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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1954
Page
4
John G. Hutton of the Lubbock Social Security District explains 1954 amendments raise future old age and survivor benefits. Provisions include higher earnings bases, “drop out” years, revised benefit formulas, and extended coverage to about ten million people after 1954.
Garza County forms its first Community Chest with Powell Shydles directing. Directors query merchants on an opening date, consider early December drive, and mail cards asking each organization to appoint a board member. Budget said to be 7000 to 8000 dollars for 1955 and county-wide scope noted.
The South Plains Poultry Association will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Texas Tech engineering auditorium. FE D Rainer of Clary Poultry and Egg Co. will speak on a poultry topic and demonstrate egg candling. Several members will candle eggs. refreshments will be served.
Floydada resident Paul C. Snodgrass was named crew leader for the 1954 Census of Agriculture. He will guide enumerators canvassing farms in Floyd, Briscoe, and Crosby counties. After training in Amarillo, he returned to Floydada to recruit staff for the census beginning in October.
Twenty-nine Wilson Grade School pupils are listed on the first six weeks honor roll announced by Principal L. G. Fuller. Names include students from second through sixth grades such as Joe Mason, Keith Sander, Cherry Campbell, Carolyn Henzler, and Verda Mae Fields among others.
One of the principal speakers at the second annual Texas Tech Tax Conference Oct 25 27 will be Thomas O Shelton Jr Dallas a tax law specialist with Matthews Shelton and Fisher He is a former chairman of the tax section of the Texas Bar Association and has practiced in New York Indianapolis Houston and Dallas The conference stresses the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 the first major tax law overhaul this century The event is sponsored by the Texas Society of CPAs Lubbock Panhandle Permian Basin chapters the Lubbock Bar Association Northwest and Panhandle Districts Amarill and Lubbock chapters of the Texas Association of Public Accountants in cooperation with Texas Tech.
The final first semester Church Night program at First Christian Church begins at 6:30 p m on Wednesday. Tex Jones president will speak on My Stake in Better World as part of a class on The Christian's Stake in Community and World Affairs. Mrs D G Zachary and Mrs James Russell lead a panel on Church and Home Work Together with other classes taught by regular teachers. Attendance across the first four programs totals 1005. The second semester starts November 3. On October 27 the Christian Men's Fellowship will join a church supper.
Post High School named winners in the annual Fire Prevention Week essay contest. Patsy Rountree won first in the upper grades for "Your Help Is Needed" and Frances Barron captured first in eighth grade with "The Lumber Fire." Second and third places were awarded to Ruby Montgomery and Johnnie Graham in high school, and Jimmy Short and Victor Hudman in the eighth grade.
Agriculture Department officials will join the annual four day agricultural outlook conference in Washington from October 25 to 29. Experts from all fields of agriculture will present reports forecasting the next 12 months for American farmers.
Circumstance: Seminole High School plans a circus themed homecoming Friday night with an all school half time show featuring clowns tumblers puppets story book character parade a bull fight by fifth graders and a freak boxing match as part of exes and alumni observances.
Littlefield high school choir returned from Dallas after representing the area at the State Fair of Texas. They gave a 2 minute concert in the Fine Arts building and performed with the massed chorus in the Cotton Bowl. Accompanied by four adults, the 46 students paid their own travel expenses on two school buses.
Cpl. Audrey D. Preston, 22, son of Mr and Mrs L V Preston of Hurlwood, earned corporal stripes in a record time at Ladd Air Force Base Fairbanks Alaska after completing basic training. Assigned to Battery B 450th AAA Battalion since last May he rose from private to corporal in about three months. His wife and daughter Duanna reside in El Paso and both were former Texas Tech students.
Seminole Junior High held old fashion spelling bees with prizes every six weeks for winning teams and individual champions. Eighth grade language arts teacher Miss Nancy Bratton says the contests add fun and boost classroom interest. Winners include Jerry Sullivan Tray Brown Roy Stanford Harry Beavers Kay Reid Gay Drennan Paul Gober and Darlene Booe.
Abilene Texas October 16 students enrolled at Abilene Christian College reached 1780 the largest in the school's history reflecting growth for the period.
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