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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1961
Page
3
Vanity Fair promotes nylon pajamas praised for sleek looks and easy care. The packable sleepwear for lounging resists wrinkles and comes in sizes 32 to 88 with a range of colors.
Television critic Fred Danzig notes Winston Churchill The Valiant Years ends its 26 episode run on ABC TV with a moving blend of newsreel images and narration. He praises Eye witness to History on CBS and NBC for lively First Lady coverage and notes Disney Presents The Channel Swim and Concentration developments with a winning $1 million stock vestment concept.
Princess Alexandra of Kent has emerged as a popular royal figure. Rumors center on her companion Baron Raymond O'Neill, heir to the title of O'Neill, as she advances on a public life with hopes for love.
Ruth Millett argues the handbag is a portable desk and dressing table with two sections beauty and business. It contains a billfold, license, keys, and cosmetics plus a pen, receipts, tape and touch up items, making it a practical, if crowded, personal toolkit.
Social calendar lists weekly church and club meetings from Monday to Friday including veteran pot luck, luncheons, circles, and supper events. A note on Vicenza Italy’s Teatro Olimpico as the world’s oldest indoor theatre designed by Palladio and completed by Scamozzi in 1582.
A compact lyric snapshot depicts determined figures facing barriers and a child’s plea for maternal help as they navigate the street, highlighting resilience and family aid.
Clear to partly cloudy with little temperature change through Tuesday. Tonight’s low 68 to 73 and Tuesday’s high 92 to 95. Five day forecast shows near normal temperatures with isolated thundershowers and light precipitation across regions. Harley Lewis Lefors announces a son born 4 45 p.m. Saturday weighing 7 4. Maternal grandmother Norman Thomas and paternal grandmother HH F Lewis of Childress. Elias Quintero announces a daughter born 7 14 a.m. Sunday weighing 4 12 in Childress General. Local updates note visits from W G Daughtery and others to Dallas Houston Ft Sill Amarillo and Arizona relatives and friends. Delores Bohannon underwent surgery at Wesley Hospital.
Reports indicate a patient in a city hospital last week is progressing satisfactorily. Mrs. Kate Turner returns home to Lubbock after visiting with E. R. Reeves and friends. Mrs. W. T. Meador goes home after a Dallas visit. LeRoy Gaines, Jack Preston, and J. W. Seay head to New Orleans for an American National Insurance convention, following a sales achievement that earned the trip. Gaines will speak at the event, with the group returning Sunday evening.
Mrs Irby Teague traveled to Fort Worth to stay with her mother Mrs W E Bradford. The Teague family and relatives from Quanah Paducah Lamesa Plains Abilene Cisco and Muleshoe gathered for visits and a funeral for Fred Lindsey.
Mrs. John Turner and family from Miami Texas visited parents in Lelia Lake and Childress while Rev J A McDonald and Willis Moran moved to 601 Ave H in Childress. Duane Hall from Dallas summers with Gus Woods and attends local church services. Claude Hendricks reportedly injured in a fall at the Woods farm and hospitalized in Childress General.
The maximum temperature reached 92 degrees during the 24 hour period ending at 11 am Monday with a 4 pm high on Sunday. The minimum dropped to 68 degrees at 5 am. Read The Classifieds.
Tomorrow neighbors send greetings to Edd Fite J E Benham Jr L C Elliott FE Melton and Lorena Boggs with best wishes for a joyful year ahead.
It is foolish to plan a vacation with a friend whose shortcomings annoy you. The piece emphasizes how incompatibilities in behavior can ruin travel plans and suggests choosing companions carefully.
United Press International items quote Brazil's Janio Quadros on U S relations with democracy allies. Mrs Clark Gable discusses her son John Clark Gal’s christening and celebrity life. William E Miller critiques Kennedy over Eisenhower air power plans. Senator Joseph S Clark defends Kennedy on avoiding troop involvement and Latin American prestige.
Hospital list shows admissions including Mrs. A A Bush and Mrs. BE EF Martin on Saturday plus Frank Douglas and several others. Discharges include Mrs. Lon Hassell and Mrs. W L Johnson among Sunday departures and J R Davenport discharged today.
In Dallas a train struck a truck, scrambling 32,000 pounds of eggs. Police said no one was hurt, though truck driver Charles Coulson quipped it wasted many chickens’ efforts.
New York report describes a new healing substance, BioDyne's Preparation H, claim to shrink hemorrhoids, relieve itching, and ease pain without surgery. Case by case relief and shrinkage observed, with patients noting piles no longer a problem.
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