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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1973
Page
4
Don Oakley notes that Pioneer 10 will take 13 more years to cross Pluto’s orbit and enter true outer space. After surviving the asteroid belt and Jupiter’s radiation, the probe will drift through empty space as scientists track its fading beacon toward 1977 and beyond into interstellar distances.
A column argues that high highway speed limits, fuel shortages, and rising fuel prices hit truckers hard and raise costs for everyone. It notes potential shifts to rail freight, questions the viability of fast trucking, and predicts broader economic pinch across workers and consumers.
Washington reports on the creation of the Federal Energy Administration sidelining former Colorado governor John Love. Love learns he will be senior adviser but is later excluded from the agency plan as William E. Simon leads the new body with John Sawhill as deputy. Love resigns, returning to Denver.
A Business Mirror column notes rising newsprint demand from 63–64 million tons to 67–68 million tons yearly, with 8 million tons more needed by 1975 but limited capacity. It cites banking and securities sectors moving toward electronic records, the lure of printouts, and unintended paper use from wage controls, Watergate, and growing population.
Indexing by Morris Higley argues Congress will wake to national energy needs as Texas lawmakers resist oil field depletion cuts. He cites past deals, risk financing, and Nixon's role, then notes Tell school land sale and northwest Childress property bids, concluding with blood donation thanks from the American Red Cross.
The writer thanks donors volunteers and partners including KCTX radio Fox Clinic Dr Robert Butler Dr Pepper Bottling Smith Motor Southwestern Bell and the City for a successful December Bloodmobile. They praise donors who endure cold or heat long hours and note teens provide parental consent and many volunteers stay after to clean up.
Hal Boyle notes satirical forecasts of Christmas stereotypes from overcommercialism and debt to grandfathers, Santas, moonlighting workers, odd fashion, political bans and a towering Polish TV tower planned for 1974. Key figures include one million grandpas, four million grandchildren, ten thousand stenographers, and fifty thousand job-seeking clerks.
On December 13, 1973, Today in History notes Sir Francis Drake began his historic voyage around the world in 1577 and recalls a significant day of prayer in 1781.
A historic critique questions whether the 1773 Boston Tea Party was a noble act for freedom or riotous vandalism. The piece traces mercantilist roots, Stamp and Townshend taxes, and the events leading to the confrontation, noting its lasting impact on American independence.
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