The Childress Index Publication Notice and Rates
The Childress Index announces its publication as a Sunday Tuesday and Thursday weekly newspaper based in Childress Texas. Public rates include one year five dollars six months three dollars and fifty cents for mail service. carrier monthly eighty five cents.
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Childress Index
Main Street
Childress
Texas
Chldress Index, Inc
Ox Bow Printing, Inc
Morris Higtey
Welfare Myths vs Facts debunks common claims
The HEW pamphlet counters nine welfare myths noting 68 percent of welfare children are born in wedlock and 49 percent of recipients are white. It cites under 0.4 percent fraud and says 7 million children rely on welfare, with 100000 copies sent to officials and activists.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Erie Pond Plan Sparks Futurist Proposal
Toronto resident Frank Ogden advocates draining Lake Erie to create about five million acres of new farmland. He proposes a dam near Detroit and Niagara River excavation above the Falls to maintain a seaway and ponds. Ogden speculates Niagara Falls will fade as Mother Nature gradually drains the lake over 25,000 years.
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Toronto
Lake Erie
Frank Ogden
Detroit
Niagara
Niagara Falls
Ogden
International keyboard standard chosen by ISO blows old layouts aside
The Financial Times reports ISO in Geneva chose the widespread key arrangement with the v in the top row center and z bottom left, standardizing for the Common Market. The decision upends German and French variants and traces back to 1873 designer Christopher Latham Scholes who built in inefficiency to prevent jams.
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Financial Times of
London
International Standards Organization
Geneva
France
ISO
The
Financial Times
Christopher Latham Scholes
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Today in History highlights from 1823 to 1971
A digest of notable events marked December 2: Monroe Doctrine outline by James Monroe in 1823, Napoleon crowned emperor in 1804, Austerlitz victory in 1805, John Brown hanged in 1859, Chicago nuclear chain reaction in 1942, Castro landing in 1956, Canterbury visits Pope in 1960, Castro party in Cuba, UN term for U Thant, NATO bolster plan, and a note on oil cargo corrosion on tankers.
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Associated Press
James Moore
Western Hemisphere
Napoleon Bonaparte
France
Napoleon
Austerlitz
Czechoslovakia
John Brown
Charles Town
University of Chicago
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Batista
Canterbury
John XXIII
Vatican
Communist Party
U Thant
United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Boyle s Column highlights daily frictions and foibles
New York columnist Hal Boyle catalogs everyday annoyances and ironies from rising grocery prices and stagnant wages to social pretensions and money mysteries. The piece surveys small humiliations and absurdities in modern life with a wry, observational tone.
Quarterfinal clash pits Childress Bobcats against Mavericks
A quarterfinal football game features the Childress Bobcats and the Eastland Mavericks. Eastland boasts a 510 point total and only 70 allowed over 12 games, while Childress surprised many by advancing from district play. Abilene on Friday night hosts the pivotal matchup amid strong fan support.
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Childress Bobcats
Mustang Mavericks
Herman Alsup
Eastland Telegram
Eastland
Mavericks
Coahoma
Dolores Taylor One-Woman Studio Behind Billy Jack
Dolores Taylor produced and co starred in Billy Jack after guiding its creation from Milwaukee to Hollywood. The film found limited early praise but strong Midwestern support, prompting a four week guaranteed run and later backing from Warner Bros after a failed Fox collaboration.
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Dolores Taylor
New York
Los Angeles
Midwest
Warner Bros
Miss Taylor
Billy Jack
Tom Laughlin
Tom
Gopher
Laughlins
Milwaukee
Hollywood
Dolores
American International
Delores
20Th Century-Fox
Fox
Twenty Musical Bears Jazz Up Disney World Stage
A troupe of 20 six foot bears perform at Pepsi's Country Bear Jamboree in Orlando. The animated bears sing and play instruments 24 times daily, powered by an electronic system that gives three dimensional characters lifelike action and sound.
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Orlando, Fla
Pepsi
Disney World
Insurers Turn to Internal Fixes as Profits Rise
AP Business Mirror analyzes how property and liability insurers, after years of losses, posted gains through internal reforms. Continental Casualty cut costs, tightened expenses, upgraded management, and shifted toward profit centers while pursuing rate increases. The piece questions whether industry blame for external factors masks the real fix: efficiency, consumer focus, and internal discipline leading to break-even results.
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NEW York
Continental Casualty
Sttckholders
Not Too Early to Cut Your 1971 Income Tax
Cleveland based tax guide urges readers to act before year end to minimize 1971 taxes. It explains new deductions, using a higher 13 percent rate and $1,500 ceiling this year, rising to 15 percent and $2,000 next year, with examples of timing charitable gifts and medical payments. It also covers stock gains losses, marriages or divorces timing, and consumer actions for year end planning.
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Ray de Crane
de Crane
Internal Revenue
Congress
Vance
Texans Politics and the 1980 Redistricting Forecast
Texas experts expect further redistricting after the 1980 census as city population shifts complicate boundary changes. The 24 congressional districts set the pace for state senate and house maps, with ongoing debates on gerrymandering and census-driven reshaping.
Texas Redistricting History Shapes 1980 81 House Seat Prospects
The article traces Texas redistricting from 1917 to 1971, noting at large congressmen, repeated redraws after censuses, and a 4.13 percent district deviation in 1971 plans. It cites Chumbea on compactness and contiguity issues and forecasts possible gain of a new seat in 1981 if population growth keeps pace.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Texas
Wesley Chumlea
Stephen F. Austin University
Nacogdoches
Chumlea
Chumbea
Supreme Court
Congress
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Erie Pond
Boyle
Hal Boyle
Natural History Museum
U.S
Morris Higley
Gus Mutscher
Mutscher
Bobcats
Abilene
Antigua
ST. John S. Antigua
St. Johns
Hollywood (Ap
Business Mirror
Cleveland
NBA
Texans Politics
Fegerick
Okla
Troy Kinder & Daughters
C.A
Judy V. Collins, Tom & Ginger
Curtis Land Co
Frederick, Okla
Bicala
C.A. Collins
Cymaa
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