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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 12, 1953

Page

3

Prejudice at Trial Claimed in Maryland Death Case

Convicted wife slayer G Edward Grammer seeks a new trial before the Maryland Court of Appeals at Annapolis. He was sentenced to hang for the August 19 1952 slaying of Dorothy May Grammer and has been in Maryland’s death house since early this year.

Baltimore G. Edward Grammer Maryland Court of Appeals Annapolis New York Dorothy May Grammer Maryland Azine Grammer Matilda Mizibrocky United Nations The Criminal Court of Baltimore Mizibrocky Sherbow Anselm Sodaro U. S. Supreme Court Theodore R. McKeldin

Plains School Class Officers Are Named

Plains High School named class officers for the year. Seniors: Marcene Lowe president Eual Dean Strickland vice president Dasha Lusk secretary Patricia Hamilton treasurer Mickey Cochren reporter Bill Goad Pat Tone sponsors. Juniors: Bill Fitzgerald president Margaret Fitzgerald vice president Juanella Clanahan treasurer Martha Fitzgerald secretary Don Hinkle reporter Carl Caldwell Mrs Bob Snodgrass sponsors. Sophomores: Jerry Brantley resident Leroy Adcock vice president Norma Harvey secretary Donald Adock Bobby Chambliss sentry Miss Josephine Verden sponsors. Freshmen: James Overton president Kenneth Blount vice president Peggy Kennedy secretary Sut Sims treasurer Leland Morrow reporter Frances Payne parliamentarian. Oil exploration activities in Papua have been transferred to the limestone region between the Pureri River and the Dutch border.

Brownfield Plains High School Marcene Lowe Eual Dean Strickland Dasha Lusk Patricia Hamilton Carol Carpenter Mickey Cochren Bill Goad Pat Tone Bill Fitzgerald Margaret Fitzgerald Juanella Clanahan Martha Fitzgerald Don Hinkle

President seeks private credit groups for small firms

Washington Oct 11 Small Business Administrator William D Mitchell said he wants to organize private credit organizations in every state to provide loans to small firms. He noted such groups are already operating in several states.

Small Business Aid Washington William D. Mitchell

South Plains Health Unit Members Meet At Brownfield

South Plains Health Unit staff met in Brownfield to review topics from the regular meeting and explain new rules on annual leave sick leave emergency leave and compensatory leave. Dr. David M. Cowgill led the session with Gamma Globulin noted by William B. Cope.

Brownfield South Plains Health Unit David M. Cowgill William B. Cope Lewis Simmons R. N John H. Happ Sanitarian Gene Nicholson Terry County Ann Foster Sue Richardson Clrk William F. Cox Yoakum Gaines Virginia Moore James L. Bearden Ollie Evans Hockley County David J. Calley Sylvia Mayberry Jackie Goolsby Dawson County

Funeral services held for Mrs Hopkins of Anton

Funeral services for Mrs. W T Hopkins 60 of Anton were set for 10 am at Ford Memorial Chapel First Baptist Church with Rev David L Zacharias presiding Burial was under Sanders Funeral Home in Tech Memorial Park She died Saturday at her son Denzel Hopkins 3109 25th St Surviving family includes her husband the son five sisters a brother and two grandchildren Also a three day Singing Mission began at St Pauls Episcopal Church with directors William Teague and Rev T Robert Ingram Junior and youth choirs met 430 530 pm each day and the senior choir gathered at 730 pm later that day funeral services were held for Rev A E Davis 58 pastor of the Negro Methodist Church in Tahoka with burial in Tahoka Cemetery Following this Dr Henry Snyderman lectured at The Museum at Texas Tech on Psychological Difficulties in the Modern American Home The lecture was free and sponsored by the Lubbock County Society for Mental Health Benjamin Franklin Keltz 66 White Flat farmer was buried East Mound Cemetery Matador with Masonic rites at the graveside Rushing season for Texas Tech fraternities began with rushees signing preferential ecards to Friday Oct 2 Kappa Sigma hosts Monday and Sigma

St. Paul's Episcopal Church William Teague Shreveport T. Robert Ingram Abilene A. E. Davis Negro Methodist Church Tahoka Stanley- Jones Funeral Home Fort Worth Henry Snyderman Plainview Hospital and Clinic Foundation P. m Texas Tech Lubbock County Society For Mental Health Benjamin Franklin Keltz First Baptist Church Matador Eudo-Scale Funeral Home East Mound Cemetery Keltz

Nixon winds up Hawaiian stop and heads toward New Zealand

Vice President Richard M. Nixon wrapped up a Hawaii visit with a Maui radio address and a wreath laying at the sunken battleship Arizona. He then flew 4,750 miles to New Zealand to begin his Far East goodwill tour after three and a half days in Hawaii.

Honolulu Richard M. Nixon Hawaii Maui New Zealand Nixon Arizona Pearl Harbor

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