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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1967
Page
3
A social calendar lists weekday and Saturday deadlines for brides photographs and wedding reports one week before ceremonies. It notes Tuesday 9:30 am Group 2 at Central Christian Calvary Baptist WMU Church of Christ Ladies Class and multiple circles and lodges with assigned hosts and times.
A note wishes a happy birthday to C. E. Morgan Lewis Mullins tomorrow from Mrs. Jerry Hampton.
The ad promotes a Christmas coat gift for Texas women, highlighting Mink models and fur trim variants. It claims a thirty three and a third percent discount off the regular price, emphasizing seasonal savings and coats crafted for Texas weather.
Ron Youngblood lauds the National Geographic produced Winged World for its graceful, information rich TV approach. The program emphasizes entertainment over crowded host segments, showcases sound on film footage, and notes birds’ resilience alongside a warning that humans threaten winged species.
Calendar lists multiple Christmas parties across clubs and churches including Belles Lettres with Miss Lula Carter at 7 30 p m and First Baptist Williams Class at Mrs Ray Mooney's home. Harper Circle at First Methodist Church 3 p m Kirkland HDC 6 p m at Community House Modern Home dinner 7 30 p m WDC 12 Tell HDC party 3 p m in clubroom Sunbeams 4 p m Primary Sunda School party 5 30 p m in Fellowship Hall.
Several children write to Santa with wish lists including bikes trains toys and dolls. The page also lists local holiday events such as church gatherings charity luncheons and youth group parties with dates and hosts across multiple venues in the community.
Mrs. Dean King piano students performed in an informal recital Saturday evening in Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church. Attendees included Alice Crawford, Karen Skinner, Kathy Stewart, Elaine and Laraine Walker, Hazel Crawford and Genie Allen. About 40 people attended and an afterglow with punch and cake followed.
The ad touts new canned puddings in flavors like Dutch Chocolate French Vanilla Butterscotch Lemon and Rice with Cinnamon. They claim real cooked puddings made from natural ingredients and ready to serve with no cooking needed. Secure shelf or fridge storage and enjoy chilled or at room temperature.
A layered dessert recipe uses wafer cookies lemon pudding cream cheese and nuts plus maraschino cherries and pear for four servings. Prepare cookie lined dishes fill with pudding mix chill and serve with vanilla lemon pudding and cake components baked as directed to form a 9 inch square cake.
Mostly cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday. Low near 30 and a high near 40 by Wednesday. Temperatures remain below seasonal norms with continued southerly winds.
Mr and Mrs Si King of Middletown Rhode Island and Mr and Mrs M M King of Amarillo are guests this week of Mr and Mrs C E Orr. Patt Bartlett of Weatherford Oklahoma visited her parents over the weekend. Bill Heckathorn and Bill Wells families traveled for business and family visits in Wichita Falls and Hannibal Missouri. Mary Ann Austin of Hereford and Jack Lassater of Stinnett visited their parents and grandmother over the weekend.
A Christmas social at Calvary Baptist Church included a gift exchange for members and a pastor and wife love offering. The program opened with song led by Mrs. Bill Hicks, a Luke devotional read by Mrs. C. G. White, and prayers from Mrs. A. W. Price and Mrs. G. O. Ashley. Refreshments followed with several named attendees.
The notice shows visiting hours from 9:30 to 10:30 in the morning, 2:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon, and 7:00 to 8:30 in the evening. It lists admitted patients for Monday and names dismissed patients for Monday.
The U.S. Weather Bureau reported the highest Monday temperature outside Hawaii and Alaska reached 87 degrees at Vero Beach Florida. Idaho Falls Idaho registered a subzero low for today indicating wide temperature swings across the mainland.
Vaughn announced a January 10 program sponsor Merlin The Great with George Morey as chairman. Don Miller of Phillips Petroleum Co joined as a new member, sponsored by Jerry Dugan. Alton Ryan led the program Roy Smith of Oregon was a guest.
A Gaynor Maddox recipe recommends a harvest time cold roast beef buffet featuring a shell macaroni salad with pineapple tidbits mayonnaise cheddar cheese dill pickle green pepper onion and pimento. Mix cooked macaroni with pineapple and remaining ingredients then chill for eight to ten servings.
A butterfly resting on a golf ball at Richmond Golf and Country Club was carried 2300 miles from Canada to Northern California where it was splattered by a tee shot. A winged note directed to the University of Toronto was found on the insect. In a separate item, five hundred Typhoo Tea Co workers boycott a tea price rise, quipping about a storm in a tea cup.
The article notes that the gestation period for a lion is 108 days. It presents a straightforward biological fact without additional context.
The World Almanac notes demand for silver in industry jewelry and medicine has doubled mine output. In response the U.S. government reduces silver in coins with dimes and quarters now copper-nickel and half dollars only 40 percent silver.
Crowded bus loses control on a bridge during rush hour and collides with a car triggering a chain reaction that injures about 50 people and kills a passenger, police said today. Former Prime Minister Kishi says Vietnam situation is improving in multiple aspects after trips to Bangkok Saigon Manila and Taipei. Six homeless teen-age Red Guards were found frozen to death at a Canton railway station, the Hong Kong Times quoted.
Salvador Trujillo was arrested in SACRAMEN O California after police spotted him inspecting ten car doors in the police department lot. He carried binoculars and a gold trophy cap, with Detective Sgt. Charles Asbury reporting he watched the suspect from a window as he tried door handles. In Georgia, State Senator William A. Searcey said he will seek to curb money wasted on excessive study committees.
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