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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 23, 1955

Page

2

State Leaders to Attend Veterans Officers School in Lubbock

The 8th annual statewide rehabilitation school for veterans service officers opens in Lubbock Monday through Thursday drawing 125 to 150 leaders. Charles L. Morris of Austin directs the school jointly sponsored by the Texas Veterans Affairs Commission and major veterans groups. The program includes sessions on death compensation pension and disability retirement with representatives from Labor Social Security and Veterans Administration in attendance.

Veterans Service Officers Lubbock Veterans Affairs Texas County Veteran Service Officers Association of Texas Veteran Affairs Commission of Texas American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars Disabled American Veterans Austin Charles L. Morris Veterans Affairs Commission Department of Labor, Social Security Administration Veterans Administration J. Earl Rudder Veterans Land Board Department of Labor Denver Colo Reese Air Force Base The Social Security Administration Veterans Service Lubbock Chamber of Commerce

Police Stop Vehicle. 18 High School Students Arrested

In St. Joseph Missouri police Lt Leroy Surface halted a car yesterday and arrested its 18 occupants though two or three evaded capture. The youths, all high school students, were turned over to school authorities. The superintendent suspended them indefinitely.

ST. Joseph Leroy Surface Surface

Arthritis Treatment Claim Letters Reach Spears Chiro

An appeal invites readers to write to Spears Chiropractic Practic Sanitarium and Hospital in Denver Colorado for testimonial proof of results in arthritis and a wide list of ailments including cancer polio epilepsy rheumatic fever MS cerebral palsy muscular dystrophy strokes heart liver skin stomach kidney and more.

Spears Chiropractic Sanitarium and Hospital Denver Colo

Winners In Slogan Contest Announced

Sam Sutherland of the Lubbock Association of Insurance Agents announced the winners of a fire prevention slogan contest. Martha Francis Blocker won first prize of 7.50 for a 508 51st St. student from O. L. Slaton Junior High School. Glenn Sides placed second, with other top finishers including Archie Nelj Penny and Walter Beasley among Lubbock school students.

Lubbock Association of Insurance Agents Sam Sutherland Martha Francis Blocker 51St St O. L. Slaton Glenn Sides F. E. Wheelock Archie Nel] Penny E. 25Th ‘St Sieber School Walter Edward Beasley Lubbock Carroll Thomp Een Dickiel Schultz C. E. Maed- Ben Don Lummus Roscoe Willson Nita Pace J. T. Hutchinson Nan Clements 27Th St Dupre Jimmy Frey E. Stanford Arnett Mickey Landers K. Carter Sutherland Jimmy Edwards Lester Grimes Jeff Watson

National decline in polio continues across the country

Public Health Service says 834 new polio cases were recorded last week, a 15 percent drop from the prior week. There are 259 paralytic cases among 7 to 8 million vaccinated children and 602 non paralytic cases among vaccinated persons. Total polio cases for the year reach 24,937 versus 31,691 last year. Since April 1, cases total 23,874 against 30,138 a year ago.

Washington Public Health Service North Carolina Texas California

Prospects Good for Weddings In Early 1960s

Insurance statisticians project about 8,000,000 American men aged 20 to 25 by 1965, up from 6,500,000 currently. They say roughly half of the bridegrooms in the country will come from this cohort between 1960 and 1965, signaling strong demand for caterers florists and justice of the peace services.

Detroit

Yielding Peace Hidden Before Yalta Says Morgan

Roy L. Morgan former associate prosecutor in the Tojo war crimes trials says Shigenori Togo reported Japan sought peace in spring 1945. He alleges Russia acted as mediator with terms mirroring Potsdam while withholding Japan’s surrender, then used it for Soviet bargaining at Yalta.

Earnest Hoberboch Tokyo Russia Yalta Japan United Press Roy L. Morgan Hideki Tojo Morgan Shigenori Togo Togo United States Moscow Hiroshima Jare Manchurian Uo Yalta

Film Leader Raps Gossip Magazines

Dore Schary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer urged the press to curb dirty gossip in magazines. He said Hollywood deplores half truths and slander that harm individuals and questioned if a code of practice could curb such journalism.

Chicago Dore Schary Metro - Goldwyn ~ Mayer Pictures Hollywood Schary Audit Bureau of Circulation

Indiana Couple Welcome Fourth Set Of Twins In 17 Years

ANDERSON Ind Mr and Mrs William Schuyler of Elwood are the parents of twins born Wednesday at St Johns Hospital here Their newborns join three prior twin sets aged 17 7 and 1 along with four other children aged 9 to 14

Indiana

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