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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1961
Page
3
The News Agency reports that the loudest sound category is a scraping knife on a saucepan cited by England’s National Physical Laboratory. It recounts other disliked noises such as telephone rings in the bath and car horns stuck at lights.
A weekly social calendar lists multiple Christmas events from Monday through Saturday, including gatherings at Veterans Building Tell Methodist Church Hotel Childress First Baptist First Methodist McMurray High School Arrell Cummings Kenneth Givens Greenbelt Lanes and Burlington Veterans and Auxili, with times ranging from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The notices highlight clubs churches and local organizations hosting dinners concerts and socials.
Clear to partly cloudy and colder tonight and Tuesday with a high near 50. Temperatures run 3 to 9 degrees above normal. Precipitation expected as scattered showers Wednesday and Thursday, totaling around a quarter inch in the southeast and about a tenth inch elsewhere. Local births and visits: Leroy Holbert announces a daughter born at 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Childress General Hospital weighing seven pounds two ounces. Relatives and friends in Winters and Amaryllo visit over the weekend. funeral services for Don Morren in San Antonio draw visitors from Fort Worth and local families.
George Tipps led weekend social visits as Midland residents Mrs. Troy Mitcham and Phyllis visited, Amarillo’s Frank Beamis family joined Mrs. Miles Clapp and friends, and J. Kindle’s group from Odessa and Hollis, Oklahoma stayed with relatives at Childress General. Clyde Kindle and J. Kindle were noted for improving health.
Television critic Fred Danzig lambastes Fabian in Bus Stop and denounces A Lion Walks Among Us as junk. He notes Joan Sutherland on The Ed Sullivan Show and remarks on The Man Who Spied on Pearl Harbor. Also covers College Bowl outcome and NBC White Paper No. 8.
Miss Rita Keel was surprised Sunday afternoon on her fourteenth birthday with a party at the Tom Higley home. Hostesses were Mrs. L. V. Keel and sisters Sandi and Gail Keel and Mrs. Higley. The pink party table featured a cut work cloth milk glass and silver. Refreshments included cakes nuts and punch. Photographs were taken and miniature party hats were given to guests. Guests included Cheryl Decker Barbara Clements Jan Evans Candy Howard Diane Huddleston Evelyn Holland Jennifer Gooch Judy Land Susie Wilson Alice Wyatt and Sue Yager.
A birthday notice greets Robert Clements Mrs. LeRoy Reeves Mrs. E. R. Reeves Johnnie Inman Mrs. Edd Richards Mrs. Lowell Cement and Jeanie Wyatt with tomorrow as the celebratory date.
Legal notice warns bids due by December 9 1961 at City Hall City Manager office for a used motor grader specs include 14000 lb weight 50 hp 10 ft height 1644 ft wheelbase four wheel steering four speeds forward one reverse diesel engine trade in on old model 12 caterpillar City reserves right to reject or negotiate bids.
The article notes a 24 hour period ending 11 am with a high of 68 degrees and a low of 55 degrees. It also offers household hints about dusting delicate Christmas decorations with a damp cotton swab and rejuvenating drooping feather pillows by machine drying first on regular then delicate cycles.
The note offers quirky kitchen guidance about steak serving with sharp knives and avoiding dull blades. It includes odd color suggestions for cellar steps and a tip to use ammonia in water to fade paint odors, presenting a series of unusual safety and odor advice.
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