Tickets On Sale For Queen For A Day Broadcasts
About 500 requests have been received for tickets to the daytime Queen For A Day broadcasts during the Panhandle South Plains fair September 27 through October 2. Lions club chairman Elmer East and stores operator Hop Halsey announce limited sale at Mark Halsey drug stores with tickets prorated across the territory.
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Elmer East
Lubbock Lions Club
Mark Halsey
Hop Halsey
Lions Club
Lions
East
Lubbock
Lions Headquarters
Hilton
Fairgrounds
Mutual Network Broadcast Finds Daily National Winner
The program runs daily between 1 and 1 30 p.m with a winner chosen from five contestants. The victor receives hundreds of dollars in awards. Jack Bailey serves as master of ceremonies and Mutual plans to fly a large crew to Lubbock for installations and broadcast logistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Mutual
Jack Bailey
Mutual
Lubbock
Wildcatters Bring 11 Oil Wells In Texas This Week
Wildcatters completed 11 oil wells in Texas in the last week, the Railroad Commission reported. Totals for the year reach 4,959 oil wells and 471 gas completions, surpassing 1947 figures by a wide margin.
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Wildcatters
State
Austin
Texas
Railroad Commission
Motion Denied in Rape Case New Trial Request Rejected
In Corsicana on September 4, William R. Ray convicted of raping a Fort Worth man’s daughter in a Fort Worth park last April had his motion for a new trial overruled. Defense attorney H S Beard said the ruling will be appealed. Ray, a former Vernon resident, was a technician at Carswell Army Air Base at the time of arrest.
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Corsicana
William R. Ray
H. S. Beard
Ray
Fort Worth
Beard
A. P. Mays
al Clyde
Willian
Ruthes
Vernon
Carswell Army Air Past
Funeral Services Set Today In Lorenzo For W. W. Darden
Funeral services for W. W. Darden 81 retired farmer who died Friday night at his Lorenzo home will be held at 3 p m in Lorenzo Church of Christ with Brother Sturgess and Rev George Bryant assisting He lived in Kent county before moving to Crosby county and was a life member of Lorenzo Masonic Lodge No 1144 Interment will be in Lorenzo cemetery Marr Funeral Home of Ralls in charge The direct loss from forest fires each year is estimated at more than 32 million dollars.
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Lorenzo
W. W. Darden
Crosby County
Lorenzo Church of Christ
Sturgess
George Bryant
Lorenzo Methodist Church
Darden
Kent County
L. E. Park
Ralph Wiese
Joe Jennings
Ralph Davis
R. P. Nicholson
Ed Scoggins
Lorenzo Cemetery
Marr Funeral Home
Ralls
Lynch Undergoes Brain Tumor Surgery At Mayo Clinic
John W. Lynch of 2826 Twenty seventh Street underwent major brain tumor surgery at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota on Saturday morning. Relatives reported he was in very serious condition with a slight improvement noted at 730 pm after receiving blood transfusions. He had the growth since last February and had traveled to Mayo with Mrs. Lynch for treatment earlier but returned to Lubbock.
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John W. Lynch
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Lynch
Lubbock
Governor Duff Maintains Finest Gardens in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports Governor James H. Duff tends seven acre private gardens at his Carnegie home and oversees a summer residence in the Gap area. He praises steady work and ongoing transplanting of trees to the region, noting the gardens yield hundreds of pounds of produce this season.
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Harrisburg
Vania
James H. Duff
Carnegie, Pa
St Nis
Indias
Town Gap
Duff
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Avalanche-Journal
Sun
Bondex
Bondex Tenet
Erelpetion
Maggezan Seers
Bondex Hydraulic Cement
Samson Co
Gibson Appliances
Electric Stores—Upright Deep Freeze
Commode
Etlows
Dewey” Teing” Bondici
Tae
Peg Lian
Nicolet
Broadway and
Ave. H
Dunlap's Department Store
J. B. Green
A. G. Hunt
1718
Ave. O
Jim McGull
California
S. Gholson
May
Joe Ryan
J. C. Coleman
E. Y. Lee
Cora
Stella
W. K. Dickinson, Jr
J. C. Davis
Frontier School
Max Coleman
Pennsylvania
AIR Transit, Inc
Lubbock Municipal Airport
Near Lord
Benk
Tion
E and Corporation
Guidance Service
Citizens National
Lubbock, Texas
F. D. LC
Motor Company
Transportation Headquarters
Chrysler
Avenue
Plymouth
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