Collingsworth Project Awaits Greenbelt Outcome On Water Plan
At a joint meeting of local civic groups the Collingsworth County water project paused pending the Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority decision. Dr. S H Townsend spoke from Greenbelt papers noting that planning was not to proceed until all parties review the Greenbelt study due by July 3 1963. He outlined pipeline dam site lake area work and filtering plant progress while Oklahoma blocks other Panhandle water moves.
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Municipal and Industrial Water Authority
Travis W. Miller
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Dan Howard
Collingsworth Project
Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority
Collingsworth
Greenbelt Authority
Townsend
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Texas
Clarendon
Salt Fork Water Association
Childress
Salt Fork
Red River
R. J. Jennings
Bureau of Reclamation
Amarillo
Apollo Project Boss Quits Over Budget Haggling
D Brainerd Holmes, head of NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight, resigns amid frustration with pay politics and budget battles surrounding Apollo. He will assist the transition from Mercury to Gemini and seeks private sector work above NASA pay. Congress budget cuts loom for the next fiscal year.
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Washington
UPI
America
United Press International
Congress
D- Brainerd Holmes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Holmes
James E. Webb
Webb
House kills area redevelopment bill in Congress
UPI reports the Texas delegation split 13 10 in a House vote against expanding the area redevelopment program The overall bill failed 209 204 President Kennedy called the defeat tragic and said he would resubmit the measure Texas Democrats mostly opposed with 11 10 against while Bruce Alger Ed Foreman voted for the bill among the GOP none of the party’s key figures won.
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Washington
UPI
Texas
U. S. House of Representatives
House
Kennedy
Congress
GOP
Bruce Alger
Ed Foreman
Walter Rogers
Pampa
Burleson
Casey
Dowdy
Fisher
Kilgore
Mann
Poage
Pool
Purcell
Roberts
Brooks
Gonzales
Patman
Teague
Thomas
Thomspon
Thornberry
Wright
Young
Russia Inch Toward First Woman in Space
Unofficial reports say the Soviet Union plans to launch the first woman astronaut, a young unmarried woman in her 20s, possibly Friday. The mission would be part of a twin cosmic flight and could last up to eight days, about five times Cooper’s 34 hour Earth voyage.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
U. S
L. Gordon Cooper
Earth
Cecil K. Mullins Dies in Houston
Word reached here that Cecil K. Mullins once of Childress died recently in a Houston hospital after a lingering illness. The plumbing inspector helped build the Childress Army Air Fields in 1948 and visited the area several times with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Stiner. He was working on the government air space building project in Houston when he fell ill.
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Cecil K. Mullins
Houston
Childress
Mullins
Childress Army Air Fields
Glen Stiner
White man questioned in Mississippi Evers murder probe
In Jackson Mississippi a white man from Florida was detained for questioning over Medgar Evers murder as investigators pursue leads including a rifle found near his home. Police warned the public this is an early step in Mississippi’s intensive probe into the NAACP leader's death.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Medgar Evers
Mississippi
M. B. Pierce
Florida
Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Jackson
Carport
Macmillan Fights For Political Life Over Sex Scandal
London reports say Prime Minister Harold Macmillan heads an emergency cabinet session amid a deepening Profumo affair crisis. Ministers fear resignations as the party faces Labor pressure and public scrutiny over the sex and security scandal.
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Macmillan
London
UPS
Harold Macmillan
John Profu
Labor Party
House of Commons
Sheriff’s Posse To Be Organized In Childress County
A meeting to organize a sheriff s posse is set for 8 p m Sunday at the courthouse John Patterson leads the effort and will elect officers Seventeen men have agreed to join and others may attend Patterson said with Sheriff Gaylon B Smith’s approval
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Childress County
John Patterson
Patterson
Gaylon B. Smith
Wildlife Food Program Regulations Mailed to Landowners
Regulations that allow farmers and ranchers to plant wildlife feed are mailed to all county landowners by the ASC office. If crops follow the rules, they won’t count against land allotments. The Red River Sports men’s Club backs the program. Leland Duckworth urges all county landowners to check the regulations and plant wildlife food.
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ASC
Gene Frisbie
Red River Sportsmen's Club
Leland Duckworth
Red River
Water is Life I Like Air Water Is Taken for Granted
An editor's note introduces water as essential and often overlooked. The piece surveys U S drought risks, focusing on the southern Great Plains, recalling Dust Bowl migrations, and outlines historic dry farming methods and soil conservation developed since the 1930s to cope with arid periods.
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United States
Leroy Pope
United Press International
New York
UPI
Great Plains
California
Brother of Local Resident Dies in Thalia
R J Mints 69 of Thalia died of a heart attack Wednesday evening in a Vernon hospital after a three week illness. Funeral services set for 3 pm Friday at Thalia Baptist Church. Survived by four brothers Lewis Oscar Roy and Jack and four sisters Pearl Henderson Ilda Mints Della Turner and Janie McGee.
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R. J. Mints
Thalia
Vernon
Mr. Mints
Lewis Mints
Childress
Thalia Baptist Church
Lewis
Oscar
Paducah
Roy
Wichita Falls
Jack
Lockett
Pearl Henderson
Alfalfa
Okla
Ilda Mints
Jacksonville
Della Turner
Janie McGee
Curtis Meece Dies Wednesday
Curtis Meece 57 died Wednesday afternoon in a Fort Worth hospital after a heart attack. He was a cotton ginner, World War II veteran, and former resident of Childress and Kirkland. Born February 21, 1906 in Groesbeck, he is survived by his wife Ossie, two sons Dale and Jim, eight sisters and two brothers, with funeral arrangements pending.
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Curtis Meece
Fort Worth
Meece
Childress
Kirkland
Groesbeck
Ossie
Borger
Dale
Jim Meece
Odessa
Elma Burns
Shamrock
Kimbrough Attends Workshop at Texas A&M
County Superintendent Wade Kimbrough attends a Texas A&M workshop. The session begins today and runs through the week as part of county school administration efforts.
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Kimbrough
Texas A&m
Wade Kimbrough
City to Seek Federal Advance for Water and Sewer Study
Mayor Michie Thaten and City officials announced Childress may secure a federal advance or grant to fund a study of water mains and sewer line repairs. The group conferred with federal officials in Fort Worth on Tuesday and Wednesday, seeking potential funding or borrowing options if needed.
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Childress
Michie Thaten
Thaten
Louis Sally
Cofc Bcd
Jeff Henderson
Fort Worth
Stanley Nelson Fined In County Court
Stanley Nelson of Hall County was assessed a $5 fine plus court costs in County Court for checks he had written. Charges were filed against Nelson earlier this week in the same court.
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Stanley Nelson
Hall County
Nelson
Correction notice corrects No taries public appointment name
A correction states that the yesterday Index listing misnamed a public applicant. Charles Smith should read Clarence Smith. The rectification confirms the correct name in the appointment notice.
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Charles Smith
Clarence Smith
Quitting Business Sale at Little Ages Shop
Local retailer announces closing sale with everything must go at Little Ages Shop. Store indicates inventory clearance and final day plans as owners wind down operations.
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Collingsworth County Water Control and Improvement District
Paul Spillman
Jaycees
S. H. Townsend
Vivian Malone
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Alabama National Guard
George Wallace
Apollo Project
Bulletin
Max Bumgardner
San Angelo College
Bob Jones
Max
Jones
Pierce
Ever
FBI
Southwark
Profumo
Christine Keeler
Eugene Ivanov
Enoch Powell
Sheriff's Posse
Wildlife Food Program
Sudan
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