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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1954
Page
11
About 500 coeds arrive at Texas Tech for sorority rush week as rules restrict speaking, calling, and dating. Rushes checked in at Knapp Hall after a Sunday convocation in Agdie Memorial Auditorium with Panhellenic officers guiding the process.
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy poised to testify for two to three days as the special Senate committee weighs censure charges. He and attorney Edward Bennett Williams plan to argue his conduct was justified or not grounds for censure, while noting critics have used harsher language about him.
R F Torn a retired Taylor merchant and cotton buyer died Saturday night in a Taylor hospital. He organized the Coupland Mercantile Company in Taylor and served as its manager and director for over 30 years. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Taylor.
Senator Kefauver accuses the Eisenhower administration of aiding private utilities to break up the TVA through the Dixon Yates power plant contract for West Memphis Arkansas. He calls the deal a plum worth 92 to 140 million and says it shifts added costs to the AEC, signaling a raw deal for TVA and the average homeowner.
Ted Haberer, former northwest of Earth, wins a 570 dollar prize package for the first bale of cotton in the Earth area. His 480 pound bale came from 2,100 pounds of seed cotton at Earth Gin Co. Ginned on land owned by C. D. Rogers, the bale graded 15/16 staple. The Earth Jaycees sponsored the premium.
The sixth annual All-Breed Dog Show is scheduled for Wednesday at the Panhandle South Plains Fairgrounds Women’s Building. Prizes include a silver service tray for best in show from Dr Walton Cox Animal Hospital and $25 cash from J L Quicksall.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer outlined a plan for German rearmament within a European army under NATO and a joint command. He prepared a memorandum for Churchill and planned conferences in Bonn to discuss a possible watered down European Defense Community with a German national army.
Maintenance and mechanical workers returned to eight Firestone Tire and Rubber Co plants in Akron and eight cities as 25,500 workers were set to return Tuesday. The 24 day strike ended Saturday when Firestone negotiators and the United Rubberworkers Union agreed on a new contract in Cleveland. The pact must be ratified by the union membership, seen as a formality.
Washington Sept. 5 The 1st Cavalry Division Assn ended its seventh annual reunion by electing Dr Carl Milchen of El Paso Texas as president He succeeds Roger D Schock of Toledo Ohio The association chose Detroit as next convention site for September 1955
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