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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1971
Page
6
The Childress Index is an independent Sunday Tuesday and Thursday newspaper in Childress Texas. It lists subscription rates for local and adjoining counties with annual and half year options and carrier pricing.
The piece argues Nixon’s reelection hinges on sustained prosperity by 1972. It notes past policy cooled growth, caused a recession with unemployment near 6 percent, and outlines new measures aimed at tax cuts, an auto tax repeal, wage and price controls, and dollar stabilization to revive growth.
Wall Street reaction to the President's economic proposals is slow to yield firm guidance. Analysts note few deep evaluations after the market's initial rise, while Pax World Fund debuts with a peace‑focused, no‑load strategy excluding defense, liquor, tobacco and gambling firms.
LAS ANIMALS Colo AP seven mile Tarbox Ditch irrigation canal irrigated 1 000 acres on three nearby farms in 1867 marking the first successful irrigation experiment in southeast Colorado.
The Greenbelt Bowl Association expresses gratitude to all who assisted with the 1971 Bowl Classic. They thank donors of boats and pullers for the convertibles, those who supplied food for the picnic, and each riding club for their participation.
The writer disputes Waggoner Carr about a stock fraud probe, arguing it was aimed at harming the Republican administration in Washington. He contends Washington knew of the fraud before the election and suggests the public’s view supports his stance. He predicts Nixon won’t yield and links inflation to the fight.
The World Almanac notes Audie Murphy, a Texas farm boy and U S Army veteran, earned 24 medals by age 20, including the Medal of Honor, with about 240 enemy soldiers killed. He served in Italy and France after enlisting in June 1942. A Frankfort AP report adds the Kentucky highway department received a $90,000 bonus from the Federal Highway Administration for regulating interstate outdoor advertising.
Hollywood veteran Guy Madison, known as Wild Bill Hickok, returns from a decade in Italy and plans TV and feature work in Dallas Fort Worth with a Texas backed production company. He will produce and star in The Sale Is On about quarter horse breeding, aiming to roll around September 1. Madison says Texas will become a major film hub and explains his split personal life and recent relocation.
Report notes audiences dislike films despite rave reviews and explains studios now limit critics' quotes in ads. John Cassavetes' Husbands is cited as an example where positive blurbs did not help the public reception.
Rob Reiner, son on All in the Family, invents a pink drink made of half tomato juice and half buttermilk. Phil Mishkin accuses him of doing it for its pink color. Rob says he truly enjoys it despite the color.
On this date 1914 Nazi troops reached Leningrad outskirts in World War II. 1654 Jacob Barsimson becomes first Jewish emigrant to America landing at New Amsterdam. 1762 Ann Franklin begins as Newport Mercury editor. 1776 British land 10,000 on Long Island. 1910 Japan annexes Korea. 1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre. recovered 1913. 1956 GOP renominates Eisenhower Nixon. Five years ago Katanga crisis and Vietnam debates referenced. One year ago Agnew toured Southeast Asia. Point Roberts residents cross to Canada and back via Blaine, Washington.
A letter to Governor Preston Smith in Austin alleges mismanagement by the Parks and Wildlife Commission over the Canadian River Bed ruling. It accuses delays in Attorney General opinions, illegal fencing, and favors to ranchers, threatening court action to block hunting licenses until the issue is resolved.
A U N Secretariat paper reports Pitcairn Island has lost 70 residents in a decade and now has only 80 descendants of the Bounty mutineers and Tahitians who settled there in 1793. The note adds that Norfolk Island farther west has about 600 Pitcairn descendants.
Nixon signals last dash to improve economy with tax cuts investment credits wage price freeze and reduced federal spending. Analysts say impact may not be felt until March next year, but the rapid, bold actions press the Democrats and shape the 1972 campaign.
Hal Boyle offers a row of quick one liners from a bartender’s barroom life. The quips jokingly lampoon drinkers, loyalties, and misadventures with punchy punchlines.
University of Texas sociologist Associate Professor Joe Feagin reports a majority of Americans fault individuals rather than society for poverty. He completed a nationwide survey titled American Attitudes Toward Poverty and Anti Poverty Programs, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
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