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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1969
Page
2
Jones moved into the starting lineup six weeks ago and has embraced first base. He has a .284 batting average after a slow start and says the role fits him, with fielding improving and a renewed day to day approach.
A letter read to the City Council traces a concern by Morris Higley about Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority rates. The memo cites differing information from Texas officials and Memphis meetings, with fears of rate hikes or state control. Dr. Robert E. Kennedy is noted in context of campus ROTC clashes and pacifist violence.
United Press International notes Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, as the nation’s oldest Greek letter fraternity.
New York reports that the U.S. Weather Bureau records the day’s hottest temperature excluding Alaska and Hawaii as 104 degrees at Buckeye Arizona. A much cooler 30 degrees was noted at Rock Springs Wyoming as the day began.
In Marshall England Mike Barnard 23 sparked a bizarre cricket moment as his pocket matches ignited trousers at bat. A hiss and fizz sent clouds of smoke as he yelped and danced before his smouldering pants fell to his ankles exposing blue underpants. Wives and girlfriends watched as the wicket-keeper stumped him for stepping outside the crease.
American entries won top prizes at Italy’s Academy Awards. Rosemary’s Baby earned best director and Mia Farrow shared best foreign actress with Barbra Streisand. Rod Steiger won best actor for The Sergeant and Stanley Kubrick won best producer for 2001 A Space Odyssey.
President Nixon holds that unilateral arms cuts do not ensure peace and defends maintaining military strength at home and abroad. He plans two days in California and Hawaii for strategy sessions with senior advisers ahead of talks with Thieu on Midway, after criticizing campus demands and political deception. The article also notes American Legion Auxiliary plans to order two year planning calendars and reports from local units on fundraising and Girls State activities.
Final rites for Mrs. Nannie B. Hankins were held at 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Murray Travis and Rev. Roy T. Nunn officiating. Burial followed at Childress Cemetery under Newberry's direction. Hankins, longtime Childress resident, died Monday in a Dalhart nursing home. Madame Chiang Kai-shek ee from Wellesley allege in 1917.
The water mill, invented by the Greeks around the third century B C, was the prototype for engines turning running water wind coal petroleum uranium and sunlight into usable mechanical energy according to the World Almanac Facts.
Nova Scotia coal beds in the Sydney field dip beneath the Atlantic and have been mined under the sea more than 3 miles from shore.
Mike Ivey of Winslow Arizona has been named the Alpha Eta Society Scholarship recipient for 1968 69. A business major at Arizona Western College in Yuma he is a standout Winslow High School graduate and son of Clyde Ivey and Laveta Lesley. The annual scholarship provides 200 dollars.
Ken Shaw advertises his wife Marie in a local paper after she complained his sports car cramped and drafty. The funny yet telling ad lists Car for sale at 1200 dollars and Wife at 60000 dollars or nearest offer. Shaw says for peace in the home one must go.
A quotation about unity and compassion values from a religious and philosophical pair. It contrasts I Peter 3 8 with Herbert Spencer noting the mind shapes goodness and happiness. The text blends biblical exhortation with secular thought in a reflective tone.
The Eleanor the Beaver and the Dartmouth were three ships that lost their cargo of tea during the Boston Tea Party, marking a key protest event against the British East India Company in 1773.
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