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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1964
Page
6
Unclear scanner text details a Saturday incident in Wichita involving a storm, with mentions of Goov, an apartment and a shopping center. The fragment indicates multiple people feared drowned during the weather event and references Wichita locations.
Hollywood reports a Mayfair Mafia of British stars filming Wing Rat in the San Fernando Valley as John Mills directs. Cast includes Tom Courtenay James Fox James Donald Gerald Simm John Ronance John Standing Jack Mervale Reg Lye and others. Mills celebrates young British talent amid a shift from typecast roles to major box office potential.
The document lists alterations and additions to Western Bell Telephone plant in Childress and links to new or expanded service stations for Ker McGee in Wichita Falls and Kansas regions including Missouri and Dallas area fuel outlets. It references stations in Brookfield Mobr Clinton and Fort Worth and multiple American Oil and Petrofin stations in Houston Waco Dallas and other locales.
United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald challenges Secretary Treasurer J. W. Abel to a series of debates to settle who leads the union as contract talks with the Big 11 steel producers resume after the holidays. Abel campaigns from Chicago promising greater local bargaining power while criticizing McDonald’s leadership and ballot supervision.
In Rome the Italian Parliament again failed to elect a new president on the seventh ballot. CDP candidate Giovanni Leone led with 313 votes, communist Umberto Terracini had 251, Social Democrat Giuseppe Saragat 138, and dissident CDP candidate Amintore Fanfani 182.
The Anti Shark Association reports a new electrical barrier tested in St Lucia Bay proving no shark penetration in 40 specimens. A 30 foot barrier in 10 feet of water reportedly requires 1.7 kilowatts, comparable to a household kettle.
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