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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
1
A freight derailment near Chillicothe involving 21 cars, 13 demolished, caused damage to 116 yards of track and an estimated $89 000 in losses. No injuries reported as a journal on one boxcar caught fire. service resumed after a shoe fly was completed and trains moved again. Passengers diverted to buses during repairs.
President Johnson's advisers forecast 1964 could be very prosperous if Congress passes the 11 billion tax cut. Luther Hodges and Walter Heller warned growth near 5 percent with GDP possibly exceeding 620 billion, tied to tax cut approval and price level changes.
Oswald Kaduk, 57, a former Auschwitz guard, pleaded innocence on the witness stand as West Germany's largest war crimes trial resumed. He is among 22 defendants charged with mass murder for alleged neck-breaking acts and other abuses during the Nazi camp's operation.
Ernest Andrews of Childress was charged on the examining docket of Justice Court with driving while intoxicated second offense. He was arrested Saturday night by the Highway Patrol and held in custody this morning with a 1500 dollar bond.
A square dance is scheduled for 7 p m today at the Community House in Fair Park with local attendees invited to join in the evening event.
In Bombay police detained four fishermen as contraband worth about a quarter of a million dollars was seized. The haul included 500 watches and gold found in a truck on Madh island. Police suspect the items came from the Persian Gulf via boats to fishing vessels then ashore.
British Secretary Duncan Sandys announced Greek and Turkish Cypriots accepted a plan for a neutral zone along the cease-fire line in Nicosia. Withdrawal of fighters begins immediately, with British troops enforcing the zone as talks continue. The crisis centers on constitutional changes affecting minority rights for Turks.
Funeral services for Ara Dee Morgan 75 of Amarillo were to be held at 4 p m today in Schooler Gordon Colonial Chapel. Burial was to be in Memorial Park Cemetery. He died at 1 50 a m Sunday in Veterans Hospital Amarillo. He was a World War I veteran and member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are three sisters Retta Barrett Elbie Bates and MilTo Brooks and another brother William Morgan all of Amarillo.
The 35 male Capital Paper Company workers will take a four day weekend in Paris starting Friday. The trip is a company reward for meeting and beating the weekly production target every week in 1963 without their wives accompanying them.
The Senate approved a 3 billion dollar compromise foreign aid measure by a 56 to 14 vote paving the way for adjournment. Debates centered on export import bank funding restrictions and an amendment limiting non American employees on aid projects abroad. House action was to adjourn after a brief session.
In Washington the Senate reopened amid grumbling over whether to act on the $3 billion foreign aid bill before adjournment. Democratic Leader Mansfield defended delaying action to meet President Johnson’s request, while Republicans urged postponement would cost nothing. The session resumes as the new Congress nears Jan. 7.
Eddie Rickenbacker, famed auto racer turned World War I aviator, ends his leadership as Eastern Air Lines chairman amid plans to write and pursue political causes. Once Pershing’s driver and Mitchell’s chief engineer, he helped launch American military aviation.
A spider spun a web in a transmitter housing outside WQXL in Columbia, South Carolina, causing the station to run at about one-fourth power Sunday morning. Three engineers traced the problem to the wet web shorting the line, barely knocking the station off air.
Congress ends its first session touting cuts to President Kennedy’s budget. President Johnson says current spending will match Kennedy’s forecast and that added programs push up next year’s costs. Republicans claim $10 to $15 billion in cuts. Bow cites about $6.4 billion in reductions so far with remaining cuts delayed to future years.
A 13 story Roosevelt Hotel blaze in Jacksonville during the Gator Bowl crowd killed 21 and injured 60. Guests fled on sheets as fireproof brick walls contained the flames and helicopters aided rescue. Donna Axum, Miss America, escaped from the 10th floor. Police ruled out negligence while investigations began.
Senator Barry Goldwater asked Arizona Republican leaders to meet in Phoenix on Friday to hear his decision about running for the 1964 GOP nomination. He had earlier said the decision would be made in January while recuperating from heel surgery.
Francis Marion Frank Motes aged 70 died at 12 30 p m today in Childress General Hospital. Funeral rites and interment will be in Childress. A native of Childress he was born August 11 1893. Survived by widow Viola of the home son Bob Huff Sr of Beardstown MI and three grandchildren
United Press International reports wind whipped snow in the northern and western Texas panhandle with five to six inch depths near Sweetwater. Temperatures range from 15 at Dalhart to 52 at Brownsville as weather shifts toward warmer days by midweek. Two deaths occur in a Panhandle snow slick on US 60 near Pampa, Amarillo.
Kenneth Stauffer and James Corbin, both from Frisco, Colorado, were rescued after a four wheel drive vehicle slid off icy terrain 75 miles west of Denver. Stauffer, severely frostbitten with a fractured leg, kept Corbin warm by sacrificing his coat. Corbin suffered a broken pelvis and frostbite. Both men were found in a snowbound wilderness and airlifted to a Denver hospital while enduring subfreezing temperatures.
Snowfall of four inches began at 3 30 p m Sunday in the Childress area leaving roads icy. Forecast called for safe travel in the afternoon as ice should clear by noon today. No injuries reported after a couple slid into a ditch but continued toward Childress. Snowplows operated east and west of Silverton through the Caprock area.
A Rocky Mountain storm moved into the Southern Plains dropping six inches or more of snow in parts of Texas and leaving highways slick. The cold snap strained travel and utilities as officials warned motorists to stay off icy roads.
Max Miller, 85, enjoyed his first airplane ride over Christmas with his daughter and relatives. Pilot great-nephew Donald Scott flew in a Cessna Skyhawk, joined by Gary Scott and Buddy Wright. The outing honored by nephew G. E. Miller and family.
Khrushchev tells UPI 1964 could mark decisive change in Cold War if US and USSR unite for peace. He sees possible reductions in armed forces and military spending, endorses Kennedy's idea of a weapon superior to warheads being peaceful cooperation, and welcomes Johnson continuing Kennedy policies.
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