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Red Cross Workers Guests At Canteen At the South Plains Army Air field canteen Friday, new home service workers and staff assistants of the Lubbock chapter of the American Red Cross were guests. After being served light refreshments, the Red Cross workers were taken on a sight-seeing tour of the field and were shown the planes. The workers, who recent- Judge Marvin Jones, member ly completed special courses, were of the U. S. Court of Claims in presented certificates by Mrs.

R. Washington and a former con- b. Erwin, volunteer special serv- gressman from this district, is in (Thb letter, irritttc fcy Jeaae Zloxle ID tfae absence of Turner who is on rmradoB. is compiled for yon send service). Dear- Friday, July Lubbock this week as a guest of i his brother and sister-in-law.

Mr. and Mrs. Hub Jones, 2114 Thirteenth. Judge Jones recently completed s. lour of duty as War Foods administrator.

Congressman George Mahon arrived in Lubbock from Washington this week and has opened his office in the Federal building. Over 400 returned overseas officers, enlisted men and discharg- ed veterans were entertained with a dinner-dance Tuesday night by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliary at "he Lubbock USO. Highlight of the evening was a ,7 floor show presented during termission. Among the graduates in the eighth big class of combat veterans at Lubbock Army Airfield was Capt. Thomas W.

Schwellenbach. son of the recently appointed Secretary of Labor," L. B. Schwellenbach. Capt.

Schwellenbach was on duty with the Eighth Air force and Ninth Air force in the European area ar.d flew P-40s and P-47s. He has the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 15 Oak Leaf Clusters, the theater ribbon and the Croix de Guerre. OOUTH Plains Army Air field KJ is the show spot of Lubbock LUBBOCK MOBNING AVAIANCHE PAGE TWO, LUBBOCK. TEX. SATURDAY, JULY 1545 Pythian Sister Temple Honors Past Chiefs And Observes Ninth Birthday Thursday Past chiefs of the Pythian Sister? Temple were honored and the ninth birthday of the Temple was Personals honoree with a rose as her namep 1 Ra Dickey of 2007 Six- inn the hishligts of her term as i teenth on a 14-day leave.

Dickey were read by Mrs. Victor is stationed at Santa Anna. Calif. Smyer Sunshine Club Elects New Officers Officers were elected for the Smyer Sunshine club when members met Tuesday at the home of Mrs. J.

J. Jordons. They are Mrs. Duncan Clark, president; Mrs. Earl Johnson, vice- president; Mrs.

Pete Pace, secretary; Mrs. Lillian Edward, treas- these days and for a very good ury; and Mrs. Floyd Brown, club' reporter. Twenty-nine members and one Fortresses used in the new member, Mrs. Nettie Dulany, en Lincsey.

Mrs. G. H. Ater. first chief of the Temple and at present grand I junior oi the state mother of the Temple.

Mrs. Acle ice chairman. Those awarded certificates vere: observed at a party given in K-P Staff assistants: -sH Thursday night. Mrs. Don L.

Safley. Mrs. James i Pictures of the chiefs were hung Avery, Mrs. Huel C. Martin, Mrs.

C. R. Rodgers and Kicnara Arthur Jenkins, Mrs. R. H.

Roberts, -John Crawford presented each parents, Mr. ana Mrs. E. J. Parsons, Mrs.

CUiford Jones, Mrs. W. A. Black, Mrs. Retha R.

Martin, Mrs. Charles A Guy, Mrs. W. Lee Price, Mrs. B.

H. Moore, Mrs. A. Robertson, Mrs. Robert Means.

Mrs E. Bean, Mrs. R. Q. Sfubbs, Mrs.

Roy Autry, Mrs. Ernest Pope. Mrs. J. W.

Mallorv, Mrs. George Young, Mrs. Alfred Crosby. Mrs. J.

E. Maisen, Mrs. C. H. Decker, Mrs.

Robert Avis. Mrs. Douglas Mrs. Parker Prouty. Mrs.

Hugh Dryer, Mrs. R. A Walters. Home service corps members: Mrs. Henry Eidson, Mrs.

O. T. Williams. Mrs. Val Williams, Mrs.

J. E. Waller, Mrs. C. H.

Thompson, Mrs. Don Mitchell. Mrs. J. Logan.

Mrs Milt Kinman, Mrs. S. E. Jondahl, Mrs. O.

A. Coon, Mrs. Clayton Carter, Mrs. J. L.

Barstow, Mrs. Charles Akey. Heart Attack Fatal To Southland Man SOUTHLAND, July 27. (Special M. Basinger, 72.

owner of ccnsicie! sole land in the Southland vicinity and several business buildings here, died of a heart attack at 1:35 o'clock this afternoon in Slaton. Basinser was stricken while at a feed mill. He died en route to a hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at -i o'clock Sanday afternoon in the church here with Elmer Crabtree, pastor of the Methodist church at Happy, officiating, assisted by Rev. Armstrong, local pastor.

Pallbea'-ers will be C. A. Kaire, Otis Neal, J. T. Boyd, Lonnie Collinsworth, J.

M. Corley and Hub Ha ire. He 'eaves his wife; five sons, W. and Alfred, of Southland Mrs. S.

Davidson and aaugn- Alber Pau! of T. News Briefs Temple deputy Russell Hardin Cope was electe to succeed Mrs. whose term has expired. A description ci the first meeting of the Lubbock Plains Temple was read I teernth. They plan to return Mondav.

by Mrs. Ater ana a nistory of the son anci ames L. Quick- Temple was given by Mrs. J. D.

1725 Twenty-fourth. Basinger was born in Tennessee. He lixed in Love and Tiilmar; counties ir Oklahoma and moved Mrs. J. L.

Quicksall. and to Sputi.land in 1917. lughter Alleyne, of Waco, are Funeral home of Sla- spending the summer with their ton is charge of funeral ar- Present officers of the Temple Lt. and Mrs. Richard L.

Cham- were presented proficiency certifi- bers cf San Antonio are visiting eates fay Mrs. Ater. For the first i Mrs. Chambers' parents, Mr. and time since the organization of the I Mrs.

Arch S. Underwood of 3107 Temple, all the officers received Nineteenth. Lt. Chambers'will re- the certificates at the same time, i turn to San Antonio for re-assign- Mrs. E.

H. Bergman, most excellent chief, expressed appreciation to the officers for having received the cer- tiiicates and for their cooperation Hostesses for the occasion were Mesdames J. B. McManus. Oscar Kinchen, Lorena Wilson and C.

S. Ameen. 11Farewell Party Is For Two Families Harry Peak, 6, Is Honored At Party Mrs. Alton Peak of 1519 Twenty- seventh gave a party Thursday rangements. It is estimated that approximately a third of the B-17 Flying Eighth I afternoon to honor her son, Harry, ing from Lubbock, a party was given in the home of Mrs.

W. L. Armstrong. 2607 Elm, Thursday afternoon by the Arnett-Benson Bible class. on his sixth birthday.

Guests were entertained Army Air force over I were present. Europe are parked at SPAAF for Next club meeting will be held all to see. A large number of the at 2 p. Aug." 7 in the home of bombers have been on 100 or more missions. It is reported that the planes are being parked here until needed elsewhere.

Lubbock received nationwide, publicity in the July 16 issue of The Keynoter, official periodical of the. American Red Cross, Mrs. -Marguerite Stiles, local chapter executive secretary, announced. magazine picked up a story, published in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, on the important role Lubbock women are playing in Red Cross volunteer work. TNVESTIGATION of "unusually excessive" amounts of meat in frozen food lockers in the Lubbock OPA district, will begin in the next few days.

Roscoe H. Collier, chief investigator, has announced. Collier, who is a discharged veteran, having suffered-the ol both his legs on; Bougainville, said there would be no investigation of indrvidual lockers unless locker plant records revealed more than an unusual amount of meat stored therein. of several cities in the state virtually without sugar for several receive two carloads soon. Each carload contains about 80.000 pounds.

On 'OPA food ration officer in Dallas said 33 Texas and four Oklahoma cities would share in the latest shipment of offshore sugar more than 5.000,000 pounds from Puerto Rica. The original manuscript of D. H. Lawrence's last, and uncompleted, piece of fiction has been, presented to Dr. W.

C. Holden. curator of the West Texas Museum society, by the renowned English writer's wife, whose home is in N. M. It is a short story titled "The Flying Fish" and hss a unique coliectofs value, Dr.

Kolden said. Lawrence is the author of "Sons and Lovers," "The Lady Mrs. H. Strouoe. Russell Bean Leaves Friday For Haiti Russell Bean, son of Mr.

and Mrs. George R. Bean, 1614 Nineteenth, 'left -today for Port Au Prince, Haiti, where, he is employed on a sisal plantation. Bean has spent the past month in Lubbock. Who Rode Away" and ''The First Lady Chatterljv' The novelist and his wife had made Taos Their home for the last four or five years of his life.

His death occurred in a little town on the French Riviera and he was buried there. the body was exhumed and cremated and the ashes now rest in a shrine on Lobo mountain near Taos. After studying tentative plans for enlarging the City jail building to more than twice its present size, the city commissioners this week authorized the city manager to ask the architects to prepare an estimate of the project's cost. The proposed plan provides for a four-lane pistol range, recreation room, a wash room, space for the air-conditioner equipment and a locker 'room" all in the basement. On the first floor space is provided for Three new cell-blocks.

The second case of poliomyelitis diagnosed in Lubbock this" year was reported this week by" Dr 3( W. Rollo, city health officer. The victim is Joyce Page. 16. of Abilene who has been visiting a iamily in Hub Homes the last two months.

Goodbye for this week. I N- TOO DARK UGLY. TANNED SKJN Fade freckles. Loosen blackheads. Use as needed 25c SKIN S'R Use only as directeo.

Ii does meke a difference whai you bslieve! Tabernacle BAPTIST CHURCH 15th and Are. Biblt School, 9:15 Sundav 11 a. m. "The Peace of God and Ihe Peace wilh God." MCDOWELL SUNDAY NIGHT 8:15 AT TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH SUBJECT: "And God Gave Them Up" TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH BEN D. JOHNSON.

CORNEB AVE. AND 15TH ARE YOU PUNNING TO RENT i LOCKER IN THE New Modern "Co-Op" Locker Plant To be erected one mile eas; of the courthouse on east Broacitray. Our clar.s call lor 1,000 and tee till be able to handle only that man? members, li rou i-ant to rent one, -are asic you to act HOT. We" nsv.it start constr-jctitn in the near luiure, and must hare the lockers rented and the memberships. Membership in $he association 12 Mo.

Locker Rental $10.00 15.00 Total S2S.OO MAH, VOUS CHECK FOB £25.00 to the nine and address below. You will receive receipt Jor It by return and Tour cher.t will be held In escrow, until construction betlr.s, by Bonded Asst. Secretary Treasurer. LUBBOCK COUHTY CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION P. O.

Box 695, 118 E. Broadway, Lubbock, Texas. Victor Billingtnn, Asst. Sec-Treasurer games, refreshments and pictures were made. Those present were Nancy Ann Henry, Sherry Sheppard, Judy and Andrea Lee, Linda and Billy Campbell, Dorothy Anderson.

Joe Dan Walker of Levelland, Curtis Van Johnson. Doris Jean and Tommy Wayne Moore, Shirley Hermann, Donald Ray and Gerald Adams, Johnny Cox, and Joe Mike Bryan. Mothers were Mesdames Sam Henry, Frank Campbell. Earl Lee. H.

A. Anderson, Woody Walkej, John Cox. Jo Dan Bryan. A. E.

Herrying of Tahoka. Harry's Garden flowers decorated en- with! tertaining rooms. Mesdames L. W. Parker, and B.

L. Wallace assisted the hostess. The honorees were presented handkerchiefs by 16 attending the party. Miss Hallie Wall presented three humorous read- California Wedding Is Announced Here Announcement is being made of the marriage of Miss Jeane Wilson, daughter of Rev. and Mrs.

Joe Wilson of Sundown, and L. D. Minter of San Diego, formerly of Plainview, which took place July 15 in San Diego. The single ring ceremony was performed in the home of the bridegroom's sister, Mrs. Dell Page.

The bride wore a light blue dress with a corsage of gardenias and roses. She was attended by Mrs. Page. Mr. Page served as best man.

The bride attended Wayland college. The bridegroom was recently discharged from the Army, after serving 37 months in the European theater. The couple will reside in San Diego. Condition of R. W.

Harrist, 86, father of Sheriff Grady Harrist. apparently was slightly improved Friday afternoon. He is at his residence a half-mile west of Slide. His condition had been diagnosed as resulting from kidney and stomach complications. Congressman George Mahon, representative from the 19th Congressional district, expressed his I confidence in the future of ica and the United Nations Charter I in an address si the American Business Club's regular Friday luncheon in the Hilton Hotel.

Other I guests were State Senators Sterling J. Parrish of Lubbock and J. Alton i York of Bryan, Jud.se Dan Biair. I Lt. Robt.

Maxey of the Navy, and Leonard Gibson. The Lubbock county fifth Sun; day singing convention will meet I tonight and Sunday at 8:45 p. IK. and 1 p. respectively, in the iAsbury Methodist church, 1917 Twentieth, it has been announced.

I Men interested in employment as skilled mechanics to repair damaged ships in West Coast Navy yards are asked to see J. G. Wood. Navy yard recruiting representative at the U. S.

Employment Service office July 30, 31 and August 1. Transportation is paid, meals are furnished and is guaranteed for the machinists, electricians and sheetmetal workers who qualify for the jobs. Wood announced. J. O.

Program On Brazil Is Given For Club Mesdames Tarl Hobbs, Exuffl, J. H. Burnett. W. Fortenberry, W.

H. Emery and E. W. Smith gave a program on Brazil for Monroe Home Demonstration club Thursday afternoon in a meeting with Sirs. Barnett.

Others present were Mesdames Clem Clutter and C. L. Goebel, a "At the Aug. 8 meeting which will be at the school building. Miss Clara Pratt, county home demonstration agent.

give a demon' stration on "Food Preparation Schools." Members and visitors' are invited. About 17,000 farm dwellers killed in accidents ycarlr. ASPttfN HELP? THIS strength and St. Joseph Aspirin for ample headache and inorKaaic pain. Get relief.

Why ever accept Wby ever pay more? Buy the big 100 tablet bottls forooc, this size pvesyou nearly 3 tablets fpr 1 c. Always ask for St. AST. DISPUTE SETTLED BATON ROUGE, July 27. Settlement of a labor dispute I which Thursday halted production of tetraethyl le'ad at the DuPont- Ethyl plant here was announced today by H.

H. Fisher, plant manager. "Buy A War Bona TODAY" Lsdies' aud Watches and Jewelry Arriving Daily to 7 days on all Watch and Clock Repair Crystal and Watch fiiitd while you wail Use Our Lay-Away Plan. C. S.

TYNER JEWELER 90E 13th grandmother, Frances Peak. and Miss Mary Women Complete Home Nursing Course -The Red Cross home nursing, taught by Mrs. Blanche Mabry, local registered nurse, has been completed by eight local women. Donating her services, Mrs. Mabry asked the Red Cross chapter directors to use the fee offered her.

for her work to buy needed equipment for classes. The class was conducted at the Hed Cross production center. The women completing the course will be given certificates by the mid- Mr, and Mrs. Noble and daughters. Willa Jean and Wanda, were complimented with an ice cream supper given Thursday night at the John W.

Gollihugh home, 2417 Elm street. Rev. and Mrs. Reed are moving to Nocona, and the Noble family is moving to Portland, Ore. Baptist Class Has Business, Luncheon Mrs.

T. J. Vallas was hostess to Calvary Baptist Truthseekers class for a combined business session and luncheon Thursday in her home at 1811 Eighteenth. Visitors were Mesdames L. S.

Bridge, T. H. Montgomery. B. B.

Chappell. and Charles "Rhodes. Others present were Mesdames H. L. Handley, E.

B. Love, H. C. Leggett. a former president of the Lubbock And Slaton School Aid Hiked Lubbock and Slaton schools will be benefited during the current year by an extra S2 per capita granted all non-state schools" in Texas, Roy Boyd, county superintendent, said Friday.

Extra money may go to any "legal expenditure the boards wish to make for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31. Ke said that in the case of state aid schools, which means Lubbock rural schools, the extra per capital will be carried over as a balance and counted as an asset in next year's state aid budget. On the basis of scholastics, he estimated that the extra money would mean approximately 610 to Lubbock schools and" 52,094 to Slatoa schools. FORMER ITU HEAD DIES DALLAS, July 27.

J. OD. Hewlett, E. J. Smith, Ira Martin, and Miss May Horn, teacher.

Sunday school classes for the Truth Seekers held in the home of western office of Red Cross at St. Mrs. Edith Lovace, 1909 Eight- I eenth. North Texas Typographical union, died today in Indianapolis, Ind. He was a native of Dallas and i once worked for the Dallas Times I Herald.

I KILLED IN ACTION McALLEN, July 27. The first American pilot to land a plane on Yontan airfield on Okinawa durins the invasion, 1st Lt. Frank A Milliken, 23, of McAllen. has been killed in an aerial action on Saipan island, his parents, and M'rs. L.

F. Milliken of McAllen, have been informed by Gen. A. A. U.

S. Marine corps commandant. 1 NEW FROZEN DESSERT 1 1 (1) Chill evaporated miik ftall can) In Jreezins unit until slushy. (2) Mil 1 cup sugar and I Kool-Ald (any flavor) I thoroughly In cup cold -water. (3) Place I chttted evaporated milk In chilled bowl.

I I whip rapidly unril stiff. Add Kool-Ald mixture, fold In quickly In I rreezinn tray and freeze at coldest temper- i without 'unfcerstlrrine. (Canbtfrozen in tigktiy closed container buried in 3 parlf crushed ice to 1 pan cocrie I Makes over 1 quart. -Ute, Wfa -fer DINNCR "Buy A- Bond TODAY" HOTEL NEW JUST SHIPMENT ARRIVED When you a Curlee Tropical Summerhaven All Wool Worsted Suit, you don't have to worrv about the wilHna and the wrinkles these lightweight, pure wool fabrics have the stamina to tailor as smartly as a suit of regular weight. See our new blue, brown, tan and grey Summerhaven Suits in single and double breasted styles regular, short, long, stout, long stout, short stout.

$29.50 CLOTHES "A Model for Every Man" Men's Shop GODWIN'S TEEN AGE SHOP Long pants in wool tweed to be combined with sport shirts for school or for dress Sizes 4 to 10 6.75 1803 Bdwy. 'S Teen-Age Shop FORMERLY CHRISTIES Dial 9521 and Now HERE COMES THAT JOB, to finish this Business of Wars Transporting Soldiers and Workers To The West Coast we have been warned by those experts who know that all transportation facilities will be taxed to the limit this summer and fall This rush has started and we have no intention of letting up now when our country needs us most but when you need to travel, we wnnt you to take advantage of our fast bus schedules too. Texas-New Mexico and Oklahoma Coaches UNION BUS TERMINAL.

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