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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1956
Page
1
Israel accuses Egypt of stepping up aggression as Suez Canal salvage stalls.UN officials diverted to Cairo to accelerate canal clearance while Israel cites Egyptian withdrawal demands and Sinai tensions, with both sides raising the risk of renewed conflict.
Foreign Office spokesman Moshe Leshem says fresh Fedayeen attacks last week and Cairo’s training programs defy a U N call to halt raids. He says Egypt openly escalates hostility to Israel and will persist in the campaign as Cairo radio cites ongoing training for Feda.
A seven man group forms a new industrial brain trust as Moscow reshuffles top economic planners. First Deputy Premier Maxim Z. Saburov is fired as chairman of the State Economic Commission and replaced by 52 year old Mihail G. Pervukhin, both presidium members and first deputies. The shakeup follows criticism over failure to meet five year plan quotas. Continued on page seven.
The Kids Inc basketball program calls an organization meeting at 7 o'clock tomorrow night at the Junior High Cum All supervisors and coaches are urged to attend. Last year eight teams played in the Little League four in the Pony League and four in the Pee Wee. coordinators seek more volunteers to start the season.
Staff Sgt. Billy Williams will be at City Hall in Childress on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. interviewing applicants for enlistment in the U S Marine Corps. He noted many aviation and other assignments are open and encouraged interested young men to meet him.
T. C. Jones shows improvement after a heart attack Sunday night about 7 o clock at his family home. He is hospitalized at Childress General Hospital, his son Vivian Jones said.
A fast moving fire near Malibu in the Santa Monica mountains burned over 2,000 acres and destroyed at least 25 structures. Hundreds of residents from Newton, Ramero, Latigo and Trancas canyons were evacuated as winds drove flames toward movie star residences and the Pacific Coast Highway was shut to traffic. An emergency shelter was set up and Red Cross alerted.
Detroit reports the first two launching type gold plated head balls will be delivered to naval research laboratories within a week. The project Operation Vanguard aims to fire a three stage rocket to launch a satellite about 300 miles up, with a 21.5 pound sphere spinning in orbit for up to a year.
Claude Clark Ticer aged 65 died about 11 o'clock this morning in the Veterans Hospital at Marlin after a decade of hospitalization. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Survivors include his wife of Childress, six sons in Texas and Oregon, two daughters, two sisters and two brothers with ties to Brownfield Childress El Paso Eugene Hawthorne Heppner New Mexico.
Persons with crutches belonging to local veterans organizations are asked to return them as they are needed. Those with a pair should hand them in at the Veterans Building or to G. F. Sanders immediately.
The annual forecast by Roger W Babson will appear in Thursday's The Index. Babson, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, built a national reputation for business forecasts used by hundreds of newspapers and thousands of corporations and estates. He founded Babson Institute and Webber College for Women and contributed to several business service institutes.
The nation shows mostly fair weather with scattered snow flurries in parts of the Northeast and Great Lakes. Temperatures dip near freezing in the East with frost possible in parts of Florida and the Southeast, while a warming trend moves through the southern Plains toward the Mississippi Valley.
Traffic fatalities during the Christmas weekend surged past estimates with 71 deaths in highway crashes as California led with 72 and states such as Illinois Ohio Texas New York Michigan and North Carolina reported notable tolls. Officials cited heavy travel and warned drivers while a traffic safety conference was announced for January 15 in Albany. This story continues on Page Three.
A dynamite blast injured five people in Birmingham near the home of Shuttlesworth, a prominent civil rights figure. The preacher and civil rights leader vowed to press for bus integration as the city braces for a major confrontation with segregation laws amid ongoing protests and a looming city commission meeting. The blast damaged residences in a predominantly Black neighborhood and prompted renewed calls for federal action.
United Press survey shows Texas logged 87 violent deaths in the first five days of the 12 day Christmas New Year period. Traffic led with 49 deaths, homicides 24, and other causes including fires 14. DPS projected 205 deaths for the period if the pace holds, with many resulting from traffic accidents and several Christmas Eve and Day fatalities among youths and adults.
In Columbus, Ohio a four day old female gorilla born last Saturday is kept in a hospital incubator. Superintendent Farr Davis says the infant, weighing 32% pounds, moves and may need a larger bed soon. Mother Christina and Baron the father are reported to be doing well as staff monitor humidity and creature care.
The Christmas period in Childress County saw minimal incidents with only one minor accident reported and no injuries. William Brewer of 1011 Ne drove into a utility pole on Christmas night and received a negligent driving ticket from police. Assist ant Chief Troy Rogers noted officers also confiscated a few fireworks from kids.
A five alarm blaze at Yellow Transit Freight Lines warehouse in Dallas damaged or destroyed 30 loaded trailers and caused about 1.87 million in damages. More than 190 firefighters fought the flames sparked by explosions from steel drums with the warehouse damage pegged at 25 thousand while individual trailers valued at ten thousand each and cargo at fifty thousand per trailer.
Texas weather remains mild in the afternoons and cool at night with partial clouds along the coast. No rainfall reported in 24 hours as a freezing line stretches from Wichita Falls to near the New Mexico border, with lows ranging from 10 to 54 degrees across multiple towns.
A string of holiday fires killed 19 people, including 10 children. In Great Falls Montana a Christmas tree blaze trapped youngsters in a bedroom, with the father risking flames to save them. Maine saw three children die in Allagash while a defective stove and unattended lights were cited. Other fires in Minnesota, Connecticut, and a Meriden tenement also reported fatalities as investigations continue.
The Fire Department made four calls to fires during the holiday weekend. One grass fire at 16th Street and Avenue F was controlled Sunday around 3 PM. A car fire in the 206 block of Sixth Street SW destroyed the vehicle Monday night. A blaze involved a stack of fire wood on Avenue B and Main Street. Tuesday at 1 15 AM a fence fire was reported at 707 Avenue E NW.
Hendlin, an Amarillo truck driver, was fined 100 dollars and given a three day jail sentence in county court. His driving license was suspended for six months after state highway patrol charges of driving while intoxicated following a Sunday night crash near Memphis in which the truck overturned.
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