Rockefeller Resigns as Commissioners Carve Budget Path
Childress County commissioners wrestle with rising costs at Monday session. They target court appointed attorney fees and clerks in the Justice of the Peace office and back taxes from a local insurer, then approve 1500 dollar donation to the library fund and advance December payroll. A bid on a road grader comes in above the lowest bid.
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Joe
Childress
Justice of the Peace
Childress Library Fund
Commissioners Court
J. A. Steed
Steed
Harper Knight
Commissioners
Energy Crisis Hits Childress County
Childress County Commissioners learned of a fuel and blood delivery crisis affecting Childress General Hospital. The Red Cross requires guaranteed fuel for blood transport and the blood bank in Wichita Falls limits weekend service due to closed stations. County officials sought ARS fuel relief and reduced courthouse lawn Nativity scene electrical use.
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Childress County
Commissioners Court
Childress General Hospital
Texas Railroad Commission
Harper Knight
Wichita Falls
Childress Hospital
Charles Meisner
Childress Index
Red Cross
Meisner
J. E. Benham
Turn To Energy
Cotton Harvest Nears 15000 Bales Ginned
The cotton harvest neared 15000 bales today amid fair weather. County gins had either ginned or stored 14897 bales. no estimate for picked and ricked bales could be given. Forecasters warned a short lived warmup would follow an overcast and cool spell.
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Associated Press
Supreme Court Lets Police Search Arrested Suspects
The Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to grant police blanket authority to search anyone they arrest lawfully. The majority favored expanded police latitude while a sharp liberal dissent stood out from the ruling.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tell School Land Is Sold At Childress ISD Meeting
The Childress Independent School District sold its six acres of land and the Tell School Building for 1826 dollars with Joe O. Keel of Pampa as high bidder. A three acre parcel in northwest Childress went to C. B. Gloar Jr. for 2025 dollars. Maxwell Green of Big Spring was approved as next year’s school auditor for up to 1300 dollars. Adult education classes begin at the Community Action Center with Mrs. Gregg Hargrave and Ronald Parker teaching typing and bookkeeping at Childress High School. courses to be offered if interest exists. The program is in cooperation with the Community Action Program and inquiries should contact the Center. Financial report on playoff football games should be ready before the next meeting.
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Board of Trustees
Childress Independent School District
Old Tell
Joe O. Keel
Pampa
Northwest Childress
C. B. Gloar Jr
Gloar
Maxwell Green
Big Spring
Gregg Hargrave
Ronald Parker
Community Action Center
Phil Barefield
Jane Holland
Childress High School
Jack Martin
Martin
Hightower Praised for Service at Veterans Building
A capacity crowd in the Veterans Building lauded State Senator Jack Hightower for his state work. Hightower, a Vernon resident, planned to announce his Democratic bid for the U S House in Memphis that night. Judge Charles Reynolds of Amarillo commended him for service as district attorney, representative and senator.
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Jack Hightower
Vernon
U.S. House Tonight
Memphis
Hightower
U.S. House of Representatives
Charles Reynolds
Court of Civil Appeals
Amarillo
Reynolds
Chillicothe
Childress
Supreme Court
Senate
House of Representatives
ASCS County Convention Set For Wednesday
The Childress County ASCS Convention will begin at 1 30 p m Wednesday in the ASCS office at 305 Ave B N W The meeting will select one county committeeman for a three year term and two alternates for one year Balloting ended December 3 by mail with 15 community committeemen elected for 1974 The convention is open to the public
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
White House
Rockefeller
Commission
National Water Quality Commission
Malcolm Wilson
Wilson
New York State
Childress County
ASCS
Funeral services for E. P. Bowman in Lake Charles
E. P. Bowman a Childress native resident of Lake Charles since 1932 died Sunday. Services set for 10 a m Wednesday in Lake Charles burial there. He is survived by two daughters Mrs Des Ormeaux and Mrs Lanford both of Lake Charles a sister Mrs Byrd of Childress a brother Sam Bowman of Hollis and several grandchildren great grandchildren and nephews.
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E. P
Pat) Bowman
Childress
Lake Charles
Bowman
Flannie Byrd
S. H. Bowman
Childress County
Hazel Howard
Fort Worth
Denver
Cleburne
Clayton - Anderson Oil Co
First
Church of Christ
Lawrence Des Ormeaux
Clarence Lanford
Lake Charles; His Sister, Mrs. Byrd
Sam Bowman
Hollis
Okla
Perryman Rites In Oklahoma Bethany Burial Planned
Mrs. J. E. Perryman, former resident, died Friday in Bethany Oklahoma and is to be buried there. Survivors include her husband, a son J E Perryman Jr., and a daughter Neta Rae Bohannon.
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J. E. Perryman
Bethany
Okla
J. E. Perryman Jr
Neta Rae Bohannon
RC&D Plan Approved for Four Winds Region
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz approved a planning aid application for the Four Winds Resource Conservation and Development program. Joining the RC&D are Upper and Lower Pease River districts Red River Authority Childress Hall district and four cities Childress Crowell Paducah Quanah. The approval places the project among the nation’s few funded planning efforts to improve living conditions through technical assistance and education.
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Earl Butz
Four Winds
Bob Price
Rc&d
Pease River
Red River
Bloodmobile Visit Today Final 1973 Stop
The Red Cross Bloodmobile makes its final 1973 visit here today amid donor indecision. An excerpt from a pamphlet stresses voluntary donations by friends and neighbors, the perishable nature of blood, and the need for trained supervision to place blood in hospitals at low cost.
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Red Cross Bloodmobile
Red Cross
Amtrak Route Proposed Through Childress and Nearby Towns
Texas groups TCPS and TARP propose a San Antonio led route on Burlington Northern tracks to serve Childress from Fort Worth to Amarillo and connect Houston to Seattle as part of an Amtrak line. If Congress approves, Childress would gain its first passenger service since 1967. Quanah and Memphis would also be served under the plan.
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Amtrak
Burlington Northern
Childress
Texas Committee For Public Transportation
TCPS
Texas Association of Railroad Passengers
TARP
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Houston
Seattle
Wash
Congress
Quanah
Memphis
Uncle Sam Demands More From Childress Hospital
Childress County Hospital District directors, after a prior $12,462 deficit budget for 1974, face a $15,461 Medicare overpayment bill. Director Charles Meisner announced an audit of 1973 books showing an overpayment beyond $15,000, and the board voted to reimburse Medicare from the 1974 budget. The Medicare audit remains incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress County Hospital District
Childress General Hospital
Charles Meisner
Medicare
Meisner
Lanchart rescinds action. Woody remains CEO in reshaped unit
Ben D. Woody stays as Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lanchart Industries Inc after the board rescinded a planned share sale. Milburn Nutt becomes Vice Chairman to oversee administration while Kenneth W. Peitz, Larry Watkins, Jim D. Miller, and Clark Duke fill senior posts in the new management team. A prior plan to buy 153,037 Woody shares was dropped amid shareholder dissent.
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Wichita Falls
Ben D. Woody
Lanchart Industries, Inc
Woody
Milburn Nutt
Nutt
Kenneth W. Peitz
Childress
Larry Watkins
Jim D. Miller
Clark Duke
Lanehart Industries
Nelson, Montgomery and Robinson
Peitz
Warren Rites Held in Canyon
Funeral services for W. A. Warren 80 were held at 2 p.m. in Canyon First Christian Church with Dr. Joseph Findley officiating. Burial followed in Dreamland Cemetery. Warren, longtime Canyon resident and former mayor, died Monday in Amarillo. He owned Warren's Department Store for 52 years and retired in April. Survivors include his wife two sons a sister and four grandchildren.
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W. A. Warren
Kenneth Fink
Childress
First Christian Church of
Canyon
Joseph Findley
West Texas State University
Dreamland Cemetery
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo
Warren
Coryell County
Warren’s
Dallas
Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce
Meredith
Bernard
Maye Bond
Correction on CAP meals figures for summer service
The correction clarifies that the 35 hot meals reported in Sunday’s Index refer to Community Action Center summer service, not meals for Satellite School pupils now hosted at the Center. The summer program is the source of the meals count.
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Community Action Center
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Knight
Court of Appeals
Clarence Carter
Carter
Howard Clark
Detroit
Oklahoma
Bloodmobile
Uncle Sam
Lanchart
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