Ruination Of Small Towns Left To Solons
Texas lawmakers opened a three day pre convention workshop to study city and county governance and possible countywide consolidation amid fears rural residents would lose rights. Midland County Judge Barbara Culver noted no consolidation powers exist in the draft constitution. Florida legislator Richard Pettigrew praised executive reorganization and urged strong leadership to drive the new constitution.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Austin, Tex
Texas
Midland County
Barbara Culver
The
Constitutional Revision Commission
Commission
Culver
Jim Mattox
Dallas
Commissas
Florida
Richard Pettigrew
Florida House
Pettigrew
Saxbe nomination advances as attorney general bill heads to Nixon
Legislation to confirm William Saxbe as attorney general moves to President Nixon after House final approval. The bill sets the AG salary at the pre 1969 level of 35000 dollars for Saxbe’s term, reflecting a temporary adjustment tied to the nomination. Cotton futures closed firmer after a volatile week with No. 2 contracts up between 495 and 600 points.
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Washington
William B. Saxbe
Nixon
House
Saxbe
NEW York
New York Cotton Exchange
City Council Agenda Sets 1974 Fuel Bid Talks and Pension Review
The City Council meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. to discuss the national energy crisis impact on Childress, review Revenue Sharing audit, and report on retirement program changes. Other agenda items include director appointments, resignation at Outreach Service Center, vacant posts, Baylor Lake lease, depository bands release, Groesbeck Park bids, and scheduling an alternate time for the Christmas meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress
Louis Sally
W.E. Helms Jr
Texas Municipal Retirement System
Main St
Gerald Holemen
Baylor Lake
Jim Clements
Groesbeck Park
Senior Citizens To Attend Court Here Monday
Members of the Senior Citizens Club of Childress plan to meet with the Commissioners Court Monday to learn what government funds are available for local groups. CAP directors reported no funds from that program, which is funded through February 1974 with funding ending October 31 this year. The CAP has administered 459 free immunization shots in schools and 255 at a Center clinic. another clinic is set for January 8. Vocational programs remain, 35 adults in classes with about 24 in attendance. The Center provides 35 hot meals daily to school children.
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Senior Citizens Club of
Rowden Cordell
Nixon discloses finances amid tax questions and court review
President Nixon released a large set of personal financial data and audit reports as Congress is asked to decide if he properly reported a $117,370 profit from a 1970 real estate deal and whether he legally claimed deductions for donated vice presidential papers. He says advisers found no tax on the California land sale and suggests repaying taxes if a committee rules otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
California
Congress
White House
San Clemente
Calif
Senate House Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
District of Columbia
Bobcat Basketball Practice Links to Tournament Move
Kenneth West says 12 football players will report for 2:30 p.m. basketball practice at Childress Junior High due to a Bobcat Den Basketball Tournament and a broken junior high scoreboard. Seven varsity players, led by Mark Brown and Mark Parr, are expected to bring height. Bryant and Johnson promoted from JV for 1973 state playoffs.
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Childress
Kenneth West
Bobcat
Bobkittens
Bobcat den
Wichita Falls Hirsch
Bobcats
Parr
Keys
Johnson
Howard
Bryant
Lanham
Brown
Chamber budget tops sixteen thousand with asks for new members
Childress Chamber of Commerce adopts a 16094.96 dollar budget for the current fiscal year noting higher projected expenses and a need to add members to stay in the black. President Keith Pitner urges community groups using facilities to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress Chamber of Commerce
Keith Pitner
Lancer Homes
Childress
Jack Martin
Luke’s Salvage
Fairview Floral and Chronicle
Pitner
No Deduction For Governors Papers In Texas History
Austin AP reports most Texas governors did not deduct donations of their papers to the state. Preston Smith in 1969 used a year of tax law change for this. John Connally Allan Shivers still retain title. their gubernatorial papers stay in the state archives. Price Daniel Sr. donated his.
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Associated Press
Austin, Tex
Texas
Preston Smith
Texas Tech University
John Kinney
State Archives
John Connally
Allan Shivers
Price Daniel Sr
Texas Supreme Court
Same Old Thing Tower Aide Says Same Old Thing
An aide to U S Senator John Tower says the charges by Duval County Judge Archer Parr about a Republican vendetta list of Texas Democrats are the same old story. Tower's press secretary Kyle Thompson calls the allegations against Republicans by Democrats in Sharpstown stock fraud hearings in Dallas absurd. Parr, who pleaded innocent to perjury, says Democrats are on a Texas list used to diminish Texas Democrats. Thompson defends the senator from Washington.
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San Antonio
Tex
U.S
John Tower
R-Tex
Duval County
Archer Parr
Tower
Texas
Kyle Thompson
Waggoner Carr
John Osorio
Dallas
Sharpstown
Parr
Thompson
Washington
San Antonio Express News
Parry
Texas papers and lawmakers face potential tax deductions on donated records
Kinney notes large archival collections from Connally and Shivers could have cut taxable income at ten cents a page if donated. Alabama and Texas entities hold millions of pages. Smith at Southwest Collection has donated for a decade. Johnson left 31 million papers to the national government with no deduction.
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Connally
Shivers
Kinney
Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama
George Wallace
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Daniel
Texas Tech
Southwest
Smith
Lyndon Johnson
Childress Bobcats Earn 11 On All District Team
The Sports Page notes Childress Bobcats placement of 11 players on the All District team. Details appear in today’s edition sports section.
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Childress Bobcats
Clement Rites Will Be Held Here Monday
Harold Cheek becomes sole owner of R. H. Norris Hardware by purchasing the other half from Mitchell Rule. The store at 241 Main St will retain its name and lines of general hardware and housewares with staff continuing during the transition.
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Clement
Harold Cheek
Norris Hardware
R. H. Norris Hardware Company
Childress
Mitchell Rule
Cheek
Main St
Robert Henry Norris
General
Clyde Sherwood
Carroll Cheatheam
Fred Sherwood
Alice Ann Cheek
Funeral rites for William E Clement at First Baptist Church
Funeral rites for William Ernest Clement 92 will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church Chapel with Rev. Joe S. Allen officiating. Burial will follow in Childress Cemetery. Clement died at 6 a.m. Saturday in Childress General Hospital. He was born April 16, 1881 in Tennessee and moved to Tennessee Valley in 1903. He married Eva Harris December 29, 1912 in Tennessee Valley. Survivors: two daughters Joy White Nogales Arizona and Jewell Close Eupora Mississippi, one son Carl Los Angeles, one brother Floyd Childress, two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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William Ernest Clement
First Baptist Church
Joe S. Allen
Childress Cemetery
Newberry Funeral Home
Troy
Garland Collins
Dee Etheredge
Rayford Holtman
Buster Harris
Fred Clark
Clement
Childress General Hospital
Tennessee
Tennessee Valley
Eva Harris
Joy White
Nogales
Ariz
Jewell Close
Eupora
Miss
Carl
Los Angeles
Floyd
Childress
Dr Joe Dean Steed Buried In Wichita Falls
Funeral services for Dr Joe Dean Steed 53 native of Childress were held at 10 a m Saturday at Trinity American Lutheran Church Wichita Falls Rev Dean Busboom conducted rites and burial followed He was a civic leader serving as Wichita Falls school board president at his death He died in Wichita Falls and was a radiologist at Wichita Falls Clinic and Bethania Hospital Survivors include his wife Sealy Ann two sons Christian and Jefferson a daughter Mrs David F Inholt of Minneapolis and a brother J A Steed of Childress.
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Joe Dean Steed
Childress
Trinity American Lutheran Church
Wichita Falls
Dean Busboom
Steed
Bethania Hospital
G. H. Kirby
Sealy Ann
Christian
Tulane University
New Orleans
Jefferson
David F. Inholt
Minneapolis, Minn
J. A. Steed
Holeman Resigns as Chairman of Outreach Center
Gerald Holeman resigned at the board meeting as the Outreach Service Center prepares for a leadership transition. A nominating committee of Louis Sally and Doris Crain will search for replacements while Harper Knight becomes board chairman in 1974. The December meeting noted 107 patients on the books at month end with 12 board members present.
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Holeman
Knight
Mary Stanford
Sally
Cates
Crain
Ruby Smith
Tops Gilreath
Doris Teague
Jack Martin
Marvin James
20 Arrested In Vernon For Drug Violation
In Wilbarger County Texas authorities arrested 20 people in a narcotics crackdown. District Attorney Bill Neal reported 1 500 amphetamine tablets and small amounts of marijuana seized. Sixteen arrests were for sales and four for possession. ages ranged from 17 to 37.
Cemetery Fund Contributions From Local Donors
Contributions to the Cemetery Improvement Fund were received from Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Rushing for 20 dollars and from Mrs. Fred Hays and from Joyce and Fred Hays of Lubbock for 5 dollars.
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A. J. Rushing
Fred Hays
Joyce and
Lubbock
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Solons
Federal Reserve Board
By Gaylord Shaw
Tricia
Chamber
Texas Constitutional Revision Commission
Gene Merrifield
Virgil McGee
Texas Highway Department
Highway Department
Tower Aide
Brookekeeper
Rule
Garner Hardware Company
Quanah
Chillicothe
Drummond Lumber Company
Paducah
Mitchell- Goodwin Lumber Company
Mitchell Goodwin
Thaten Brothers Lumber Company
Cheek and
Norris and
Sherwood
Carla
Church of Christ
Childress Lions Club
Mitchell
Joe D. Steed
Vernon
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