Escape fugitive in Brushy Mountain break linked to James Earl Ray
Warden Stonney Lane said three inmates planned the escape using a makeshift pipe ladder. James Earl Ray and Earl Hill were recaptured in Anderson County after being missing for days, while Doug Shelton remained at large. Ray refused interrogation and showed no injuries after capture.
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Associated Press
Brushy Mountain, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Castoday
Brushy Mountain State Prison
Doug Shelton
Earl Hill
Stonney Lane
Shelton
Brushy Mountain
Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Hill
D Block
New River
Anderson County
Sandy
Lane
House
King
City Revises Airport Master Plan For T Hanger Relocation
City of Childress updates its airport master plan to move seven six unit T hangers to the south ramp. Lancer Mobile Homes plans expansion adding 70 to 100 jobs, awaiting FAA Albuquerque approval after officials met Friday. FAA requires master plan changes.
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Childress
Texas Aeronautics Commission
Louis Sally
Federal Aviation Administration
Albuquerque
Lancer Mobile Homes
FAA
Lancer Donates 5000 to Aid Medical Clinic Fight
Lancer Mobile Homes of Childress gave the Medical Crisis Committee a 5000 donation to help buy the Butler Clinic. Committee leader Pat Steed said the contribution aims to attract doctors to Childress and avert the clinic auction. The index will report a new total Thursday.
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Lancer Mobile Homes of
Childress
Medical Crisis Committee
Butler Clinic
Pat Steed
Steed
Childress Hospital
Wayne Lindley
David Galligan
Larry Moore
James Driver
Childress County Hospital District
Briscoe Criticizes Carter Energy Plan As Unfair To Texas
Governor Dolph Briscoe calls President Carter energy program unfair to producing states and estimates Texas would face about 6.6 billion dollars in annual tax impact. Justice Tom Clark’s death prompts a brief note as Supreme Court flags are at half staff.
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San Antonio
Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Carter
Texas
Briscoe
Local Happenings and Memorial Notices Report
The American Youth Studio Jazz Band will tour Europe with Bart Smoot and David Jackson Chapter members among its tenor saxophonists. About 25 students are chosen annually from U S colleges after taped auditions. Memorials were given to Kirkland Cemetery Association for B E Gressett and for the King Family by local residents. The Childress General Hospital District board meets at 7 p.m. with routine items. County records may not be destroyed without microfilm, per an attorney general ruling.
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Bart Smoot
PMC
David Jackson
Childress
Europe
United Sates
Barry
Abilene Christian University
Childress General Hospital
Miss Ann Postma
Richardson Rites Today in Estelline
Funeral services for Earl G. Richardson age 65 were held at 10 30 a m in the Westside Church of Christ Estelline with J D Rothwell officiating Burial followed in Estelline Cemetery Spicer Funeral Home. He died June 12 in the Veterans Administration Hospital Bonham born October 15 1911 in Paris He was a World War II veteran and came to Estelline in 1930.
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Earl G. Richardson
Vera Richardson
Chidress
Westside Church of Christ
Estelline
J. D. Rothwell
First Church of Christ
Spicer Funeral Home
Veterans Administration Hospital
Bonham
Paris
Lone Star Gas Wins TRO in Childress Excavation Dispute
In Childress 100th District Court Judge Robert Montgomery upheld a temporary restraining order allowing Lone Star Gas to continue street excavations to assess underground pipe age for a 15 percent depreciation. Five Lone Star workers were arrested after police alleged they were digging without city approval. a permanent order hearing is set for Friday.
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Robert Montgomery
Childress
Lone Star Gas Co
12Th
F Northwest
Otis Burrows
Lone Star Gas Company
City of
100Th District
Memphis
City of Childress
Lone Star
Odis Burrows
Burrows
Forbis
Jack Rodney Russell
Joe B. Smith
Buford McKeever
Billy Farris
W. T. Clark
Dallas
Demos Trouble Carter
Senator John Tower accuses President Carter of insufficient consultation with Congress over energy policy and outlines a plan to decontrol crude oil prices by June 1, 1979. Rep. Bob Krueger questions Congress willingness to reopen oil pricing and proposes tax and plowback ideas to spur exploration and development.
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San Antonio
Tex
John Tower
Bob Krueger
D-Tex
Tower
Congress
Krueger
Carter
Jody Powell
House
Byrd
County Business Patterns Report Highlights Childress County Firms
A government study shows Childress County hosts 194 active business firms with 1,606 Social Security covered workers. Most employ 4 or fewer, 96 percent have under 20 employees, and the annual payroll reaches 11.275 million dollars.
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Childress County
United States
Texas
Sedatives May Cause Cancer Warned by Doctors
Two physicians told a congressional subcommittee that many over the counter sleep aids contain methapyrilene which can react with stomach nitrites to form dimethylnitrosamine a potent liver cancer agent in rats. They urged tests and cited brands including Nytol Sominex and Sleep teze.
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Washington
Congressional
William Lisinsky
Lisinsky
Ernest Hartman
Boston State Hospital
Harvest Nears Completion in Childress County
Kenneth Baker of Greenbelt Coop Elevators reports 80 percent of the wheat harvest finished in Childress County with yields of 15 to 25 bushels per acre. 42 cars shipped from Childress and 84 from Kirkland, each car 3,300 bushels. Neva Hinton notes Kirkland's Chickasha Elevator has sent only two cars, storage space remains ample.
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Childress County
Kenneth Baker
Greenbelt Coop
Kirkland
Childress
Neva Hinton
Chickasha
County Tax Rate Will Stay Same In Childress
The Childress County Commissioners Court kept the tax rate at 95 cents per $100, the same as prior years. They approved a bond for Deputy Billy Don Hinton, set salary at 580 dollars monthly, and postponed annual audit of county funds for year ending Sept 30 1977. Also approved ambulance escrow payment, school fund expenditure for classrooms, and by law amendments for Outreach Council. Dottie Sue Bettis completed required training for new JOP. Albert Bird appointed to board succeeding Bob Herndon.
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Childress
Billy Don Hinton
John Inman
Ann Postma
Wellington
Justice of Peace
Dottie Sue Bettis
Outreach Advisory Council
Albert Bird
Bob Herndon
Mayors Cite Money as Top Urban Problem in AP Survey
At the U S Conference of Mayors 100 of 300 mayors reveal money as the central issue in budgeting taxes and services. Citizens focus on streets crime unemployment and housing while education edges only for Paterson’s mayor. Carter energy plan draws mostly opposition or ambivalence among mayors.
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Associated Press
U.S
L. D. Ochs
Colorado Springs
Tom Bradley
Los Angeles
Carter
Carter Energy
Landrums New Heads Of Eastern Star
Mr and Mrs Alton Landrum were installed as worthy matron and worthy patron of Childress Chapter 101 Order of Eastern Star in Masonic Hall. Presentations were made by the Landrums grandchildren. Special music by Kay Reed and Joyce Willard accompanied. Out of town guests included J H Courtney Amarillo and Joyce Willard Garland. Rev James Price gave the benediction.
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Alton Landrum
Childress
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Leah Courtney
Jessie Strickland
Marshall
Joyce Willard
Peggy Cartlidge
Jerry Williams
Kathryn McGhee
Irby Scott
Gayle Seal
Ruby Hutton
Ruby Brewer
Corene Kinney
Bonnie Grayson
Ruth
Jean McNeeley
Esther
Christine Williams
Martha
Nina Harmon
Electra
Wilma Shelton
Warder
Clinton McGhee
Sentinel
Reece Wadley
Lana Finchum
Landrum
Kay Reed
Willard
Olympus and Lonie Homecoming Dates Set in Fair Park
The annual Olympus and Lonie Homecoming will be held July 9 and 10 in Fair Park Auditorium, with festivities scheduled across the two days.
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Olympus and Lonie
Fair Park Auditorium
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Lancer
Jim Parker
Parker
Kirkland Cemetery Association
B. E. Gressett
C. H. Needham
Eula Mae McGuauirk
Wanda Barrett
Eula Mae MaGauirk
Richardson
Richard Bird
John Forbis
Roger Davis
F NW
Trouble Carter
New York
Department of Commerce
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Lee Mitgang
Urban Affairs
Tucson
Ariz
L. T. Cramer
Paterson
N.J
Landrums
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