Plainview Plans $6,800 Budget for Christmas Festivities
Plainview merchants approve a 6816 budget by the Christmas activities committee to fund street decorations a giant Santa Claus a balloon parade candy garlands and music. Plans include 20 foot Santa on the courthouse lawn imitation candy canes and lighted lamppost garlands with a new home decoration contest and a county decorated square.
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Plainview
Reagan Ashby
Santa Claus
Court House
Wayne Smith
Chamber of ‘Commierce
Edwin C Jones Named to Earth City Commission
Edwin C Jones, Earth farmer and civic leader, named to fill the unexpired term of J O Pope on the Earth City Commission. Pope, newly appointed mayor, formed committees: finances advisory, highways and streets with the highway commission, and health and sanitation to draft ordinances with chair Gladys Parrish.
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Edwin C. Jones
At Earth
Earth
Earth City Commission
J. O. Pope
Pope
Herschel Patterson
City Commission
G. L. Haley
Highway Commission
Gladys Parrish
Health and Sanitation Commission
Chest Tours To Start Sept 19 Follow Your Dollar Tour Dates
The first Follow Your Dollar tour to Community Chest agencies runs Sept 19 to Oct 6 with tours on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Buses provided by Lubbock Bus Company, starting at the Public Library, with Volunteer Bureau staff aiding explanations. Reservations needed by four days prior at PO5-2093 and special tours available on request.
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Community Chest
Community Planning Council
Volunteer Bureau
Leon Harris
Lubbock Bus Company
Lubbock Public Library
Community Clothing Center
Lubbock Day Nursery
YMCA
Girl Scouts Little
Woman Journalists Honor Texas Pulitzer Prize Winner
Austin reporters to honor Caro Brown of the Alice Echo staff who won a Pulitzer for South Texas political reporting. The Austin Theta Sigma Phi chapter will name her outstanding Texas woman journalist of the year at the seventh annual writers roundup on Sept 20. Tours accompany the event, visiting Community Clothing Center and others in Lubbock and South Lubbock.
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Milam
South Lubbock Bows Club
Wes
Babys Clinic
Carver Heights Nursery
Carver Heights Boys Club
Lubbock Day Nursery
Transient Lodge
Community Clothing Center
South Lubbock Boys Club
Mitam
Girl Scouts
Well Baby Clinic
YMCA
Arnett Benson
Austin
Caro Brown
Alice Echo
South Texas
French official studies Lea County telephone plants
Auguste Chemarin assistant to the chief telecommunications engineer for the French Ministry of Overseas Territories visits Lea County for eight weeks to study telephone installations in Hobbs Eunice Levington and Jal. Accompanied by interpreter Arthur Tannerbaum the trip is part of US France technical aid with FCC sponsorship four weeks will be spent in the Southwest and next he will study Gulf Coast systems.
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Hobbs
Auguste Chemarin
Ministry of Overseas Territories
Lea County
United States
North Africa
Chemarin
Arthur Tannerbaum
International Cooperation Administration
Federal Communications Commission
France
Eunice
Levington
Jal
Gulf Coast
Patience Pays Off For Dallas Youth
In Denver 11 year old Lawton Humphre Jr. of Dallas Texas waited two hours outside the Brown Palace Hotel for a breakfast with Republican leaders. He shook hands with President Eisenhower when he emerged and later said he was too excited to hear what was said. Deborah is his younger sister and the family stayed at the hotel with their parents.
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Denver
Lawton Humphre Jr
Dallas
Tex
Eisenhower
Brown Palace
Humphrey
Deborah
Before World War I United States debtor on capital account
In 1914 foreign investments in the United States exceeded American investments abroad by 3.7 billion dollars, signaling the U S as a net debtor on capital account prior to World War I.
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United States
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