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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1972
Page
4
A NEA dispatch notes The Waltons fan base includes the cast who engage deeply with viewers questions. Will Geer and Ellen Corby alongside Ralph Waite and Michael Learned receive letters about set details and props.
Agriculture Department ends the 36 year old REAP conservation program and the water bank program. Funds had been earmarked at about 225 million for 1973 with administration plans to cut to 140 million before a Dec 22 shutdown. Some 1973 money may have been in new applications.
Fort Worth group Jesus Festival joins Rev and Mrs Haynes to perform a 7 PM program at Tell Baptist Church. Allen Beaver and Doug Haynes explain the name, with solos by Sharon Hodnett, group singing, a sing along and devotional. Fellowship follows in the hall. Public invited.
A lengthy list of Christmas and holiday visits across Childress Vernon Paducah Crowell and surrounding areas includes Mr. and Mrs. Ova Seal Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Evans and many others visiting relatives in Wichita Falls Amarillo Dallas Lubbock and Texarkana. Families share meals and holiday greetings with extended kin in this community wedding and burial season report.
Cotton harvest in the Memphis region sped up this week as the USDA office in Memphis graded 13 140 samples bringing the season total to 66 775 compared with 29 325 a year ago. Prices in the market fell 75 to 150 points with middling grades closing around 24 50 to 25 25 cents per pound. The report also notes micronaire readings and strength tests, plus the per ton price of cottonseed at the gin and a closing paragraph on carnations and Mother’s Day symbolism.
John O Hara gathers 34 stories in THE TIME ELEMENT AND OTHER STORIES from posthumous works and periodical pieces. Fourteen stories are new to print while many earlier pieces appeared in The New Yorker. The editor notes mixed quality and calls some fragments, yet long familiar fans may still value the collection.
Chamber of Commerce directors vote to meet on the first Wednesday after the first Monday each month. They read and approved last year’s audit and discussed leasing the Fort Worth and Denver for a furniture plant. A highway bill request was sent to Congress. A scholarship fund for a Childress student may receive future funds.
The 1973 Texas legislature faced a Supreme Court potential ruling on school funding that could force tax increases. Lawmakers, Gov. Smith and Gov-elect Briscoe push no new taxes, while AP survey responses show support for a corporate income tax, sales tax tweaks, and other revenue ideas. Some legislators urge cutting nonessential spending instead.
In Cranfills Gap Texas the Norskies heritage endures at an annual lutefisk feast. Workers like Bobby Epley and senior Norwegians Chris Christopherson and Walter Shirley prepare the preserved cod, while Lions Booster Club volunteers host a turkey dinner for non Norwegians. The community, largely Lutheran, preserves St Olav’s era landmarks and traces of old settlement history.
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