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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1971
Page
6
The Childress Index is a Sunday Tuesday and Thursday newspaper in Childress Texas. It states independent impartiality and offers mail rates for the region with annual and seasonal subscriptions.
A critical preview of the 1971 football season notes the rise of TV coverage and its impact on fans. It wryly contrasts past Super Bowl lore with modern broadcast hype, imagining new equipment and round-the-year access while praising the sport’s enduring appeal.
Events noted include 1940 Germany bombing Britain. 1588 destruction of the Spanish Armada. 1776 John Paul Jones named captain. 1815 Napoleon sails to St Helena. 1945 USSR declares war on Japan. 1963 Cheddington train holdup over $7 million. Soblen life sentence. 1968 Whitman shooting toll 16. Suez cease fire first day. birthdays Arthur Goldberg and Sylvia Sidney.
A poem by Routh Wilby titled The Night Before Sharpstown satirizes the Sharpstown bank scandal. It references Gus Mutscher Frank Sharp and the one party machine, while alluding to SEC actions and the bank’s closure as distrust grows. The piece lampoons Austin power brokers and the public demand for accountability.
Milburn Stone recovers from heart surgery with Pat Hingle stepping in on Gunsmoke. Barbara Anderson exits Tronsides for Elizabeth Baur, and Lynda Day George joins Mission Impossible. New titles include The New Dick Van Dyke Show and Bearcats set in the Southwest. CBS tops fall schedules with 23 new series.
A witty exchange mocks marriage economics and license costs as the modern ideal. The speaker notes the trouble of wives and jokes that a daughter’s marriage might require a long ladder to reach her window, reflecting satirical views on matrimony and social expectations.
AP analysis reports Baruch College and industry researchers finding that top environmental performers in pulp and paper may be more profitable. Early results from the Council on Economic Priorities study suggest lower operating costs, easier capital access, and potential buyer preference for clean companies, bucking the notion that pollution control harms profits.
Rodolfo Garcia 21 of Childress promoted to Army Specialist Four serving with the 23rd Infantry Division in Vietnam near Da Nang. Wilbern Trammel 21 of Quanah completed an eight week veterinary specialist course at Walter Reed in Washington DC. Alexander Sims 18 of Childress completed an eight week cooking course at Fort Ord California.
Washington notes warn violence in streets could flare again this fall as protests mix with unrest at nationwide events. Analysis cites Colin Wilson and Ramsey Clark on violence as a human eruption beneath civilization, with protests fueling outbreaks but not defining them.
California programs train staff to prepare and serve diverse foods in large or small batches. Private Steve Lynch, 19, from Vega Texas, completed eight weeks at Fort Polk Infantry training center. His wife Sherri resides in Memphis Texas. Spec 4 Meadows from Wellington Nelson joined a Wake Forest sponsored Goodwill tour of U.S. military hospitals in the Far East with R Lewis Martin Jr. supervising.
Army Specialist Four Rosco D. Meadows, 24, a patient at the U S Army Hospital Camp Zuma, was visited by Donald Nelson, star player of the Boston Celtics.
Analysis shows a dramatic urbanization trend with only one of twenty Americans living in cities in 1790, while today fourteen of twenty reside in urban centers. The data reflect long term migration patterns, economic development, and population clustering in metropolitan areas.
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