. The Agriculture Department blames a 30 year old law setting 1.6 million acres for peanuts, urging increased consumption and research instead of acreage cuts. Senator Herman Talmadge defends peanuts as vital to rural economies, invoking the word nuts.
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United States
Wall Street Journal
Agriculture Department
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
Senate Agriculture Committee
Anthony Clement McAuliffe
Nixon Fat Cats Set Speed Record in Campaign Cash
Nixon campaign revels in large cash gifts and pre-April 1972 prepayments amid a court order forcing disclosure. The piece cites $60.2 million raised in 1972, with $5 million spent in early April and names figures like Robert Vesco and Calvin Kovens. It criticizes the lack of transparency and urges rule changes.
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Washington
Gallup
U.S. Treasury
Main Street
Nixon
Ike Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
Robert L. Vesco
Vesco
Atty
John Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Securities and Exchange Commission
Calvin Kovens
Florida
Kovens
Jimmy Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Senate Watergate Committee
General Accounting Office
Nixon Reelection Committee
Nixon Committee
Common Cause
Congress
IMF Stages African Conference in Nairobi
The International Monetary Fund held its first African conference in Nairobi Kenya to spotlight the plight of underdeveloped nations. A delegate said nearly half the human race goes to bed hungry each night.
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International Monetary Fund
Nairobi
Kenya
Finnish Food Fun and Global Aid Reflections
A travelogue blends a Finnish sauna eating spree with social critique. The narrator compares post trip air quality to foreign city smogs while detailing reviving saunas and eight herrings. It then surveys U S aid policy, noting decades of foreign aid, population growth, and Libya’s oil wealth, urging tempered generosity.
Look Back and Ahead From The Avalanche Journal
AY HARRIS reflects on 35 years at The Avalanche Journal and The AI papers in Lubbock Texas. He recalls early duties, growth of the region, and the profession's responsibilities to truth and public good, praising colleagues and readers. He looks forward to more years teaching and serving the community.
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Uncle Sam
Avalanche Journal
Lubbock High
Westerners
Texas Tech
Pete Cawthon
Red Raiders
Avalanche-Journal
A-J
Quote Snippets Reflecting Modern Money and Car Culture
The piece notes how ancient clam shells give way to plastic cards in wallets and mentions drive in commerce from 1930s era captions. It cites quotes from Bob Goddard in the St Louis Globe-Democrat and Leo Aikman in the Atlanta Constitution. Johnny Raudonis is referenced describing success as born from private mistakes.
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Navy
Chicago Tribune
Bob Goddard
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Johnny Raudonis
Leo Aikman
Atlanta Constitution
Watertown NY Inventor of Bedsprings and Vacation Cottage Oddities
A quirky reminiscence places the first bedsprings invention in Watertown New York before the Civil War by an unknown man who dozed on a carriage seat. It also notes Shredded Wheat’s Watertown origin and a modest six week home spell with six couples and thirteen children. The seal’s blood-evoking physiology is described alongside a note on ancient price controls and the Babylonian code.
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Tokyo
Amsterdam
Honolulu
Rome
Finland
Lapland
Arctic Circle
Watertown
N.Y
Eshnunna
B.C
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Sessppeh
Ion Mesa
Een
Elsie BC Nat Py
Labi
Hvaltache Journal
Gerber
Herria Emneramansoacee
Robert R. Norris
Nice
Aeris
Lubbock
Texas
Giant Ranch Headquarters
Jowell
Palo Pinto County
U.S
Ndrew Tully
Henry J. Taylor
Helsinki
Aulanko
Porvoo
Hoover Relief Commission
Winston Churchill
India
Western
Europe
Latin America
Libya
AY Harris
Dobbin
Texas Avenue
Great South Plains
L.M. Boyd
P.O
Fort Worth
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