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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1962
Page
3
A devotional piece praising Jesus as the greatest teacher who blesses children aids the sick and warns against Satan. It invokes watchfulness and prayer for overcoming trials and asks for grace to serve and enter the marriage supper of the Lamb.
John Connally Democratic gubernatorial nominee will split the week between Corpus Christi and San Antonio. He will speak at Corpus Christi Fourth of July events Tuesday night, serve as parade marshal Wednesday, and attend the Texas State Bar convention in San Antonio for the remainder of the week.
UPI reports Ruanda-Urundi became two independent states at 12:01 am with Rwanda a constitutional monarchy and Burundi a presidential republic. Burundi will host a ceremony with Mwami Mwambutsa IV and Prince Louis Rwagasore’s stadium dedication as Belgians evacuate remaining Europeans amid planned airlift to Entebbe and Brussels.
President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy are welcomed by cheering crowds in Mexico City as he opens a series of ceremonies including a wreath laying at the independence monument and a signing of a 40 year loan for farmers. He praises social and economic reforms for rural families and notes the loan aims to boost health income and education.
Churchill rests comfortably after a long night with natural sleep according to a hospital statement. Doctors Lord Moran Philip Newman and Prof Herbert Seddon signed the report noting his condition as satisfactory while residents recall his notable strength.
Mrs Ernst Davis visits Ojo Caliente with her mother Mrs Herman Alexander who has stayed several weeks. They will return to Childress on Monday.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Pistole and relatives from Littleton Mass visit the Pistole family home. Mrs Franklin Moore and Cathy stay in Fort Polk La to see their husband and father. Jim Lane of Texas Tech visits his parents Felton and — Lane for the weekend. Najla Saied visits Dallas while Bryan Miller sees grandparents Bill and Jean King and Mary Margaret Brummett join them. Mrs Lillie Castleberry plans Dallas days with daughter. Nelson King and wife from Pagosa Springs Colo visit Childress. Frwin Carter returns from Houston with daughter family Kinney and Kay Lynn. Jarrell Rhodes and children from Roswell NM visit Temple mother S EB.
Robert Ryan and Nanette Fabray are slated to co star in Irving Berlin's first new musical in 12 years Mr. President. The show centers on a U S president his wife son and daughter during the final months of his second term with a July rehearsals start and a Broadway premiere planned for October at the St James Theater. Joseph Cotten will headline A Calculated Risk with Patricia Medina making her Broadway debut while Anita Gillette will play the daughter.
A destitute Negro family of 12 travels from Centreville Alabama toward Cleveland and New York on a reverse freedom ride. Chester Graham the two bus seat occupying good will ambassador pursues a double reverse trip with plans for a New York hotel room and president Kennedy’s Hyannis Port visit before returning south. The Laverne community funds the trip claiming Northern whites should know of Graham’s affection for the South. Mamie Lee Underwood and 10 children plus an infant grandchild accompany the journey relying on $114 monthly relief payments.
Admitted Friday were Mrs. Raymond Hooker Mrs. JM Cochran Raymond Hardin of Kirkland Mrs W H L Smith transferred from Amarillo hospital J M Jackson of Kirkland Saturday Mrs G W Blount J O Tate of Tell Saturday Mrs Audie Smith Saturday Dismissed:
The State of Texas issues a citation by publication to Walton Sencato in Childress County for Rosa Elizabeth Cato v Walton Sencato. The suit seeks divorce and restoration of the plaintiff's name. The defendant must answer by 10 am on the first Monday after forty two days from August 13 1962.
The Texas State Department of Health reported four paralytic polio cases and one non paralytic case this week. Two paralytic cases occurred in Bexar County, with one each in Harris and Burleson Counties. The non paralytic case was in Grimes County.
Heavy showers drenched Garland and Richardson in north Dallas County as a tornado-affected system moved southeast. The Weather Bureau reported Ennis recorded the top 24 hour rainfall at 3.07 inches, with Albany 2.20, Center 1.85, Cedar Creek 1.26, Encinal 1.60, Little Elm 1.93, Palacios 1.49, McKinney 1.20, Galveston 1.08, and Denton 1.65 inches.
Howard Keel tours the Midwest in several summer theatre engagements to promote The Day of the Triffids in which he stars.
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