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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1969
Page
2
Governor Preston Smith pushes a constitutional amendment to empower the Texas Water Development Board to issue 3.5 billion dollars in bonds for a fifty year water plan. The project totals about 9 billion with federal funds covering the rest. Interest costs remain unknown as bond sales loom.
Washington dispatch notes House Banking Committee critic Wright Patman and others caution about the human element in banking. Bankers, seen as starved for companionship, raise prime rates to 8.5 percent, amid a credit crunch with total U S debt at 1.6 trillion and individuals owing 361 billion.
The late Thomas Merton left most of his literary and personal writings to Bellarmine College in Louisville. The collection will fill the college’s Merton Room opened in 1964 in his honor. Merton, 53, spent the last 27 years at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown.
A devotional urging believers to live as examples through deeds and truth. The piece emphasizes wisdom over words, surrender to God, and the need for divine guidance to win souls for Christ. It ends with a prayer asking for workers in the harvest and wisdom.
United Press International notes June 15 is the 166th day of 1969 with 199 to follow. It highlights planetary visibility and historical events including Franklin's electricity kite experiment in 1752 and Saipan invasion in 1944. Also mentions Kishi-Eisenhower talks in 1960 and Soviet cosmonaut Bykovsky's 1963 milestone. Thought for the day from Turgeniev and other quotes conclude.
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