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Childress Index

Location

Childress, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1960

Page

4

Mercury Redstone marriage tests space capsule to rocket

NASA aims to auto test the Mercury capsule mated to a Redstone booster for spaceflight next year. A complex timing and sensing system governs the sequence from 39.1 miles altitude to splashdown, with many devices and a rare ground-imposed glitch noted.

United Press International Washington UPI National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Mercury Space Rouge Cape Canaveral Capsule Redstone

Television Schedule Fragments for Local Stations

A dense four station daily timetable lists KFOX KSYD KGNC and KFOA broadcasts from 4:00 PM to 10:55 PM featuring news weather westerns dramas cartoons and classic shows. Programs include Superman Popeye Danny Thomas Andy Griffith Route 66 Star shows and Peter Gunn amid late news and weather blocks.

Doug Edwards Pete Gladys Buddy Danny Thomas Andy Griffith Southwest Nat Captain Gallant John Daly Cheyenne Peter Gunn Showtime Dan True Weather Ralph Wayne Pete and Hennesey Rescuer

Television Daytime and Evening Schedule Listing for Multiple Stations

A television grid for Friday December 9, 1960 lists programs across KGFD X Channel 3 KGNC Channel 4 KSYD Channel 7 KFDA Channel 10 and EVII TV with morning cartoons soap operas game shows and news. Highlights include Popeye Bugs Bunny Today Dough Re Mi The Price is Right Truth or Consequences Capitol drama lines and late night news.

Kfdx - TV NBC People’s Choice Jan Murray Loretta Young Young Dr. Malone Daddy Hollywood Cisco Kid Kgnc - TV Channel 4 Continental Classroom Dave Garrowan NBCL Make Room For Life of Riley Kfda - TV Channel Jack LaLanne Video Village Clear Horizons Love of Life Search For Tomorrow Guiding Light Dan True Weather Ralph Wayne Jim Pratt All Star Theatre CBS Live

East German Political Prisoners Jailed For Minor Offenses

Bonn reports thirteen thousand political prisoners in East German jails for crimes unworthy of fines in the West. A barber in Jueterbog was jailed four months for threatening to close his shop over price changes. Prisoners have hair shaved, wear prison clothes, and earn meager wages with deductions, then possible sentence reductions for work.

Lutheran Church Weekly Sonntagsblatt West Germany East Berlin East Germany Soviet Union Bonn UPI Ernst Lemmer Lemmer Jueterbog Potsdam

TV Saturation in New York Homes Reported

UPI notes Sales Management magazine reports that nearly nine out of every ten American households own a television set, highlighting a rapid spread of TV adoption across the nation.

New York UPI

Elvis tops UP International Top 20 for fourth week

Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight ranks No 1 in UP International Top 20 for the fourth straight week. Bert Kaempfert Wonderland by Night rises to second, A Thousand Stars falls to third, Exodus theme by Ferrante and Teicher climbs to No 4.

Chicago UPI Elvis Presley United Press International Bert Kaempfert Kathy Young The Innocents Ferrante and Teicher Floyd Cramer Rca—Victor Decca Kathy Young and the Innocents Indi

Size not the measure of power in U.S. business

A study by Management Methods magazine finds that middle sized firms with 100 to 1,000 employees wield greater influence than giants. There are over 4 million small firms with fewer than 100 workers versus about 3,000 companies with more than 1,000 employees, in Greenwich Connecticut.

Greenwich, Conn UPI America Management Methods Magazine

Babe Zaharias Wins Women’s Open Title Three Times

Babe Zaharias, the late golf legend, captured the Women’s Open Championship three times by winning in 1948 190 and 1954.

Babe New York UPI Babe Zaharias

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