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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1965
Page
4
Moris Higley notes Amarillo weather reports clash with claims of freezing cold. State engineer DeWitt Greer calculates highway vandalism costs Texas taxpayers about half a million dollars annually, with sign damage averaging around ten dollars per incident.
United Press International reports analyst caution from James Dines who urges high risk tolerance or staying out after 10 point moves on small news. Reynolds & Co. favors staying positive given strong economy and long uptrend. Bache & Co. sees higher prices as industrials rebound and a year end rally ahead. Tessel Paturick Ostrau Inc. urges arranging portfolios for an exciting period in market history.
Mary Anne Murray, 17, from Spring Lake New Jersey, has stopped buying raffle tickets after winning two Cadillacs and a Ford in raffles within the past year. With odds estimated at 150 million to one, she had previously won prizes totaling $300 and $200 in earlier drawings.
The report shows at 11 a.m. noon and 1 p.m. Dow Jones indices with gains in Indus Rails Utilities and Stocks and sales volumes. Washington UPI notes Treasury fiscal totals through Nov 26 withdrawing 56.96 billion deposits 46.91 billion cash balance 7.17 billion public debt 321.08 billion gold 13.809 trillion.
Markets show cattle and hogs mixed as calves and feeders hold steady to firm. Slaughter steers around 1050 pounds fetch 23.75, heifers 23, cows 14.15, bulls 16 to 18.50. calves 19 to 21.50. feeder yearlings 22 to 24, calves 22 to 25.50. hogs steady to higher with 24.50 to 25.50 common. sheep 300 head steady with slaughter lambs 23 and ewes 7.50.
The 24 hour period ending at 11 p.m. today recorded a maximum of 59 degrees. A 41 degree low occurred at 6 a.m. today. Last year for the same period the high was 41 and the low 29.
About 50 television sets sold for 8.98 dollars each in New York after a newspaper ad misprint of 89.98 dollars. Masters Inc. opened the doors to 500 bargain hunters and closed for the day following the error amid public safety concerns.
Carr counters that Texas poll tax hurts no group intended to affect voting. The suit seeks state and local election relief while federal elections are barred by the 1964 constitutional amendment.
A tractor overturned Tuesday and buried farmer Melvin Tedrick beneath the debris in a rice ditch near China west of Beaumont. The fatal incident was reported by UPN.
The proposal assumes nationwide dominance by one side while all voters in each state take part in two statewide elections. It argues the district plan would lessen the influence of organized labor and diverse groups based on race, religion, and politics.
Prince Philip of Great Britain will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at UCLA on March 14 during Charter Day ceremonies on campus. He is also set to deliver a speech, according to the university.
In Eden Texas, prominent civic figures Kirkpatrick and family are highlighted for extensive community service. Leonard Kirkpatrick’s roles include Youth Activities chairman and Voice of Democracy chair, plus Lions Club president and hospital finance chair. Dorothy Kirkpatrick earned a national award for expanding auxiliaries during her term as Department Chief of Staff. The couple leads Veterans of Foreign Wars efforts at local, district, and national levels.
The coldest reading outside Alaska and Hawaii was 2 below zero at Hibbing Minnesota, while the warmest on Tuesday reached 78 degrees at Thermal California.
A Fort Worth apartment fire caused by an electrical wiring fault killed Yolanda Kay Wilburn, 11 months. Aunt Rosemary Williams rescued three other children but could not save the infant.
Moscow reports Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko warned that the Viet Nam war will not end until the United States halts bombing North Viet Nam and withdraws troops from South Viet Nam. In other items UPI notes a Cuba refugee flight for 82 island residents and a Johnson Pakistan talks schedule for December. Tokyo reports Communist states threatening action over Chinese fishing boats with a warned response if needed.
Robert L voices world wide concerns from disarmament to peaceful settlement of disputes in Africa and Asia. He urges a nuclear free zone in Latin America and imaginative inter American institutions to bind Latin American nations, along with hemisphere universities and joint tropical agriculture research.
The U S Attorney's office filed a $1000 civil suit against Ethan Allen McCoy of Denver over an incident aboard a Continental Airlines flight last August. Federal agents say McCoy claimed a bag of tomatoes contained a bomb, prompting confiscation of the produce valued at 29 cents a pound.
World Almanac cites about 912 million pairs of women's and girls' hosiery produced in the United States in 1963, reflecting a booming apparel industry and strong consumer demand of the era.
Charles de Gaulle abandons aloof policy toward NATO and the Common Market, denounces Vietnam as absurd, and presses for broad national support on the first ballot. Polls show 48.9 percent support. aides push a candidacy with a concerted bid for decisive victory to avoid a runoff.
An auto crashed into a house trailer on U.S. 82 in Wichita Falls killing the driver John Devens 23. The impact tore away a side of the mobile home and scattered furniture and appliances. The truck driver George Menke 39 of El Paso sustained injuries.
Larry Clifton arrives home with his parents after finishing schooling at Great Lakes Naval Base Illinois. He will report to the USS Lawrence in Norfolk Virginia for a tour of duty in Europe.
Last rites for John H Staggs 72 were at 2 p m in First Baptist Church Fstelline. Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery Memphis. Died Sunday night at Ardmore Oklahoma Hospital. He was a retired carpenter and father of Mrs Floyd Darling of Childress. Survivors include his widow four daughters one son seven brothers 11 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
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