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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1960
Page
6
A local letter from Morris Higley and public-spirited residents of Childress urges voters to back a water bond. They argue higher rates offset by long term savings and cleaner water, urging citizens to study the issue and unite for growth.
New York UPI report notes 1960 housing starts near 1.3 million, 19 percent below 1959. Institute projects 1,375,000 starts in 1961 with factors like higher personal income, growing middle class demand, and easing mortgages boosting the housing market.
United Press International reports in New York on March 32.42 up 4 and May 32.89 up 5. Futures in New York for March 33.85 up 23 and May 33.97 up 20. The figures show gains across several contract months amid a volatile trading session.
A letter urges voters to consider the impact of a $650000 water bond on future generations. The writer accuses The Index of misleading claims and argues higher water rates, not growth, will result from bond passage and December 20.
Rome moves toward a new government hub in EUR, a 1,087 acre area south of the city built under Mussolini for a 1942 world’s fair. The site, long unused after war, now hosts ministries and big offices to relieve old Rome’s traffic and shift the center toward the coast.
Actor Red Skelton, 47, is resting comfortably at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a successful three hour operation Monday to repair a ruptured diaphragm. The UPI report confirms he is in stable condition and recovering.
Cesare Siepi as Don Giovanni leads a praised performance conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with the Vienna Philharmonic. Birgit Nilsson Donna Anna and Leonine Price Donna Elvira are noted but less successful. Pergolesis La Serva Padrona performed by I Virtuosi di Roma under Renato Fasano is praised for musical integrity.
Alvin Table Jr. and Billy Wayne Lees face murder and piracy charges in Nassau Bahamas. Lees testified he shot Capt. Angus Boatwright after Boatwright leveled a shark rifle. Prosecution says the men used Boatwrights vessel after marooning four Pennsylvania fishermen and fleeing the United States.
Pope John XXIII named four new cardinals. Joseph E Ritter archbishop of St Louis is among them. The consistory will be held in the Vatican on January 16 with Jose Humberto Quintero of Caracas and Acrida, Luis Concha Cordoba archbishop of Bogota, and Msgr Giuseppe Ferretto, the Vatican secretary of the Sacred College of Cardinals.
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