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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
3
A local column warns that write-in votes can disrupt elections and cautions readers to avoid undermining the sole mayoral candidate C. J. Lyons in Childress. The piece urges residents to support or replace the candidacy rather than fuel joked ballots.
The Almanac notes today December 30 1963 as a Monday with Jupiter Saturn and Venus visible. Historical highlights include the Gadsoe purchase of land south of the Gila River in 1853, Rudyard Kipling born in 1865, the Troquois Theater fire in 1903, and King Michael I abdication in 1947. Ernest Hemingway quote offered as thought for the day.
ABC TV aired The Making of the President 1960 a sweeping look at the Nixon Kennedy campaign based on Theodore H White 1960 book The program follows candidates Lyndon Johnson Nelson Rockefeller Hubert Humphrey Stuart Symington and Adlai Stevenson It captures campaign energy and emotion including Kennedy Nixon talks before their first debate the Texas Massachusetts delegations and Nixon acceptance speech The assassination adds a solemn note and the composite portrait remains a strong television achievement for its time
Admitted names include E A Nelson D L Jones Shamrock David Boswell Mrs Franklin LeCroy Bobby Atkinson Marvin Leary Mrs L Butler Dorothy Burist. Discharged include Zoe Garvin Sunday Mrs De Rigsby of Estelline Sunda tasinde Short Sunday Mrs James Sumpter and baby Larry Hamm Carey Lee Knight Andy Longbine Mrs Lois Martin E H Collins Mr and Mrs A B Clements Kirkland Faye Berry.
The 24 hour period ending 11 am Sunday recorded a high of 38 degrees at 1 pm and a low of 28 degrees from 6 to 8 am. The report lists temperatures for Sunday and Monday with minor fluctuations across stations and a Dow Jones stock snapshot included.
The Greek cruise liner Lakonia sank 275 miles west of Morocco while under tow to Gibraltar after a December fire that killed 155. Three tugs failed to salvage the 20 000 ton ship and 265 survivors reached Tilbury England.
In San Leandro California a 17 year old Frank Wallace III known as Butch died after a collision with a train. Shortly after the funeral call he told his parents he had lent his motorcycle to a friend Michael Owen and the police confirmed the identity from the bike registration. The family expressed sympathy for the other boy’s parents.
Time magazine selects civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr as its Man of the Year for 1963. Editors call him a symbol of the Negro revolution and note his role as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
An old line life insurance ad offers a $1000 policy with no medical exam for ages 40 to 90. Text promises no agent contact and urges sending name, address, and birth year to Central Security Life Insurance Co in Fort Worth Texas for free information with no obligation.
Local forecast shows fair weather tonight and Tuesday with warmer temperatures on Tuesday. Lows drop to 25 tonight with highs near 49 tomorrow. Western and eastern halves average 2 to 5 degrees below normal, with normal highs 46 to 55 and lows 18 to 33. Cold Monday night, then a moderating trend through midweek.
The column lists residents visiting and returning home for holidays across New Mexico and nearby states. Names include Sonny Arnold Hobbs Albert Toler Rogers Hughes Llewellyn Eng lish Blodgett Powell and Farr with travel between Hobbs Clovis San Antonio San Diego Wichita Falls Fort Benning and Denison.
The wedding notice for Miss Frances Jones of Paducah and Kenneth Doshier of Lubbock lacks the groom’s parental details. It notes Mrs Deane Dodge and the late Doug Doshier of Childress as groom’s parents and lists aunts assisting at the home reception from San Antonio Denton and Paducah.
Today the U S Weather Bureau logged Watertown New York at 32 degrees below zero the frigid low. In contrast Miramar California reached a daytime high of 89 degrees signaling a broad temperature spread across the country.
Decembers extreme cold spurred deadly fires in Michigan Illinois New Jersey and Pittsburgh. A mother and two children died in Clawson Michigan and a Chicago fire killed two children. Other incidents include frostbite injuries near Denver and multi vehicle crashes on foggy highways in Utah Idaho and Texas.
A son and his son returned today to Denver Colorado after spending a holiday visit in town with the Clarence Harp family and his parents.
A snow event near Panhandle left two people dead. The Colorado Rockies received up to a foot of snow while eastern plains saw as little as one inch. Northern and central mountains and northeast New Mexico plains reported up to three inches.
West Berlin accepted informal Communist proposals to negotiate a future pass through the wall for West Berliners to visit East Berlin. In Texas President Johnson began a day of conferences at breakfast aimed at quickly completing the 1965 budget.
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