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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1964

Page

10

Chrysanthemum Colorama Opens On Texas Tech Campus

Tech opens the campus for chrysanthemum Colorama with 15 20 thousand blooms under Dr Bill Kitchen and George Fugitt. Mayor Tidmore proclaims Chrysanthemum Colorama Week as Lubbock merchants prepare ads and city parks display varieties including Gold Lode Grace Bradshaw and Remembrance Pancho Horizon Real Gold. The event runs Saturday through the Texas Tech Fall Horticulture Festival with trial plots on 15th Street and Flint Avenue featuring new varieties and seedlings.

ED Zukauckas Tech Texas Max Tidmore Grace Bradshaw Remembrance Jubbock City Park Department A. C. Hamilton Dan Kamp Horizon Pancho Lubbock Texas Tech

Prospects for Top Flower Show at Tech Campus

Prospective participants in the Fall Horticultural Festival report strong blooms ahead with chrysanthemums and quality dahlias. Entries welcomed at the Plant Science Building on Tech Campus between 8 and 11 a.m. Saturday Oct 24. Southwest Region delegates of the Men’s Garden Clubs of America will tour that day with national officers attending.

Texas Tech Horticulture and Park Manacomer Club Texas Tech Horticulture and Park Administration Club Plant Science Tech Southwest Region Men's Garden Clubs of America George Spader Morrisville N.Y Bryant Horn Jackson Miss Lubbock BE. Z

Outside Hazards Dig Up Glads For Winter Storage

Gardeners should dig glads and caladiums before winter. Clean and dry bulbs, store with dry peat moss or rice hulls in a cool dry place. Caladiums rot if stored cold or moist. keep above 60 degrees and warm, dry. Avoid leaving glads outside all winter to prevent color loss and damage.

Safari Zanzibar Delft Bambara

Largest Rail Merger in History Consolidates Six Roads

Norfolk and Western completes a $1.9 billion merger with Nickel Plate and others, expanding to about 7 800 miles. The deal promises consumer benefits through lower interchanges and faster service, while boosting regional economies.

Roanoke Norfolk and Western Railway Co NGW Vfa Southern Pacific Dixie Midwest India Norfolk and Western Omahe Neb Norfolk Eastern Seaboard Detroit Mich Winston-Seleay NC West Virginia Tennessee Herman Perler Norfolk and Western Merced Mercer Norfolk and Western Common

Flower Show Set Saturday in Plains High School Cafeteria

The Plains Dirt Gardeners Club hosts its seventh annual flower show titled Beauty From the Good Earth. Open to the public 4 to 6 p.m. with exhibits on horticulture conservation and design supervised by Muriel Thompson and Wilson Duke of the Yoakum County Soil Conservation office. National Council of Garden Clubs judges will evaluate entries using standard scoring.

Plains Plains Dirt Gardeners Club Plains High School Muriel Thompson Wilson Duke Yoakum County Soil Conservation Office

Personal Touch In Barber Shop Lives On In Cups

In Paintsville Kentucky Bob Montgomery runs a sundries store with a rack of coffee cups inscribed with regular customers names. Not everyone earns a cup a man must drink about a gallon to qualify.

Paintsville Bob Montgomery Montgomery

Rose Official To Visit Here In Lubbock

Keister Evans Jr. of Columbus Ohio executive secretary of the American Rose Society and managing editor of American Rose Magazine will visit rose gardens in Lubbock Sunday. A 6 p.m. reception at Municipal Garden Arts Center will honor Mr and Mrs Evans as they travel to a national Society convention in Phoenix Arizona. Members of the Lubbock Rose Society hostesses will outline a tour.

Keister Evans Jr Columbus Ohio The American Rose Society American Rose Magazine Rose Lubbock Municipal Garden Arts Center Evans Phoenix Ariz Lubbock Rose Society

Techsan Garden Club Hosts Arranging Workshop

The Techsan Garden Club met Wednesday at Mrs. John A. Andersons home 5017 15th St New members attended a coffee then a flower arranging workshop The next meeting is scheduled for 8 p m on November 18.

Techsan Garden Club John A. Anderson 15Th St

Lubbock Hosts National Society Visit to Rose Gardens

Officials from the national Society and the local Lubbock group announce the first visit by a national officer to Lubbock. The event highlights the town’s rose gardens and community interest in the Society’s regional activities.

Lubbock iLubbock Group

Love Your Enemies Itll Drive Them Crazy Sign Stirs Churchyard

A Nicholasville churchyard sign proclaims Love Your Enemies, Itll Drive Them Crazy, drawing attention to the site and sparking local commentary on tolerance and humor.

Nicholasville

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