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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1967
Page
3
The Allan Neighbors family traveled from Alabama and Lawton as friends and relatives visited area residents. Multiple mentions note Golden Wedding anniversaries, church events, and graduations at Texas Tech. Visitors include the J. T. Austins, the Mullins family, and townspeople from Amarillo to Memphis, with local hospital visits and VBS participation.
A long list of visits from families and relatives to residents in Childress and nearby towns. Several capitals include Mr. and Mrs. Pete Davis, Mrs. J. L. Harris, Rev. E. J. Hollis, Mrs. A. T. Fox, and many others visiting relatives, attending Bible School, or calling while in towns like Amarillo Eldorado Wichita Falls and Abilene.
Galveston Texas offers beaches and Gulf fishing with friendly surf for beginners. Visitors enjoy hotels, seafood restaurants, night picnics, and breezy evenings. Major sights include St Marys Cathedral, Bishop Palace, Ursuline Convent, and the historic port with tours and party boats.
A fox in a pig raid at the Harry McGhee farm near Metropolis was slain by an angry sow protecting her young after entering a pig pen. The fox was found dead in the pig farrowing pen this week.
Two tested pot roast recipes with detailed steps and quantities. Dill pot roast uses carrot gravy and dill seeds. Bavarian roast uses caraway seed and onion with bay leaf. Servings range eight to twelve.
Larkspur Club met this week for a luncheon and social in the newly remodeled home of Mrs. A. H. Lankford. Present were Mmes. T. B. Pryor, Paul Pierce, Homer Cox, C. C. Lewis and J. W. Say.
A Father s Day baking item featuring moist old fashioned molasses cookies. The recipe by Gaynor Maddox yields about 2 1/2 dozen cookies and uses flour soda salt cinnamon nutmeg shortening sugar egg molasses oats. Ingredients and steps cover mixing, chilling, baking at 350 degrees and sugaring tops if desired.
The forecast calls for temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal with a high near 90s and a low around 70s. Expect clear to partly cloudy conditions with widely scattered thunderstorms tonight and Saturday afternoon and about an inch of rainfall over the weekend.
Miss Pam Winter is spending a few weeks in San Antonio as houseguest of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Dick Jr. Janie Glover of West Texas State University in Canyon is visiting Mr. and Mrs. John E. Glover over the weekend.
This Almanac entry notes Friday June 16 1967 as day 167 with Saturn as morning star and a line of historical events including the 1871 founding of the Shrine in New York City 1933 Franklin D Roosevelt signs the National Industrial Recovery Act 1955 Buenos Aires riots over Juan Perón 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space and a Plato quote on boyhood.
The record shows Harvey Foley transferred to Taylor Nursing Home today. Robert Gault and Mrs. G A Walker are dismissed on Thursday and today respectively.
At 11 a.m. the Dow Jones industrials gain 4.23 points to 887.49 while the rail index rises 0.22 to 256.87 the utilities add 0.35 to 132.25 and the broader 65 stock average climbs 1.01 to 322.28.
The high reached 106 degrees at Presidio Texas, the hottest statewide reading excluding Hawaii and Alaska, while Flagstaff Arizona posted a 35 degree low today.
Mr and Mrs W J Tomerlin of Wellington Utah visited nieces Mrs Kenneth West Mrs Larry Grimes and Mrs Owen Henry in Childress this week. They will visit in Paducah with relatives after Wichita Falls and Dallas trips. Fay Tom Black and family visited her parents D O Nash en route to Arkansas for vacation. Velma Kriedel of Odessa visiting sister Alyeen Ater. Velma Liner of Dallas, former Childress teacher, visiting friends. Dalby Fleming’s daughter Mrs Carrroll Hall and granddaughters Lisa Marcy Jill of White Sands NM visit two weeks.
Kosygin lands at Kennedy Airport to push Soviet in?uence at the UN General Assembly amid demands to condemn Israel and withdraw troops. The Kremlin contingent, led by Brezhnev and Podgorny, signals a tough anti Israel bargaining position as Kosygin travels with his daughter after the death of his wife Klaudia May 1.
The United Nations World Headquarters was established on land donated by John D. Rockefeller III in 1946. The gesture helped launch the new international center in New York City with Rockefeller’s backing shaping the site for the postwar world body.
A UPI education column discusses how language use shapes opportunity and success. It covers language arts as spelling writing grammar pronunciation and speech, and emphasizes parental support and systematic practice for pronunciation and vocabulary growth.
NBC TV’s Telephone Hour shifts to Friday 10 p.m. EDT this September with a musical documentary format aimed at an elite audience. Sponsors target about 13 million viewers, while promising longer musical segments and fewer mid program commercials.
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Mc Knight of Lubbock are in Paducah to be with Mrs. M. G. Newby, who is seriously ill in the local hospital, as reported by Mrs. Jessie Thomas, Special Correspondent.
The Weather Bureau twice warned of 10.5 inches of rain in 45 minutes near Olton Texas before retracting the advisory. A farmer Jim Jeffreys said what he thought was rain was only sprinkler water filling a bucket on his farm.
NORTHFIELD Special Mrs. Delmont Hays and Mrs. Allie Mae Martin hosted a home products party. Refreshments were served to attendees including Mines Permelia Timmons Et ta Moore Bessie Thomas Ruth McDonald Wilma Thomas Juanita Curlee Fay Davis Fay Timmons and children Olive Curlee and Ann Timmons.
Say happy birthday tomorrow to Russell Jones Christie Diane Kaye R B Austin and Sunday to Mrs Lonnie Garrison Mrs Wade McConnell John Hamilton Ellen Wasson Mrs John Ballew Mrs Clara Beth Adams as a community acknowledgment.
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