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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1972
Page
3
A light weekly column shares personal musings on heat and daylight saving time, plus local updates from residents. It highlights hospital visits, family milestones, travel, weddings, and social events, ending with a casual reflection on a child’s question about tomorrow.
Gifts to the Memorial Fund honor Mrs. R. E. Gentry from Mr. and Mrs. Otho Sims and Mrs. DeAlva Hicks. Memorials also mark several books and authors, with gifts from multiple couples, plus weekly children's reading program updates and an invitation to all ages to browse the library.
J W Sollis manager of student services and financial aid at Texas State Technical Institute will visit Childress on Thursday June 15 to discuss fall program offerings including drafting design commercial art interior design printing livestock and ranch operations meat processing and marketing and various mechanics programs. He will also answer questions on housing financial aid tuition part time work and enrollment dates with classes set to begin September 7.
A study by the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association shows Childress County produced 78 504 barrels of crude and 7.3 million cubic feet of natural gas in 1971, valued at 277 438. The report notes royalties of 34 680 to local owners and 114 988 spent on drilling.
Lusaka reports 7 661 immigrants in 1971, the highest yearly total since independence in 1964. The largest group, 2 786, arrived from Britain to Northern Rhodesia, the former British territory.
Sister Margaret Rose Palmer of Incarnate Word College visited Harvard last summer and found a Plymouth Massachusetts cemetery stone inscribed I told you I was sick. Elizabeth. The brief oddity highlights a historical surprise from a Massachusetts grave.
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