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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1963
Page
3
A playful line of outfits named Lazy-Day Companions from Christenfeld offers pants and matching blouses in vivid colors to brighten cheerful occasions. The collection emphasizes handsome outdoor styling and fashion for fun-loving ensembles.
4-H girls and non members in the county are invited to meet at 9 a.m. Friday in the Courthouse basement to start a summer course on Clothing and Grooming. A 2 p.m. makeup session is offered. Dress patterns, fabric discussion, and pattern layout will be shown. Mothers may attend.
Childress County HD Clubs appoint delegates for the THDA session set for September 18 19 in San Antonio. Mrs. Jess Key THDA chairman and Mrs. Willis Moran lead, with Mrs. Paul Cargile of South Childress Club and alternates Mrs. W M Cross and Mrs. Ruth West chosen at the latest regular Council meeting.
United Press International reports sixty insurance companies went bankrupt trying to meet claims from the 1871 Chicago fire. The disaster caused about 200 million dollars in property damage and destroyed 34 percent of square miles, per Collier's Encyclopedia.
Clear to partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with a low tonight of 68 to 75 and a high Wednesday of 94 to 97 in Childress. Various visitors and relatives from Roswell Odessa Tulsa Midland Floydada Fort Smith Paris Wichita Falls and other cities stay with local families and return home after visits.
The note sends birthday greetings to Mrs Pearl Ward and Sandra Larned with hopes for a joyful day tomorrow.
Mr and Mrs Loss Maddox and family visited Wellington Sunday. Mrs R L Wood and daughter Evelyn from Albuquerque stayed with Mrs J C Key and Evelyn also stayed with Linda Moore. Eddie Doyle Moore left for McKamey to live with his employer. Edna Elaine Key returned home after two months in Albuquerque with her grandparents.
In Canyon a sanity hearing exposed that Joseph William Damron and his son were shot by Mrs. Hicks who fired through a front door. Hicks, a Briscoe native turned Amarillo contractor, faced a driving while intoxicated case and had been a famed gun trader with a history of building homes and motels in the area. He survived by his wife and two children.
The Irving school system reports hiring Loretta Kaplan for the high school as a West Texas State graduate and wife of Don Kaplan while noting last year’s elementary teaching by Loretta Kaplan. Dr Louis B Barkley Jr plans to move to Childress around July 1. The board advertises for a new business manager and renews Athletics coverage with Security Life and Accident Company for the 1963-64 year. Also listed is a sale of a 63 and 879 foot land tract once part of the old Carey School District.
Hollywood critics mark Sid Caesar's ABC comeback as weak satire with thin jokes and predictable sketches. The column notes strong writers like Mel Brooks aside from slips, and highlights other TV moves including Edd Byrnes leaving Sunset Strip and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons’ NBC honor.
The 9410th announces a career reserve concept allowing former service members to enlist within one year after completing regular obligations. Enlistment places them in the grade held at separation. For details contact T-Sgt Monroe Grant or M-Sgt Thomas P. Hocker at the 9410th headquarters, phone 74442.
The Dow Jones stock indices show slight gains and losses across components as trading proceeds. Trading volume reaches 690,000 by 2 p.m. with totals around 3,100,000 reported, reflecting modest market activity.
The Childress City Council awarded Earl Scarbrough a 66 acre land lease at Baylor lake for four years at $1.30 per acre annually, and Bill Johnson a 40 acre lease at Old City Lake for $2.279 per acre yearly. They approved tire bids, discussed Air Force parts, refused glassed enclosures for cemetery flowers, and directed checks on pre fabricated housing inspections. The council also allowed Future Farmers of America to lease land near the disposal plant, requested highway maintenance for a traffic light, renewed surplus food contact with Texas, and approved two ordinances on retirement and traffic conflicts. Bills totaling $9678.88 were approved for payment.
Wallace took personal command at the University of Alabama as Vivian Malone and James Hood prepared to register under federal court order. President Kennedy pressed for law and order while federal marshals, led by Katzenbach and Doar, planned to enforce integration as National Guard units stood by.
The Provo Boy Scout contingent suffers multiple deaths including J Shaw 51 an assistant professor of religion and bishop, H Darrell Taylor 45 language department chair, and Dorothy Hansen 24 Deseret News reporter. Also dead are W A Creer 39 Provo contractor and assistant scout master. Names of Provo Scouts identified: Gordon Grow Randy Miller Gary Rasmussen Joe Erickson Lynn Merrell Gary Christensen. Ogden scout Randy Hall and Salt Lake City boy Robert Cook among those noted.
The 24 hour period from 12 noon Monday to 11 am Tuesday recorded a maximum of 84 degrees and a minimum of 64 degrees. The excerpt lists hourly readings for Monday and Tuesday with temperatures ranging from the mid sixties to the upper eighties.
Warners offers a strapless bra designed to move with the body not against it. The low back Lycra Marquisette piece promises no slipping or riding up even when bending or stretching.
A list shows admissions and dismissals by individuals with designated days of the week. Names include Fred Story Norman Hemphill Mrs John Wilson Mrs Wayland Trent T N Wygal Donna Arrington and dismissals include Mrs C L Kennedy Mrs Dan Dowdy Mrs Nolan Thomas Mrs Ruby Steed J W MecNew and Mrs W H Knight.
Television listings across KGNC KVII KFDA and related stations show series from Our Miss Brooks to The Tonight Show. Prime time features Abbott & Costello Rocky & His Friends and sports reports with weather updates, then late news and movies.
A compiled grid shows programming for multiple channels KGNC KVII KFDA and KSYD with 7:00 Today and Tonight lineups, news, soaps, game shows and kid programs. Listings include Major Charm Weather The Price Is Right Truth or Consequences Captain Kangaroo I Love Lucy and Captain Kangaroo reruns.
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