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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1966
Page
3
Leather gloves crafted with supple material and meticulous shaping. Autumn tones include fudge ivory brown white and black. Shorty options offer four six eight button lengths with silk lined or unlined styles.
Rotary dinner at Hots Childre on December 6 6 39 p.m. First Methodist class on December 7 at noon. First Baptist social December 7 7 p.m. Gay's Cafe hosts social at 7 p.m. Friendship Club December 7. Home Arts party December 8 3 p.m. Mrs Donald Black. Home Economics party December 8. Williams Class party December 8 7 p.m. AAUW dinner Ranchouse Restaurant. Lookout Class party December 9 2 p.m. Mrs Vernon Eubank. High Point HDC social December 16 6 59 p.m. First Baptist Young Marrieds social Joe Allen home. Book Club party December 12 3 p.m. Belles Lettres party December 12 7 29 p.m. Mrs P A Preslar. Class party December 13 late. Modern Home dinner December 15 7 p.m. WDC. Gage Food dinner December 16 p.m. Hotel Childress. WE WA Na dinner December 16 7 p.m. VFW Auxiliary supper at Veterans Building. First Methodist MYF progressive dinner December 17 6 30 p.m. Wesleyan Guild party December 17 7 30 p.m. Miss Luia M Carter. Central Christian family party December 21 7 p.m.
United Press International notes that the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917 for 25 million dollars. The deal transferred sovereignty and established a strategic Caribbean territory for the United States.
The Locals forecast calls for considerable cloudiness with cooler temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Highs near 70 and lows around 50 to 55 degrees are expected.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Isbell announce the birth of a son at 10 33 p m Monday in Childress County Hospital weighing seven pounds four ounces. Visiting Sunday in the W F Harbin home at Wellington included several family members and friends from Amarillo Bo vis a Earle Whitten Mobee tie Holliday Winnsboro Roscoe Winnsboro area plus Olean Bearden Carey and others.
Erwin of Canyon Frances Flowers Wichita Falls Bill Whitten Canyon Mr and Mrs A M Privitt Mr and Mrs A M Woods and Jackie Privitt attended the funeral of Hampton Nunnelly who died of a heart attack in Amarillo. Former Childress resident and brother in law to Jack Bybee. Weekend visitors to the Privitts included Mrs Fred Hagler and children of Lubbock.
List shows admissions on Monday for Mrs M V Bowerman Mrs Kenneth Isbell Shawn Sykes and Mrs A A Whitlock. Dismissals on Monday include Mrs George Fortner L D Portwood and Erwin Stanford transferred to Dallas.
The Friendship Club invites members to an open house at 3 p.m. in Nell's with a cake drawing at 9 p.m. The event showcases a hanging basket of dwarf poinsettia plants as a top Christmas decoration and tips on care and drainage.
TV schedules offer a blizzard of specials through the week. CBS presents S Hurok Tribute with Marian Anderson narrating and a star cast. NBC stages Blithe Spirit. ABC airs Saga of Western Man and On The Flip Side. Fox, CBS and NBC feature The Nutcracker and The Wonderful World of Burlesque along with The Glass Menagerie and Hollywood Palace listings.
The high for the past 24 hours ending at 11 a.m. today reached 71 degrees with a 5 p.m. maximum on Monday. The low was 57 degrees around 5 and 6 p.m. today. On December 6, 1965, the maximum was 67 degrees and the minimum 54 degrees. Temperatures follow.
In Montevideo Uruguay a Christmas custom centers on a large chocolate egg sold throughout December. The egg is the traditional holiday sweet for Christmas season in this South American country, differing from American Easter egg traditions.
The Home Demonstration Clubs of the county held their annual holiday luncheon Monday at First Methodist Church. Union Flat Club decorated with cedar and tree balls, and Mrs. Fred West led as mistress of ceremony with Judge Donald Black giving the invocation. County leaders and community members attended, 100 percent attendance certificates were awarded, and mentored by multiple clubs. The program featured carols, a Christmas Story, and gifts exchanges, with invitations and tree preparations by Evening Club, Kirkland Club, and High Point Club involved.
A list of top fiction and non fiction titles and authors rated by Publishers Weekly includes The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann Capable of Honor by Allen Drury Tai Pan by James Clavell The Fixer by Bernard Malamud The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West All in the Family by Edwin O Connor Giles Goat Boy by John Barth The Adventurers by Harold Robbins Nonfiction selections include Games People Play by Eric Berne How to Avoid Probate by Norman Dacey Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane Everything But Money by Sam Levenson With Kennedy by Pierre Salinger Human Sexual Response by Masters and Johnson Papa Hemingway by A E Hotchner The Passover Plot by Hugh Schonfield In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Search for Amelia Earhart by Fred Goerner Flying Saucers Serious Business by Frank Edwards The Random House Dictionary of the English Language The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey.
Gov and Mrs George Wallace announced there will be no inaugural ball following the January 16 ceremonies citing Vietnam commitments and many native sons involved. Mrs Wallace is identified as Alabama's first woman governor in the statement.
The coldest reading outside Alaska and Hawaii was 11 below zero at Cut Bank Montana. The warmest Monday reached 85 in Kingsville Texas. Plus birthday notices for James Hassell Buster Halford Gary Garrison Jimmy Welch J C Smith Bobby Meason David Henry Bess Pigford and others.
The F105 Thunderchief aircraft used by the United States in Viet Nam is a supersonic single seat fighter bomber capable of delivering nuclear weapons conventional bombs and rockets at very high speeds and long ranges.
Deadline for social calendar announcements is 9 a.m. on Weekdays for Sunday issue. Saturday 11 p.m. deadline. Tuesday events include First Methodist WS Cs at 4 p.m. Kirkland 4-H in courthouse and American Legion Auxiliary Night Circle with Mrs. Joe Allen. Rebekah Lodge also listed. Wednesday features WDC executives at 9:30 a.m. and HDC County Council at 2:30 p.m. plus Tell Women’s Chorus and Hospital Auxiliary at 3 p.m. Junior High TPO. Thursday lists CYW HDC at 9 a.m. and South Childress at 2:30 p.m. Bobcat Mothers in Greenbelt Lanes at 7 p.m. Childress Riding Club at city hall. HDC and Good Neighbor Club. Friday includes High Point HDC at 2:30 p.m. and Childress Young Homemakers bake sale at Mel Haney’s in front of the Mel Haney property. Shower for Mrs. Mary Jo Johnson at Church of Christ annex from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Beatles will not release a new Christmas album this year. Instead they issue a 16 track collection of past recordings titled Oldies But Goldies, appealing to fans seeking familiar material.
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