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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1950

Page

8

PTA Members To Assist In Tuberculin Testing Program

Lubbock County Tuberculosis association launches annual tuberculin testing in city schools starting Monday for all first and sixth graders with parental consent. Nurses, PTA members, and welfare staff will apply plasto tests. positive reactions prompt chest X-rays and further action. Test readings and re-tests will be conducted over 48 hours as doctors interpret results.

Association Virginia Greenwaldt PTA Parent-Teachers Association B. R. Clanton The Tuberculosis Association

6666 Persons Take X Ray Tests Here

A mobile X ray unit from the Texas State Health department conducted eight days of free X rays in downtown Lubbock, totaling 6,666 people. An additional 2,395 Texas Teen students were X rayed on campus. After closing here, the unit will resume Tuesday at the Southwestern Public Service building in Slaton.

Lubbock Mobile Texas State Health Department Texas Southwestern Public Service Slaton

Curbs on House Sales to Be Studied at Builders Conference

Houston reports the National Association of Home Builders will study recent government curbs on house sales at its fall conference. The meeting agenda includes a review by the board of directors.

Houston National Association of Home Builders Board of Director

Rites Set Today For Terry County Pioneer

Rites for R D Shewmake Jr 67 year old farmer fatally injured in a tractor combine accident on H R Winston farm southeast of Brownfield will be held at 4 pm Sunday at Crescent Hill Church of Christ Jimmy Wood minister will officiate Burial will be in Terry County Memorial cemetery under Brownfield Funeral name direction Survivors include three sons R D Jr Winford James V Shewmake three daughters Jeannette Roller Betty Jo Meloncon and Montie Dale Chatelain and two brothers Amos and Bill Shewmake His wife died in 1927

Brownfield R. D. Shewmake, Jr H. R. Winston Crescent Hill Church Shewmake Winston Treadaway-Daniel Hospital Lindsay Oklo Winford Tech James V. Shewmake San Antonio Jeannette Roller Bradley Okla Betty Jo Meloncon Montie Dale Chatelain Lafayette Amos Shewmake Big Spring Bill Shewmake Los Angeles

Deep Wildcats Slated In Hale County Drilling

Two Ellenburger wildcats are set to start in southeast Hale county as Ray A. Albaugh of Midland plans two 10 000 foot tests in a 7260 acre lease. No. 1 Mrs Clara Hormell lies near Plainview with Mabee Drilling contracted to begin material moves this week and drilling soon. No. 1 W H Burton lies 10 miles south of Plainview with its drilling contract to be awarded this week and operations to start shortly. The lease block includes multiple sections across D-7 and surrounding townships.

Hale County Ray A. Albaugh Midland Clara Hormell Plainview El&rr Survey Mabee Drilling Company of Midland Hormell W. H. Burton Burton

Pioneer Day Speaker in Gaines County Program

Special D- Boyce House humorist and news paper columnist will speak at 3 p m October 21 during Pioneer days at Gaines county fairgrounds after the Gaines County Pioneers association meeting. House is known for ten books nine about Texas and is director of publicity for the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock show. He has edited newspapers in Ranger Cisco and Eastland and contributed to The Saturday Evening Post. Life magazine called him Texas No 1 Booster.

Seminole Boyce House Gaines County Fairgrounds Eastland Saturday Evening Post Life Magazine Texas

New Blood-Antibiotic Method Aids Atom Ray Victims

At Chicago the AABB and University of Chicago researchers report that combining whole blood transfusions with antibiotics like aureomycin saves animals exposed to 50 percent higher atomic ray doses than usually lethal. The plan requires large blood reserves for an A bomb attack, with 1,250,000 units needed the first day and millions more after. Civil defense and medical groups debate walking blood banks versus traditional stocks.

Robert N. Schwartz INS Chicago American Association of Blood Banks J. Garrett Allen University of Chicago Allen Civil Defense AABB The American Medical Associa

Wayland Student Speaks On Favorite You Can Heal

Wayland College student Bob Bratcher showed Hawaii trip pictures at Idalou Civic and Culture Club. He displayed island souvenirs and spoke to eighteen members and guests as hostesses named.

Idalou Bob Bratcher Wayland Hawaii Hawaiian Islands Civic and Culture Club Floyd Whitney Earl Yarbrough Ottis Isom Monroe DeBusk Bruce Isom Eugene Becknell Roy Langford Hubert Searsy Donald Bledsoe Sid Capshaw Charles Gates

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Tex Avalanche-Journal Sun Robbie McLean Eva H. Ford Laura Nell Guthrie Bennie Sanford Tom Cannon J. H. Martin Ouida Adams Terry County Deep Wildcats Hale C. I. Grimes Texas Employment Commission James Foy Herbert L. King G. L. Alkire Amicable Life Insurance Company A. B. Culp Clyde Gordon Finis W. Holcomb B. F. Jarvis T. N. Lucas Ben C. Ray Elizabeth R. Thompson C. J. Robertson Ralph Weise Charles G. Wendt C. E. Willard A. G. Williams O. E. Williamson F. M. Butler L. B. Chunn C. B. Harder, F. A. Hart and J. S. Hoskins Tion U.S. Public Health Service Ernest Witebsky Buffalo N. Y Mission Orange Bottling CO D. C. Casey America Mission Orange South Plains Tles Invig California Darrell Gibson H. L Smoky
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