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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1967
Page
3
A devotional meditation retells the Nativity story with Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem, the stable birth, and the angelic announcement. The piece emphasizes divine selection, humble surroundings, shepherds visiting, and a heavenly chorus praising God for peace on earth.
Funeral services for Ray A. Hays 78 of Amarillo were held at 2 p.m. at Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel officiated by Rev. Childers. Interment followed at Memorial Park Cemetery. Born in Italy Tex he died Tuesday in Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital. Survivors include his wife a son two daughters Arch Hays and nine grandchildren.
Glenda Gampher, 23, was pronounced dead at the city morgue after being found under a tree in Forest Park in sub freezing weather. She revived during autopsy steps, then was hospitalized in a coma with critical condition and undergoing supportive treatment.
A 17 year old boy bled to death after he and three others burglarized a supermarket. He plunged through a plate glass window in an alley near his home. Police found a few items on his person including socks shorts and three packs of instant hot chocolate.
In Reno Harolds Club introduced the first five dollar slot as inflation pressures spread to Nevada gambling. The note also mentions Connecticut as the third smallest state by land area at 5,008 square miles.
PFC Rubber G Jones Jr of the 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile serves in Vietnam after a 30 day leave in Childress with his parents Mr and Mrs Robert Jones He seeks letters at his APO San Francisco address. Army Sgt Sam Marsh 25 son of Neila Harmon of Quanah is an ammunition sergeant in the 80th Artillery 6th Battalion in Korea with wife Wanda at 499 W Ninth Quanah.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winius Jr. of Scottsdale announce the birth at 2 am Friday in a Phoenix hospital of a daughter weighing seven pounds 14 ounces. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. B. F. McGouirk of Childress and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winius Sr. of St. Louis Missouri. Mrs. Winius is the former Jean MaGouirk.
Ozona Kerrville and San Antonio feature visitors for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Mickie Barron Mack Barron and others from Dallas join Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pope and Mr. Tippett in Tell. Canyon guests include Dawn and Christopher Blackburn with the Higleys. Several Texas Tech and military families also visit relatives, with surgery in Quanah and trips from Lubbock and Luke AFB.
A public records list shows items from justice court on speeding no operator licenses and fines to marriage licenses divorces building permits and court actions. Entries include Donald J Simons James Pesten Seifer Mary Garza Cruz Hattie Coyne Alvin Merrell Travis Phillips Leonard Trosper Triston Davis L B Holman Leroy Pearson Robert Banks Robert Odell Woods and others with various penalties and fees.
Bass Lake near Yosemite National Park records a rare full-surface freeze for the fifth time in 63 years, permitting ice skating this winter for the first time since 1948.
Visiting hours listed as morning 9 to 10 percent? afternoons 2 30 to 4 30 and evenings 7 to 8 30. Admitted Alton Landrum on Saturday. Dismissed Corena Lewis of Cee Wee on Friday. Rev Donley Culbertson of Chicago on Friday. Mrs Will T Smith on Friday.
Spokesmen say Communist guerrillas hid in a northern coast cave as air strikes killed 39 guerrillas. Viet Cong attacked a South Vietnamese outpost 45 miles northwest of Saigon, suffering heavy casualties after artillery and air response. In Saigon outskirts a terrorist threw a hand grenade at soldiers, with several killed or wounded.
The St Lawrence waterway is the largest inland navigation system in North America, extending 2,342 miles from the Atlantic coast to Duluth Minnesota.
In Chicago Bob Klee, 52, of Blue Island Indiana, played Santa to give people free bus rides. The company allowed all riders this one trip and passengers enjoyed his uniform. He noted many people seem to doubt Santa Claus, including children.
In Brigg England Gordon Dunderdale woke to find his 34 year old wife Brenda missing. Two hours later he learns Brenda was pregnant and had given birth, revealing he had become a father for the first time while she was believed absent and hospitalized.
The wandering albatross shows flight behavior tied to wind thresholds noting it does not require wingbeats until sea level wind speeds drop below 11.5 miles per hour. This finding links wind conditions to energy use in long distance gliding adaptation.
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