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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1964
Page
5
Childress High School Band thanks Greenbelt Bowl directors for concession stand support at the Greenbelt Bowl game. The band will perform at the Texas State Fair on Oct 12 and seeks lodging meals and transit for over one hundred student members, urging community backing.
The US Weather Bureau reported 107 degrees as the highest temperature Tuesday in the continental United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii, measured at Blythe California. The morning low was 31 degrees at Redmond.
The article examines the push in Congress to replace winner take all with a one man one vote system. It notes potential lawsuits expanding access to federal courts. It warns of losing New York City influence and shifts in presidential platform shaping due to electoral vote changes.
A runaway slaughterhouse bull gored and seriously wounded three peasants in Salerno Italy Tuesday. A fourth peasant escaped to an olive tree and workers nearby killed the bull, authorities said.
The piece discusses bloc vote concentration in New York City Buffalo and Rochester and its effect on 11 states California Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio Michigan New Jersey Massachusetts Missouri Wisconsin Maryland Minnesota totaling 260 electoral votes. It covers Mundt and Morton constitutional amendment proposals to create presidential districts with two electors at large, projecting 1960 outcomes under such a system and noting partisan implications for Nixon Kennedy.
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