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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1955
Page
4
Dawson County Farm Bureau members push to scrap the old parity formula at their county convention in Lamesa, electing 20 new directors and presenting 12 resolutions to the State Farm Bureau. The gathering adopted constitutional amendments reducing directors from 50 to a smaller number.
About 160 doctors from Colorado New Mexico Kansas Oklahoma and Texas attended the Tri-State Optometry Seminar at the Caprock Hotel with Dr Raymond Roy of Portland Ore as principal speaker The session ends at 3 30 p m today A social schedule includes a women's luncheon and a Texas Tech football game Also approved are farm labor wage and tariff resolutions and crop diversion measures by the group U S Department of Agriculture is urged to assume full responsibility for farm labor matters and new parity formulas are proposed for commodity producers.
Texas Tech outlines plans for about 300 West Texas high school students on Saturday November 19 for the annual Speech and Journalism Activities Day. Activities include a Palo Duro High School Amarillo vs Midland High debate on federal scholarship aid to education and a panel with journalism professionals led by Dr. P Melville Larson and Dr. William E Hall.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary A. Kirby 81 of 2716 Amherst will be at 3 30 p m in Arnett Benson Baptist Church with Rev Cecil Ray officiating Burial will be at Anton under McDonald Funeral Home of Lubbock direction Grandsons will be pallbearers She died at 915 a m Saturday in St Marys Hospital after a short illness She lived in Lubbock about six years survived by husband Tra Kirby four sons L M of Littlefield C R of Midland W A of Alamogordo N M L L of Olton six daughters Mrs J I Easter of Levelland Mrs D A Copeland of Dumas Mrs W E Pritchard of Plainview Mrs Burl Johnson of Littlefield Mrs R A Burgess of Olton and Mrs Ray D Dorrough 1920 39th St 29 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.
Levelland High School reports the Lobo squad of 24 players averaged 84 for the first six weeks. Four regulars top the list with 94 or better: Johnny Cowan Bruce Miller Thomas Cowan and Jimmy Johnson. Six members averaged below 80.
The Texas Tech Vets Club sponsors a public information meeting on veterans affairs at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Chemistry Building auditorium. C. R. Shongo and Gerald Turner will discuss the Veterans Administration program including the Korean Bill World War I benefits and GI loans with brief talks and questions. Tom Everheart and J. Ray Nichols will also speak with invitations extended to all veterans and interested persons.
Maudie Stewart Staggs of Lubbock sues E R Little of Brownfield for 16000 in 99th District Court over a July 29 collision at 4th St and College Ave where she was a passenger in H A Doidge’s car. H A Doidge and wife sue for 8000 in 72nd District Court over the same crash involving Doidge, Little, and three passengers.
Doyle Boswell, formerly of De Leon, has moved to Seagraves and becomes the resident USDA shell egg grader at the Seagraves Egg Co. He brings 20 years in poultry. His wife and two children joined him. Grading will start once equipment is installed per USDA standards, says Homer Johnson, manager.
Littlefield ministers announce a cash collection of 165.58 to fund 3372.60 in dried milk for Korean children and T B patients through the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Youths from five groups including First Methodist Presbyterian Christian Nazarene and Salvation Army conducted a house to house CROP Trick or Treat plan Tuesday night in VASS.
MEWS BRIEFS reports Marine Cpl Natividad Valdez son of Mr and Mrs Bernabe R Valdez of 1410 Ave D Lubbock arrived Oct 1 for duty with the 3rd Engineer Battalion 3rd Marine Division at Camp Tengan Okinawa. The battalion handles construction and maintenance for the division.
Halloween carnivals at three Lubbock Boys Clubs begin 7:30 p.m. with games booths a House of Horrors and a Our Gang movie at ABC branch. Prizes awarded for beans in a jar and spookiest costumes. Dr I Killum performs an operation in a booth.
New Zealand's flightless tailless bewhiskered Kiwi possesses nostrils at the bill tip top of the beak. Weighing about the size of a chick, the Kiwi lays the largest egg known, about one pound in weight.
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