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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1964
Page
9
Monday features cheese meat loaf with tomato and spaghetti and seasonally prepared sides. Tuesday offers oven fried chicken with creamed potatoes and pink ambrosia fruit salad. Thursday serves chicken pot pie with lyonnaise green beans and cranberry sauce. Friday includes hot dogs with onion and pickles, potatoes and cabbage sides, and apple crisp with milk.
A five year study by Chicago Printed String surveyed 200 homemakers in Chicago Detroit Atlanta and San Francisco. It shows a shift from furs to household items with 46 percent seeking furniture or appliances this year. Spending rises from 147 in 1950 to 165 last year and an estimated 170 in 1964.
Fern Maddox accompanied Christmas carols and sang a solo "Away In A Mangel." Carrie Boykin greeted Minnie Goffar dressed as Santa, and Little Nickie as Flower Hassell handed out Watt Appreciation gifts to teacher Essie Mae Verner and assistant Mrs. Jeff Hardin. Other attendees included Viola McFarland and Minnie Lee Miller.
Critics say the Lincoln Center Rep Company must build a stronger ensemble before tackling classics as it opens its second season with The Changeling. Elia Kazan directs a flawed production with limited handling of the text and inadequate company depth, though praise goes to Barry Primus. Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy is awaited. Parents consider new electronic sitter to monitor resting children via a two unit walkie talkie system.
Maydel Watkins Aubra Hawk Nell Rogers Bethel Atkinson Peggy Smith Mary Witcher Ara Landrum Grace Leach Lillie Mae Sims Alta Bennett Juanita Murray Ruth Hudson Fredia Miller Alice Lightfoot Gertrude Williamson Alice Reavis Velma McCoy Nora Hamner Nixie Cox Lila Bushon Irene Carlson Avis Bailey Mattie Andrews
The National Manpower Council says nine of ten schoolgirls will work outside the home for 25 years or more. Parents and schools are not ensuring girls pursue education as a path to earnings, as some plan to marry and stay home.
An editorial urges young women to plan for financial independence. It notes widows and ailing husbands can erase the dream of a carefree domestic life, and schools should support realistic career considerations. It warns most women will work long after marriage.
Ancient Peruvian builders used mortarlike joints to construct structures that resist hundreds of earthquakes and remain intact, the National Geographic reports. Razor blades cannot penetrate many of the precise joints.
In Nantwich England two women passengers were injured when a train collided with a wild goose. Glass shattered as the impact occurred Thursday, leaving the carriages with flying glass and minor injuries.
Readable text promotes a double knit wool festive outfit with a metallic brocade blouse priced at 79.95 dollars. It highlights a hat of the month by BETMAR in a quilted per visor cloche style, described as exciting in a mat jersey fabric.
UPI reports advice from authorities at Allied Chemical's Garrett Division that when adding a wing to a house, reroof the older portion with asphalt shingles matching those on the new addition. The new roof can be laid directly over the old layer.
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