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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1946
Page
8
The Texas Poll shows little change since June in attitudes toward black voting in Texas Democrats primaries. About 43 percent favor whites only voting and 44 percent support equal voting rights, with stronger anti Negro sentiment in the eastern half of the state and an estimated 184000 eligible black voters.
In Big Spring on October 26 Justice of the Peace Walter Grice refused bond for Lupe Garcia 23 and Ralph Fernandez Lovington 46 after they waived examining trial on kidnapping charges. The two were arrested in San Angelo after arriving by bus with two and a half year old Flyn Gon Bradley son of Mrs Lemuel P Barnfield of Colorado City. The child was unharmed. The Barnfields reported their son missing from their parked car Thursday night while they ate at a restaurant and returned to find him gone.
Lt. Lawson and his crew flew B 25s over Tokyo Bay to China coast, then ditched near the beach after engine failure. He was rescued by Chinese underground, limbs amputated, later evacuated to the United States. Dr. Chen and the Lawson family reunited in Los Angeles as Lawson buys a new Ford coupe.
Texas reports 80 new oil well completions this week to the Railroad Commission, bringing the year’s total to 3,771, up 514 from last year. Gas wells total 553 for the year, 8 fewer than 1945’s comparable period, with two wildcat oil wells and one gas well drilled this week. Calendar day crude oil allowable stands at 2,182,262 barrels, up 6,408 from a week ago.
John Huelsdonk 79, famed Iron Man of the Hoh, died in Port Angeles Washington. The Iowan homesteaded on the Hoh river since 1891 carrying heavy loads for construction crews to earn two men's pay for his four daughters to attend university.
Funeral services were held today for Eli Rusche 49 Llano county ranch man and pioneer family member who died in a San Antonio hospital after a long illness.
Tarbox says he could not secure a new car for Maj. Lawson after two years with others ahead. Lawson expects to return to his family before part of the week.
Oscar Allen a 44 year old black ex convict told Detective Capt. Fritz that marijuana drove him to kill four men and injure two others since August 10. He and brother Carlie Allen 55 signed statements in the killings of three Dallas liquor store men and a Plano telegrapher. He said two cigarets would make him feel fearless before crashing with marijuana.
Dallas engineer Charles B. Hutchinson announced his independent bid for governor in the upcoming general election. He proposed a $2,000,000, 100 year state bond issue to fund a streamlined city and a new state Capitol, plus 15 to 20 state hospitals, four large hotels, four universities, a state radio and television network for education and oversight, and "paradise villages" for the aged in each town.
The Railroad Commission announced a hearing on November 13 regarding the application of Universal Treating Company to erect and operate a tank treating plant in Hockley County Austin date October 26.
R. R. Collins aged 50, a Odessa restaurant chef, died in a collision with an eastbound Texas and Pacific freight train. His daughter Betty, a high school student, was critically injured. The accident occurred near Odessa.
Gov. Coke Stevenson proclaimed November as Disabled American Veterans Month in Texas. He urged Texans to cooperate in observance and participate in the membership drive starting November 1.
Santos in Brazil stands as the leading coffee port globally, renowned for handling the largest share of coffee exports and serving as a major hub for commodity trade.
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