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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1976
Page
1
Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe said he would not appear on a CBS program with La Raza Unida founder Jose Angel Gutierrez. He stated he has never knowingly appeared with a La Raza Unida member and has no intention to do so.
Funeral services for Mary Lea Baker 64 will be at 2 pm in First United Methodist Church with Rev. James Price officiating. Burial in Childress Cemetery by Newberry Funeral Home. Survivors include husband Homer, son Don of Houston, daughters Marilyn Havens and Donna Ruth Cain of Childress, four brothers, and four grandchildren. Memorials to Cancer Society.
Collingsworth County posted the best rural highway accident record for November as per Highway Patrol Sgt. Billy Dean. No deaths occurred. Childress County had seven crashes and no deaths with three injuries. The eleven month 1976 rural tally shows 39 accidents, 3 killed, 20 injured across the area.
Southwestern Bell lawyers ask a State District Court to overrule a $1 million verdict awarded to James Ashley and his wife Bonnie for invading their privacy. Ashley was fired in 1974 from a $55,000 post in San Antonio. A related $29.2 million libel suit with T. O Gravitt’s family remains in federal court.
Divers and rescue teams comb debris after a massive explosion on the 810 foot tanker Sansinena in Los Angeles Harbor. At least five killed and about 50 injured, with hundreds evacuated as police warn of possible more deaths and crew entombment.
The Childress Bobcats Second Time Around is a film about the Childress Bobcats football team. It will air on KVIL TV Amarillo from 12 30 to 1 PM and includes footage from Friday's Texas Stadium AA State Championship game against the Rockdale Tigers.
President-elect Carter named Gov. Cecil Andrus of Idaho to be secretary of the interior calling him a tough competent manager with impeccable environmental credentials. He said the post is one he has not considered anyone else for and noted plans to consolidate energy programs into a single department.
Iraq widened the split in OPEC with a sharp rebuke of Saudi Arabia for refusing to raise prices beyond five percent. Oil minister Tayeh Abdul-Karim accused Riyadh of pressuring OPEC to accept a price freeze and called on Arab nations to condemn the action amid the postwar oil embargos context.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates agreed to a 5 percent crude price rise through 1977, while 11 other OPEC members approved a two step 15 percent rise. President Ford and Cyrus Vance praised Saudi and UAE restraint, while Action warned of higher fuel costs and airline fare requests.
A federal health official says swine flu vaccinations will resume only after no risk, but state officials across New York Ohio and beyond doubt public confidence may be too damaged to salvage the program which was suspended nationwide on Thursday officials warn the season may be near ending before a safe rollout could occur.
Rep Bob Bergland of Minnesota emerges as the frontrunner for President elect Jimmy Carter’s agriculture secretary post. He planned to drive his own car to a breakfast with Agriculture Secretary John Knebel rather than use a limousine, saying he would keep car ownership if appointed.
New York report shows Americans pay $664 per capita for state and local operations in 1975, up $46 from 1974. Childress County residents face about $390 per person, while Texas averages $515 and the West South Central region $464. Rising costs reflect welfare outlays and higher prices for materials and labor.
Ginners estimate the county cotton harvest at about 95 percent finished by Saturday with 22 100 bales ginned and around 1 000 bales in yards. If good weather holds, few bales will remain by Christmas said an operating ginner from West Texas Farmers Co op and Tell gins.
A public meeting at Fair Park Auditorium to hear a discussion on tax legislation changes affecting estates. Sponsored by the County Program Building Committee and led by County Agent Ronny McNutt, the session begins at 7 p.m. Monday and welcomes all residents.
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