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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1966
Page
3
The High Point church and Sunday School reported strong attendance on December 18 as they took an annual offering for Buckner's Children's Home in Dallas and the Children's Home in Waco. Fifty dollars will be sent to each home before Christmas from the community.
Mrs Vern Rucker entertained her Sunday School class of 16 year old girls with a salad supper at her home Tuesday evening. Attending were Rhonda Burchett Ronna Mooney Janice Frith Karen Griffin Teresa Gray Sherry Poling and Marva Hale.
Seventeen holiday greeting cards were crafted by the NEWS DEN I PACE members and delivered with candy to Shady Elms Rest Home during a meeting hosted by Mrs. L. H. Barley Jr. Den mother. Macaroni Christmas trees were also created and Hal Waller provided refreshments for Kevin Albritton Terry Barley Tony Barley Bobby Keys Mickey Mitchell Carl Smith Terry Smith Russell Stone and Mrs. David Smith assist ant den mother. The Old Philadelphia Athletics finished last seven consecutive times from 1915 through 1921.
Promises relief from nightly urination backache and scanty flow with a well balanced formula. Claims faster passage in four days and a money back offer at drug counters, urging immediate purchase.
The week’s social notes list Rev. Ken Hall and Rev. Ronald Ledbetter at a ministerial alliance meeting at Wayland College and various visits across towns. Families such as the Halls, Smiths, Morans, Etheredges, Browning, and Stinnetts are noted visiting, shopping, or attending concerts, ballgames, church services, and trips to Amarillo, White Deer, and Duke.
Washington UPI reports up to 1009 additional women Marines will be sent next year to Japan and Okinawa to support the 13 already there. The move aims to bolster staffing for duties in naval bases and forward posts across the region.
Mostly cloudy and colder tonight with increasing clearing and a low in the 2 to 44 degree range Friday. Col and Mrs Zane Brewer and others from Alexandria arrive to spend Christmas with Mrs Holland and relatives, with more out of town visitors from Abilene. Private Moran on furlough visits family while stationed at Ft Carson Colorado. John Williams listed as patient at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarit o. Cathy Burnett of Quanah visiting Sheila Devoll.
The edition notes December 22 1966 as day 356 with moon phase details and notable anniversaries. It lists birthdays including Deems Taylor and James Oglethorpe and recalls Wake Island surrender news from 1941 and a 1965 Viet Cong truce. It ends with birthday wishes for Tommy Eugene Sims and others, plus a wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Privitt and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
Mrs Joe Heston of Desha Arkansas received a surprise $3 check from a man who explained her late husband, a blacksmith, once did work for him. The gesture comes years after the unpaid debt, and Mrs. Heston adds the money boosts her Christmas shopping by $50.
UPI reports beef cuts rib rump and chuck stand out at meat counters for holiday shopping. Pork bacon chops hams and pork products are ample in most areas. Poultry broiler fryers and turkey are plentiful along with cabbage carrots celery lettuce onions potatoes. Fruits apples grapefruit oranges pears bananas lead the plentiful basket and canned salmon is in good national supply.
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