Summer Dress Sale Promises Fair Prices and Fashion
A shop extols a midsummer merchandise range with colors fabrics and feminine lines. It boasts superior style versus last season and accessible pricing to fit every budget.
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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1961
Page
3
A shop extols a midsummer merchandise range with colors fabrics and feminine lines. It boasts superior style versus last season and accessible pricing to fit every budget.
Walter Lippmann’s second fireside chat with Howard K. Smith on CBS Reports offered clear world affairs analysis and sharp political judgment. The review notes rapid topic shifts and a final clash over pacifism, praising the hour’s dramatic quality while criticizing the one hour limit. It also comments on Ernie Kovacs and notes producer Charles Andrews leaving The Channel Swim.
Estelline society notes host of visitors and movements including Nivens and family vacationing in Thermopolis Wyoming, Priest family guests of Helm-Mars, Whaleys visiting Beaumont and moving to Houston, and Obituaries for Bounds Jouett and Graham. Church improvements at the Methodist and new gun office gin manager McRae. Local residents travel to Clarendon and McKinney, plus WSC S meeting in Fargo.
The Steve Allen Show debuts its new season on September 27. The Count Basie orchestra dancer John Bubbles and singers Dorothy Loudon, Bill Hayes, and Blossom Dearie join Music of the Thirties on Du Pont Show of the Week set for October 22 with Paul Whiteman as narrator. Patty Clark becomes regular female vocalist for Glenn Miller Time premiering July 10 on CBS TV. Castle sisters lead the choral group. John Secondari and Helen Jean Rogers of ABC TV announce their July 1 marriage.
Mrs. Cecil Pryor led a program on A Home For the Homeless at the Woman's Society of Christian Service in the First Methodist Church parlor. Members read devotions, a poem, and prayers as they prepared for a sub-district meeting at St. Luke's in Quanah.
Northfield and Childress area residents and relatives visit over weekends across Texas and nearby states. Names include Boone Simpson Hal Courtney Edna Hoover Rosco Halbert Dan Coker Lana Coker Paul Cruse and many others visiting relatives in Spur Midland Wichita El Paso Portales Fort Worth and Carlsbad among extended family ties and hospital concerns.
Mrs. Tom Goff and Rev and Mrs J A McDonald attended a McDonald family reunion in Wichita Falls. James Goff visited Dumas and Amarillo with relatives while Mr and Mrs J A Stinnett traveled to Wichita Falls.
About 12 members of the WWI Veterans and Auxiliary of Ebb Crady Post attended a pot luck supper Monday evening in the Veterans Building. A brief business meeting announced the group would not meet again until September.
The hospital reports admit list includes Bill Odom and Mrs. George Smith admitted Thursday along with J. R. Stockstill today. Dismissals include Mrs. Don Parnell and J. E. Copeland Thursday and George Sherrell Irving L. F. Harris Mrs. J. C. Butler and Roy Wilks Thursday.
The 24 hour period ending 11 a.m. Friday saw a high of 65 degrees and a low of 61 degrees. The high occurred at (10 and 11 a.m.) Friday while the low was 61 degrees at 1 p.m. Thursday and 4 to 6 a.m. Friday.
The Friday social calendar lists a North Childress HDC gathering at 9 a.m. in the home of Mrs. George Tipps. Members are slated to discuss local homes and planning matters in a small, informal event.
Surveys show a single large steel mill may require up to 500 million gallons of water daily, enough to serve a city of several million people.
The post earthquake blaze became the worst U.S. conflagration, destroying 28,000 buildings valued at about 350 million dollars in San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake.
Mostly cloudy and cool with a few showers through Saturday. Miss Norma Bridges of Odessa visits relatives in the area. Several residents travel for family visits, funerals, and medical care, including C. W. Patterson critically ill with family at his side and Carl Lee preparing for a United Nations Tour by bus after Corsicana. Local community movements include moving to Aspermont and visits among relatives in Amarillo Borger and Wichita Falls.
In Tulsa Oklahoma the modern railroad tank car with heating insulation and pressure systems evolved from 1860s flat cars carrying wooden tanks.
When inviting a husband and wife to dinner the woman sits on the host’s right and the man to the right of the hostess, a traditional seating rule for social occasions.
TV guide listing for KFDOX KGNC KFDA KVII channels detailing schedules from 4:00 PM to 12:30 AM. Programs include The Cisco Kid Our Gang Playtime World of Crafts Ramar Of The Jungle Warren and The Weather Huntley Brinkley Happy Jubilee Lawless Years Westinghouse Playhouse Michael Shayne Narrowly followed by Norman Duncan Report Best of Paar Nightcap News Amos N Andy Weather and more.
Weekend broadcast grid shows KFOX KSYD and EVil TV channels with daily slates from morning cartoons to late news. Notable shows include Bonanza Dragon Sleuths Twilight Zone Gunsmoke and Perry Mason across stations and various time slots.
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