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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1964
Page
2
A reflection on gifts of praise and endorsements including a television ad for Peyton Place and a note on how self praise devalues honor. The piece argues borrowed testimonials blur who earns recognition and warns against turning givers into receivers. It ends with a cabinet reshuffle headline reference.
Morale notes in the column tease Ada Hopkins abandoned in Tulsa due to poverty. The writer jokes about the public generosity likely funding her, linking it to other large fundraisers and political talk about foreign aid.
Hodges resigns from his post and will be replaced by a drug executive as his successor is carried in to assume the vacancy. The article offers no definitive reason for the resignation.
The 11 a.m. Dow Jones industrials stood at 867.68, down 0.48, with rails 204.28 down 0.20, utilities 154.17 up 0.26, and 65-stock index 303.76 down 0.08 on 1,060,000 shares traded. By noon the averages were 865.96, 204.50, 153.93, and 303.42 with 1,840,000 shares. At 1 p.m. the 30 shares read 867.25 down 0.91, rails 204.50 up 0.09, utilities 154.09 up 0.18, and 303.75 down 0.09 on 2,470,000 shares.
Fort Worth market notes steady to firm in cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle include steers 20.00 21.00 per cwt for slaughter, feeders 16.0 18.5 for under 500 lb, calves 70 lb yearlings 17.50 18.50, and various weights. Hogs range 13.00 16.25 for sows and barrows 15.75 16.25. sheep quoted 19.00 20.00 for good lambs and 19.00 20.00 for shorn lambs with 70 percent wool lambs around 19.0 20.0.
A daily weather summary shows the 24 hour high of 53 degrees at 5 p.m. Sunday and low of 45 degrees at 4 a.m. today. Earlier that date, December 28, 1963, recorded a low of 25 degrees and a high of 31 degrees. Sunrise is listed at 7:47 and sunset at 3:39.
The coldest temperature reported to the U S Weather Bureau excluding Alaska and Hawaii was 18 below at Kincheloe Air Force Base near Saint Sainte Marie Michigan. Elsewhere the high Sunday reached 82 at Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach Florida.
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