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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1971
Page
5
The Childress Index notes shifting public sentiment toward business. A Harris survey shows support for business quality plunging from 75 percent in 1966 to 46 percent today while concerns over social responsibility rise.
A $3.6 million Education U.S. funded Berkeley effort will run 24 educational alternatives for about 5 000 of the city's 15 000 students next fall. Options include Black House Chicano Casa de la Raza Franklin Multicultural On Target and more with student directed and open school elements.
Angeline Krout of Glen Burnie Maryland rails against boss power with ten proposed resolutions for secretaries to enforce. The list includes sharing mail, revealing travel plans, avoiding overtyping, and ensuring access to briefcases. The piece notes Captain Loy W A Renshaw of the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore as her boss.
In Abilene a crowded press box includes college scouts watching Bobcats players Tim Lewellen a sophomore and backfield juniors praised as the future. Coaches praised Paul Rogers John Holland David Bradford Brett Parr with talk of football scholarships and potential for next season.
A columnette blends trivia and quips from life and history. It notes older patients gain more pain relief from meds, lists royal tattoos, Homeric quotes, long list of transplant priorities, and light anecdotes about habits, folklore, and famous sayings.
The World Almanac notes alfalfa as the most important pasture and hay plant in the United States. It boosts soil health via nitrogen fixing bacteria, provides weed control through rapid growth, and offers high protein content.
A historical note recalls the 1880 first commercial installation of Thomas A Edison’s electric lamps on the steamship Columbia. The 115 lamps reportedly operated successfully for 15 years per Encyclopaedia Britannica.
On December 7 historic events span 1549 birth of Mary Queen of Scots. 1787 Delaware first to ratify the Constitution. 1803 Madison elected President. 1836 Van Buren wins election. 1941 Pearl Harbor attack noted. 1944 carriers sunk. 1963 LBJ moves to White House. Recent notes include Soviet tests, Syria-Jordan tensions, and James Farmer resignation.
A letter to the editor argues that controls on the economy are needed to end an economic hangover from deficit spending by Congress. It warns of a potential dollar collapse and urges readers to demand a halt to extravagant federal spending and to tell their Congressman in no uncertain terms.
Jumping experts are frogs with strong hind legs and impressive leaps. A small cricket frog about one inch long can jump three feet, while the American bullfrog is famed for eight to ten foot leaps.
When a state House seat becomes vacant the executive issues writs of election to fill the vacancy. A representative is never appointed to fill a vacancy or a regular term. Satellites will guide ocean going ships on routes to avoid bad weather and adverse currents.
A long Washington commentary contrasts Democratic and Republican tactics in the 1960s political scene, condemning excesses and overpromising. It is followed by an Associated Press feature on El Paso's elusive history and a vivid anecdote from early city life and a forthcoming local history volume.
The piece recalls El Paso growing from 100 residents in 1877 to 900 by 1880 and 10,838 in 1890, noting famed visitors like Pancho Villa. It cites Villa’s U.S. raid into Columbus, New Mexico, and a schoolboy-turned-editor Robert M. Jackson of the Corpus Christi Caller and Times.
The description recalls South Jack Jouett who in 1781 rode 40 miles overnight to alert Thomas Jefferson then Virginia governor of a British march toward Richmond, earning the title Paul Revere of the South.
The United States had a population of only four million when George Washington took the oath as president in 1789.
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