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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1976
Page
1
The Dow rose 1.99 to 974.40 at noon after an early decline, aided by favorable government consumer price figures. Reports span Texas speed limit debate to insurance costs, public health searches linked to swine flu, and regional rate changes by Southwestern Bell.
President elect Carter named Rep. Bob Bergland, a Minnesota farmer, as agriculture secretary designating him a working farmer. Bergland, who raises wheat and grass seed on 600 acres, would bring hands on farming to the post and oversee USDA operations closely. Farm groups welcomed the choice, noting his farming background and readiness to work with Congress to aid farmers.
Funeral services for Boyd Littleton Potts 66 were set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Calvary Baptist Church with Rev. Randy Henry officiating. Burial followed in Childress Cemetery. Potts died Monday at Childress General Hospital of a heart attack. He was born July 25, 1910 in Jonesboro Louisiana and moved to Childress in 1928. He was in lumber plumbing and house moving. He and Virgina Cross married October 8 1937 in Jonesboro. she died May 9 1974. Survivors include five daughters two sisters 13 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Mayor Beame unveils a five year recovery plan for New York City including tax breaks for businesses and access to credit and capital markets by 1979. Governor Carey and Beame to testify before the Senate Banking Committee as federal aid prospects look uncertain.
Attorney Richard Haynes says T. Cullen Davis is innocent of capital murder and predicts a real killer will be revealed at trial. He asserts new evidence places a suspect at the Davis mansion during the August shootings that killed Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr, while Priscilla Davis and another man were wounded. Haynes cites possible drug-related motive.
A second public hearing on a $250 000 city block grant for Childress will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in city hall. City Manager Louis Sally says the grant depends on points scored for sub housing, unemployment, elderly and needy residents. application due by January 7, 1977.
A Liberian tanker Argo Merchant split in two amid rough seas 27 miles southeast of Nantucket. Coast Guard says 1.5 million gallons already spilled with up to 75 percent of cargo potentially lost. seven days earlier it ran aground on Nantucket shoals.
Chicago mourns Mayor Richard J. Daley at 74 from a heart attack. Aldermen discuss leadership options with acting mayor potential from the council, and possible successors include Ald. Bilandic Ald. Vrdolyak and Daley's son Richard. Daley’s body to lie in state at Nativity of Our Lord Church.
Robert P Gemberling, who directed the FBI's JFK assassination probe, criticizes the House Select Committee on Assassinations for pursuing a new inquiry. He plans lectures to defend Oswald lone gunman conclusions and retire in two weeks.
The Student Council at Childress High School hosted a Red Cross food drive with a room based point system to equalize competition. Truman Kidwell’s fourth year farm mechanics class won with 2 610 percent, Ed Gilliland’s chemistry took second, and Helen Smith’s resource room placed third.
Childress schools dismiss at 2 30 p m today for Christmas holidays and will resume January 3 1977.
Mrs. Rowden Cordell and family donated memory trees to the Childress Cemetery Association for A. G. Hargrave and Rowden Cordell. The contribution was announced by Mrs. Roy Southern, the association's chairman.
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