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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1955
Page
2
Describes an elegant beaded necklace designed to complement a Morlove blous e with contrasting beads. The piece features soft shoulder tucks for subtle fullness, snap-in shoulder pads, and a French Walnut Crystal Blue back closure.
Calvary Baptist WMU Rebekahs Lodge meet in Odd Fellows Hall at 7 30 p m Kingore WSCS at church 7 30 p Miller Circle at First Methodist at 4 p m Partridge Circle at home 9 30 a m Verner Circle at home 9 30 a m THURSDAY B P W regular dinner at Hotel Childress 6 30 p m
A cheerful note on six year old Carol Smartt and her family, plus plans for a Stockwell Dance Studio revival in City with two teachers for tap and ballroom, pending rain and enrollment.
A simple birthday note wishing Micheal Blake, Mrs. James Conner, Burn Bell, and Briley a happy birthday today.
Mr and Mrs Richard Briley hosted a home party for their daughter Judy’s seventh birthday Monday afternoon. Ice cream cake and punch were served while favors included suckers balloons and bubble gum. Attendees included Sandra Jan and Bill White Cindy Howell Ronald and Steven Briley Jerry Barfield Mary Ann Church il Gwenda Brown Sharon Janice and Dickie Briley with mothers Mrs Archie Howell and Mrs A M White assisting.
The Burlington Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary held a watermelon feast at Fair Park on Saturday night. E. Temple and Mrs. Frank Barksdale led a joint business meeting. About 50 members and guests attended. plans were made for the Denver convention on September 9 and 10.
Admitted this week include N. A. Alexander H. T. Williams J. W. Waggoner Mrs. Kenneth Loter Lynda Juan Caradine Lynda Garrison Grover Wallace on Monday and Diane Mullins discharged on Tuesday.
In Springfield Missouri doctors prepared the state’s smallest iron lung for 13 day old Connie Sue Peeples as polio cases linked to her mother Onnie Peeples who has been in an iron lung for two weeks. The child born two days after her mother contracted polio, and doctors hope the device will not be needed.
The B&PW will hold its regular dinner at the Hotel Childress at 6 36 p m Thursday. Ruth Smith will show films from her European tour. Guests may be invited. The membership program has been moved up two weeks.
Puzzle clues list with across and down entries. Contains names, places, and common terms, aiming for a completed crossword grid solution. Includes several theme-like entries such as songstress and radio related hints, with numerous short definitions and wordplay prompts.
Scattered showers or thundershowers across Panhandle South Plains upper Pecos Valley and El Paso area with wider chances elsewhere Tuesday and Tuesday night into Wednesday. Cooler conditions expected in Panhandle South Plains and upper Pecos Valley Tuesday. Birth announced for Kenneth Loter’s daughter born at 4 05 pm Monday in Childress General Hospital weighing six pounds fourteen ounces. Mrs Keeling of Amarillo undergoes surgery. condition good. Keeling is former resident, son of Mr and Mrs D V Keeling.
Mr and Mrs J P Hardin visited Fort Worth last week and attended their son Don Hardin's graduation. Don earned a BA from Texas Christian University and serves as a second lieutenant in the USAF.
Police close in on extortion ring run by Leroy Eggleston and Cecil Green. Eggleston’s blood stained car found behind a Fort Worth supermarket as detectives suspect a gangland killing. Authorities say both men pressured Dallas and Fort Worth businessmen with skeletons in their closets.
Mrs. Morris and Gay hosted visits from the Schaefer and Wylie families of Childress and Hollis plus local residents as ice cream was shared. Other gatherings included Mitchells in Childress and Kirkland visitors, REA meeting attendance in Childress, and a prize for Morris who held a lucky toaster ticket.
Five hundred Baptist laymen from 489 East Texas churches will gather at Lake Lavon near Wylie for the District 13 Men's Brotherhood annual meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas on Tuesday.
Their closets indicate Green handling the Dallas end and Eggleston the Fort Worth part as they plan to expand into a protection racket targeting liquor stores and similar businesses.
Mrs. Juanita Stinnett of Amarillo visits with her parents Mr and Mrs J A Stinnett. Guests include Mr and Mrs Frostie Gambol of Borger and family. Crains and others visit family in Dallas Canyon Amarillo Plainview Midland and Childress with extended stays.
Pretty Miss Mary Kelso of Wellington was named local winner in the Singer 85 000 Senior Dressmaking Contest at the Singer Sewing Center 132 Main. She advances to the regional in Dallas with her mother to attend a national gala in New York. Her black lightweight sheer wool dress features three quarter length sleeves a high rolled collar and a back zipper. She received a scissor set from Lew Wisdom, local Singer Manager.
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