Childress Index Publisher and Rates Notice
The Childress Index announces its status as a Sunday Tuesday and Thursday paper published in Childress Texas. The notice lists subscription rates for local and adjoining counties and a tariff for other regions with annual and six month options and a monthly carrier rate.
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Childress Index
Childress
Texas
Main Street
Childress Index, Inc
Ox Bow Printing, Inc
Morris Higley
Editorials Precedents jolt Nixon privilege
The piece argues that equal checks and balances require no branch to overrule another. It cites two June 1972 Supreme Court rulings limiting congressional attempts to compel testimony, and apps that Obama, Brewster cases show presidential exemption is not unlimited. It warns Watergate tapes may reveal third party crimes outside proper executive power.
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Nixon
Watergate Committee
Supreme Court
Nathan Lewin
Washington
New Republic
Sen
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Justice Department
Gravel
Beacon Press
Massachusetts
Byron White
Nixon Court
Daniel Brewster
Maryland
Warren Berger
Brewster
Justice Berger
Lewin
White House
Inflation Strain Hits The Jonses
Inflation squeezes households as the Jonses struggle to keep up with rising costs and budgeting pressures amid a persistent price surge.
Executives’ pay rose 7.8 percent in 1972 despite 5.5 percent wage guideline
McKinsey survey of 592 large U S firms shows total compensation for chiefs up 7.8 percent while salaries rose about 5 percent. Vehicle and railroad sectors led gains. meat products cut pay 14.3 percent. Separate incentive plans explain diverging totals.
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New York
McKinsey & Co
U.S
McKinsey
George Foote
Profit surge in 1973 after tax corporate earnings rise
Preliminary figures show after tax profits for April to June 1973 up about 30 percent from a year earlier. Citibank survey notes expanding economy and easing price controls boosted earnings at five of six firms.
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First National City Bank
Citibank
Robert Parks
Blyth Eastman Dillon
Cost of Living Council
Questioning Greenbelt debt share and Childress representation
A reader questions why Childress bonded debt share rises with water use while Quanah Clarendon Hedley and others show declines. They note Crowell’s debt share increases and suggest changing Greenbelt Authority governance, seeking two directors for Childress if its burden grows beyond half.
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Morris Higley
Childress
Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority
Louis Sally
Crowell
Hedley
Texas Water Development Board
Greenbelt Authority
U.S
Today in History highlights from July 31 through years past
The July 31 date marks key events from 1777 when Marquis de Lafayette offered services to America and became a Continental Army major general, to 1798 Columbus locating Trinidad, 1790 Samuel Hopkins patent, 1877 Edison phonograph patent, 1917 Flanders battle start, 1945 Laval surrender, 1948 Idlewild dedication, and notable 1963 Security Council arm embargo talk and Johnson steel-price warning. The note ends noting a recent political remark by Sen Eagleton.
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Associated Press
Marquis de Lafayette
Christopher Columbus
Trinidad
U.S
Samuel Hopkins
Vermont
Thomas A. Edison
Flanders
Pierre Laval
Austria
Harry S. Truman
New York
Idlewild
John F. Kennedy
U.N. Security Council
First US postal card issued in 1873 historical note
World Almanac Facts records that the first U S postal card appeared May 1 1873 with a one cent stamp and Goddess of Liberty in Springfield Massachusetts The first cancellation followed May 12 1873. It also notes Fort Ross by San Francisco established by Russians in 1812 and sold in 1841.
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U.S
World Almanac
Liberty
Springfield
Mass
Russia
Continental
United States
Fort Ross
San Francisco
Something Funny Happened On The Way To Work Barbs
A humorous reflection on memory failing after entering work life. The piece notes the office wall honoring life liberty and the pursuit, with a wry tone about daily routines and forgotten events.
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Liberty
Mundane Rural Adages on Silence and Frugality
A concise collection of wry maxims notes the value of staying silent in tense work moments. It recalls hospital visits after a Fourth of July party and jokes about old car crank starts and thrift, defining a miser as one with much money stored away.
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Drew
Hank Bauer
Are You Saving Face in Hal Boyle’s Satirical Column
In Hal Boyle’s humorous essay a man’s social status rises or falls by how he maintains appearances. The piece ribbingly lists signs of high status and signs of decline, concluding with a note on McGuffey’s modern biographical sketch.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Watergate
Senate
Country Place
Bahamas
Denmark
Puerto Rico seeks clear status in U S union talks
Puerto Rico governs seeks definite autonomy within the union while denouncing a Nixon snub at the 21st anniversary of the commonwealth constitution. Gov Hernandez Colón supports a broad based ad hoc committee to define agenda and membership under a shared goal of enhanced commonwealth autonomy.
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Nixon
Puerto Rico
Agnew
Hernandez
Kenneth Cole
Richard Fairbanks
Status Committee
Cole
Washington
United States
Puerto Rican Supreme Court
Commonwealth
Luis Ferre
Statehood Party
U.S
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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By Don Oakley
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
John Cunniff
By Phil Pastoret
Boyle
McGuffey
William H. McGuffey
Bruce Biossat
San Juan, P. R
Nea
Elliot Richardson
Rafael Hernandez Colon
Art Sansom
Tnc
TM. Reg
Mester Thornapre
Managementz
NEA, Tnc
Harvey
NEA, Tec, TM
Rog US
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