The Childress Index Publication Information
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Energy oil shale reserves spark 1980 independence push
President Nixon cites vast western oil shale deposits with an estimated 1.8 trillion barrels recoverable at 15 barrels per ton and 600 billion more at 25 barrels per ton. Interior plans six lease tracts as federal policy shifts toward rapid development with TOSCO II as the leading method.
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United States
Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
Department of the Interior
Middle East
Oil Shale Corporation
Interior
Olio Across and Down Word Puzzle Highlights and Clues
A titled word puzzle with across and down clues list including Africa Panama Suez mountain ranges drowsy rare lace a new thirty in French fiber knot give ear to auricle koko s weapon pastry steamer b cheese certain Asians entangle threefold courtesy title spheres of action demolish biblical a morning moisture bell some chum epochal district sta officer dweller sell in small lots ecclesiastical laws fireplace e choose by ballot those who suffix down clues cover merits Alabama county barked shrilly school home time group technology heart primate nine times to perfumes sly looks percolate slowly rivers purpose church fete petty prince demeanor den bartering class moorish kettledrum put in new lining Indian weight unruffled more facile speedily genial lounges meadows medical man familiar adjectival powerful explosive.
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Alabama County
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Demeanor
Indexing by Morris Higley Apologies for Tuesday delay note
Editor explains late Tuesday issue due to a paper body type machine failure. A Dallas repair was possible but fixed locally after about four hours. Readers’ patience appreciated and notes about Friday Snyder trip and Rotary Club talk. Parking lot crowds discussed.
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Kenneth West
Rotary Club
Polls and exotic instruments enter American scene
The World Almanac notes early U S polls began in 1824 with show votes later called straw ballots. It explains surveys sample public opinion while citing Koto as a newcomer to American music, likened to a surfboard with strings and seen as a successor to the sitar.
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U.S
Harrisburg Pennsylvanian
Raleigh Star
Koto
Authority‑driven leaders risk troubles says corporate expert
A Michigan State professor and consultant warns that a top executive who relies on authority over information breeds unreal decisions and crises. He notes one in four chief executives depend too much on office rights, resisting input and failing to ask questions, like a quarterback playing catch up.
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John Cunniff
New York
Eugene Jennings
Jennings
Michigan State
Today in History: December 6 in Past Years
On this date in 1941 FDR appealed to Hirohito for peace one day before Pearl Harbor. Lincoln took his seat in 1847. A 1917 Halifax ammunition ship collision killed about 1600. Alaska, 1933 liquor repeal. Eisenhower named to lead Europe invasion in 1943. AFL CIO ousted Teamsters in 1957. Rhodesia sanctions urged in 1966. Apollo 17 began in 1973. Birthdays Agnes Moorehead and Lou Little.
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Associated Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hirohito
Japan
Abraham Lincoln
House of Representatives
Illinois
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Union
Britain
U.N
Rhodesia
John F. Kennedy
UFOs Across America From Bible Echoes And Jokes
A columnist links recent UFO reports to biblical visions in Ezekiel while noting 1945 1957 1965 and current sightings from Texas to Pennsylvania. Incidents include encounters near Brownwood Ottawa Hazelton and a Corpu s Christi Times editorial, plus a humorous note on love letters by Hal Boyle.
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Robert E.rd
Associated Press
Outer Space
Heaven
Ezekiel
Aurora
Wise County
Patrick Caffy
University of Arkansas
Caffey
Islamabad Capital: High Plateau Amid Himalayas
The piece notes Islamabad as Pakistan’s new capital on a 1,720‑foot plateau in the Himalayas foothills, about 700 miles northeast of Karachi. An editorial jokes that outer space visitors asking for a leader would face blank stares and unusual replies.
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Karachi
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