Childress County consolidates to a single school district
Once containing 19 districts in Childress County, the system shrank through the 1940s to 1950s and 1963 when the Tell Independent School District joined Childress. By fall 1963 only one district remained as transportation and demographics changed, ending a long era of separate rural schools.
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Childress County
Childress Inent
Childress
Arlie
Loco
Wellington
Gilin
Estelline
Hart Chapel
Memphis
Tell
Yars
Sever
Carey
Kirkland
Union Flat
White's Creek
Victor
Hughes
Harrell Chapel
Olympus
Lonnie
Gilpin
Garden Valley
River Camp
High Point
Community Center
Tennessee Valley
Cottle County
Tell Independent
Childress Independent School District
Fires Kill 23 Americans in Week of Infernos
United Press International reports at least 23 Americans died in fires over the weekend and Monday, including 18 children. Victims occurred in Youngstown Ohio and Nashua New Hampshire, with deaths from overheated furnaces, stove explosions, and tenement blazes. Several families perished across Wisconsin and a sailor’s family losses are noted.
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United Press International
Youngstown
Ohio
Nashua
N.H
Josh Hall
Eugene Ricard
Wisconsin
Culbertson Rites in Dallas
The death of A. T. Culbertson is reported in Dallas. Funeral services and burial occurred there. Mrs. Culbertson widow of Rev A T Culbertson served as pastor of several Methodist churches including Rev Don from Wichita Falls and Catherine Crain from Oklahoma City.
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Tion
A. T. Culbertson
Dallas
Date Set For Annual Show Postponement Decision
In a committee meeting the plan to avoid clashing with other events led to delaying dates for the annual show. No specific day was chosen and the decision focused on calendar compatibility.
Khrushchev New Year Message Seen as Positive Omen
Western diplomats called Nikita Khrushchev's New Year address a hopeful sign for 1964 praising its concrete disarmament proposals and lack of boasts. They noted potential flexibility on Western plans and a step by step path with checks as each stage is met.
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Moscow
UPI
Nikita S. Khrushchev
United States
Khrushchev
West
DPS Seeks Lower Final Traffic Death Toll As Year Ends
Texas Department of Public Safety warns 1963 will be the worst year for traffic deaths, with Col. Homer Garrison predicting a final count near 2,657 as New Year celebrations approach.
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Austin
UPS
Texas Department of Public Safety
DPS
Homer Garrison
More Bases Targeted for Closure as McNamara Aims Cuts
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara outlined new economy goals that foreshadow further base closures and consolidation. The plan signals possible shutdowns of additional military installations as part of defense savings efforts.
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Washington
UPI
Robert S. McNamara
Juveniles Held After Vega Pickup Theft Recovery
A pickup stolen at Vega and abandoned about 12 miles west of Childress was recovered by the Highway Patrol last night. Two 15-year-olds were arrested for the theft and are held at Vernon.
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Vega
Childress
Highway Patrol
Vernon
Motes Rites Set For Wednesday
Final rites for Francis Marion Frank Motes will be 4 p m Wednesday at Newberry Chapel with Rev Joe Allen of First Baptist officiating. Interment in Childress Cemetery. Pallbearers are Frank Barksdale Rowden Jefferies Jack Bybee Howard Martin Eldredge Turner James Holton. Motes a Childress native died Monday in Childress General Hospital.
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Francis Marion
Frank) Motes
Newberry Chapel
Joe Allen
First Baptist Church
Childress Cemetery
Frank Barksdale
Rowden Jefferies
Jack Bybee
Howard Martin
Eldredge Turner
James Holton
Mr. Motes
Childress
Childress General Hospital
White House Receives Staubach Award Requests
President Johnson reportedly received several Texan requests to honor Navy quarterback Roger Staubach with a special award at the LBJ ranch at 2 p.m. New Year's Day. The timing coincides with the Cotton Bowl kickoff between Navy and Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson City
Tex
Underground Water Of Texas Can Be Sold To Oklahoma
Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr ruled water from Texas land may be sold to an out of state user. The opinion supported a Texas property owner selling groundwater to Altus Oklahoma despite a planned Vernon Texas to Altus pipeline. Carr said the landowner is the absolute owner of percolating water and may use it freely.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Austin
UPI
Waggoner Carr
Texas Water
Altus
Okla
Carr
Texas Water Commission
Joe Carter
Carter
Vernon
Tex
Red River
End of 1963 Brings Frost Warning Across Southern Texas
The last day of 1963 ends with a cold snap forecast for southern Texas. Forecasters expect freezing temperatures in the Rio Grande Valley tonight and Wednesday morning, with 28 degree readings in the upper valley per Brownsville. Crop damage should be light as only carrots and cabbage are in the ground. Wink overnight low about JB and Galveston at 38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Mercury
Rio Grande Valley
Brownsville
Wink
Galveston
Sue Meredith Maid of Cotton
Memph is Tennessee born Sue Meredith a hazel eyed chamber from Andalusia Alabama wins the Maid of Cotton title in a UPI report noting her roots and appearance.
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Sue Meredith
Maid of Cotton
Memphis, Tenn
UPI
Andalusia
Ala
Water groups discuss Greenbelt project in Austin meetings
Dr S H Townsend head of the Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority met with the Texas Water Commission and the Texas Water Development Board in Austin to review the line from the damsite to Crowell. Project cost is estimated at 10 300 000 with two trips planned to Austin next month for further meetings. Engineers project a temporary water supply to Childress and Quanah by mid 1964 due to urgent need.
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S. H. Townsend
Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority
Texas Water Commission
Texas Water Development Board
Austin
Townsend
Si Freese
Jim Nichols
Freese, Nichols
Crowell
Commission
Water Board
Childress
Quanah
Rockefeller Pregnant Wife of Governor Expecting Child
Mrs Margaretta Rockefeller wife of Gov Nelson A Rockefeller is expecting a fifth child with the announcement possibly to come at an Albany open house. The couple would add to a family that includes three daughters and a son from Mrs Rockefeller’s previous marriage and Gov Rockefeller’s five adult children.
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New York
UPI
Margaretta Rockefeller
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
George E. Bartel
Wynnewood
Albany
N.Y
Fog Causes Near Halt in Traffic and Harvest
A dense fog today nearly stopped automobile traffic and halted the cotton harvest for the week end. The fog is one of the heaviest in recent years and drivers face hazardous conditions. Weather was expected to moderate later today eliminating the fog.
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Trafic
Ersula Jones Buried in Kirkland
Funeral services for Mrs. Ersula Jones 82 were held at 10 a m Monday at the Church of Christ in Quanah. She died Saturday in a nursing home in Gunter and is buried in Kirkland Cemetery. She was mother of Mrs J L Sanders of Childress and survived by three sons three sisters and 17 grandchildren. Hardeman County resident since 1900. Husband died in 1944.
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Ersula Jones
Church of Christ
Quanah
Jones
Gunter
E. A. Sanders
Childress
Kirkland
Johnson May Veto Public Works Bill
President Johnson reluctantly signed the 4.4 billion public works bill but objects to a Panama Canal provision claiming it unconstitutional. He faces a possible pocket veto before midnight and plans to explain his stance. The bill includes home state projects and a Nixon related budget briefing is in progress.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Johnson
Panama Canal Co
White House
Panama Canal
House
Senate
Theodore C. Sorensen
LBJ
Charles Murphy
Agriculture
Michael Forrestal
National Security Council
Film Slides Highlight Lions Club Meeting
E A Sanders presented a slide film titled Price Tag For Toby on population growth and school funding. The talk noted $720 annual per student needs and urged varied support beyond property taxes. Birthday was sung to E J Huddleston. letters from Roy Dean Barr and Ruth Fite were read. Sam Miller chaired. Warner Stevens led the program. Rev. Kenneth Stephens of Nazarene Church attended as a guest.
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Toby
Lions Club
E. A. Sanders
E. J. Huddleston
Roy Dean Barr
Roy Barr
Ruth Fite
Sam Miller
Truman Webb
Cotton Bowl
Warner Stevens
Kenneth Stephens
the Nazarene Church
Bettye Estes Injured After Single Car Crash
Mrs Bettye Estes was treated for head and facial cuts bruises on legs and feet after her car left the road and overturned about 10 30 p m Monday east of Car. She was hospitalized with injuries but in good condition per attending physician.
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Bettye Estes
Carey
Death claims relative of local citizens
Walter Cooper brother in law of Mrs Jim Cooper died at Mt Vernon Texas. He was uncle of Dudley Cooper and Mrs Jencie Brown both of Childress. Other details not learned.
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Walter Cooper
Jim Cooper
Mt. Vernon
Tex
Dudley Cooper
Jencie Brown
Childress
Peace Returns as Cypriots Begin Exchange of Refugees
In Nicosia Greek and Turkish Cypriots started freeing refugees and hostages after a fresh gun battle near Omorphita amid a fragile cease fire. The prisoner swap followed a Monday agreement as Britain’s note called on peace, and leaders debated Cyprus status and a possible partition or Greek Cypriot majority governance.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
UPI
Omorphita
Nicosia
Aes Ncan
Sandys Allo
Kykko
Cyprus
Spyros Kyprianou
Greece
Je Ae
Fazil Kuchuk
Mediterranean
Makarios
Thei
Partia
Goldwater to Reveal 1964 Plans Friday in Phoenix
UPI reports Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater will meet with state GOP leaders at his Phoenix home to decide whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination or seek re election to the Senate in 1964. He has been recovering from minor heel surgery and observed a political moratorium during national mourning for Kennedy.
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Washington
UPI
Len Barry M. Goldwater
Arizona
Phoenix
Senate
Goldwater
Kennedy
Shuman Rites Set in Lubbock for J L Shuman
J L Shuman 66 of Lubbock formerly of Childress died Monday night in Lubbock. Funeral is 2 pm Wednesday at Caprock Church of Christ in Lubbock. Survived by wife Zola Coats, five children R L Shuman Peralta NM, J T Hadaway Belen NM, Manuel Brooks Lubbock, Bob White Lubbock, Wayne Shuman Richardson, and siblings in law Ochis and Homer Coats and C E Sledge. He left Childress in 1925.
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J. L. Shuman
Lubbock
Childress
Caprock Church of Christ
Mr. Shuman
Zola Coats
Ochis
Homer Coats
C. E. Sledge
Here
R. L. Shuman
Peralta
New Mex
J. T. Hadaway
Belen
Manuel Brooks
Bob White
Wayne Shuman
Richardson
Mother of Local Citizen Agnes Hodanek Dies in Seymour
Agnes Hodanek 76 mother of Mrs Sylvia Renfro of Childress died Monday in a Seymour hospital at 2 p m Funeral services were held at the Seymour First Methodist Church with Rev David Acted pastor officiating Burial followed Survivors include her husband Joe Hodanek and a brother Frank Banish Madisonville born January 13 1887 in Madison County resident of Seymour about 20 years
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Agnes Hodanek
Sylvia Renfro
Childress
Seymour
Seymour First Methodist Church
David
Hodanek
Madison County
Joe Hodanek
Frank Banish
Madisonville
No Meeting Noted for Childress Rotary on New Year’s Day
There will be no meeting of the Childress Rotary Club tomorrow New Year’s Day, according to President Sam Privitt.
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Childress Rotary Club
Sam Privitt
Police Chief Alvis Maddox Hospitalized for Chest Cold
Police Chief Alvis Maddox was hospitalized Monday with a severe chest cold though his condition was not considered serious. Mrs Maddox said he entered the hospital to prevent the illness from worsening.
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Alvis Maddox
Mrs. Maddox
Agriculture extends soil bank haying grazing through March 31
Rep. Ray Roberts says the Agriculture Department will allow continued haying and grazing on soil bank land until March 31 due to ongoing drought conditions. He notes the extension does not affect the feed grain assistance program.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Ray Roberts
D-Tex
Roberts
Peace talks shaping for 1964 Geneva conference
London reports that Communist and Western plans are forming toward 1964 peace talks. The first round is planned for the Geneva disarmament conference on January 21.
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London
UPI
Geneva
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Ricks
Whites Creek
Rivercamp
High Pain
Nikie
Rocky
Marshall Carter
Central Intelligence Agency
Elmer Staats
Budget Bureau
Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Murphy
Spe
Cial
Truman
Missouri
Central Intelligence
John A. McCone
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Johnsons
Panama Canal Company
Canal Zone
Bill Fielden
Donna Axum
Roosevelt Hotel
Jacksonville
Fla
Miss Axum
NEA
GOP
Hopeul
Art Goldwater
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