Checker Tourney Opens Today Across Three States
Labor Day weekend brings the third Tri State Tournament of Checkers in Lubbock with action starting at 9 am. Ed Leister of Oklahoma and D C Hussey of Fort Worth lead competing players from Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma with a statewide association overseeing rules and qualifying rounds.
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Ed Leister
Okla
D. C. Hussey
Fort Worth
Cravens
Texas
Lubbock
Phage Abram
Genin
Aadad
Meet Rules and Invitees Highlight Regional Competitors
Officials enforce rules at the meet with a rules committee and referee. Pro players from Touyerstown and New Mexico are invited to participate or observe the contests.
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Andules
Stouyerstow
New Mexico
Convict Identified As Prison Escapee
A man arrested in the Lamarque area on August 10 was identified as an escapee wanted by the FBI since his 1945 burglary murder charge. He received a five year term for the burglary and an additional sentence for the murder.
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Lamarque
Soy
Calif
Eeison
Valezuela
FBI
City to hear Bob Thornton address Panhandle-South Plains Fair
A Panhandle South Plains Fair advisory committee meeting set for Sept. 15 will feature R. L. Bob Thornton of Dallas. Thornton, president of the State Fair of Texas and Dallas mayor, will speak to back local fair support. Attending will be more than 70 committee members and civic leaders, with noted fair officials and sponsors listed among attendees.
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R. L
Bob) Thornton
Dallas
Texas
Mercantile National Bank of
Thornton
L. Cox
Roy B. Davis
G. C.mulet Dowell
S. S. Forrest Jr
Roy Farr
Arthur E. Gamble
J. Owen Gilbreath
Luther A. Godwin
Viragram
Raymond Lee Johns
Preston L. Johnston
Don L. Jones
Dr. Also
W. H. Jones
Claude Ke
Air Selection Team To Hold Interviews At Webb AFB
Three members Capt Alden Clark M Sgt Raymond Huffman and S Sgt Bill Adams from Webb AFB Big Spring lead interviews for aviation cadet candidates. Applicants must be single have credits meet physical and mental standards. observer training ships require at least high school education. Write to Aviation Cadet Selection Team 207 Room 2 Wing Headquarters Webb AFB Spring Texas.
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Alden Clark
Raymond Huffman
Bill Adams
Webb Air Force Base
Big Spring
Aviation Cadet Selection Team
Spring
Texas
Underwriters Group Ends Meet in Caprock Hotel
Dallas insurance chief Travis T Wallace of Great American Reserve spoke on Personal Efficiency at the South Plains Association of Life Underwriters two day session ending at the Caprock Hotel. Clifton Haynie of Lubbock received the Certified Life Underwriter award. Rex Titsworth announced a Life Corners Training Council meeting at 8:30 a m Tuesday at the Great Nansa Insurance Co building Broadway for those who wish to attend.
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Travis T. Wallace
Dallas
Great American Reserve Insurance Co
South Plains Association of Life Underwriters
Caprock
Wallace
Clifton Haynie
Lubbock Insurance
Rex Titsworth
Mexican Railways Mobilizes Train for Stranded Braceros
Mexican National Railways provides cars to move thousands of stranded braceros from the Texas border toward interior Mexico. Officials said the transport runs via Nuevo Laredo El Paso Reynosa and Monterrey to return workers home.
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Mexico City
Mexican National Railways
Texas
Mexico
Nuevo Laredo
el Paso
Reynosa
Monterrey
Australasian Peacituum Co Drill Reaches Southern Hemisphere Depth
The Omati Papua test well for Australasian Peacituum Co. reached 13.24 feet at last report and extended roughly 212 miles down, marking the deepest bore yet drilled in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Peacituum Co
Omati
Papua
New Head Named for Austin Children’s Home Superintendent
John B. White of Austin was named superintendent and will begin Sept 21 as plans proceed to erect a first unit on the 200 acre site donated by Ida S. Collins. White, a Texas Employment Commission administrator and Abilene Christian College graduate, has led schools in Carbon Rising Star Wichita Falls and more. The home aims to house about 18 children, with $43 500 allocated for the first unit and $30 000 in the Home Fund.
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John B. White
Austin
White
Texas Employment Commission
Abilene Christian
Heaught School
Carbon
Rising Star
Wichita Falls
Christ
Vera Covey
John Weldon
Korea
Cherie Jan
Linda Sue
Broadway of Christ
Lubbock
Elo Urbanowsky
Children’s Home Committee
Ida S. Collins
Eastside Church of Christ
Urbanowsky
Texas Tech
State Welfare Department
Butler and Brasher
Nagico
Chil Home
Paul Sherrod
San Antonio Man Killed Struck By Car on U S Highway 90
Andres Dominguez a 76 year old San Antonio resident was killed Saturday when struck by an automobile on U S 90 fourteen miles east of the city The driver R A Goodwin 45 of San Antonio said he saw the man in the highway veer into the path of his vehicle Goodwin was released on a 200 personal bond on an aggravated assault charge with a motor vehicle.
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San Antonio
Andres Dominguez
U.S. 90
R. A. Goodwin
Goodwin
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C. /. Wall
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Neil H. Wright Jr
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Life Corners Training Council
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