Connally Carries Childress County In Unofficial Vote Totals
Unofficial results from The Index show John Connally narrowly leading Don Yarborough in rural and county precincts of Childress County. Preston Smith and Waggoner Carr win state offices while turnout remains low at just over a thousand voters.
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John Connally
Don Yarborough
Childress County
Woodrow Wilson Bean
Lt. Govenor
Preston Smith
Jim Turman
Waggoner Carr
Tom Beavley
Connally
Childress Proper
Southeast
Chi'dress
Connally Wins Texas Democratic Governor Nomination
Former Navy Secretary John B. Connally defeated Don Yarborough in a fierce Democratic runoff for Texas governor. With 986,647 counted, Connally led 504,986 to 481,661. Pool won congressman at large. Smith led Turman for lieutenant governor. Carr led Beavley for attorney general. Local margins favored Connally in Dallas and Tarrant counties as results rolled in from 229 of 254 counties.
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Navy
John B. Connally
Texas
Don Yarborough
Connally
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas Election Bureau
Yarborough
Joe Pool
Dallas
Preston Smith
Lubbock
House
Waggoner Carr
UPI
Smith
Turman
Atty. Gen
Se Carr
Beavley
Bean
Pool
Ferguson
Phillips
Fort Worth
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
el Paso
Woodrow Bean
Carr
Tom Beavley
Reavley
James A. Turman
Gober
Fannin County
Sam Rayburn
Dallas County
Tarrant County
Yaseborough
Bexar County
Accountant Mistook Estes For Christian Businessman
Texas CPA Winn P. Jackson testified before House investigators that he relied on Billie Sol Estes reputation as a Christian gentleman when preparing a financial statement used to win grain storage contracts. He said the trust led to minimal checks and he regrets not doubting Estes figures.
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D-Ark
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Estes
Jackson
House Inter-Governmental Relations Subcommittee
Pecos
Texas
Wonder
Neal Smith
Iowa
Changes fire Made In Methodist Churches
Several changes were made in the Childress District of the Methodist Church as the Northwest Texas Conference ended Friday at Big Spring. New pastors will serve at Cee Wee-Dumont Fargo-Wildcat Goodlett Hedley Memphis and Quanah First and St Luke.
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Childress
Methodist Church
Northwest
Jon K. Hays
Lester L. Hill
King Memorial
James E. Merrell
Chillicothe
Kenneth Wyatt
Clarendon
J. W. Patterson
Crowell
John Fitzgerrel
Dodson-Kelly
J. F. Michael
Estelline
James Futch
Fargo-Wildcat
C. C. Lamb
Goodlett
S. A. Wolfe
Hedley
Robert Gill
Lakeview
Crosby Patterson
Lelia Lake
C. R. Hawkins
Margaret Medcine
E. H. Martin
Memphis
J. B. Thompson
Odell-Farmers Valley
Charles A. Byers
Paducah
Grady W. Adcock
Quanah
Wallace Kirby
St. Luke
S. M. Bean
Tell
Lloyd Hearne
Thalia
Truscott-Foard City
H. Weldon McCormick
Epworth
Raymond W. Wiley
Fairmont
Jim H. Sharp
Fair Park
J. B. Fowler, Jr
Hubert Thomson
Grace
James C. Holman
St. Paul
Frank Charl
East German border guards kidnap West Berlin youths
West Berlin police report two teenage boys were seized by border guards at 4 30 p m on the West Berlin East German border in Zehlendorf dragged through a barbed wire barrier and shot at a fleeing youth. Another incident involved two girls abducted later that night near Lichterfelder border area.
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ADN
Lichterfelder
East Germany
West Berlin
All Clouds No Rain Saturday in Childress Area
Rain fell across the Childress region Friday night into Saturday morning with two day totals at the Chil dress Airfield totaling .85 inches Thursday and Friday. Rural areas reported heavier rainfall including 2.10 inches near Miss Sue Johnson and 1.40 inches at Union Flat. Downtown measurements added .45 inches for a two day total of one inch.
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Childress
Federal Aviation Agency
Childress Airfield
Sue Johnson
A. V. Mote
Union Flat
Downtown
Cariker Named Ranger at Warner Hogg State Park
Joe William Cariker, a Childress native and University of Texas graduate in Botany, is appointed park ranger at Warner-Hogg State Park in West Columbia by Bill M. Collins. His wife Karen is also a UT graduate. they have three children.
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Austin
Joe William Cariker
Warner-Hogg State Park
Bill M. Collins
Texas State Parks Board
Cariker
Childress
University of Texas
Karen
Texas
Warner-Hogg Park
West Columbia
Ben Walker Recalls Midway Battle and USS Samaritan
Ben Walker, a Childress veteran, recalls the Battle of Midway around June 3 1942 while serving aboard the US Navy hospital ship Samaritan. He says wounded were brought to the Samaritan, which avoided direct hits though suffered some shrapnel. Walker notes the Samaritan and sister ship Solace supported the wounded during heavy air attacks.
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Childress
Ben Walker
Midway Island
Midway
Walker
Samaritan
USS Solace
Seattle
Return from Gainesville Peace Officers Convention
Police Chief Alvis Maddox Texas Rangers and FBI agents demonstrated new rescue and emergency treatment methods at a two day Southern Oklahoma North Texas Peace Officers Convention in Gainesville. About 100 officers attended as Finis Wrinkle recalled arresting two burglars at the Nehi office. mug shots of Fort Worth crime elements were shown.
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Alvis Maddox
FW. &D
H. C. Preslar
Finis Wrinkle
Gainesville
Maddox
Texas Rangers
FBI
Fort Worth
Nehi
Drunk Charges Filed After Car Crash In Quanah
Quanah Police Chief Joe Murphy filed drunk charges against Don Scott of Childress after a 1954 car ran off a curve in north Quanah. Garland Mills and D L Canada, both of Childress, rode in the vehicle which overturned near heavy house moving equipment, causing total loss and about 179 dollars in equipment damage.
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Quanah
One Dead in One-Car Wreck Near Hedley
A 72 year old Houston man Gorge Newton Hamilton died in a one car crash on US 287 between Lelia Lake and Hedley Saturday afternoon. The vehicle Hamilton occupied rolled over in the wreck.
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Clarendon
UPI
Houston
Gorge Newton Hamilton
Lelia Lake
Hedley
US 287
Hamilton
Liff Sanders Dies in Lubbock
Liff Sanders 90 of Lubbock died about 7 p.m. Friday. He served as minister at Broadway Church of Christ for 18 years and helped organize the first Church of Christ in early Lubbock. He had lived in Lubbock since 1898, except for brief years in Lockney and Snyder. Interment followed at Lubbock cemetery.
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Liff Sanders
Lubbock
Eldon A. Sanders
Childress
Sanders
Broadway Church of Christ
Mr Sanders
Church of Christ
Lockney
Snyder
Spradling Wins Scholarship For Lubbock Christian College
Douglas Spradling the 1962 valedictorian at Boys Ranch received a 200 dollar scholarship to Lubbock Christian College during commencement. Six seniors graduated and 36 eighth graders became eligible for high school work. His younger brother Ben also attended local schools and is a student at Boys Ranch.
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Douglas Spradling
Childress
Boys Ranch
Lubbock Christian College
Douglas
Ben
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