Rain Brings Early Christmas Relief Across North Texas
Heavy two day rains soaking most of Texas except the Panhandle boosted creeks and watersheds lifting water supplies. Fort Worth city rainfall reached 4.15 inches over two days with total for the year at 18.51 inches. Mineral Wells saw 3.3 inches and a four foot lake rise easing drought worries and plans to source Brazos River water. Agricultural officials hailed the conditions as beneficial for winter crops though not a drought breaker.
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Texas
Panhandle
John White
West
Fort Worth
Springtown
Bowie
Montague County
Lake Mineral
Brazos River
CMN
Light Local Rainfall Aids Wheat Across Childress Area
Light general rainfall covered the Childress region with modest totals. Downtown Childress recorded 0.3 inches, the CAA station 0.33, Rivercamp saw 0.4, Union Plat about 0.5, Highpoint 0.35 and 0.1 inch prior, Carey 0.25, Tell near 0.25, Burlington towns Wellington 0.25, Quanal 0.30, and Memphis 0.25 inches, supporting crop moisture.
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Childress
CAA
Rivercamp
L. B. Holman
A. Vo Mote
Union Plat
Highpoint
Floyd Biddy
Carey
Oliver McKee
Tell
Burlington
Wellington
Quanal
Memphis
Spelling Bee Books Arrive for Local Contest
Spelling Bee books arrived and will be distributed today and tomorrow per Wade Kimbrough director. A total of 150 books were received and 147 entered the contest, more than double prior participation. The Childress Index sponsors the event in Childress County.
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Wade Kimbrough
Kimbrough
Childress County
The
Childress Index
Planning Under Way For Kids Basketball
Forms for the Kids Inc basketball program are being distributed to local schools. Coordinator Buddy Wilcoxson urges all interested boys to fill out the form have parent signatures and return to school by Friday with a $1 registration fee. The data will help plan the program and number of participants. Play begins after the holiday season.
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Kids, Inc
Buddy Wilcoxson
Free Coffee On Tap Saturday at Old Crittin Butler Building
Free coffee and doughnuts will be offered all day Saturday to visitors. The event is sponsored annually by the Childress County Old Settlers Association and will be held in and in front of the old Crittin and Butler building at Avenue B and Main. The Chuckwagon will be used by the group with Dub Nelson, Sam Privitt, T. R. White head, and Bill Adams in charge.
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Childress County
Old Saidlers Association
Old Crittin and Butler
Avenue B and Main
Childress
Dub Nelson
Sam Privitt
T. RK. Whitehead
Bill Adams
Federal Judge Rebukes High Court On Integration Ruling
U S District Judge William H Atwell in Dallas rebuked the Supreme Court desegregation ruling and kept Dallas schools segregated while study continues He dismissed the suit without prejudice allowing time for school board action NAACP attorney W J Durham said an immediate appeal would follow within 10 days The judge argued it would be wrong to force white students to leave their schools for black students to attend On Page Two
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Dallas
William H. Atwell
U. S. Supreme Court
Atwell
Supreme Court
Natonal Association For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Ile
W. J. Durham
NAACP
Whitehorn Fined After Accident
James F. Whitehorn an Estelline barber pleaded guilty to failure to stop and render aid after a morning collision near Carey injuring no one. He was fined 1.00 dollars and costs and his license suspended six months.
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James F. Whitehorn
Carey
Charles Reynolds
Whitehorn
Estelline
Childress
Ira Willie D. Tubbs
Perrin Field
Sherman
Tubbs
Memphis
Reynolds
Hungarian Offer to Non-Communists Signals Cabinet Shakeup
The Hungarian puppet regime hinted at talks with non Communist leaders as it plans a major cabinet reshuffle. Premier Janos Kadar acknowledged the armed struggle ended but called the ideological fight essential and said it would be difficult to govern with pseudo revolutionary slogans. Sources anticipate a reshuffle to win over Hungarians and recontrol minds and bodies.
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Vienna
Hungary
Janos Kadar
Moscow
Budapest
Kadar
Ers
Psuedo
Contest Winners To Be Reported In Christmas Decoration Contest
Out of town judges will announce winners in the Christmas Decoration Contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce on December 22. The final list of 13 homes is released with resident addresses and divisions including Decorated Outdoor Trees and Windows and Doors. Cash prizes will be awarded in each division.
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Chamber of Commerce
Cecil Flynn
Ave
Eddie McConnell
L. W. McClendon
Ave i
S. T. Wrinkle
Ave. I
Charles Boyd
Ave. D
McClendon
Jim Martindale
McConnell
Wrinkle
State To Spend 49300 On Roads In Childress County
The Texas Highway Department will spend 49300 for improvements on highways in Childress County during 1957. Projects under District Engineer Palmer Massey include seal coats on FM 1033, FM 1619, FM 268, and State Highway 256, totaling about 35.8 miles.
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Texas Highway Department
Childress County
D. Greer
287
Palmer Massey
Kirkland
Hall County
Childress
Community Center School
U. S. 83
Salvation Army Fund Drive Tops Five Hundred Seventy Six
Salvation Army fund drive reports progress with $676.93 raised and about 60 percent of workers reporting. Treasurer Bob Ray noted the total this morning and Drive Chairman Earl Preston urged workers to finish calls and turn in collections to Ray at The Index to wind up the drive this week.
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Salvation Army
Bob Ray
Ray
Drive
Earl Preston
Ishibashi Selected as Japan's New Premier
In Tokyo 72 year old economist Tanzan Ishibashi won a landslide to become Japan's new prime minister succeeding the partially paralyzed Tohiro Hatoyama. The Diet approved Ishibashi 291 to 150 amid Hatoyama's resignation with his cabinet. Ishibashi's Liberal Democratic Party leadership made the choice nearly automatic.
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Mutspoken
Tanzan Ishibashi
Japan
Tohiro Hatoyama
Ishibashi
International Trade Aff Tihistes
My Sipenath
Hateyyama
Laberal-Democrate
Philippines
Burma
Gun Battle Injures Ex-Con Shopper Stampede in Bronx
In the Bronx on Wednesday hundreds of Christmas shoppers fled a running gun battle between police and an ex convict gumsman. The suspect Leroy Keith and two accomplices fired more than two dozen shots at a taxi driver, David Suro, 49, who was wounded along with the shooter. A bystander was grazed as officers pursued the bandit through Tremont and Webster Avenues. Keith, 42, on parole from an Ohio killing conviction, was captured after a five hole salvo of hits.
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New York
Bronx
David Suro
Suro
Tremont
Webst
Leroy
Frisco) Keith
Ohio
Walter P Carter 50 Dies in Wichita Falls Hospital
Walter P Carter aged 50 died at 10:30 p m Wednesday in a Wichita Falls hospital after moving there two months ago from Childress Texas He was a trucker at the time of death Survivors include four sons Marion Lee Carter Denver John Arthur Carter in the U S Navy Cuba Paul H and Melvin M Carter Childress one daughter Peggy Sue Carter Childress his mother Mrs W A Carter Childress three brothers Roy Carter Amarillo A J Carter Plainview Paul Carter Muleshoe and one sister Mrs J W Mayo Plainview Funeral services are incomplete at Newberry Funeral Home.
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Walter P. Carter
Wichita Falls
Mr. Carter
Childress
Newberry Funeral Home
Texas
Colorado City
W Childress
Marion Lee Carter
Denver
Colo
John Arthur Carter
U. S. Navy
Cuba
Paul H
Melvin M. Carter
Peggy Sue Carter
Two Attend WTCC Meet In Amarillo
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce legislative program was discussed at a meeting in Amarillo yesterday attended by two Childress men, Doyle McKinney president of the Childress of C and Bill Thompson secretary-manager of the C of BCD.
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West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Childress
Doyle McKinney
Childress of
Bill Thompson
BCD
Eisenhower and Nehru See Broad Area of Agreement
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru said their talks yielded a broad area of agreement on world problems. A 14 hour session at Gettysburg and a White House communique stressed closer understanding and peaceful relations between the United States and India. Nehru expressed confidence their talks would foster bonds of mind and friendship between the two largest democracies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Jawaharlal Nehru
India
White House
Nehru
New York
United States
United Nations
Mr. Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Gain
White Holme
Washington National Airport
Fisenhower
Red China
Middle East
United Press
Russia Eyes UN Disarmament Drive Amid Security Council Move
The United Nations convened the disarmament commission at the request of the Soviet envoy Arkady Sobolev, while the General Assembly debated adding two permanent Security Council seats for Latin America and Spain. Iraq, Colombia, and Sweden joined the non permanent list, with a plan to create seven new nonpermanent seats plus Eastern Europe. An ICJ vacancy election stalled with Japan’s Shigiru Kuriyama and Nationalist China’s Wellington Koo in a deadlock.
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United Nations
Intsarmament Commission
Arkady A. Sohokey
Russia
Kremlin
Soboley
General Assembly
Spain
Security Council
Iraq
Colomia
Sweden
Europe
Asia
Africa
Western
Latin America
British Commonwealth
Agends
International Court of Justice
Shigiru Kuriyama
Japan
Wellington Koo
Nationalist
China
Israel Gaza Stand Could Block Suez Negotiations
Cairo sources say Israel's refusal to cede Gaza may derail talks to salvage the Suez Canal. Nasser would demand Gaza evacuation and Sinai withdrawal before operations, plus return of Gulf of Aqaba islands. Paris sources note France weighing aid for a pipeline from Eilat to Jaffa.
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Israel
Gaza
Suez
London
Cairo
Gaza Strip
Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sinai Desert
Naser
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
Courtes
David Ben-Gurion
Knesset
Tareel
Britain
France
United Nations
Canal
Nasser
Paris
Ehiath
Jaffa
TB Christmas Seal Sale Totals $509
The 1955 Childress County TB Christmas Seals drive raised $509.50, below the $517.25 collected at this date last year. Beta Sigma Phi sponsor sorority reported the total today with contributions still welcome to Miss Maynett Stiner or any member.
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Childress County
Beta Sigma Phi
Maynett Stiner
Miss Stiner
Soil Bank And Drouth To Cut Winter Wheat
The Agriculture Department estimates 1957 winter wheat production at 625 million bushels, down 110 million from this year and 15 percent lower. Seedings total 368 million acres, the smallest since 1913, with soil bank enrollments at 10.7 million acres as drought and the program reduced sowings in the Southern Great Plains.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Soil Bank Act
Great Plains
Soil Bank
Great Aing
Voices of Democracy winners feted at J C Club luncheon
First Ray Fuleniwder second Paula Kate Graham and third Nancy Nelson were honored as winners of the Childress Jaycee Voice of Democracy contest. John Forbis praised miss Nellie Agnes Kennedy for organizing the event and accompanied the trio. A traffic safety drive distributed bumper stickers and armbands as Lions Rotarians and Jaycees sponsor the program.
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Childress Jaycee
Ray Fulenwider
Paula Kate Graham
Nancy Nelson
John Forbis
Nellie Agnes Kennedy
Miss Kennedy
Lions
Rotarians
Jaycees
Cecil Stokes
Larry Lawrence
Frank Palattie
Red Hart
Samford
Baylor
Joe B. Mills
Hill Sager
Read Gentry
Gordon Vaughn
F. W. Wyatt
Joe Howard
Frank Clark
Jess Crow
Bill Moore
Albert Bird
Lawrence
Richard Bird
Jerry Price
Junior Jaycee
PD. C. Miller
Wichita Falls
Vernon Dorsey
Lubbock
Roy Hale
Amarillo
Don Rowland
Nixon Journey Near Iron Curtain For Hungarian Refugees
Vice President Nixon toured a refugee camp 11 miles from the Communist border at Neusiedl Austria and met local officials. He carried a message from President Eisenhower praising Austria for opening its borders to Hungarian refugees and pledged U.S. help.
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Vienna
Richard M. Nixon
Neusiedl
Hungary
Nixon
Austria
Fisenhower
Julius Raab
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High Court
Tokyo
Xmas Shoncers
Walter Carter
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
Drouth
J. C. Club
Iron Curtain
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