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Lubbock Morning Avalanche from Lubbock, Texas • Page 56

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Poq 2, Sec. Ill Lubbock, Evening Journal, Feb. 23, 1951 Search To Continue Today For Unidentified Submarines Objects Seen Oil East Coast Shooting Match Set Btr Local Reservists Winners of the unit advisor phase of marksmanship competition for the Lubbock Army Reserves will represent this area In NEW YORK The Eastern Sea Frontier Command will continue, today to search for anv evidence the Texas Military District phase of two submarines reported seen I of the competition in a off the coast at Nags Head. N.C.! match Saturday, according to A spokesman for the command; Capt. N.

H. Lincoln, unit advisor. Old Daybook Also Owned By Samuel R. Colwell Boy Rescued From CareCT C0flf6r6l1C6 IS (OlldUCfCd Lubbock Man Has George Washington Cane wlnmgoi nlf 9 Passed Down From Early American Period said last night the search had failed so far to turn up any trace of the subs, reportedly seen by By OPAL DKON Journal Staff Writer A cane which originally belong Results from all unit advisor tQ George Washington and a ledger or daybook of the period 1 £xas I v. George Washington are owned coast residents three to five miles finals who are to present trophies (Dick) Colwell offshore, heading south.

to the winning state team. Check Is Made Company try-outs originated the Guard, NlRS that out here in Lubbock-the tep et to the -V American desert one yesterday. A check was made from Winning team with the .22 cah- that heionaeH to the air by a plane out of Norfolk, her rifle was the 369th Transpor-: Va and by a biimp sent from' tation for which 1st Lt. Jim- Washington. said Col- VexksviUe.

N.C. my L. Hansen, student at Texas There are no American sub- Tech, was high man. well. Putting his weight on the cane.

marines in the area, the spokes- The 735th Signal Co. had the los- man for thn frrmller cAmmanH tnam XT Qcrt A Hnnnor pointed OUt that it ap- sup- man for the frontier command ing team. M.Sgt. Billy A. Hopper, said.

He noted that the water along first sergeant of the company, was that part of the shore is only 50 1 high man for the losers, feet deep and said the operation Only one team, of 413th Military of submarines water that shal- Government Co. entered the .22... low make sense." caliber pistol match. Capt. Milton were jra.

iff- i 1 He said numerous fishing boats; Cundiff. an employe of the work in that area and could have city of Lubbock, was high man in the pistol competition. The team been mistaken for submarines when seen at the reported distance. Area FFA Entries parently was not used for port, but for decoration. Mostly Decorative were more decorative in they were anyth Most men carried he said.

Men wore white wigs and silk hose and one picture of George will 'bc Tcxas Washington shows him with such a cane which he held away from him and bn which he rested a iffr .1 lii' i District competition just as the 369th Transportation Co. will be entered in the .22 rifle division. Make Good Showing James J. Moseley, 105, Dies In City hand. Colwell said.

Around the cane when it came into possession was a note, cane belonged to General George Washington, and. after the battle of Fort Duquesne, was given, by him to great-great- great grandfather of the present PLAINYIEW (Special) Fourteen members of the Plain view High School Future Farmer America Chapter placed ahimals Tames J. Moseley. 105. of E.

ow ner, Roy Colwell. Saturday at the San Antonio Live- 26th St. died at 4 a. m. today at The late Roy Colwell, who lived stock Exposition.

Tom Duffey. vo- his home following an illness of at Lexington, cousin of cational agriculture instructor, said about a year. Moseley moved to Samuel R. Colwell. The great- today.

Lubbock 10 years ago when he was great-great grandfather to whom Following are the members and 95. the note refers Samuel Col- their placings: Funeral services are pending at well, also the great-great-great Charlie Atkins, grand champion Jamison Funeral Home. grandfather of the Lubbock resi- barrow of the boys with a Survivors include three soils. G. dent.

lightwxight Hampshire hog. A. of Mcxia, Eli of 2632 Ivory and Daybook Still Legible Kenneth Henson, reserve cham- Ed of 2403 Birch and four The daybook or ledger, which pion Southdown lamb of the entire daughters. Mrs. Lena Barnes and 1S approximately inches in show.

i Mrs. Mary Thomas of Denver. sjze and js now worn but still Ross Tips, champion pen of three Mrs. Katie Thomas of 203 legible, was passed from father 1 Hampshire barrow s. E.

26th St. and Mrs. Rosie Jones father and was received about Larry Walter, reserve champion of 2110 Birch St. Chester White barrow in its class. DALLAS Pres- ton Reynolds III arned four worn; en and children from his burning home yesterday and then had to hang by his fingers from a second- story window ledge until rescued.

The youth suffered bums about the face before his mother. Mrs. R. G. Strickland, could rescue him with a ladder.

The fire gutted the frame home where the boy. his parents, a sister. Renna Reynolds. 8 and a half- brother. Edwin Strickland.

3. lived with their grandmother, Mrs. E. A. Thatcher.

Warned Of Fire children were all upstairs in bed with Mrs. Strickland related. mother (Mrs. Thatcher) and I were downstairs playing Canasta. Preston got out of bed and shouted down that he smelled smoke.

I looked, smoke was seeping out from under the door to a closet beneath the stairway. I opened the door and the whole closet burst into flame. Escape Cut Off ran upstairs and got the younger children, but Preston went back to get some clothes for the baby. When he tried to come back down the landing was afire and he was cut off. thought he was about to be overcome by smoke, so he climbed over the window ledge and hung there by his Lubbock High School By Guest Speakers Lubbock High School students Jetton, elementary teaching; and were to hear about everything Mrs.

William Marquis, social ser- from automotive training to social vice. service work this afternoon in the Speakers were to be honored at final sessions of the annual career a coffee in the homemakmg conference at the school. partment following the discus- Approximately 550 students sions. were expected to attend sessions -----------------on subjects of their choice with Qne Fatally Injured speakers also chosen by student 1 By Bomb Explosions SANTIAGO. Cuba Five chairmen.

Bill Sparks is student chairman and Miss Edith Caveness and C. bombs expired in various parts Pha.VmeA reference 3 of cllv last nighl A chairmen for the conference. To- Idled and his 15-yesr. day discussions were scheduled oU injured when a from 1 1 to 2 0 p.m. lx)mh a window of their Speakers and their subjects the were to be Harlan auto- fc, (s immediately deter- motive industry: C.

V. Bullen. arrested several electrical engineering; Robert L. memberE 0f opposition political Newell, engineering: Audrey El- parties liott, FBI and law enforcement; Mrs. Robert Garner, general office work: Dr.

Mina Lamb of Texas Tech. home economics and design: Warlick Carr, law; Dr. O. W. English, medicine; Dr.

Gene Hemmle. music; Mrs. Dorothy Evans, secretarial work: Dr. H. C.

Hartscll of Tech. secon dary teaching: Miss Trula Maud MAX KITLEDGE Represents Southwestern Life Lubbockl Bldq. P03-3446 l.ubbork Junior Chain ber of Commerce Proncllzi and 18th in class with a Hereford steer. He also placed six other hogs. Other placings: Gus Dyer, a Hampshire barrow; Production Workers At Plant Walk Out I 45 years ago by the Lubbock man from his father.

Samuel J. Colwell. It was the ledger of the same great-grcat-great grandfather who (owned the cane. It dates from the period Feb. 2.

DATE FROM WASHINGTON FERIOD-SamucI R. (Dick) Colwell is shown with a ledger bearing dates of the George Washington period and a cane, which, according to the note originally attached to it. belonged to George Washington. (Staff Photo.) Substahce May Be Cotton, Powdered Milk Radioactive Fuzz Settles Like Dew Over New York Village HORSEHEADS. N.

Y. A wispy radioactive fuzz that settled like dew' over this western New York village had the scientific community in some- of a dither today. Could that strange stuff be AKRON. Feb. 23 INS Some 9,000 production workers walked 1789 to June 3, 1837.

and most of Tex Lee Edwards, a Hampshire out at the B. F. Goodrich plant in the amounts recorded in the book barrow Carl Bontke, a Hampshire Akron early today in a dispute are in pounds, shillings and pence. jnk. barrow; J.

D. McGaugh, a Hamp- over negotiation of a supplemental The ancestor who used the day- Other historical items were shire harrow; Benney Wilson, a contract. hook to record accounts operated tucked into the ledger including Hampshire barrow; Richard Whit- pickets were immediately the formerly at Critical Pronouncing one Chester White and one i thrown up around the plant gates. Pa-, and later at Lexington. O.

I jng-Book. containing the rudi- Hampshire barrow; Roger Horan. Officials of Local 5 of the CIO The Lubbock man pointed out that mCnts of the English language, a Poland hina barrow: Gordon United Rubber Workers Union and flour generally was necessary if tr uhich are prefixed the prinoi- Fore. a Southdown lamb: Can the Goodrich firm planned another one operated a store, and the pjps 0f English pronounciation, Craig a Southdown lamb; Andrew negotiating session this afternoon grain had to be ground for flour, compiled for the use of schools Ganzer two Angus steers jn an 0 ff0rt to reach agreement on so the general store operated by jn the United States and Great Two Hale County 4-H Hub boys 25 points. his great-great-great grandfather Britain also placed animals.

Rov D. Gregg Goodrich and the rubber work- jbore the name of mill, of the Plainview 4-11 Club had the ers agreed on a master contract The ledger lists numbers, ap- Chester white breed champion. He covering all of the firm's plants parently referring to another ree- placed another Chester white hog hvo weeks ago. 4th in its class and a Southdown lamb 15th in its class. Mack Shubert.

of the Petersburg club, showing his brother Berkshire, won the Berkshire hog brrcd champion banner. All the FFA members who participated in the have returned to Plainview. Duffev said Gene Fine, Jail Sentence Given To Lubbockite Robert Jeffie Howard. 38. 505 N.

Flint, was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to three days in iail by Judge Robert J. Allen in ord. name of the customer, and charge or credit amounts. Transactions Are Listed One customer furnished by Uezekiah Burhans. counsellor at The book was published in 1S2S.

Displayed Only Once Colwell said the ledger was once lent for display at a celebration at Shippensburg and otherwise Barnett, vocational agriculture County Court-at-Law after How teacher, and Melvin Walter Plain- ard entered a plea of guilty this view farmer, are rema in Antonio until Friday to sell the animals. STREET CARS COLLIDE morning of driving intoxicated. Judge Allen also fined Raul Wilson. 18, 106 Ave. $150 and costs on each of two counts charging had not been displayed anywhere, bushel of flax and received He said he had never shown the dit on his account for 1 shilling, to anvone in Lubbock until 10 ponce.

Another received credit foday ho'n he showed jt t0 ca'nace and notation inai- eddor 0f Lubbock Avalanche- cates that he hauled five barrels of flour to Philadelphia. Another received credit of 1 pound, 1 shilling for hauling carriage of 13 bushels of salt from and hauling so many bushels of another product difficult to decipher. should have been in a safety deposit box all this time, but it Cohvell said he has no children to leave the book to. Colwell said he thinks the binding of the book is sheep skin. The cotton? Or could it be powdered milk, of all things? There were strong arguments in support of the latter.

The substance, long and cobwebby, fell over a residential area covering trees, shrubbery and houses. Dr. Charles B. Rutenber, professor of at Elmira College, said a Geiger counter showed the stuff was radioactive, not to a dangerous degree, but more than normal for things taken from the air in this area. He said this could be be-' cause of the atomic tests now under way in Nevada.

Rutenber sa preliminary tests indicated the material was cotton fiber that had been badly damaged in some sort of explosion. But from John Stelmak, a chemical engineer at the Westinghouse Electronic Tube Division plant, came another theory. He said the stuff looked like some sort of synthetic fiber of the hydrocarbon class, like nylon. Some hydrocarbon plastics are made from milk, Stelmak said, and within three bloogs of the heaviest concentration Police Here Recover Car Stolen Tuesday Police today recovered and held for examination a 1953 Chevrolet two-door sedan reported stolen Tuesday afternobn. when parked at the and Auto Sales.

2315 Texas by a woman who ignored the protests of Leroy Busby, 2716 Cornell, a salesman at the lot. and then notified the owrners by I phone where she had left it. According to Busby, the woman came in with a request to borrow a car. He refused and turned to talk to a customer. Meanwhile, said Bushy, the woman started to drive away in the Chevrolet, saying be back soon.

They He said he would report it stolen but she drove off. The car was located at a 19th I Street service station after the woman called Busby today to tell him she had abandoned it after running out of gas. ALL-OUT CAMPAIGN NAIROBI, Kenya Eight battalions ol British and African troops supported by thousands of African tribal police have opened an all-out campaign against an estimated 2.000 Mau Mau terrorists on the slopes of Mt. Kenya. of the fallen material is a dairy that makes powdered milk.

The manager of the plant. Lawrence Peer, agreed that the dairy could very well be at the bottom of the mystery. The process he said, calls for putting the milk under intense heat. A scum forms on top of the milk, and some of it may have escaped up a defective Aug. HANNOVER.

Germany oi liquor. Wilson had entered street cars collided head-on in a £udty- Bond was set at dense fog near here cariv todav, 5750 in an illegal transportation of critically injuring hquor case charging Gerlespcy including several school children. Barton. 47. 1700 Blk.

Ave. A. Barton pleaded innocent. Linen, tobacco, bar iron, shoe appears to be orange wood, buckles, linens, flour barrels, I 135 sugar, twist silk, buttons, coffee, determine type of wood, he said, shoes, hat. ribbon, and other Colwell moved to Lubbock about items are listed in the ledger.

12 years ago from Akron. O. He Entries in the ledger are In was born in Lexington, O. WANT TO SELL YOUR HOME? We neert ymir listingi; nave 14 buyers SOW fT your home In £-Wr Lubbock. 2-BR and Den or l-BR.

Please call us SW9-4311 EDWARDS-INGLIS Loans Insurance 3304 34til SWift 9-4311 EIRE HITS CHURCH CARTHAGE. Tex. fire destroyed the kitchen, attic and evm of the First Methodist Church yesterday. It apparently began under the floor. Fire Chief L.

O. Bowen said. There was no damage estimate. IN THE CAR HEATERS cd Raider DRIVE IN THEATRE Optus 6:15 Adults P03-7466 FINEST LAST TIMES TONITE SECOND FEATURE ONLY Story of Love and War Clark Lana Victor GABLE-TURNER-MATURE INTRIGUE 1 ADVENTURE' Lottis CALHERN COLOR DAN 0URYEA February Thursday Friday Saturday 24 25-26 SIX PERFORMAXCES IX LI RROCK Til UR. and FRI.

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