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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1961
Page
3
Slim Bill offers SHAPEMASTER pants with built in girdle for a smooth trim look. The seamless stretch system, two snap in pantie portions, and normal size fit promise comfort and wearability. Available in sizes 8 to 18 in various textures and patterns at 10.95.
Modern Mothers meet at HDC Methodist Men in Fellowship Hall for supper at 7 p.m. On Friday County Line HDC at North Childress HDC hosted by Mrs. George Tipps at 9 a.m.
New York report describes a brunch friendly Americanized recipe. Use favorite pancake mix with 14 teaspoons grated orange rind in batter. Bake as directed and serve hot with orange raisin sauce.
UPI critic notes Perry Como’s 16 week mystery slate with The Professionals on NBC and praises the CBS U S Steel Hour Trial Without Jury for its provocative twists. ABC adds On Your Mark as a Saturday kids show and NBC lines up Car 54 for fall as The Tab Hunter Show ends. Margie leads into The Untouchables on ABC while Mrs G Goes To College debuts on CBS.
Personal ad in the London Times offers 100 tons of 300 year old oak beams for sale with the prompt Any offers.
Joe, a serviceman, stood on a 22 story bank roof threatening to jump over a baby theft scare. By hours later he was talked down by a chaplain, psychiatrist, wife, and coworkers. he was taken for examination and agreed to seek counseling with his wife.
Gerald York and James Douglas Latham confessed killers of seven persons left Grand Junction for Kansas to face trial. York, 18, from Jacksonville Florida, and Latham, 19, from Mauriceville Texas, stayed overnight near the jail before the journey.
California records indicate oxidant levels over limit and Berkeley readings near 1.04 snog. In the Bay Area at least three people collapsed from heat with no local fatalities, part of a nationwide 23 deaths blamed on week of heat storms and weather mishaps. Candlestick Park spectators and an usherette also collapsed from the heat.
At a Tuesday morning Women’s Missionary Society meeting in Fellowship Hall First Baptist Church a Roy al Service program titled Our Task Has Just Begun focused on Africa. W L Riker led with help from J Allen P Slater M Simpson and J Collins. Weather figures followed noting 100.8 reading and a sweltering day with 40s to 80s temperatures across regions.
King presided at the WMS business session with reports from secretary ene Stewart and treasurer J Whea theam. Circle chairs Lyons Rule and Allen reported. Leonard King stood in for Baker Circle. The executive committee proposed monthly Royal Service Program meetings and a fall officer nominating committee, both approved. Twenty one members attended.
Considerable cloudiness and mild with scattered showers through Friday. Low tonight 62 high Friday 82. Locals report Mr J J Williamson and Mrs Albert Howell in Sterly visiting her sister in law. Emmett Sutherland of San Francisco visiting family before Dallas trip. The Stanfords return from Roy New Mexico with relatives and stay for weekend. J H Jernigan improving in Childress General Hospital. Darrellene Holleman to visit Fort Worth and relatives Friday. Pamela Hughes leaving for San Antonio for the summer with Rose Glanville Hughes family.
Mr and Mrs A L Jones and sons Timothy and Allen, once Chil dress residents, now in Cornus Christi, plan a visit tonight with the Eddie Johnson family before continuing to Washington for a vacation.
M. K. Wilcoxson a representative in Childress for Southwestern Life Insurance Company will be in Dallas June 1923 to attend the Tax Insurance Section of a company Tax and Business Insurance school. The program focuses on arranging life insurance for Federal income gift and state tax planning to improve estate strategies.
United States report notes thousands of rebel infantrymen were said to have routed royal Laotian forces. A four nation conference has heard from all parties except the royal government.
The Wednesday list shows discharges for R. J. Murphy and several patients including Mrs. Don Parnell Mrs. B L Key Wanda Hughes Mrs M H Turnentine and others. Today a patient George Sherrell of Irving is noted along with Mrs J C Stepp.
In 1958 per capita paper use reached about 405 pounds, nearly quadrupling the 1899 consumption by Wai. The figure highlights postwar industrial growth and changes in literacy, printing, and packaging demand across the United States.
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