Texas Colleges Snap Back After Slump In Registration
Associated Press survey shows Texas colleges and universities rebounding from postwar declines with record enrollments in fall. UT, Texas Tech, TCU, A&M, UH, Rice, SMU, Baylor, and others report sizable gains. some campuses face teacher shortages and crowded freshman classes while several campuses anticipate new dormitories and facilities to accommodate growth. School totals include UT around 18,000, Texas Tech near 8,000, SMU about 5,400, and A&M over 7,000 through Saturday with continued registrations.
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Robert F. Ford
Associated Press
Texas Colleges and Universities
Texas Western
el Paso
TCU
Fort Worth
Texas Tech
Lubbock
University of Texas
Austin
University
Houston
University of Houston
Rice
Baylor
Waco
SMU
Dallas
Texas A&m
College Station
Denton
Gatn
North
Texas State College
Texas State College For Women
Wichita Falls
Texas Wesleyan College
Fast Texas Baptist College
the Marshall College
Rio Grande Valley
Men Appointed To Spearhead Drive Of Demos In Texas
Warren Woodward of Houston and Austin Mayor Tom Miller were named to lead the Democratic campaign in Texas for the Stevenson Kefauver ticket. Miller will be campaign chairman and Woodward executive director. The appointments were described as the unanimous choice of Texas party leaders.
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Texas
Austin
Warren Woodward
Houston
Tom Miller
Byron Skelton
Miller
Woodward
Senate
Lyndon RB Johnson
Skelton
Democratic National
Johnson
Fourteen Chapters Attend Littlefield Eastern Star Program
Fourteen chapters were represented and more than 130 guests attended the Littlefield Eastern Star friendship night honoring Flora B Boone former Worthy Grand Matron and Geneva Grand Chapter Welfare Committee chair. The event featured songs by Tom Alta Hauk with Loraine Hopping, and programs from Truth Chapter Lubbock Idalas Brownfield Dimmitt Plainview along with Freedom and Lubbock Chapter 76 plus Ralls Levelland Sudan Olton Anton Ropesville and Morte. Mattie Ellen Johnson served as Worthy Matron.
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Littlefield
Littlefield Order of the Eastern Star
State of Texas
Geneva
Flora B. Boone
Boone
Pat H. Boone
Tom Alta Hauk
Loraine Hopping
Truth
Lubbock
Idalas
Pistol Packing Youth Tells Officers Of 18 Burglaries
A 15 year old in Dallas described 18 burglaries to officers on Friday. He said he suspected his three 16 year old companions of taking more than their share of about $19,000 in merchandise. Detectives recovered roughly half the loot including televisions radios jewelry and pistols. Two other suspects were brought to the station by parents. the last was arrested Thursday night.
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Dallas
Enrollments Open for Red Cross First Aid Course
Thirty five persons have signed for the first of nine first aid courses to be given by the American Red Cross at the request of rational civil defense authorities. Mrs. Margaret Richards announced Saturday that pre registration begins Monday or students may register at the chapter house on Broadway. The class runs nine weeks with sessions Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 pm. To receive certification, attendees must attend a lesson each week. The course is limited to 130 registrants due to instructor limits. A text bank is required at 60 cents and may be obtained at the chapter house.
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American Red Cross
Margaret Richards
Lubbock Counts
Red Cross
Richards
Broadway
Rearollers
279 Oil and gas wells completed this week
Montreal reports 20 oil and 13 gas wells finished in the latest week. Total crude well completions reached 12,071 against 10,989 last year. Six offshore wildcats and one gas well were completed, with industry debating rear facing seats on commercial planes for military use to reduce crash risk.
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Austin
Montreal
Campafion Aviation
Commer
Cial
William M. Mount Services Set Today
Funeral services for William Martin Mount 73 of 520 48th St will be conducted at 4 p m today in McDonald Funeral Chapel with Reverend C J McCarty and Reverend Jim Northcutt officiating Mount died at 10 30 a m Saturday in West Texas Hospital He is survived by three sons five sisters and five grandchildren Pallbearers listed Burial in City of Lubbock Cemetery by McDonalds Funeral Home.
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McDonald Funeral Chapel
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Jim Northcutt
Mount
West Texas Hospital
Coa
St. Mitchell
Peak
Wheeler D
Alice Garrett
Pratt Nickelson
Essie Nickelson
Long Beach
Calf
Mattie Me Waters
Resse Owens
Dallas
R. H Seal Troy Wright
Harold Horton
Haskell Turner
L. L. Damron
City of Lubbock
McDonalds Funeral Home
Tomorrow's Leaders Feted At Reese AFB Kids Day
More than two thousand area youths visited Reese Air Base for Kids Day hosted by Kiwanis International with Air Force aid. Visitors toured 1733 and B 25 aircraft, climbed into cockpits, and watched parachute and fire station demonstrations. Base facilities including hangars and classrooms were opened, with films and athletic events, free bus rides from Lubbock provided.
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South Plains
Kiwanis Ciuns International
United States Air Force Air Force Photo
Reese Air Base
Lubbock
Hub City
Frank Posey
Reese Air Force Base
Saturland
Shipp
Kiwanis International
United States Air Force
Tabbeck
Air Force
Eater
Ater
Ladhock
Funeral Services Set Today In Slaton For Roy Meyers
Funeral services for Roy Dale Meyers aged about 50 son of Mr and Mrs Ed Meyers of Slaton will be held at 4 p.m. in the First Baptist Church Slaton with Masonic services at Terrace Cemetery Post. Williams Funeral Home Slaton arranging. Meyers died Friday in M J Anderson Hospital Houston.
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Slaton
Roy Dale Meyers
Ed Meyers
First Baptist
Terrace Cemetery
Post
Williams Funeral Home
Meyers
M. J. Anderson
Houston
Man Killed Self on Mexican Volcano Linked to Novelist
Lucy Lopez Berg of Houston and New York identified the deceased as Hans Jacob Feuchtwanger, a nephew of German novelist Lion Feuchtwanger. He vanished from Houston last May leaving bad checks, then was found dead by a self-inflicted gunshot atop Mt. Popocatepetl in Mexico. Switzerland reports a 14 percent rise in building construction this year.
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Mexico
Lucy Lopez Berg
John Jack Berg
New York
Hans Jacob Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger
Berg
Feuchtwanger
Mt. Popecatepetl
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