Childress Index Publishing Details and Rates
The Childress Index is published in Childress Texas by The Childress Index Inc printed by Ox Bow Printing Inc all locally owned. It prints Sundays Tuesdays and Thursdays with second class postage paid at Childress Texas. Subscription rates list mail and carrier options for local and adjoining counties with yearly and half year terms.
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Childress Index, Inc
Ox Bow Printing, Inc
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Morris Higley
Editorials Must the Elderly Live in Fear
An editorial argues elderly people face crime and fear despite public housing promises. It urges community action, local patrols, and neighborly check-ins to protect seniors and ensure safer, more engaged later years. The piece highlights Hurricane Agnes aid as a sign of care and calls for practical safety measures.
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Congressional
Consumer Pressure Nudges Cosmetics Toward Clearer Ingredients
The piece notes pressure from Virginia Knauer for readable ingredient lists in cosmetics. It argues major firms should inform buyers to avoid irritants or rare fatal reactions, with consumer demand likely driving quicker action than official probes.
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Nixon
Virginia Knauer
Thank You Note For 4-H Rodeo Publicity Efforts
Minnie Lou Bradley thanks Mr and Mrs Higley and Jim for a fine 4 H rodeo feature page. She credits The Index with supportive coverage that honors youth activity and deters drug use by giving positive news attention.
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Minnie Lou Bradley
Editor Letter Defends Tower on Senate Attendance
Dean Decker rebuts Barefoot Sanders criticizing Senator Tower’s attendance. The letter asserts Tower maintains a strong roll call record, noting Tower answered over 81 percent of votes this year, compared with McGovern at 29 percent and Humphrey at 31 percent. Decker praises Tower’s 11 year Texas representation and dismisses Sanders’ attacks.
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Barefoot Sanders
Senator Tower
United States Senate
George McGovern
Sanders
McGovern
Sen
Hubert Humphrey
Tower
Texas
Dean Decker
Annoyance and the Power of a Good Example
A concise reflection on how a strong example tests patience and character, drawing on the irony of high standards versus everyday challenges. This brief meditation traces the tension between ideal conduct and human tolerance.
Community notes on politics and student loan debt
Morris Higley reports on Shriver's vice presidential nomination and local reactions. The column highlights Lancer Homes funding Bloodmobile visits, Greenbelt Bowl junior hostesses, Flair Fashions support, and a spike in student loan defaults rising to 33.8 million dollars. It ends with a quip on a U.S. land league.
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Childress
Lancer Homes
Bloodmobile
Wayne Shaw
TI Home Transfer Service workers shift homes with costly losses
Weston Edwards, president of TI Home Transfer Service Corp, outlines a troubled market for corporate employee relocations. The firm moved 1,800 homes worth over 50 million dollars last year, losing about 6,000, and aims for 2,000 homes this year, hoping profits come from volume rather than margins.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
Weston Edwards
TI Home Transfer Service Corp
Home Equity
Weston
Title Insurance & Trust Co
The Informed Consumer and Money Lessons for Children
A guide on teaching children money skills from preschool to teens through hands on shopping, budgeting, and family discussions. It emphasizes spending plans, weekly allowances, responsible handling of cash and credit, and parental example. An 1859 slide rule precursor is noted.
Boyle Thoughtful Moments Of Life Worth Living
New York columnist Hal Boyle reflects on small, joyous memories that make life meaningful. He recalls paying off debt, finding forgotten shoes, a kind babysitter, Christmas carols, a scratchy McCormack recording, a first real date, early work wisdom, youthful prowess, ice skating with friends, a chance encounter with a red stocking capped girl, reading Dickinson, meeting a kindergarten sweetheart years later, and a camping moment that feels like a cathedral in nature.
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Hal Boyle
New York
John McCormack
Emily Dickinson
Today in History highlights from Aug 13 across centuries
Events include Hernando Cortez capturing Mexico City in 1521, William’s War beginning in 1688, Los Angeles flag-raising in 1848, Manila surrender in 1898, and later milestones such as the Berlin Wall anniversary and spaceflight notes. Birthdays include Fidel Castro and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Associated Press
Hernando Cortez
Mexico City
North Yarmouth
Maine
Los Angeles
Manila
Shanghai
East Germany
East
West Berlin
North
Vietam
China
Berlin Wall
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Alfred Hitchcock
Horace
Sataris
Britannica cites US oil consumption surpassing multiple Earths
Encyclopaedia Britannica reports that the United States annually reduces nearly three earths worth of the world’s oil supply. The claim highlights the country’s outsized energy demand and its impact on global petroleum reserves.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Business Mirror
Amedee Mannsheim
Crawford C. Martin
Boyle
Capitol Sta. Austin
John Deere
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Childress Tractor CO
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