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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1969
Page
5
Morris Higley argues the Childress Elks Lodge cancelled its Christmas Party for Needy Children due to out of town abuse and unwelcome attendees. He urges advance attendee lists and strict rules if the event resumes. Local forecast: increasing cloudiness, warmer tonight, then colder with scattered snow tonight and Saturday.
In Duncan British Columbia an AP report notes that late Joe Mottishaw was appointed as police chief in 1917. A clerk's letter outlined duties including meeting trains reading electricity meters repairing water mains and sidewalks and maintaining firefighting equipment.
Funeral services for Ronald Harold Elliott aged 14 of Northfield were held at First Baptist Church with Rev. Joe Atlen officiating. Burial followed in Northfield Cemetery. Ronald died in a single vehicle crash on State highway 94 near Northfield late Wednesday. Steven Smith, 15, sustained minor injuries. Ronald’s survivors include two brothers, three sisters, grandparents, a grandmother and great grandmother.
The World Almanac notes that James Buchanan was the only bachelor to serve as U.S. president. He was nominated for president by the Democratic Party while serving as minister to Great Britain, ran on a Save the Union theme, and defeated John C. Fremont. He became the 15th president in 1857.
House members discuss possible Democratic and GOP candidates for governor and attorney general with names like Wilson Cox Harris Hall and Gladden Jordan and Connally in circulation. Santa Claus brings little change to the land commissioner race as others weigh bids.
Radio Hanoi reports a Christmas Eve service led by Thu vice chair and secretary-general of the Evangelical Church in Vietnam. The camp hall was decorated by prisoners with a large paper Santa and a bright outdoor Christmas tree as wives delivered a list of 59 missing US pilots. The Hanoi communique says prisoners’ issues require U.S. government settlement talks.
In Cape Town the government proposes the term multi-national development to describe apartheid, arguing segregation is incidental to policy and that nations must be separated. Officials insist no discrimination but emphasize natural differences to justify the system.
The name Clarissa derives from Latin, meaning fair. It reflects historical usage as a feminine given name noted for its clear, bright associations. The etymology ties to qualities of clarity and brightness in classical sources.
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