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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1965
Page
1
A critical column argues that inflation and currency depreciation hurt the common man while politicians and financiers profit. It cites Tax Foundation data from 1949 to 1964 and warns that federal spending costs workers and pensioners, urging vigilance at the ballot box.
Ervin Faye Stewart 37 was acquitted by a Maricopa County jury of first degree murder in the 1963 rape and killing of Jane Langdon, a 21 year old Fort Worth coed. Stewart, awaiting another prison term for grand theft, was released only from the murder charge. Prosecutors said the case relied on circumstantial evidence and a fellow inmate admission. Miss Langdon’s body was found in a mine tunnel north of Phoenix after being raped and shot.
A 30 hour Christmas truce quieted Viet Nam fighting but B52 bombers hit a Viet Cong stronghold near Saigon and U S Navy planes struck bridges near Haiphong. Ground clashes left about 150 Viet Cong dead in three engagements as truce timing ran toward its end.
The best general rain of the month fell across Chil dress area with totals ranging from .60 to 1.50 inches at several stations. Temperatures dipped to 33 degrees as a Pacific front cleared, bringing cooler, fair skies and clearing trends across Texas for Christmas Day.
A Greyhound bus crash near Grants Pass Oregon killed 12 as freezing rain hampered travel. In Newark New Jersey a fast spreading fire trapped sleepers killing eight, part of a nationwide spike in holiday traffic deaths with 91 killed by 8:30 a.m. EST.
Marilyn Walker, 17, of Childress, was hospitalized with head lacerations and bruises after a two vehicle collision on the dump ground road four tenths of a mile south of Childress. She was a passenger in a parked auto with Andrew Wilson Scott Jr. when Doroteo Vitela Jr. struck them in a truck. Both vehicles lacked lights at the time.
James Edward Kennedy one of the FBI hundred most wanted was captured in Worcester Massachusetts after a high speed chase and gunfight with FBI and Worcester police. He and companion Paul V Davis surrendered after Kennedy was wounded in the arm while fleeing. Kennedy had escaped from Cuyahoga County Jail last year and had been living in Worcester under the alias Paul Johnson.
The Community Club schedules a watch service at 7 39 p m on December 31 in the schoolhouse.
Roelif Loveland writes that Christmas transcends faiths, urging memory and hope for all ages. He stresses brotherhood, forgiveness, and a peaceful future despite war in Viet Nam, acknowledging the soldiers and calling for shared human decency on Christmas Day 1965.
UPI columnist delivers a satirical Christmas verse spoofing LBJ as the sleigh driver with Congress as reindeer. The poem lists lawmakers and policy aims such as equal rights, tax cuts, and Medicare, ending with a punch about next year’s repeal of 14(b). Jerry Cavanaugh of Wichita pleads guilty to driving while intoxicated, fined $125 and jailed three days.
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