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Childress Index

Location

Childress, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 05, 1961

Page

6

Best Sellers Fiction and Nonfiction List

A catalog of best selling fiction and nonfiction titles including The Agony and the Ecstasy Franny and Zooey To Kill a Mockingbird The Carpetbaggers The Clock Without Hands Born to Run and other works Featuring Saline editions and major authors such as Harold Robbins Carson McCullers Henry Miller John Steinbeck Edwin O Connor Edward Streeter William Shirer Waller Gary Maxwell Maxwell.

Irving Stone Franny and Zooey Theodore H. White William Lederer Hearst W. A. Swanbere William L. Shirer Europe John Gunther Joh Adamson Alexander King Gavin Maxwell Romain Gary Kidnap George Waller

Hospital Admissions and Discharges List

Admissions include Lee Morris Monde vidal Reyes Jr, Mrs Allan Lacy, Merle dill, Mike Wilson, Mrs Sam Miller on Monday. Also Mrs Nadine Coleman and Mrs L V Shackelford on Monday. Dismissals feature Mrs Leroy Holbert and baby, Mrs J E Davis, and Ethel Seigler on today.

Lee Morris Mondevidal Reyes

Man Died In Electric Chair He Helped Build

Columbus Ohio United Press International reports Charles Justice helped build the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary and later died in it. He was imprisoned for cutting with intent to wound on January 20 1902 and sentenced to twenty years. The chair was built by Harry Glick and first used failed. Justice advised on clamps. Paroled April 19 1910 but returned November 9 1910 for murder and electrocuted October 7 1911 in the chair he helped construct.

Columbus, Ohio UPI Charles Justice Alfred Hitchcock Justice Ohio Penitentiary Harry Glick Wayne Conty Glick Greene County

Eye Safety in School Shops Becomes Model Program

A Massillon Ohio program uses door signs warning enter only with safety glasses in chemistry labs and vocational shops. Students wear ASSE approved glasses costing under $3, Lions Club funds glasses and cleaning stations, plus eyewash fountains and face shields in chemistry. The initiative spreads to industrialists, farmers and hobbyists seeking personal eye protection.

Massillon Ohio Superintendent of Schools American Society of Safetyengineers Lions Club

Sealed bids sought for oil and mineral leases in Childress Texas

City of Childress invites sealed bids by 5:00 PM December 22 1961 for oil gas and mineral leases on described lands in Childress County Texas comprising multiple tracts from Section 3 through 19 and various surveys. Descriptions reference metes bounds deed records volumes pages and prior conveyances to the City.

Childress Texas Childress County B.M. Carter F. P. Knott G. F. Swift W. J. Penton Metes Ernest L. Ham Mildred Ham M. M. Long Edna Long A. H. Grimes Edith Grimes Reed Records T. L. Franks G. I. Swift Alice M. Trent City of H. A Elizabeth Lee Phillips G. H. Howard City of Childress

Katanga Plans Attack as U.N. Forces Brace

U.N. spokesman Brian Urquhart warned Katanga planned to strike all U.N. strongholds with fighting imminent. Elisabethville streets buzzed with panic as Katanga roadblocks neared the U.N. airport while Tshombe visited Paris and envoys stayed in touch with Katanga officials.

U. N Brian Urquhart United Nations Katanga U.N Sheridan Smith Elisabethville Tshombe Europe Moise Tshombe Paris U.S Lewis Hoffacker Evariste Kimba U. S Thomas J. Dodd D-Conn Urquhart George Ivan Smith

Dow Jones Averages Mixed as Industrials Slip

Dow Jones averages show 30 industrials at 731.02 down 0.20, rails at 146.37 down 0.23, utilities at 135.30 up 0.30, and 65 stocks at 249.65 up 0.02. Third hour sales total 690,000 with 1 p.m. to 2,530,000.

United Press International Indus

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