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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1962
Page
7
Beauty and fragrance gifts ease holiday shopping for women with bath accessories compacts lipsticks perfumes and sprays. Choose from scented soaps bath oils powders and colognes suited to outdoor or sultry styles. One store visit can fill gifts for all ages saving time and effort.
The column argues teen marriages fail due to early wedlock and parental influence. It asserts parents are largely to blame for rushed marriages, urging acknowledgment of responsibility and consequences when teens wed too young and face heavy duties.
A long time custom was kept as Fred Nelson and S N Collins held their 30th joint birthday anniversary party Thursday evening at the Collins home. About 20 guests enjoyed refreshments of cake coffee and hot chocolate and Gene McCain and his band provided entertainment. Attending were the host and hostess and son Babe Willie Foster Billy Bob Johnson Viola Hatley Dave Jewel and Gene McCain Jimmy Reese Mr and Mrs Charlie Jones Sedelle McKinney Fred Nelson and Joe Carothers.
Dr and Mrs Robert Butler hosted O Ki Zu Camp Fire Girls for a holiday dinner with festive decor. Officers were elected and girls sang carols after gifts including Junior High pins. Guests listed include Sally Coyle Cecelia Ryledge Gina Butler Marilyn Houchin and others. A second party for I Yus Kin Camp Fire Girls featured corges guardians and sponsors, Rudolf reindeer, a mistletoe ball, and a gift exchange with personalized items and two cookies and sundae treats.
Mrs Bertha Crawford, team captain, hosted a holiday social at Greenbell Lanes for a local women’s bowling team. Christmas cake and coffee were served, gifts exchanged, motion pictures were taken, and bowling followed. Also present were Mr and Mrs Kelsey James, A H Wrinkle, Denzil McAlister, Finis Wrinkle, and Farrel McCallum.
Editor notes the poem The Cowboys Christmas Ball by Larry Chittenden. printed in the 1890s from The Cattle Industry of Texas and Adjacent Territory. the ball is set in Anson City Texas with Windy Billy leading a frontier revelry at The Morning Star Hotel featuring fiddle and tambouring. vivid frontier figures and locales recur throughout.
NBC cancelled Don't Call Me Charlie after a list of eleven new shows deemed worst by a panel including Loretta Young and Dick Powell. Other flops listed include Roy Rogers Variety Hour Saints and Sinners The Rover Boys Bonanza Empire and Mr Smith Goes to Washington among critiques of war sentiment and thin scripts.
A fragmented set of Santa letters from Lee Ann Harp, John Michie Harp, and John Harp, ages 7 and 54, asking for a record player, drum, cotton candy machine, flashlight, all metal patrol car and jeep, and toys for siblings and four cousins visiting from New Mexico for Christmas.
United Press International notes that although the phrase was inscribed on coins since the Civil War era, the U.S. national motto official designation did not come from Congress until 1956, per the World Almanac.
A kindergarten hosted a modern program for youngsters and special guests featuring music, choral readings, and rhythm selections. About 100 parents and friends attended as mothers of students served refreshments and gifts were distributed.
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