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Pages past - Nov. 29

On this date ...

1972: Funeral services were scheduled for Clifford B. Jones, described in a Clovis News-Journal headline as "Lubbock's Number One Citizen."

Jones, 87, helped found Texas Tech University, later serving as its third president. The football stadium at the school was named in his honor, as was a large power generating station near Lubbock.

In his lifetime, Jones served as mayor of Lubbock, and also had successful careers as a banker, rancher, educator, and businessman. For the last 10 years of his life, he was known as "Mr. West Texas."

1972: Ila Mae Doyal was officially appointed postmaster of the Elida post office by the United States Postal Service.

Doyal, who started working for the postal service in 1948, had previously been officer in charge at Elida.

She and her husband, Leo, lived in Elida with their five children.

Her promotion was received under the merit selection basis established for the postal service in legislation that had been recently passed by Congress and signed by President Richard Nixon.

Pages Past is compiled by Betty Williamson. Contact her at: [email protected]

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