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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1957
Page
9
Public notice urges taxpayers to prepare for two key dates January 15 1958 for estimated tax and April 15 1958 for final 1957 return. It explains penalties for underpayment, early filing benefits, and promotes NEA 17th Annual Income Tax Primer in The Childress Index starting January 12.
Richard A Muillens writes the NEA Service Income Tax Primer now in its eighth year. The primer has long aided millions of average taxpayers, describing how to compute tax using 1956 income and 1957 exemptions. The dispatch notes an alternative to filing first estimated tax.
In Madrid Spain a bartender created Las Cinco Ciudades de Madrid the Five Madrids cocktail to honor Madrid towns in the United States. Jose Rivera Gonzalez says the drink uses manzanilla sherry and gin with an olive to symbolize Spanish American friendship. The recipe blends one part sherry to six parts gin and is stirred and served chilled with ice.
TV listings for Wichita Falls channel 3 outline a full day of cartoons faith programs game shows and dramas from noon to late night. Notable items include Ted Mack Disney Castle Loretta Young and Bonanza style features along with news weather and sports segments.
A collage of listed programs from various stations across days and times includes news blocks, game shows, dramas, cartoons, music programs, and local inserts. The OCR reads many titles such as Captain Kangaroo Buck Rogers TV news blocks, soaps like The Brighter Day and The Secret Storm, and variety shows plus weather segments.
A collection of warm parish and family notes from a Christmas page includes the birth of Donald Franklin Rutledge II, the first great grandchild to Mrs. George Faulkner, with Grandmother Mary Crews visiting in Galveston. Paula Rogers, daughter of Senator Andy Rogers, recovers after an asthma attack during a hospital stay in Childress. Elks party gifts brighten her spirits as Santa visits the hospital. Margaret Leftwich, noted for her many achievements, hosts Christmas coffee with Gus Leftwich. daughter Ann travels to Aspen for the holidays. The writer reflects on Christmas trees, home life, and the joy of the season.
Hollywood veteran Bob Mitchum discusses guiding his son Jim into acting as his co star in Thunder Road. He jokes about not supporting him forever and notes Jim majors in goofing off yet is an above average math student in senior year.
A quirky concept presents a greeting card with nothing on it aimed at people who cannot speak. The minimalist design conveys a quiet message about communication without words.
A quirky year in brief. Notable oddities include an FBI capture in Knoxville, a Los Angeles razor incident, a clams betting tale in Brie-Comte-Robert, and a Memphis divorce over loneliness. Other items feature a melon pilfering helicopter in California, a Tokyo rash linked to a husband, a Pacoima rescue repeat, a Sputnik cocktail in San Diego, Britain’s wardrobe stockpile in Parliament, and a St. Paul birth named Sputnik Eisenhower Watkins.
In Scarborough Maine Henning Thomsen 45 Cumberland and Richard Doucette 19 Portland were convicted in a district court of roping a doe while it swam in Casco Bay and slitting its throat. Thomsen paid 30 dollars Doucette 19 dollars.
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