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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1972
Page
8
Associate County Extension Agent Tom Hemphill urges careful use of insecticides in homes and gardens. He warns against overuse and advises examining the whole garden before spraying. The piece highlights natural controls such as ladybugs and praying mantises and stresses careful, common sense application.
Bars were installed across booking office windows of the tapvodle County jail after two prisoners escaped through an un barred ground floor window. Alfredo Franco Ramirez and Henry Marroquin remain at large. Blanchard and deputies search, with a lead previously guiding to Lamesa.
The New Mexico NAACP state conference begins its three day sessions at the Holiday Inn Clovis with 300 to 500 branch members expected. A noon luncheon features MC Robert Stubbs and speaker Jane Johnson. Lt. Gov Robert M will speak at dinner with Sen Odis Echols Jr and Mayor Chick Taylor Jr attending. Gloster B Current delivers the keynote. The affair closes Sunday after reports and officer elections.
Several quartets are slated to perform at a monthly singing Sunday afternoon at the Cavalry Temple Four Square Church located at 34th and Ave J. The event runs from 2 to 4 p.m. A church spokesman invites the public and especially church groups who enjoy singing to attend. The program focuses on class music.
In Andrews, voters decide on a proposed 2.75 million bond to expand Permian General Hospital. Absentee balloting is reported mediocre by County Clerk James Craddock. Property owners and non owners vote in separate precinct boxes. last county bonds in 1960 passed 780 to 62 for hospital and 534 to 305 for courthouse jail bonds.
Cannon AFB joined County Combined Federal Campaign for 1972. The drive raised 30,909.75 in total with Cannon contributing 29,631.94, nearly doubling last year's base total. Per capita gift averaged 7.10 dollars across federal agencies.
Saul Salas Vasquez, 28, of Aqua Dulce pleaded guilty to negligent homicide before Judge Denzil Bevers in County Court. He ran a red light while fleeing police on Feb. 27, causing a two car crash that killed three people from Lubbock. Vasquez received one year in jail plus court costs.
Six defendants pleaded guilty Friday in 99th District Court. Michael Dean Sims, 24, was given eight years probation after pleading extortion. Other pleas included attempted arson, burglary, and theft over $50. Lupe Gonzales’s probation was revoked for heroin possession. Jenkins’s revocation hearing was continued. Judge Howard C. Davison presided.
The Future Homemakers of America float won first place with a Crosbyton High School freshman class taking second and the Junior Harmony club third. Prizes totaled $100. Earlier a pep rally at Chieftain Gym honored Kathy Havens and Acevedo with "Mr Legs" salutes. About 180 attended the homecoming banquet in the Pioneer Memorial Building. Superintendent Sam Hawkes and his wife were recognized as honored teachers.
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