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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1956
Page
2
A social calendar item notes Family Night at the country club scheduled for Friday at 7 0 pm. Attendees are invited to enjoy a communal evening with activities and refreshments.
Mrs Newman Reeves was elected as a state delegate nominee at the Union Flat Home Demonstration Club meeting held Wednesday. Hostesses were Mrs P B Snider and Mrs A V Mote. a covered dish luncheon and all day session followed with devotional by Mrs Terrell and a quilt project completed for Mrs Mote.
Mr and Mrs A A Bryant of Estelline announce the engagement of their daughter Clair Beth Bryant to Bobby Lee Adams son of Mr and Mrs Cecil Adams also of Estelline. The couple will wed at Estelline First Methodist Church at 8 pm July 13. Bryant is a student at Estelline High School and Adams is a Texas Tech graduate.
Childress County Singing Convention will be held at King Memorial Methodist Church at 2 o clock Sunday afternoon. President Earl Tosh announced that new class and convention song hooks from The Stamps-Baxter Company and The Frank Stamps Company will be used. The Friendly Five of Vernon and The Judes Trio from Pampa plan to attend along with directors from nearby towns. Public invited.
A family night plus covered-dish supper closed the church school week. Kindergarten sang I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, primary offered two songs and a skit Finding The Lost Scroll, juniors closed with This Is My Father's World. Bob Watkins hosted dinner as superintendents and workers were recognized. Total enrollment reached 190 with about 150 attending.
Mrs. Frank Buster led a Daisy Shields Circle session at Mrs. Rush Record’s home. The group reviewed The Christian Way of Life Family Style and discussed final chapters while agreeing to disband for summer and reconvene September 11 to study Ephesians and a Southeast Asia book by Mrs. Rich.
The Salle Fite Circle of the First Baptist Church met at Mrs. Francis Sport's home Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Guy Mayo taught the final study from The Larger Stewardship. Next Bible study will cover the book of James. Community missions project planned for July aims to send a child to Baptist camp in Vernon. Others present included Mrs. Anna Silvey, Mrs. Leonard King, Mrs. Aca Hensley, Henry Feeley, Noble Ellis, Aurillian Cates, E. A. Beaver, Horace Low and W. E. Sallee.
The Woman's Department Club executive board met in the Department Club building to set next year’s program. They approved October 11 as opening day, welcomed new members Mrs Earl McMinn and Mrs Y C Garrison, and discussed lowering the stage and moving the district board meeting to the last week in September. They voted to buy two folding tables and hire an hourly janitor rather than a fulltime one. Hostess clubs will pay for refreshments at each meeting. special meetings will be shared costs with the Department Club. Members present included Mrs. Jesse Cannon, Rowden Cordell, Bill Ross, Lee Hollingsworth, Charles Mack, F L Decker, George Robertson, Martin Crews, Morris Higley, Tom Huggins, Paul Ord, F L Taylor, Ross Smith, Leo Inman, E E White and A Cummings.
Mrs. Cecil Phillips hosted the Harrell Chapel Needle Club gathering in the community building on Tuesday afternoon. A quilt belonging to Mrs. Roy Widener was worked on. The next meeting is set for July 10 with Mrs. Louis Richards as hostess. Refreshments were served to attendees including Mmes. Ray Phillips, Ernest Lee Kilgore, Orval Phillips, Roy Widener, and Miss Linda Widener and Cindy Phillips.
Mrs W E Rule entertained her parents Mr and Mrs J H Play of Athens with an informal dinner at her home in Union Flat. The visiting couple arrived Wednesday afternoon to visit relatives and were joined by Rule family members including Wilmer Rule and family of Lake Pauline and Mitchell Rule and family of Childress, Mrs Ann Hale of Houston, and Jimmy Trammell of Amarillo.
A birthday notice lists Mrs. O H Gibbs Gladys Wright Eugene Solomon and tomorrow Arlene Key Jamaca Green W M Richardson Virginia J Rucker and Juarine Pryor. The brief public notice celebrates their birthdays according to the community column.
Parity cloudy through Saturday with warmer Panhandle today and scattered storms later. Mrs. E. R. Whitley of Corpus Christi visits here before returning home Saturday. Charles Cawthon departs Saturday for Seattle then Fairbanks to be stationed. Cawthon family to reside in Childress. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cotton vacationing in St Louis and Fort Worth. Houston Powels from Dallas visiting over the weekend. Mrs. T. J. Buster and Mrs. Charlie Moore return from San Angelo wedding trip for Brenda Buster. Other locals attend ceremony including Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy and Arthur Ellis. The Higleys vacationing in Colorado. Tom Higley leaves. M. K. Wilcoxson in Amarillo on business. Mrs. Charles Maxwell and children visiting her parents. Billy Mac Sims of Wellington visited locally.
Mrs. Donald Trent received a surprise pink and blue shower at Union Flat Community House on Wednesday. Hostesses were Mrs. A. V. Mote and Mrs. P. B. Snider with fruit punch by Mote Snider and Sherry Snider. Gifts were opened with help from Miss Faye Gardner of California and Mrs. Rayford Holtman amid a guest list including Miss Gardner and several local residents.
Visiting hours are 10:30 to 11:30 A M and 2:30 to 4:30 P M. Admitted: Mrs Don Young on Thursday Mrs E O Huffstutter on Thursday Fred Haddad on Thursday. Dismissed: Fred Haddad on Friday Mrs Raymond Lassen on Friday.
Street fighting continued from page one as police set guards to secure the area. Later reports said the scene remained calm morning. Police stated the guard protects the rights of all employees seeking to work. Workers demand 20 percent wage increases and additional benefits, including ending seasonal layoffs.
In Clute Texas at 12:50 a.m. a head on collision killed Gerald L. Widner 21 Alvin and his wife Bonnie Widner 19 and C B Carroll 29 New Iberia Louisiana. Carroll drove one car and Widners were newlyweds living with Bonnie Widner's sister.
Haley denounces Yarborough’s claim that American soldiers in the North and East are cowards. Yarborough dismisses Haley’s rebukes while stressing pride in Southern and all-American valor amid the contentious exchange. Both men defend their records and patriotism.
The Dutch government denied foreign rumors of a divorce between Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard amid reports tied to a faith healer. Miss Greet Hofmans, aged 61, claimed she had no influence on the queen and that her work is devotional.
The morning medical bulletin reports the President is eating small amounts by mouth and sleeping nearly eight hours. Vital signs are normal with a temperature of 98.4, pulse 78, blood pressure 118 over 70, and respiration 18. It marks the sixth post operative day and notes he is in excellent spirits.
Southenerspre-convention caucus of southern delegates would tend to harden the southern position leaving less room for maneuver and compromise on the civil rights issue. It might invite similar caucuses forcing northern Democrats into a no compromise position. Members of Congress saw no purpose in reconvened state conventions except to threaten a third party if the presidential nominee or Democratic platform offended the South.
Mrs. O. M. Jeffrey of Wichita Falls Texas says she lost 30 pounds using Barcentrate a home fat reducing tonic. The ad touts six million bottles sold in Texas over ten years promising safe easy weight loss with a money back guarantee.
French troops surprised a rebel band hidden among wheat near Beni Saf, killing 14 and capturing 32. In another raid, 25 rebels who menaced a village near Madrid 85 miles west of Constantine were killed. A captain and two soldiers died in an ambush on a mountain trail near Oran.
Union and management approach a 20 to 25 cent per hour package with industry cost estimates of about 300 million dollars annually and a potential 10 to 11 dollar per ton price rise. David McDonald targets June 17 for settlement as talks heat up despite optimism from some sources.
Orinda California speaker Maj. Gen. John Russell Deane (ret) who led the US mission to Moscow as Harriman ambassador will praise Harriman s foreign affairs competency. Oklahoma Governor Raymond D Gary will deliver a speech and carry 28 unit votes to Chicago for Harriman.
The text notes that cocoa trees originate in warmer Latin American regions and were introduced to Africa where the continent now tops the world in cocoa production. The statement is presented as a concise summary of the spread and current leading role in output.
USC cinema department students staged a low budget final exam film The Face of Lincoln that won the Oscar for best short subject beating major studios. The project used no actors, scripts, or sets and was based on Merrell Gage's Lincoln sculpture lecture, filmed by students in their studio.
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