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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1953
Page
9
Entries received from Ralls Plains Levelland and White show bands entering the first annual contest at the fair. The event features opening sets and a parade spot for participants.
Morton Abernathy Sudan Littlefield and Levelland lead junior high and high school music groups in a four division contest named in Interscholastic League. Lubbock High School, four junior highs, Texas Tech Band and Reese AFB add to the program with parade routes marching to the fair grounds for awards and TV appearances.
Thord Dockray was elected chairman for National Fire Prevention Week in Lubbock October 4 to 10 at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Fire Chief Glenn Smith demonstrated a new attention getter as plans, committees, and school literature distribution were arranged.
Plainview reports the condition of several polio patients as satisfactory. Included are Tommy Dalton 6 Linda Ruth Lovett 5 and Barbara Ann Lee 6 children of local families. Tolbert Sullivan 14 returned home after treatment.
The Senate internal security subcommittee plans hearings in New York next week on a United Nations tribunal ruling overturning discharges of 12 American employees who refused to reveal if they were Communists. Subcommittee counsel Robert Morris said sessions would be led by Sen Jenner Roe with possible open hearings on Thursday and Friday.
Britannica notes that early criminal identification relied on photographic methods. The science museum overview cites photographs as the initial standard for linking suspects to crimes through visual records.
DAV VFW and American Legion names chosen to lead the observance. Radio and television will feature Eddie Saw yer B T O'Connell B H Meskin men Floyd Rector and Thomas Newspapers J B Strickland Proclamation Rector and Speeches Meskimen Ernie
Miss Katherine Randall women’s editor of Farmers Stockman joins Mrs Bates and Mrs Newman from the Texas Extension Service at College Station for a county farm program.
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