Straw votes show Truman leads in Lubbock area poll
The Avalanche Journal reports final six day straw vote results with Truman Barkley at 371 ballots, Thurmond Wright 359, Dewey Warren 347, and Wallace Taylor 19. Most voters expect a Dewey Warren victory in the actual election.
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Truman
Barkley
Thurmond
Wright
Avalanche-Journal
Psomarray
Thurmond-Wright
Dewey-Warren
TrUman-Barkley
Wallace-Taylor
Dewey
Warren
Howver
Lubbock
Thurmond- Wright
Muleshoe
Post
Plainview
Lamesa
Matador
Spur
Seminole
Special Senate Investigators Question Alice Precinct 13 Leader
Special investigator Arthur E. Broer left Alice after interviewing Luis Salas, Precinct 13 chairman during the August senatorial primary. Fellow investigator Joseph Langan stayed behind as FBI agents from Corpus Christi continued a secret review of second primary ballots in Jim Wells County.
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Alice
Arthur E. Broer
Senate
Subcommittee On
Luis Salas
Joseph Langan
FBI
George Denton
Ross Walcott
Merle Timbs
Corpus Christi
Jim Wells
Forest Fire Fatigue Ties Death In East Texas
Lufkin Texas October 30 another death linked to east Texas forest fires . Roy Lackey 55 a Kirbyville merchant died of a heart attack brought on by overexertion fighting a fire near his home the blaze believed caused by a careless 15 year old boy . At noon today 73 fires were burning across southeast Texas with 45 in Woodville district and 40 in Hardin county 27 in Conroe district .
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Lufkin
East Texas
M. V. Dunmire
Texas Forest Service
Roy Lackey
Kirbyville
Lackey
Dunmire
Texas
Woodville
Hardin County
Conroe
Lubbock Man Keeps Tiny Bible History in Small Bound Volume
L. L. Chappelle, 88, retired Michigan native living with son Ray in Lubbock, owns a leather bound 1828 Coopers town printed History of the Bible measuring 1 1 by 2 inches with 192 legible pages and gilt decoration. He learned teaching at Michigan Agricultural College and Texas A&M, later retiring during World War I, and his family remains in education.
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L. L. Chappelle
Ray L. Chappelle
Cooperstown
Chappelle
Michigan
Pearsall
Michigan Agricultural College
Michigan State College
Lansing
Mich
Texas A. & M. College
Arkansas
Agricultural Education Department
Division of Agriculture
Texas Tech
el Paso
Jean Chappelle
South Dakota
Ave. Q
Avalanche-Journal
West Texas
Detroit
Frenship High School crowns carnival queens and court
Dorothy Womack, a Frenship sophomore, wins the high school queen title at the Halloween carnival in Wolfforth. Glynda Burnham Joyce Ann Gillet and Barbara Sanders also crowned for elementary schools and the FFA chapter with escorts, attendants, and a large queen's court. The event, in the high school gym, includes music by grades seven and eight and a carnival crowd funding school activities and library books.
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Dorothy Womack
Jimmie Hall
Queen’s Court
Sharon Fowler
Brenda Brooks
Patsy Sage
Sandra Hughes
Louise McDonald
Sylvia Dalton
Janie Pierce
Nora Turnbow
Sammie Koonce
Florence Turnbow
Vada Gladden
Billy Morgan
Kim Burleson
Max Gillet
Donald Poteet
Glen Burleson
Johnnie Woodward
Joe Gladden
Bobby Durham
Charles Reed
Delmore Green
L. C. Childers, Jr
Herman Bush ,Jr
Calvin Robert Lackey
Ronald Edwards
Lynn Harrist
Ann Thompson
Rena Fay Gladden
Sarah Reynolds
Loren Williamson
Aubrey Worsham
Yvonne Aaron
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Coke Stevenson
San Jacinto
Liberty Counties
Kirbyville Area
Austria
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Aiae
Jack Porter
U. S. Senate
U. S
Lubbock County
Republican Club
PD. Pol. Adv
Thomas E. Dewey
New York State
Fred G. Parham
Mohler D. Temple
Alvin H. Lane
Frank Parris
Earl Warren
United States
California
Lincoln
Sherrod Hardware Co
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