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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1952
Page
4
Officials disclosed winners across divisions at Hale County Fair noting grand champion overall, grand champion female, and multiple department prizes. Names appear for sewing, textile crafts, luncheon cloths, quilts, knitted items, textiles, and farm produce with several Plainview and Hale Center entrants among top placers.
WHO 1949 vital statistics review finds heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide with variation by country. Egypt shows high diarrhea deaths, Chile Colombia and Hong Kong report pneumonia as major killer, Japan tuberculosis, Iceland natural old age prevalent.
The Home Economics Exes of Tech in Lubbock and area work with Home Economics faculty to organize Homecoming events. President Mrs. Carence Whiteside notes social plans include a coffee for all former students on Homecoming Day. The group also supports Safe Driving awareness during Road Safety events.
Funeral services for W. E. Smith 76 who died of a heart attack Friday will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Singleton Funeral Home. Burial will be in Seagraves Cemetery. He is survived by one daughter Mrs Ina Heath two grandchildren and brother John Smith of Hale Center.
Evelyn Nalls Landreth a 30 year old Greenville resident was killed when her pickup left the highway and overturned eight miles southeast of Denison. Her husband C D Landreth about 30 was critically injured in the same wreck. The report notes London school children are being given lessons in bird watching.
Harry H. Rogers of San Antonio, former Rotary International president, will address Seagraves Chamber of Commerce at 7 30 p.m. Monday. Bernie Howell and Wayland College musicians will perform. Banquet limited to 75 guests. profits fund Eagle Field scoreboard.
Houston jurors convict 51 year old service station operator Gerhard A. Cordes of killing 38 year old divorcee Cleora McCord with an ice pick. The jury, in a 40 minute deliberation, recommended the death penalty for the July 23 murder in her bathtub amid neighbor statements and disputed confessions.
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