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Childress Index

Location

Childress, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 27, 1968

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Demos Battle Texas Delegation Split at Democratic Convention

Texas liberals nearly tied up 313 votes of 104 at the conv ention seating fight. Connally’s regulars lost unit rule support as Ralph Yarborough urged insurgent backing and President Johnson's birthday visit loomed as a respite.

David Anderson Chicago UPI Texas Johnson John Connally Connally Will D. Davis Frank C. Erwin Jr Robert S. Strause Tom Gordon Spuce White House Eugene McCarthy Ralph Yarborough Tex Yarborough United States Afl-Cio Hank Brown Barbara Jordan Houston William N. Kemp Ed R. Watson Deer Park Jamison J Berry Hubert H. Humphrey Brown Humphrey McCarthy Mit Miss Jordan Texag Georgia

Childress Board Supports Junior College Feasibility Efforts

The Childress Independent School District Board offered full support to the steering committee studying a junior college for Childress. An Austin appointment with TEA officials is set for Thursday at 2 30 p m. The amended 1967 68 budget of 1 575 397 was approved and a correspondence course plan was adopted to allow eligible students to earn extra credits or supplement education through UT Extension, Texas Tech Extension, or the US Army Institute.

Childress Harry Thaten Glenn Buckley Childress Independent Texas Education Agency Austin Childress Independent School Buckly Buckley Gordon Graviey Owen Eary

Birth date search for Amarillo woman Leona Stone

Mr and Mrs Thomas J Stone of Amarillo seek Leona Stones birth date and roots. They recall an October 1925 Index article about her abandonment in Fort Worth that named her Little Miss Denver and were told she was adopted. Needing birth details they ask informants to contact 2000 North Manhattan Amarillo 79107. A bicycle was found at Fifth Street Northwest crossing Wayne Wright reports.

Thomas J. Stone Amarillo Stone Leona McCraw Roy McCraw Childress Fort Worth and Denver McCraw Stones North Manhattan Texas

English Pleads Not Guilty In County Court

English pleaded not guilty to charges of transporting alcoholic beverages in a dry area in County Court this morning. His bond was set at 1000 dollars after his arrest Monday by the sheriff's department.

Downing English English Sheriff's Department

European Slides Program For Lions Club

European slides of England and Holland were shown and narrated to the Lions Club today by E. A. Sanders and his wife who recently toured Europe. President Gordon Grayley read a letter from M. K. Wilcox son on behalf of the Greenbelt Bowl Officials thanking the club for its cooperation in the event. A letter from the Hereford Lions Club inviting the Childress Sins to visit their club was read by Grayley. Glen Stiner led the program and Mrs. Stiner was a guest.

England Holland Lions Club E. A. Sanders Europe Gordon Grayley M. K. Wilcoxson Graveley Hereford Lions Club Childress Sins Glen Stiner

Fort Worth Man Fined In County Court

Fort Worth resident Dee Alan Freeman pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in county court. He was fined 142 dollars including costs and sentenced to 15 days in jail with probation. Freeman was arrested Sunday by the Department of Public Safety.

Dee Alan Freeman Fort Worth Clarence Carter Freeman Department of Public Safety

Jerrell Pleads Not Guilty In County Court

Jerrell of Childress pleaded not guilty to charges of nroctring in County Court this morning. His bond was set at $1,000 after arrest by the Sheriff's Department.

Larry Emmett Jerrell Childress Jerrell Sheriff's Department

Red Mortarmen Reopen Siege On Duc Lap Camp

North Vietnamese mortars shelled the U S Green Beret camp at Duc Lap five times in a renewed siege effort. Fifty nine rounds wounded 10 South Vietnamese soldiers as reinforcements and B 52 bombers helped lift the siege. Seven tens of thousands in casualties were reported across the nine day period with 83 Communist bodies found around Hill 14 near Duc Lap. Air and artillery strikes followed as Marines reported heavy shelling and a ground attack on the DMZ Rockpile outpost.

Alvin B. Webb Jr Saigon UPI U.S Green Beret Duc Lap Due Lap North Vietnam South

Stormy Floor Battles Over Rules and Seating At Convention

Democrats wrestled through the night over seating contested delegates and prepared for a clash on a Vietnam plank. Vice President Humphrey led in delegate counts while McCarthy and McGovern vowed a broader fight. Temporary Chairman Inouye adjourned the convention as turmoil erupted on the floor.

Raymond Lahr Chicago UPI John Connally Texas Humphrey Sen Edward Kennedy McCarthy McGovern Eugene J. McCarthy Georgia Old Guard New York California Julian Bend Johnson Vietnam George S. McGovern

Withdrawal terms set for Warsaw Pact forces in Czechoslovakia

An official communique says Soviet and four Warsaw Pact troops will withdraw while not interfering in Czechoslovakia internal affairs. Details were not specified. observers expect immediate reductions and many troops to move to countryside camps. Brezhnev Kosygin Podgorny led talks. Dubcek and Cernik denounced earlier as traitors by Soviet press. Continued on page 6.

Moscow UPI Soviet Union Warsaw Pact Czechoslovakia West Germany Austria Mos Cow Alexander Dubcek Prague Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev Alexei Kosygin Nicolai Podgorny Ludvik Svoboda Dubcek Oldrich Cernik Cernik

Barley Added as Feed Grain for 1969 Program

The Department of Agriculture will treat barley as a feed grain for 1969 program purposes, per ASCS supervisor Gene Frisbie. Barley on participating farms counts toward the feed grain total, while excess barley on nonparticipating farms offsets constraints like grain sorghum. Producers who exceed base will miss 1969 payments. wheat may replace barley if a base exists.

Department of Agriculture Gene Frisbie ASCS

No Pre-School Program for 1942-43 School Year

Superintendent Howard Murchison announced that there will be no pre-school program during the regular 1942 40 school year. A program is planned for next summer.

Cancer Patient Care Is Subject of Talk

Paducah nurse and LVN instructor Mrs Edward Roark will speak to Gold en Age Home nurses at 6 30 p m Friday on cancer patient care Arrangements were made by Mrs A O Bennett chair of the service committee of the Cattle County Unit American Cancer Society as part of the unit educational program

Paducah Edward Roark Crowell

Questionnaires show Chamber votes on hiring an industrial man

About 40 percent of the Chamber of Commerce membership has returned the survey on hiring a professional industrial man and dues increases. Non member returns have begun. President Ross Smith urged fuller participation as 34 of 49 responses favored the hire and 15 opposed.

Chamber of Commerce Sonal Chamber of Commerce Ross Smith Smith

Services Here Wednesday For Berta Crawford

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in St. John's Baptist Church for Mrs. Berta Crawford 82 of 1000 Avenue I Northeast. She died Monday at 1:30 a.m. in a Wichita Falls nursing home after about ten months there. Pastor Rev. Victor R. Gilmore will conduct. Burial at ChilDress Cemetery by Newberry's. Survived by three daughters Rosie Lee Thomas Margie Tansey Irma Jean Hughes all of here and four sons Mose Dallas William Estelline J C Crawford Jim Crawford both of here.

St. John’s Baptist Church Berta Crawford 1000 Avenue I Don March Jessie Jackson Crawford Hubbard City Waxahachie Rosie Lee Thomas Margie Tansey Irma Jean Hughes Mose Dallas William Estelline J. C and Jim Crawford

Hays Services Set for Willi am T Hays in Childress

Graveside rites for Willi am T. Hays born in Childress on June 9 1905 will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Childress Cemetery with Rev. Joe S Allen and Childress Masonic Lodge 695 members. A Masonic anti burial service is planned at 1 p m at the lodge. He died Sunday night in Fort Worth after a career with Safeway and Fort Worth and Denver Railway and leaves a wife son three sisters two brothers and four grandchildren.

William T Bill) Hays Childress Joe S. Allen First Baptist Church Masonic Lodge Hays Mr. Hays Fort Worth Safeway Denver Baptist Church Robert Scott John. Wayhe Hays Dallas A. T. Hays Clovis N.M Byron of Portales Myrlews L. D. Hightower Mairl Darnell

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