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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1967
Page
2
The Corral visits Western Europe to report St Nicholas traditions. German homes welcome him on December 5 with gifts for good children and switche for the naughty, while Christmas Eve features family carols and nativity pageants in Banana and other places.
A string of high school social items describes couples, crushes, and holiday anticipation. Students like Suzanne Klatter and Kathryn keep secrets while Carol Richardson favors the Village Market. Drama includes breakups, new names, late arrivals, and a bus ride home from a cheer event.
The Hughes and Waybourn FHA chapters join for a December 14 program on Christmas Givings by Pat Harrington of Lone Star Gas. Students report dressmaking progress, class evaluations, and holiday activities including candles, candies, and a Tupperware sale to fund the FHA Banquet on December 18.
A light feature profiles Steve a department store cat at Watkins Department Store. The piece notes his varied jobs around the shop and quotes him about how life may start for him and readers through such work.
It is a Christmas tale at the North Pole where Rudolph the reindeer leads Clyde the Camel and a group of named reindeer on Christmas Eve. Santa’s sleigh fails to start prompting a plan to steal an extra sensory starter button.
Mariynn Houchin, born December 1950 in Childress, lives with her father Marvin Houchin at 1500 Jow. She enjoys a 1968 Cougar, listening to What Now My Love, and dreams of graduation then attending North Texas State University. She was active in band, Science Club, FHA and gymnastics at Childress High School, earning Greenbelt Honor Band and freshman cheerleader honors.
The Childress Bobcats played the Paducah Dragons in a tight Tuesday game at Paducah. The Bobcats showed improvement after recent good shows at Quanah and Perryton and traveled to Tulia for the Tulsa Tournament December 14 to 16. Larry Moore and Ronnie Smotherman discussed emotions after football banquet awards on December 7, Moore calling it exciting and says it may be his last banquet.
The 1967 Annual Bobcat Football Banquet honored CHS gridiron players. Mrs Billy Joe Rothwell delivered the welcome, Wayne Vowell gave the response, and Ronnie Smotherman offered the invocation before a dinner service. Mary Lou provided musical entertainment during the meal.
Debbie Bird daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Bird lives at 1510 Terrace Lane born January 3 1951 in Childress Texas stands 5 5 brown eyes and hair plans to attend the University of Texas to study elementary education after graduation. She is active in FHA Speech Club Latin Club FTA National Honor Society Library Club Student Council Office Assistant Corral Staff and Interscholastic League and has earned honors including top four percent of her class Best Dressed Girl Latin Club Queen Outstanding Student in Homemaking and FHA officer posts. Debbie enjoys swimming and Hawaii sparked her most exciting moment. She dreams of teaching elementary education and urges doing your best in everything. Her boyfriend is Jimmy Don Rothwell and she is involved in a school banquet featuring coaches and entertainment as the 1967 88 senior Bobcats football banquet concludes.
Blue Notes Christmas nears as CHS Band selects a 21 member group from seniors and section leaders to perform at the City Employee Banquet. A brass choir will also play Lion’s Club Landheon and Christmas selections under Mr Hemphill’s guidance.
Eleven semi finalists from three classes prepare three to five minute speeches on Freedom's Challenge for the Voice of Democracy contest funded by the VFW. Judges will weigh content originality and delivery with percentages noted.
A humorous reminiscence listing students and teachers at CHS and imagining unlikely changes such as taller Glenda Webster shorter Susie Smith with long hair and other swapped traits. The passage invites readers to imagine numerous unlikely scenarios and a new school for the class of 68.
The text extols sportsmanship urging students to accept defeat gracefully in high school and election contexts. It frames wisdom as distinguishing probable from improbable and being reconciled to the inevitable.
A student writes about cheating in class exams expressing anger at peers who cheat and still earn high grades. The piece argues cheating harms character, notes unfairness to diligent students, and suggests consequences may reveal themselves later.
The Senior Class met on December 1 in the auditorium to see four designs from Star Engraving Company for class invitations. Orders were to be placed by December 10 at Childress Office Supply.
The piece explains true Christmas spirit as the joy of Jesus Christ’s birthday and widespread goodwill. It notes that spirit appears in smiles and carols, urging readers to seek and keep this spirit once found.
Ellis Glen Whitehead born May 6 1949 in Carmel California lives at 311 9th Street Southeast Childress Texas. He likes Mexican food El Dorado and Jane Russell and John Wayne films. He enjoys reading Rough Night in Jericho and listening to Cry Softly Lonely One. He played basketball track speech club and DE and won Star Award in Zoology freshman year. He aims to graduate then join the army and attend West Texas State University.
Christmas is celebrated on December 25 near Jesus Christ's birthday with neighbors sharing greetings. The text lists ways to say Merry Christmas in various countries, including Norway Gledelig Jul, Russia Rozhdestvom Khristovym, Netherlands Prettige Kerstdagen, Sweden Felices Pascual, Portugal Raas Festes, Germany Frohe Weihnacht, France Joyeux Noel, China Gong Hei Shing Ta, Denmark Glaedelie Jul, Italy Buon Natale.
A plane dropped material over Vatican City on Saturday calling for a divorce law in Italy. The leaflets titled Divorce So as Not to Die carry signatures totaling about 120,000 Italians.
Britain hosts its major newspapers headquartered in Fleet Street, London, a historic hub for national journalism. The concentration reflects a long standing media ecosystem centered in a single district.
Senior girls participated in the Betty Crocker Test in the homemaking department with two divisions. The theme addressed balancing cooperation and competition, and top winners earned scholarships and recognitions at state and local levels.
A reader column offers relationship advice from a teen perspective. Letters discuss curfews and parental trust, romantic entanglements, and coping with friend dynamics. Various humorous and dramatic suggestions touch on personal growth and social pressures.
Last year the V A boys captured three trophies in electricity and wiring, plumbing and welding. Estelline earned another trophy for identification. A Rural Electrical Co sponsored workshop will pursue more trophies next month. The district FFA banquet noted Nikkie Muro as sweetheart and district nom. Randy Barber and sponsor Tr ian Kidwell attended. The club earned funds from trophies and banners to buy a mac which is a sander and bulier.
A playful poem describes a freshman girl who adores a coy sophomore, who admires the junior miss with joy, while the senior boy secretly loves the freshman. The piece explores school romance and intertwined crushes in a lighthearted tone.
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