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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1963
Page
3
Advertises early Christmas shopping to avoid delays. Promotes gift shop purchases with option to reserve with a small deposit using layaway or charge account. Encourages customers to visit now to secure desired gifts before holidays.
At a New York data processing center a RCA 301 computer, fed a 100 word vocabulary, produced verse in four lines with a punchy final line. Clair Phillippy, 26, demonstrated the method in New York noting the poems echo Donne and Eliot. The machine can output 150 poems a minute with rentals from $2,820 monthly.
UPI report notes ABC TV's one hour special The Soviet Woman offered human portraits amid restrictive filming. Ekaterina Furtzeva and Mme. Khrushchev featured. program portrays cautious diplomacy and media exchange. Also mentions upcoming appearances on ABC CBS NBC including Lemmon Kaye Kazan Today Meet the Press.
Holiday planning features two cookies Santa's Strawberry Blondes and Choco-Scotch Patties. The recipe lists ingredients including shortening brown sugar flour and morsels with a strawberry frosting and method notes for baking in a 350 degree oven.
Residents gathered at the school Monday for a business session led by Mrs. J A Stinnett. The program included group singing, prayers, a Christmas reading, and a guest talk by Tommy Goff home on leave from the Arctic. A $100 deposit was approved for a savings and loan in Childress.
The Le Atelier Art Club, which normally meets each Thursday, announced that all meetings will be suspended until January.
Northwestern Texas temperatures stay 10 to 14 degrees below normal with light precipitation, mainly in the extreme south. Childress sees cloudy skies and very cold weather through Thursday with a high of 32. Birth announcements include twins born at Childress General Hospital to Mr and Mrs Bill Trosper, a daughter to Mr and Mrs Leon Flood, and Julie Shields to Rev and Mrs Bob Holland Jr with grandparent R C Holland.
Mr and Mrs Roy Key and Mrs Jesse Key have returned from visiting relatives in Fort Worth Roy Key visited Dallas for a medical check up and Mrs Jesse Key went to Scott and White in Temple for treatment
VFW Auxiliary members gathered for their annual holiday dinner at the bus station cafe. The event featured a gift exchange and a housewarming surprise for Charley Lane. Attendees included Mesdames Lois Arnold Ellen Wasson Nora Brown Ruth Stiner Roxie Nichols Beckie Boyd and others.
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes puttees or Pettie as ankle to knee cloth wraps from Hindu patti. They.spiraled around the leg and offered leg friendliness, dual use as bandage or sling, and compact storage. Widely worn by armies in WWI, they declined after.
Dr. Townsend said a third crew will be put to work between Childress and Quanah as soon as the weather clears. Lawyers for landowners whose land would be covered by lake water have become more receptive to the Green belt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority proposal.
Admitted: Mrs Nellie Hamilton Tuesday. Mrs Leon Flood Tuesday. Mrs Bill Trosper Tuesday. Leonard King Wednesday. Mrs Herman Davis Wednesday. Discharged: Clay King Wednesday. Mrs O A Taylor Wednesday. M L Mardis Tuesday.
A retired South Korean lieutenant colonel burned himself to death with gasoline near the president elect’s residence. Kim Ki Han, 45, died by his own action, saying he could not emigrate to Brazil under a government program. A note to Park was found but its contents were not released. The piece also notes Atlantic City naming a plaza Kennedy Plaza with a JFK bust in front of Convention Hall on the Boardwalk.
Gamma Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma met in Clarendon to view a Christmas pageant written and directed by Miss Inez Blankenship. Gifts were given to the State Hospital at Wichita Falls Boys Ranch and the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children in Dallas. Members include Mrs. Dora Diggs and Mrs. Lola White.
A British study of 4 468 widowers over five years finds mortality in the first six months after a wife's death rises over 40 percent versus married men of the same age. Researchers cite infection, shared illness, environmental factors, care loss, and a strong desolation effect as possible causes.
The Greeting Card Association reports 3.25 billion stamps used in Christmas mailing with over 50 000 designs for 1963. American Greetings Corp. forecasts about 300 million cards sold and a total retail value near 616 million dollars as religious cards rise to about 20 percent of sales.
Soft fleece robes made of Ariel Tricetate and nylon promise warmth and easy care for cold winter mornings. The practical garments can be washed in a machine, keeping wearers cozy at home during the holiday season.
Tuesday Rebekah Lodge IOOF Hall Kirkland HDC party in Com Union Flat HDC all day Ladies Prayer meetings 9 am Win Won Class luncheon First Methodist Church 12 noon. Thursday CYW HD Club 9 am South Childress HDC party Lewis Meinzer home 2 30 pm Home Economics Club party WDC 3 pm Beginner 2 social First Baptist 7 pm. Friday 59 ers Club Central Christian Church 3 pm High Point HDC 2 pm Robert Carter Class party Church of Christ Annex 7 30 pm Mabel Hare Class dinner First Methodist 7 pm Primary 3 party First Baptist 7 pm. Saturday Intermediate MYF party High Point HDC annual holiday dinner 7 pm High Point building Gifts will be exchanged.
United Press International reports the World Almanac states that absolute zero is about 459.1 degrees Fahrenheit below zero and 273.16 degrees Celsius below zero.
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