Traditional Pep Rally marks Texas Tech homecoming parade
Plans for the Texas Tech homecoming on November 7 include a downtown parade at 11 to 12 a.m. and a 2:50 p.m. game against Texas Christian University. Matt G. Pederson chairs events with Royal Furgerson and committees organizing a bonfire, convocation, float plaque, luncheon at the Hilton, and a morning coffee in the home economics building.
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Texas Technological College
Matt G. Pederson
Royal Furgeson
Alumni and Ex-Students Association
Texas Tech-Texas Christian University
Alumni Association
Student Council
Hilton Hotel
Haskell Tayior
Ben Jenkins
Arch L. King
L. FE. Settle
Yancey Price
Dorothy Rylander
Opal McMahon
Emmajean Douglas
Leonard Earnest
Leonard Earnest. the Home Economics
Home Economics
Reminder on anti freeze price ceilings in Dallas region
Regional Office of Price Administration urges dealers and consumers to observe price ceilings on anti freeze Solutions as cold weather approaches. Permanent type caps at 2.65 dollars per gallon or 0.70 per quart, non permanent type up slightly to 1.49 per gallon for normal and 1.10 for synthetic due to ingredient costs.
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Dallas
Price Administration
Women Rush to War Jobs In Nationwide Demand
In Dallas and across Texas women flood job ads as war drains male labor. Employers report a surge in women workers in war industries and sales, with training and testing pushed by the U.S. Employment service to fill roles from secretaries to bus conductors.
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Dallas
Texas
W. L. Worthington
U.S. Employment Service
Paulic McNaiutt
McNutt
Manpower Commission
Army
Navy
WAACS
Shoula
New York Central
American Transit Association
Otto S. Beyer
Office of Defense Transportation
Division
San Diego
Western Union
The
Telephone Company
Cleveland
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Fort Worth
Houston
Baltimore
Tulsa
New Orleans
Memphis
Naval forces bolster defenses and striking power
Washington reports the United States Navy is strengthening coastal defenses while expanding high seas striking ability. Navy Secretary Knox says enlistment is steady and satisfactory, with near one million in the Navy proper, about 200,000 in the Marine Corps, and roughly 110,900 in the Coast Guard.
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Washington
United States Naval Services
Navy
Knox
Marne Corps
Coast Guard
War Assistance Agency Is Named in Texas War Program
The State Department of Public Welfare in Texas is designated to administer the civilian war assistance program aiding evacuees shipwreck victims and dependents of those affected by enemy action. The program operates with FSA funds and shifts mass care leadership from Red Cross to local Welfare and allied agencies during emergencies.
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State Department of Public Welfare
Texas
W. R. Dorsey
Lubbock
Welfare Department
Red Cross
Federal Security Administration
State Welfare Department
FSA
United States
Aircraft Warning Service
Civil Air Patrol
U.S. Citizen Defense Corps
Dorsey
Germans Moving Oil Refinery Equipment Through Romania
Balkans reports say hundreds of carloads of dismantled French and Belgian refinery gear are moved via Romania toward the north Caucasus where Germany holds outer Caucasus oil fields. It notes a rebuilt refinery at Maikop, occupied last August, as part of war supply efforts.
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Ankara
Rumania
North Caucasus
Russia
Caucasian
Balkans
Pee
Maikop
Caucasus
This Lady Did What You've Wanted To Do
A farm woman near Atlanta purchased an ax and smashed three pinball machines in several stores. She did not face charges, claimed incensed by not getting a return from playing them. Fakaofo island raised 500 dollars for the allied war effort. Admiral Fischer Watson, once commander of the Nelson, returned to service aboard a 45 ton naval ferry vessel after retirement in 1933.
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Potts Boswell Nallas
Army
Civil Service
Washington
U.S
Dallas Information Center
Texas
Dallas
Retail Merchants’ Association
Atlanta
Here
Fakaofo Island
South Seas
London
Fischer Watson
Nelson
Naval Ferry Command
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TCU
Texas Tech
PTA
Hanna-Pope & Co
War Assistance Agency
Harold Mason
Paar
Ags
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