This Week In Childress Community Calendar
This Week In Childress lists events from Wednesday to Saturday including City Council Rotary Jaycees Senior Citizens CAP building Genealogical Society Library Parkview Baptist Men’s Fellowship and a Cargill family reunion through Sunday with times and venues.
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Rebekah Lodge
Rotary Club
Jaycees
Gay's Cafe
Senior Citizens Club
CAP
Genealogical Society
Parkview Baptist Men's Fellowship
Cargill Family
Birthdays and anniversaries listed for local readers
Birthday wishes for Mrs Allan Jones Janet Elaine Crossman Edna Jean Sims appear alongside anniversaries for Palmer Massey Al Devell and Bob Thomas. Also noted are greetings to Mrs R M Hagan and Mrs L B Smith for Thursday.
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Allan Jones
Janet Elaine Crossman
Edna Jean Sims
Palmer Massey
al Devell
Bob Thomas
R. M. Hagan
L. B. Smith
Poisonous Plants: Common Garden Flowers Can Endanger Children
San Francisco experts warn that everyday greenery can cause serious illness or death if eaten. Dr. Frederick F. Newirth notes plants such as hyacinths, daffodils, oleander, and yew are potentially lethal even in small amounts and urges teaching children not to eat any plant parts unless served at mealtime.
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San Francisco
Frederick F. Newirth
Firemen’s Fund American Insurance Companies
Newirth
Keeping Brown Sugar Soft and Fresh Flour in Jars
Practical tips to keep brown sugar soft by storing in a jar with a fresh apple slice on wax paper. Replace the apple slice regularly. Also empty and refill a flour cannister before adding a new supply.
Birthday Reception for Mrs. Jim Clifford at First United Methodist
Mrs. Viola O. Clifford celebrated her 80th birthday Sunday at the parlor of First United Methodist Church. Attendees included family and friends from Lawton Pecos Abilene Knox City Wichita Falls Lubbock Amarillo Waxahachie Crowell Avoca and Lawton Oklahoma guests were received by Mrs Clifford and the Starkeys plus many locals. The event featured a hand painted guest book a cake and punch and photos of the honoree at ages 18 50 and 80.
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John
Jay) Starkey
Viola O. Clifford
First United Methodist Church
Clifford
Starkey
Mike Starkey
Pecos
Marge Toft
Mmes
Robert Kilgore
W. M. Watson
Ben Hardison
Lonnie Garrison
R. H. Pieratt
W. W. Boykin
Larkin Wallis
Cordin Holloway
Ben Munson
Lawton
Okla
Margaret Shaw
A. C. Sharp
Abilene
Lloyd Waldrip
A. W. McBeath
Knox City
Dub Heffington
Wichita Falls
Mary Turner
Dan Greer
Lubbock
Johnny Ellison
Charles McBeath
Closs Rowland
Amarillo
Paul Cooper
Waxachie
Tex
Gordon Cooper
Crowell
Don Welch
Avoca
Polly's Pointers Squeaky Bowling Shoes Solution
Dear Polly offers two fixes for squeaky bowling shoes. Sprinkle about one teaspoon of talcum powder inside the shoes to stop squeaking. An alternative is to visit a repairman and have two tacks placed in the sole near the heel.
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Polly
Dorothy
Susie
Dear Polly Puzzles and Practical Household Tips
A reader asks how to remove shampoo from a damp carpet to prevent slipping. Several quick tips include using dry mop to walk on slick ice and a homemade tiny washer for washing shoestrings with bleach and detergent. The letters mix safety, cleaning, and DIY tricks from Polly’s column.
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Polly
Mary K
Margaret
Polly's Problem and Readers Tips on Household Hacks
Dear Polly offers advice on pet shedding cleaning hacks and frugal home fixes. Readers share dog grooming, storage bag layers, and makeshift handles from window shade strips. Additional tips cover garlic bread from bread heels and using a plastic bag liner to prevent tearing.
Backless dresses spark fashion as backs become new focus
New York fashion guidance from Elizabeth Arden and Marjorie Craig urges careful care of bare backs. Advice covers posture, exercise for upper back and arms, moisturizers to soften skin, and no smear cover up to hide freckles, with makeup shade tips for a polished dewy finish.
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New York
Elizabeth Arden
Marjorie Craig
Arden
Pablo
Simple Stool Shoulder-Tricep Stretch Exercise
Sit on a stool with feet flat. Bend elbows and touch shoulders with fingertips. Raise arms overhead then lower fingertips to shoulders again keeping elbows near the body. Repeat until arms tire.
Handwriting Analysis Won't Tell Fortune
Richmond analyst Lillian Perlow says 37 t cross shapes reveal character traits and that handwriting is a brainwritten, distinctive profile. Graphoanalysis is a scientific method for personality assessment, not fortune telling, with use in police, hotels, banks, and potential business recruitment.
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Times-Dispatch
Richmond, Va
Lillian Perlow
Perlow
Europe
Family Snacktime Cookies From Old Recipe
A vintage kitchen note presents a rich chocolate cookie recipe with butter sugar flour and walnuts plus raisins and a 400 degree bake time of six minutes yielding about four dozen cookies. Also included is a cold cuts and potato salad menu with dressing and a note on handwriting analysis by Mrs. Perlow and its ethical guidelines.
Potato Celery Pepper Salad
Boil potatoes in jackets in one quart water with one tablespoon salt until tender. Peel and dice then mix with celery green pepper and onion. Add enough salad dressing to flavor and moisten, season with salt and pepper. Cover and chill. Yields six servings.
Food Guide highlights meat prices and seasonal produce
Texas A&M extension specialist Mrs. Gwendolyne Clyatt notes beef values in chuck cuts and ground beef with soy protein as cheaper substitutes. She cites rising prices for cheese and poultry, lists fresh fruit and vegetables in best supply, and urges backyard barbecue as economical.
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College Station
Gwendolyne Clyatt
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas A&m University System
Nikki Davida Shackelford Born To Shackelfords
Mr and Mrs David Shackelford announce the birth of a daughter Nikki Davida born at 2 17 p m July 20 at Hall County Hospital Memphis. The infant weighed seven pounds nine and a half ounces at birth. The Shackelfords have another daughter April Angel. Grandparents and great grandparents listed.
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David Shackelford
Nikki Davida
Hall County Hospital
Memphis
Shackelfords
April Angel
Lee Knight
W.E. Helms
Childress
W.H. Moon
Vernon
L.O. Hightower
Tell
E.L. Knight
Teague
Dorman Groseclose
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