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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1958
Page
3
Hollywood Maxwell describes a new Her Secret bra with inch of foam stitched inside for shaping. The ad promotes white cotton broadcloth fabric in sizes 32 to 36 A and B, framing it as stylish and fashionable.
Civil Defense teams freed a 150 foot high truck on Cambridge University roof after cutting it into six pieces with an acetylene torch. The ancient truck named Maybell was originally hoisted Sunday by student pranksters using ropes and pulleys. Crowds jeered Civil Defense attempts but later clapped as the hoisted remains were lowered to the pavement.
The Army’s Redstone short range missile, already in field troops’ hands, was test fired from Cape Canaveral Wednesday night. Officials described the routine flight as a standard test for the 200 to 600 mile range missile. The 65 foot missile launched at 9 p.m. and remained visible for about two and a half minutes.
A fragment notes the Redstone rocket test firings and mentions George Stephenson piloting the first locomotive to pull a passenger train in England on Sept 27, 1825, highlighting early rail achievements.
Louis Rene Beaudoin ex speaker of the Canadian House of Commons will wed 23 year old Alice M Outram today at 4 p.m. in a Presbyterian church in Las Vegas Nevada. Bride’s mother said plans were announced after a quick divorce from the first wife and guests include friends from Phoenix and relatives in Canada and abroad.
Royce Daves, 38, line superintendent for the Green Belt Rural Electric Authority in Wellington, died in a local hospital after injuries from touching a high voltage wire on Tuesday.
The text explains how matter has a breaking point and applies this analogy to the body. It asserts the body can endure only certain days without food or water and without sleep, and claims chiropractic care clearing vertebral subluxations yields full radiant health.
Locals report partly cloudy with little change in temperatures through Friday and scattered thunderstorms in late afternoons. Two babies born at Childress General Hospital announced: a 6 lb 8 oz boy to Bill and Mrs. Miller on June 10 and a 7 lb 2 oz boy to Mr. and Mrs. Hutson on June 11. Various local visitors and travelers including Lt. Col. and Mrs. Elliott en route to Honolulu, and several families hosting guests from Dallas, McLean, Moberly, Amarillo. Kenneth Fink began work at Chance Vought Aircraft in Grand Prairie yesterday after visiting his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fink visit here for a few days and he plans to return to MIT in Cambridge in September. Mrs. Eula Jarrell accompanies her daughter to Galveston for a brief visit. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Stanford Jr return from a vacation to Roy, New Mexico, visiting her mother Mrs. Bonnie Keirsey and family, and Mayor and Mrs. Robert Keirsey, plus other sites of interest in New Mexico.
Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams met with President Eisenhower but the White House would not say if they discussed House subcommittee influence charges. Hagerty expected Adams to deny the charges as false and the committee said it would pursue any information on Adams and Bernard Goldfine.
In Boston, Goldfine accused a subcommittee of publishing an irresponsible smear on his name and Sherman Adams. He acknowledged paying Adams hotel bills but asserted Adams never used influence on his behalf with any agency and did not ask him to. He called the situation a sad state for entertaining old friends.
Dallas County sheriff's deputies recovered the body of Walter Schulz from the Trinity River near Irving. He had been missing since Sunday after slipping from an embankment and falling into the river while fishing.
A brief note presents two options named Woodhue and Aphrodisia as preferred picks for a sports loving figure or town member. Prices listed 2.50 3.50 5.00 indicate possible costs or bets associated with the choices.
Admitted patients include Mrs J C Wyatt of Carey on Wednesday and John Collins and Mrs T A Hutson of Dallas on Wednesday. Dismissals include Mrs Bill Miller and baby of Northfield on Wednesday and Diana Huddleston on Thursday. Jerry Hughes also admitted on Wednesday.
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