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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1971
Page
1
Funeral services were held for J Curtis Cook 64 longtime Wichita Falls Record News managing editor who died Thursday. He had worked for Times Publishing Co since 1931 and the Record News since 1932.
British troops fought a gun battle with gun-runners suspected of smuggling arms across the Irish Republic border. In a 45 minute clash, about six assailants were wounded or killed, and a hunt was launched for the gang’s leader.
Northern Ireland’s most wanted man Joe Cahill challenged British claims of IRA defeat at a Belfast news conference two miles from a patrol. Soldiers halted cars and searched homes as raids yielded arms while clashes erupted in Londonderry’s Bogside and Creggan estates.
Seven people were arrested in Portadown after a stone throwing clash and more than a dozen shots hit the Belleek police station in County Fermanagh today. No injuries were reported. The military said it could not confirm enemy casualties following the battle with a smuggling gang. The IRA typically removes its dead and wounded from the area.
British army headquarters described an extensive exchange of gunfire between a patrol and shadowy figures about 1,000 yards inside the border near Newry, 45 miles south of Belfast, a town seen as key in rebel arms smuggling routes.
Floods flooded areas in the Childress region on Friday with the Carey area recording up to three inches in under an hour. Local residents reported varying rainfall amounts around Northfield, Red River nearby towns, and at Cee Wee. The Associated Press notes broader flood emergencies across South and Southwest Texas with at least five deaths and D H is open again allowing refugees to return home.
Fifty four people volunteered to donate during the Bloodmobile visit at Fair Park Auditorium. Forty nine units were collected toward a 65 unit quota. Local clubs and individuals contributed cash while nurses and doctors provided medical support. Many volunteers from Kirkland Home Demonstration Club aided, with Candy Stripers and Postal Clerks Auxiliary assisting. A county notice notes surplus commodity distribution at 217 Ave A Northeast on Wednesday and Thursday with required permissions.
President Anwar Sadat urged Syria to stop border fighting with Jordan in an early morning call reported by Al Ahram. Both sides blamed each other for three days of clashes, with Syria severing ties and claiming nine tanks destroyed while Jordan reports ten tanks knocked out. No casualties were announced.
North Vietnamese forces launched a dawn assault near the DMZ with over 200 rockets and mortars striking four South Vietnamese positions. The Saigon command reported seven Americans killed in the crash of a UH1 helicopter aiding South Vietnamese troops near Fire Base Sarge. Marine battalion near Sarge repelled the attack with 17 enemy killed, four Marines killed and five wounded. Artillery and rockets also hit Camp Carroll and Fire Bases Fuller and Charlie 2 with no reported casualties there.
Mae Frances Moore of Wellington was charged Thursday by Perrys manager Charles Young with shoplifting. She was arrested, arraigned in county court, pled guilty, and fined with court costs totaling 67 dollars and one day in jail.
Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams pledged full support to Alabama Governor George Wallace as he fights busing for school desegregation. Louisiana Governor John McKeithen warned he would use police power to block busing, while Wallace ordered Limestone County to reopen the largely black New Hope Junior High School as part of his challenge to federal policy.
Frank W. Sharp testified before SEC investigators in Houston amid reports of a tacit deal to loan money and sell stock to Texas politicians in exchange for favorable legislation. The Houston Post cited unnamed sources as the deposition wrapped after five days of closed sessions.
Mae Lynne Baird of Grand Junction Colorado drove west on US 287 ten miles west of Childress when she apparently fell asleep and crossed into a field striking a tree. She received minor injuries at Fox Clinic and the car sustained extensive damage.
In Palm Beach Florida police arrested three 18 year old skin divers Ken Hallison Ken Moore and Bob Donth after they emerged from an inlet wearing only shorts or bare chests. The 1947 city ordinance requires proper street attire in public and bans walking barefoot or swimming dress on streets. A minister and several tourists were also detained for public exposure under the same rule.
A Dallas deposition tied Jake Jacobsen former Lyndon Johnson aide to naming a chief executive for Sharpstown State Bank amid SEC fraud claims. Examiners questioned loans to Lt Gov Ben Barnes and others as Sharp’s financial empire faced scrutiny, with Mutscher loan details and possible collateral deals under review.
The 1971-72 school year starts August 23 with four days of inservice before classes. Faculty meetings run Aug 17 18 and 19, with registrations by grade level at each campus and consultants visiting elementary language arts and mathematics.
Confirmed Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis cases rise to 14 across Wallace Brazoria counties. Zapata County faces eight dead horses amid an outbreak fear on a ranch owned by Houston oilman John McCon. Washington reports an experimental horse vaccine shows health, enabling commercial production and wider sales outside current free areas.
The Childress Independent School District board schedules a public hearing on the 1971 72 budget for 8 30 p m August 18 The budget was presented at Thursday night’s meeting Approval of the amended budget will be voted in a special meeting at 7 30 p m August 24
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