Childress Index publication and classifieds details
The Childress index, Childress oldest business institution, is published in Childress Texas by The Childress index Inc. Printed in Childress by Ox Bow Printing Inc. It is published Sundays Tuesdays and Thursdays. Second Class Postage paid at Childress Texas. Independent newspaper stating impartial news and right leaning stance. Subscription rates listed for mail and carrier in various counties and durations.
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Childress
Texas
Chldress Index, Inc
Ox Bow Printing, Inc
Morris Higleys
Youth Eruptions and A Call for Mental Health Support
A National Observer editorial links global youth radicalism to violent acts by groups like the Red Army Faction and Weathermen. It questions whether widespread madness or fallout from atom tests fuels the surge, urging attention to mental health as a remedy.
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Ana the Earth
Tel Aviv
Israel
Red Army
Errata
Lebanon
National Observer
West Germany
Italy
France
Uruguay
Teheran
Nixon
America
South Vietnamese Senate Rejects Decree Power Bill
The Senate backed by 27 to 21 rejected a six month decree power for President Thieu to meet wartime needs. Observers warn the vote does not signal broad antiwar sentiment but reflects dissent among Thieu opponents.
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Vietnam
Senate
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
South Vietnam
Assembly
U.S
Turkeys in Panic Over McGovern Win Stirs Wall Street
Investors react with fear to news of Senator George McGovern winning in California with markets dropping seven points. The piece mocks bulls and bears as flighty turkeys susceptible to mass panic even on distant political outcomes.
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Wall Street
George McGovern
California
T McGovern
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Notable Odds and Ends From HAL Boyle Columns
HAL Boyle notes that 20 million hearing impaired in North America may benefit from aids yet only 2 to 3 million use them. He recalls naval mines origins with Dutch, Fulton, and Colt, and cites hurricane deaths and doll collecting trends. He includes price insights, quotes, word origins, and a Proverbs reference.
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Hal Boyle
New York
United States
Canada
Antwerp
Robert Fulton
Samuel Colt
America
Paris
Albert Schweitzer
U.S. Department of Transportation
Dinosaur National Monument Redefined by USGS Mapping
The Dinosaur National Monument spanning 330 square miles along the Green and Yampa rivers in Colorado and Utah has been completely remapped by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Dinosaur National Monument
Green and Yampa Rivers
Colorado
Utah
U.S. Geological Survey
Briscoe Gains Momentum In Texas Governor Run
The letter notes Dolph Briscoe’s strong showing in the Democratic primary with high county percentages including his home county. It cites Childress County as a blue ribbon stronghold and recalls visits by Briscoe and Ralph Hall. It mentions a 100000 vote error in the Sanders Yarborough race and cites a 1942 Japanese sub attack near Santa Barbara oil refinery.
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Texas Election Bureau
Childress County
Dolph
Panhandle
Preston Smith
Ralph Hall
Childress
Barefoot Sanders
Ralph Yarborough
Yarborough
Barefoot
Associated Press
Texas
Dolph Briscoe
Sissy Farenthold
Santa Barbara
Calif
Busy nominees for NYSE public-interest board face time test
AP analysis notes the 10 public nominees are high achievers with heavy outside roles. Jerome H. Holland and Juanita M. Kreps carry lighter business loads while others like William M. Batten Karl Bendetsen Donald C. Cook William Greenough Raymon Mulford Cornelius Owens James Roche and Robert Sarnoff hold top corporate and institutional positions and board duties.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Jerome H. Holland
Juanita M. Kreps
Holland
Sweden
Kreps
Women’s College
Duke University
Penn Central
National Association of Investment Clubs
NAIC
William M. Batten
J. C. Penney Co
American Telephone
First National City Bank
Boeing
Karl R. Bendetsen
Champion International
Westinghouse Electric, and Conference Board
Donald C. Cook
American Electric Power Co
William C. Greenough
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
College Retirement Equities Fund
First National City Bank Trust Board
Raymon H. Mulford
Ownes-Illinois, Inc
Toledo Museum of Art
Marathon Oil Co
Cornelius W. Owens
Boston College
N. Y. Chamber of Commerce
James M. Roche
General Motors
Holy Cross College
Tuskegee Institute
Pepsico
National Business Council
Robert Sarnoff
RCA Corp
Random House
Manufacturers Hanover Bank
Harvard College Board of Overseers
Today in History June 13 highlights across centuries
On this date in 1956 Britain handed the Suez Canal to Egypt after 74 years of operation. Other notes include Columbus discovering Martinique in 1502, Canada’s first parliament opening in 1841, Pershing arriving in Paris in 1917, Paris open city in 1940, the OWI created in 1942, Thurgood Marshall joining the Supreme Court in 1967, and various Cold War and Middle East events. Birthdays include Red Grange, now 60. Thought for today notes Proverbs wisdom.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
Suez Canal
Egypt
Christopher Columbus
Martinique
Ottawa
John Pershing
Paris
U. S. Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Thurgood Marshall
U. S. Supreme Court
Soviet Union
France
U. N. General Assembly
Israel
Yemen
Red Grange
Nixon autograph found on stolen ten dollar bill
A ten dollar bill signed by President Nixon, given during a Babe Ruth League World Series ticket handoff to Rep. Manuel Lujan Jr., was stolen from Lujan’s Cheverly Maryland home. Lujan had received the bill on March 10 1971 after presenting the opening game ticket in Albuquerque that August. Nixon reportedly warned that autographing the bill was illegal.
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Washington
Nixon
Cheverly
U.S
Manuel Lujan Jr
R-N.m
Lujan
Albuquerque
John Nidecker Lujan
McGovern Near First Ballot After Fourth NEA Delegate Count
NEA National Observer shows George McGovern rising to about 1,378 percent of the 1,509 delegate threshold, gaining momentum from June primaries in California New Jersey and New Mexico. Hubert Humphrey slips to 405 votes while George Wallace holds third with 387 as McGovern leads in 27 states.
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Washington
NEA
George McGovern
South Dakota
National Observer
Edmund Muskie
Maine
McGovern
California
New Jersey
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
New Mexico
New York
Illinois
Muskie
Connecticut
Iowa
Missouri
Delaware
Louisiana
Rhode Island
South
Humphrey
Wallace
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Public hangings in Texas a fading legal spectacle
The piece traces Texas execution history from the 1920s shift to state control at Huntsville to earlier county hangings. It notes the Seymour jail gallows, Roy Mitchell’s 1920s case, and a legend about Chepita Rodriguez executed in 1863 near San Patricio with her ghost said to haunt the mesquite trees by the Nueces River.
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Robert E. Ford
Associated Press
United States
Supreme Court
Texas
Waco
Huntsville
Baylor County
Seymour
Roy Mitchell
Ethel Denecamp
Chepita Rodriguez
San Patricio
John Savage
Chepita
Nueces
Chepita’s Hanging Stands in Texas History
Nearly 90 years after Chepita’s execution a new Texas woman, Emma Oliver of San Antonio, faced death but had her sentence commuted to life and died in prison. Also, Maggie Morgan and Carolyn Lima were sentenced to death for murders but their sentences were reduced to life imprisonment, with Lima's death sentence commuted as well.
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Chepita
Texas
Emma Oliver
San Antonio
Maggie Morgan
Joseph Selby
Houston
Carolyn Ann Lima
Leslie Douglas Ashley
Miss Lima
Fred Tones
John Gilpin
South Africa Studying Ground Relay Station Link to Satellite Network
A post office spokesman says South Africa weighs building a ground relay station to connect with the global satellite network. The country currently depends on undersea cable and radio for external telecommunications.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Post Office
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