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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1962
Page
3
A selection of linen items designed to rekindle pride and bring lasting joy. Lunch cloths dinner cloths place mats pillow cases guest towels cup towels hot roll covers and biscuit covers shown from a large collection.
Hollywood reports W C Fields famed wit dying remark and praise for Sebastian Cabot on CBS Checkmate while noting its cancellation. Other items include McClure shifting to The Virginian, George eyeing a movie, CBS Calendar aboard The France, Roy Poole on The First Day, and NBC aims at Moon open golf and Play Your Hunch guest Robert Morse among TV listings.
Miami interior designer Marilynn Motto says problem guests damage furniture and fixtures in hotel rooms. She recalls examples from shaving beds with shoes on bedspreads to removing lamps and tearing drapes. She recommends washable wall coverings and removable cushions to cope with the abuse.
Funeral services for John S. Starks 71 brother to Rev C G Starks pastor of the Negro CM.E. Methodist Church in Childress will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at Lufkin Negro Methodist church with burial there The body was moved from Childress to Lufkin Wednesday night Starks died in Amarillo Wednesday morning
Corpus Christi Texas UPI reports three grain elevator workers were buried up to their heads when a mile maize shipment shifted. Rescue teams freed them in about three hours while two others were buried only to their knees. Dust hampered operations and air was piped in.
Walter Ahlschager Jr and Preston Reynolds Jr both of Dallas bought a majority of stock in the Kansas State Bank of Wichita. Two people died in separate incidents including a plane crash near San Angelo. Collins Radio reports quarterly net income of 778679 dollars. A Dallas man dies after a fall from a freight car in El Paso yards. First Methodist Church in Alpine sustains over 15000 dollars in fire damage. Mrs Jessela Lyon of San Angelo killed in a one car crash near Tahoka.
The U S Weather Bureau reported the highest temperature in the nation Wednesday was 105 degrees at Presidio. In contrast, Drummond Montana recorded a low of 24 degrees this morning.
The Dow Jones averages show the 30 industrials at 604.25, up 0.4 points, the 20 rails at 126.59, down 0.09, the 15 rails at 113.49, down 0.53, and the 65 stocks at 208.59, down 0.19. Fourth hour sales total 380,000 to 2 p.m. 1,860,000.
Weather forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and warmth through Friday with scattered late day thunderstorms. Highs near 93 and 93 with a low around 64. Community updates include Marsha Petty graduating from a San Bernardino high school with three scholarships and Terry Petty graduating from San Diego College after Air Force service. Other visits span Sterley Fort Worth Tyler and Lake area towns as families travel and attend events.
The S. F. Moores and Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Pistole took Mrs. Lena Pistole to Colorado Springs for surgery then visited Estes Park and Loveland with the Floyd Pistole family. Mrs. Lena Pistole is now recovering at the Floyd Pistole home.
Funeral rites for T F E Davis 75 of Memphis were held at the Church of Christ in Memphis with Minister Cecil Hadaway officiating. Interment followed at Memphis Fairview Cemetery. Davis, a retired farmer born August 20 1887 in Lamar County, died Sunday in a Memphis hospital. Survivors include his wife, two sons Triston Davis of Harrell Chapel and Wyman Davis of Newlin, three daughters Mrs Charles P Tuggles Amarillo Mrs J W Diggs Jr of Estelline and Mrs Garland Coldiron of Memphis, along with 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
Authorities ruled asphyxiation in the death of John I. Nygard 40 an accountant with the state Highway Department whose nude body was found with a plastic bag over the head in Houston.
Hutchins Carolyn Stevens and Mary Ruth Watkins among top spellers ages 13 and 14 in Corpus Christi and College Station. Students recite difficult terms such as sirocco osseous dilatant oleaginous and tessellate while asking Richard R. Baker for definitions and sentence usage. Last year 628 words were required. this year 547 have been used with jawbreakers like erysipelas thymeturgy adminidle eviscerate and chrysalis among the challengers.
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