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Childress Index

Location

Childress, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1956

Page

6

Borger Bulldogs rout Childress Bobcats 75 to 3

Borger’s Bulldogs dominated the district foe with a 28 42 60 75 scoring burst. Warren Tipton led Borger with 22 points and 10 of 11 free throws as Childress struggled from the floor and rebounding.

Borger Bulldogs Childress Bobcats Bobcat Gym Dick Risenhoover Bobcats Childress Borgers Eisenhoover Waydell Hill Bulldog Defense Department David Seal Jimmy Connor Harold Smith Warren Tipton Mister Tipton Tipton Moxom Castlebery Jimmy Lamb Howard Connor Ricks Shahan Smith Mullins Thompson Farha Hines N. Simpson Hegdal Maxom Adams Coffey Cawthen Darling Lane Carter Armstrong Ogle Rash Pearson Lesley Zaileek Keith Sealee Fulenwider Connor Ricks Smith Mullins Thompson I Farha R. Simpson Green Hill Tipton Hegdal Moxom Adams Hood Castleberry Knowles

Majors Accept Proposal For Early Release

The major leagues will reduce rosters to 28 by opening day, allowing minor leagues to stabilize lineups earlier. They also approved joint annual meeting sites, blocked transferring championship games to non major league parks, and rejected increasing World Series tickets to 100. A rule to sign college players from sophomore year was upheld with Feb 1, 1957 effect.

Chicago Majors Brooklyn Jersey City Ford Frick

Television Schedule Summary Station KFOX and KSYD

Television guide listings show hourly programs from KFOX TV Channel 3 with cartoons Bugs Bunny and Friends, news, weather, and a variety of shows including Father Knows Best, TV Theatre, This Is Your Life, Twenty-One, Navy Log, Million Dollar Theatre and more. KSYD Channel 6 provides local programming, news, Weather, Doug Edwards News, Annie Oakley, The Millionaire, I've Got A Secret, 20th Century Fox Hour, Southwest News, World News, Sports and Multi Million Dollar Movie.

Kfox-Tv Nat Fleming John Daly Ksyd-Tv Doug Edwards Annie Oakley Arthur Godfrey Shaw 20Th Century Fox Hour

Television Schedule Pages Show Day’s Lineup Across Stations

A fragmented listing outlines color transmitted programs for KFDX and KSYD TV. It includes cartoons news game shows soap operas dramas and late night offerings with time blocks and channel notes. The page ends with a disclaimer that the paper cannot be held responsible for schedule changes.

Ksyd-Tv Chanel Gary Moore Arthur Godfrey Searcy Crosby Strom

North Hopes For Victory Rest On Midwesterners

North aims for a win in the eighth annual Senior Bowl in Mobile Alabama on January 5 behind Purdue quarterback Lenny Dawson and Wyoming halfback Jim Crawford. The North roster features 25 players with nine from the Big Ten and rivalry with South star Johnny Majors of Tennessee. Crawford starred for Wyoming with an undefeated season and rushing lead, while Dawson ranked as Pittsburgh Steelers’ top pick with 243 completions in 452 attempts for 3,325 yards over three seasons.

Mobile Ala Northern Purdue Lenny Dawson Wyoming Jim Crawford Dawson Crawford Joe Kuharich Johnny Majors Tennessee Pittsburgh Steelers Ace

Hebert Favored In Mayfair Open

Sanford Florida Mayfair Open opens with 80 golfers. Lionel Hebert of Verona Pennsylvania leads qualifiers with a 65 tying the course record and earning favored status by virtue of winning the pre amateur event last year. Ted Kroll Don Addington and Bill Morgan also posted 66 to share medal honors.

Sanford Fla Lionel Herbert Verona Hebert Ted Kroll Cooperstown N.Y Don Addington Tecumseh, Mich Bill Morgan Orlando

Sailor Virgil Snodgrass Promoted to Third Class

The Navy Department promoted Virgil R. Snodgrass son of Mrs. Pearl W. Snodgrass Childress and husband of the former Miss H H Hut to ship's serviceman third class. Snodgrass serves at the Naval Training Center San Diego California.

Navy Department Virgil R. Snodgrass Pearl W. Snodgrass Childress H. H. Hutto Orange Snodgrass Nval San Diego Calif

Jury Deliberations Continue in Parr Tax-Embezzlement Case

Federal jury in Houston remains undecided after a five week trial of George Parr and eight co defendants charged with using the mails to steal 190000 in Benavides school district funds. Judge Hannay urged acquittal if innocence equals guilt while witnesses Benson Caballero and others backed the government. Defense lawyer Percy Foreman blamed Heras for forging Parr signatures.

Houston South Texas George Parr Benavides Parr D C. Chapa B. F. Donald, Jr Jesus G. Garza Santiago Garcia Octavio Saenz Jesus Oliveira O. P. Carillo Oscar Camilo Sr Allen B. Hannay Amadore Caballero

Soil Bank Payment Rates Set For Each Crop

Rates will be established per crop with county variations averaging to the national rate. Wheat rates rely on normal yields for land enrolled, base unit rates apply, tobacco payments vary farm by farm. Benson stated a 1957 goal of 29 million acres in the soil bank, down from 1956 deposits of over 12 million acres.

Benson

Irish raid waves hit Britain and Ireland targets

In Britain the home office warned police and Army posts as a wave of coordinated raids spread. Near Enniskillen 200 pounds of dynamite were seized from a quarry, a National Guard armory was blown up, and a raid aimed at Torr Head failed. Police fired on raiders. three Nationalists were captured. The focus was Armagh’s Gough barracks and the Irish Fusiliers HQ, with NATO radar unaffected.

Britain Home Office Enniskillen National Guard Royal Air Force Torr Head Ireland NATO Irish Fusiliers Gough Barracks Armagh

Icy blast grips the central plains to upper Midwest

A sharp cold front pushed into the Canadian border and southward into South Dakota and southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Snow flurries accumulated about an inch from South Dakota through Colorado and into Idaho and Utah. Meteorologists warned of freezing rain in the Central Plains and moderate snow in Nebraska and Iowa and along the Great Lakes eastward.

Page Canadian South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Colorado Idaho Utah Central Plains Nebraska Iowa Great Lakes

Tito rails at Stalinist satellite leaders in Yugoslavia clash

President Tito broadens attack on Albania Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria accusing them of hindering liberalization and democratic trends. He recalls Yugoslav ambassador to Hungary over Imre Nagy kidnapping and targets Enver Hoxha while clashing with Czechs as Belgrade questions a break in relations and winning gains against Moscow factions.

Charles M. McCann United Press Tito Yugoslavia Albania Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Hungary Janos Kadar Imre Nagy Nikita S. Khrushchev Khrushchev Vyacheslav M. Molotov Enver Hoxha Hoxha Velimir Stojnic Federal Executive Council Hoxa Politika Stojnic Belgrade Stalin Czecho Slovakia Communist Front

Temperature Extremes for 24 Hour Period

The maximum temperature for the 24 hour period ending at 11 30 a m Wednesday was 63 degrees at 1 30 p m Tuesday The minimum temperature was 37 degrees at 7 30 a m Wednesday Temperatures follow

Texas chilly across regions with cloudy skies

Temperatures ranged from 33 degrees in Fort Worth to 62 at Brownsville with 24 to 34 degrees in West Texas. Readings included 41 at Dalhart, 42 at Amarillo and Lubbock as the region faced mostly cloudy skies and cooling in the north.

Page One Texas Fort Worth Brownsville Dalhart Amarillo Lubbock

Bud Kiker Hospitalized in Rivercamp

Bud Kiker of this community became suddenly ill Tuesday night at his home. He was taken by ambulance to Childress General Hospital this morning. His condition is good today, according to a hospital report.

Rivercamp Bud Kiker Childress General Hospital

Services Thursday For Mrs Lemmon

Final services for Mrs Mabel Lemmon former Childress resident will be conducted at 8 o clock Thursday afternoon at Trinity Baptist Church in Lubbock. Franklin Mallett Funeral Home of Lubbock handles arrangements. She died Monday night in a Galveston Hospital, wife of George Lemmon Sr, who lived in Childress from 1935 to 1945.

Mabel Lemmon Childress Trinity Baptist Church Lubbock Franklin - Mallett Funeral Home

Tibet Marks New Year Festival Timing Shifts

Tibet's New Year festival typically lands in February or March, with regional variations in observance and schedule across different monasteries and communities.

Tibet

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