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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1957
Page
6
The fragment shows the Childress Index with names including Glen as publisher and general manager plus advertising manager and mechanical superintendent. It reflects a newspaper staff roster from the period.
Editorial argues that early driver training builds lasting safe habits, noting only 12 of 48 states require it and most schools offer limited or no road experience. It cites 1956 stats of 9,200 young drivers killed and 370,000 injured, urging state laws and broader programs.
SAN ANTONIO a Southwest Research Institute scientist warned amateur rocket makers of five do nots. Francis Warren listed hazards including using homemade rockets and handling chlorates or finely divided metal powders. He urged remote firing behind barricades and avoiding ignition with a hand held match.
Secretary Gladys Reinhardt of Memphis files suit for a half share of royalties in the song White Silver Sands. She contends lyricist C. G. Matthews deprived her of her rightful share for composing the melody.
In Santa Rosa California city manager Sam B Hood eased a charter rule barring gifts to employees. Department heads may accept gifts only if they can eat drink or smoke it in one day.
United States competes with Soviet progress in space and naval tech. Cape Canaveral prepares to launch the Vanguard rocket with a 6.4 inch satellite as Lenin becomes the world’s first nuclear powered surface ship. France’s Gaillard wins a confidence vote and tax plan amid fiscal pressures. Indonesia suspends Dutch interests after Dutch New Guinea dispute and anti Dutch campaigns. NATO seeks closer East West cooperation in Paris talks with Britain and West Germany. Rep Poage decries U S satellite launch delays, claiming loss of prestige.
The piece reflects on American coverage of the Sputnik project and praises frank reporting. Buddy Wilcoxson offers to coordinate the Kids Inc basketball program, praised as essential and not to be abandoned. Cliff Methrens and Waydelle Hill from the Bobcat coaching staff back the program and plan a coaching school for peers.
A warm moist air mass from the Gulf moved into the East bringing a warming trend and up to 25 degree increases. Frigid cold stretched from the South to New England with subfreezing temperatures, while snowfall totals reached over a foot in some Eastern areas. Heaviest snow fell near Craig Colorado with 3 to 4 inches, and light rain appeared on the Pacific Coast in Washington and Oregon.
CBS TV will present a one hour jazz showcase featuring Billie Holiday Count Basie Gerry Mulligan Red Allen Jimmy Giuffre Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Producer Robert Herridge aims for a bare stage no gimmicks and uses taped musician comments to explore jazz roots and the feeling of being inside the group.
Merchants in Aurora Illinois plan to display men only signs next Thursday to create a carefree calm for male shoppers. The signs aim to spare men from harassment while they complete Christmas purchases.
In Toledo Ohio the State High Patrol at Sylvania post assisted delivering a child in the patrol parking lot as Mrs Bernard Nashaum and her husband rushed there for help. The dispatcher and two officers helped again this week marking their second birth in days.
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