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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1968
Page
1
Pre dawn quakes struck Manila injuring hundreds and collapsing the Ruby Tower apartment block housing up to a thousand people. Hospitals overflowed with casualties while officials reported death counts ranging from seven to 200. The disaster sparked fires and a mass rescue as rubble and debris filled streets.
The GOP race tightens as Reagan builds a formal campaign network for the first time since 1952. He remains a favorite son while Nixon and Rockefeller vie for delegates at the convention with shifting loyalties and new backers.
District Judge Charles Reynolds appointed Robert L Gibbins Jr of Plainview to defend Clyde Gilbreth of Clarendon who is charged with murder of District Attorney John Gillham. Donley County Grand Jury to meet in Clarendon Tuesday to weigh the charges. State plans trial in Donley County in the first week of October.
Three absentee ballots were cast in the August 17 election on a city sales tax. City Manager Louis Sally announced this morning. Voters may cast absentee ballots at City Hall. All registered residents of Childress are eligible to vote.
Fire department extinguished a grass fire nine miles north and a half mile east of the city at 9 20 p m last night. A small area burned according to a fire department spokesman. Owner of the land is L J Hudson of Brisco Ohio
Washington aUPI column previews how convention songs influence votes and defections at the Democratic and GOP gatherings. The writer notes vacation conflicts and suggests songs may swing delegate loyalties during Chicago proceedings.
Czech Communist leader Alexander Dubcek heads to Bratislava for the Warsaw Pact summit amid fears over potential Soviet military pressure. He urged prudence, pledged firmness in policy, and recalled President Svoboda's assurances that Czechoslovakia would stay in the pact.
Bands of youths marched on Mexico City amid a seventh day of disturbances near the National University campus. Riot police, armored cars, and tanks watched as students shouted Revolution si Olympics no and denounced the Games.
Houston police quickly identified a car left on a street as stolen after a detective read a note in the front seat. The message indicated the owner and requested help in returning the vehicle to its rightful owner in New Orleans.
Mrs. Cynthia J. Green of Santa Ana sues a local drugstore for 15000 dollars claiming the pharmacist filled a birth control prescription with pills different from those prescribed by her doctor. She states her child was born July 1.
About 120 guerrillas pressed a dawn attack near Da Nang killing five Marines and wounding 14, who called in artillery and repelled the assault. Seven attackers died, and 12 guerrilla bodies were found after further clashes in the region.
In San Quentin Prison the inmate extras earned praise from prison authorities. Lt. C. L. Rodgers commended over 1% west unit participants for their enthusiastic riot scene performance in the prison newspaper noting the event improved cooperation among inmates.
Washington Window recalls 1960s and earlier recess appointments to the Supreme Court. It notes Senator Hart’s push for a sense of the Senate curbing recess picks, citing Warren and Brennan as examples and outlining how some appointees sat before confirmation.
Four Winds Industrial Foundation directors meet at Lazare store at 8 p.m. Monday to shape a barbecue and confirm plans to supply water to four counties. Congress man Graham Purcell to turn on water August 16. Cities include Childress Quanah Crowell Paducah. R A Yarbrough to report after Memphis meeting August 7-9.
Funeral services for Henry Wagoner Epps will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church with Rev Joe S. Allen officiating. Interment follows at Childress Cemetery. Newberry's directing. Pallbearers include Robert Williams Henry Williams James Helms D C Epps Jr Jerry Epps and Duard Epps. He died Thursday morning at his Childress home after a long retirement as farmer and railroad worker. His wife Ethyl Franks preceded him in death in 1962.
G T Miller a former Ku Klux Klan member testifies in federal court about intimidation of Negroes in the 1920s and says he killed a couple of people. He recounts being tried and acquitted by a white jury in Crenshaw County as the Justice Department pursues nine alleged Klansmen in a school desegregation suit.
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