Plans For Lubbock CROP Unit To Be Made At Monday Meeting
Local leaders announce a Monday 7 30 p m meeting in the county courthouse third floor to organize a county unit of the Christian Rural Overseas Program. D W Sherrill and Miss Clara Pratt lead the effort joining church and agricultural groups in the全国 program with state and regional committees.
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Lubbock
Christian Rural Overseas Program
D. W. Sherrill
Clara Pratt
Chicago
Atlanta
Church World Service
Lutheran World Relief
Catholic Rural Life
CROP
Louie D. Newton
Druid Hills Baptist Church
Prewit
J. D. Prewit
Texas Extension Service
Beauford Jester
John M. Lawrence
The
City National Bank
Bryan
Pat M. Neff
Patrick Henry, Jr
John E. Hines
Episcopal
C. G. Eidson
Council of Church Women
Elmer Johnson
A. Frank Smith
Methodist
R. P. Farnsworth
Presbyterian US
Samuel Terry
Moderator Presbyterian USA
Henry S. Herbst
Texas building boom extends through week with $39 million awards
Texas construction activity rose again with contract awards totaling 39,164,000 led by nonresidential and school projects. Engineering work included the Benbrook dam in Tarrant County as part of a four million dollar weekly gain and an annual total of 754,462,718.
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Austin
Texas
Benbrook Dam
Tarrant County
Intoxicated man robs Congress Hotel staff in lobby
An apparently drunk man sobered in Congress Hotel lobby New York and used a gun to seize nearly 1000 dollars from three employees. He forced manager Benjamin McCullough to surrender 800 dollars, took 174 from bellhop Louis Baker, and 14 from clerk Peter Fishman. He scolded Baker about his nest egg for Christmas.
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New York
Congress Hotel
Tippling
Benjamin McCullough
Louis Baker
Peter Fishman
Baker
Plains Soldier Forms Hill Billy Band In Nippon
Private First Class Bill Burris of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, formed Bill Burris and His Saddle Pals known as Hill Billy Band. He wrote Dear Dad in 1945, performed on KVOW radio, later served in Japan as Public Information and Education Clerk, won second place in a Tokyo Bankers Club talent contest, and plans a Japan tour before returning to the United States.
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U. S. Army
Nagai
Japan
5Th Cavalry
Bill Burris
Pfe
Army of the United States
U. S. Air Force
San Antonio
1St Cavalry
5Th Cavalry Regiment
Pfc
Burris
Bankers Club
Tokyo
United States
Industry Show of Germany 1949 to Tour New York
Americans will see how their tax money aided reconstruction in Western Germany as industry and statistics travel to Rockefeller Center New York for the Industry Show of Germany 1949 from March 1 to 21.
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New York
Frankfurt
Germany
Rockefeller Center
Oil boom adds over two thousand producers in four years
More than 2,200 new oil producing companies have started operations in the country within the last four years, signaling rapid industry growth and a shift in the energy market.
Government demands loyalty data from UEW leaders
The Atomic Energy Commission orders the CIO United Electrical Workers to submit full personal records of its officers for security checks or risk loss of bargaining rights at atomic plants. AEC Chairman Lilienthal warns GE may withdraw recognition in Schenectady if data are not provided promptly.
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Washington
INS
CIO
United Electrical Workers Union
Atomic Energy Commission
UEW
Atomic Workers
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
Albert J. Fitzgerald
General Electric
Schenectady
N. Y
Child Who Dislikes Shots Writes Thanks
A 9-year-old Uvalde girl who fears shots thanks Deputy Sheriff Frank Mitchell for helping locate a dog bitten by her group. Police and the sheriff traced the animal to a farm near Lubbock allowing observation before vaccines.
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Frank Mitchell
Mary Agnes Ridgeway
Uvalde Chief of Police
Sheriff's Department
Lubbock
Nuclear energy undertaking cooperation ultimatum
A government note demands cooperation from current UE officers or immediate action in their absence. The language insists on adherence to outlined terms and references a prior letter dated October 6 as context for the demand. The statement signals firm policy intent regarding the nation’s atomic energy program.
Brady Named Head of Oil Firm Land Department in Texas
Leo M. Brady is promoted to head of the land and tax departments in Honolulu Oil’s Texas division with Alden S. Donnelly announcing. Oliver Haag becomes assistant manager. Brady is UT Austin business graduate class of 1935. Haag joined Honolulu in 1948 with prior work at Universal C.I.T. Credit.
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Haag
Honolulu
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Plains Soldier
Army
Dalpitath
TE Lorere
Tervousarely
Thornton & Minor Clinic
McGee St
Kansas City
Richard Hudnut
DuBarry
Leo M. Brady
Nals Aia Saace i
OUPON
White Swan Coffee
Bendix Washer Dealers
Hudson
Ry Simmons
Cory
General Mills Tre-fleet
Betty Crocker
Hawaii
Matson Line
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
U. S
Bendix
Mall
Bendix Home Appliances. Inc
Continental
Bendix Home Appliances. Inc. Ia
eAvertiana Agen All Facera
EL Portests
Ainecertty
Gral
Bendiz Home Appliances
Ime
Samson CO
Wylies Brug Store
Dial
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