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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1954
Page
1
A garbled briefing warns the United States against risky actions amid upcoming events at a state fairgrounds and entertainment venues. The report hints at performances and parades featuring noted acts and community attractions.
Portion of the Coliseum page notes results and names from a 1982 edition. It mentions a distant seating plan, a 5 seat arrangement, and a reference to the Panhandle South event with a U882 designation and a 18st score by F ne. The column lists Ray Operators and Suny Waeman among others.
A Senate committee plans a probe into rising coffee prices, with Sen Beall Nid and Sen Gillette DeInwa pushing for congressional action. They note that housewives and consumers have already paid hundreds of millions due to the so called coffee racket as prices have recently shifted.
About 970 inmates in a Chicago jail riot over menu items tore up furniture and threw stones and shoes. Tear gas dispersed the crowd as guards contained the disruption with no injuries reported.
The United States formally accuses the Soviet Union of lying about eight American airmen aboard a B-29 Superfortress shot down by Soviet fighters off northern Japan nearly two years ago. The 24 page note seeks $1.62 million in damages and survivors information, urging ICJ involvement and UN Security Council circulation.
The South Plains cotton harvest begins with labor arriving in the thousands and gins operating at reduced capacity. The Lubbock Cotton Exchange projects a 1 206 000 bale crop with price assumptions and notes possible fluctuation due to weather and acreage restrictions.
Port Arthur, Texas, has seen 10 months of picketing at 24 stores and hotels as a CIO led dispute over union recognition. Business leaders claim the clash tied to a tax fight worsened the economy, while officials credit or blame local government dynamics. A separate Tokyo report notes Capt. Darrell Sinn, of Big Spring, killed in a B-26 training crash in western Japan.
Oklahoma City report says two 16 and 15 year old stepbrothers beat and killed 18 month old Thomas Harris after the child would not stand. They are held without charge. the mother said she hired them to care for her five children.
Fort Worth fugitive Pete the python led to a spree of missing reptiles after R H Knight reported 250 snakes vanished from Texoma Reptile Gardens near Colbert Oklahoma. Knight said business boomed as customers flocked to see the missing snakes and other constrictors and cobras.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned in Washington that the United States will not gamble security on flawed plans as he departed for London to meet French Premier Mendes France. He urged making West Germany an immediate full partner in the Western Defense alliance and called for a rapid reexamination of Europe’s collective security program.
Plainview Texas Sept 25. Thirteen people injured in a collision between a car and a truck on Highway 87 near here. Ray H Bradshaw 23 Plainview is in serious condition at Plainview Hospital with fractured ribs and a severe forehead cut. The other twelve are Latin Americans treated for minor injuries after the truck left the road into a ditch. The truck narrowly avoided a collision with a Fort Worth and Denver Railway switch engine.
Lubbock Union Club on 8th Street and Quirt Avenue was raided by BOB FENLEY SQUOR Board agents and sheriff deputies who confiscated 128 cases of beer. Agents said lockers for members contained beer and that multiple lockers opened with the same key, signaling bootlegging activity and plans to file charges.
The third typhoon to lash southern Japan in two weeks struck Kyushu early today and moved northeastward from Japan’s southernmost island with diminishing velocity. It was the 15th Western Pacific typhoon this year and had earlier struck Okinawa with gusts up to 110 miles per hour.
Partly cloudy and cooler in Lubbock and vicinity with a low around 53 and a high near 80 today. Northeast to easterly winds about 15 mph, figures from USS Weather Bureau show similar readings across Abilene Denver Dallas and surrounding cities with highs in the 60s to 80s and lows in the 40s to 60s.
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