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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1969
Page
1
Texas lawmakers Rep. Burke Musgrove and Rep. Swanson demand UIL reforms by the next legislative session or face new bills. They criticize transfer rules that disenfranchise about 1400 students and seek an approval process for transfers with a 40 day decision window.
Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong completed a 350 foot test flight in the lunar landing trainer vehicle at Space Center Houston. He piloted the craft five times in two days with altitudes from 100 to 350 feet, each landing under near ideal conditions despite rising winds threatening the Sunday sessions.
The Cox-Farr Post of the American Legion will install officers at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Veterans Building.
Thai soldiers beat back 1000 Viet Cong at a camp east of Saigon in the war's biggest skirmish for Thai forces. Allied sources report 212 guerrillas killed. Thai losses were six dead and six wounded.
Georges Pompidou won the Gaullist presidential runoff and will form a cabinet with Jacques Chaban-Delmas as premier. He aims to improve relations with the United States, ease Britain into the European Common Market, and restore a neutral Middle East stance. Poher conceded. final results await official proclamation.
City Health Officer Dr. J J Westenburg urges residents up to 40 to receive diphtheria and tetanus boosters before summer. Boosters last about three years and are crucial in livestock areas. Texas saw over 100 diphtheria cases in 1968, versus 25 in earlier years. He notes measles vaccine should be given to preschool children before September school entry.
City Council will convene at 7 30 p m in City Hall to discuss local matters and public concerns.
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 1 that the House improperly excluded Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from the 90th Congress on March 1, 1967. Chief Justice Warren said Powell was duly elected and not ineligible, and back pay and seniority should be considered by lower courts. Powell was seated in the 91st Congress after reelection but lost seniority and faced a $25,000 fine.
London reports Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis died at 77 after a heart complication. The British commander helped drive Rommel's Afrika Korps from North Africa and served with Eisenhower in the defeat of Nazi Germany, passing away at Winfield Lodge Windsor Forest. He fell ill Sunday night and died en route to hospital after an attempt to operate.
Allie Mae Thompson of Vernon mother of Mrs Loss Maddox of Childress died at 5 a m in a local Vernon nursing home She had resided in Childress nursing homes since February 1964 Services are pending with Hendersons Funeral Home in Vernon
Funeral services for Julia Fitzgerald 80 a former Childress resident were held at 3 p m Sunday at the Assembly of God Church Estelline Burial was in Estelline Cemetery She died Friday in an Amarillo hospital Survivors include son Wesley of Amarillo daughters Mrs Louie Seigler of Amarillo and Mrs Dade Smith of Dalhart a sister Mrs Addie Barnes of Fort Worth 16 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren
Ina Pearl Darnell died at 5 30 a m in St Anthony s Hospital Amarillo after a Friday fall at her home that fractured a shoulder and hip She was transported from Childress General Hospital by city ambulance The body was to be moved to Childress today by Newberry s funeral arrangements were incomplete at presstime
The Department of Health Education and Welfare reports five to seven million Americans have used marijuana at least once. LSD use declined, while 1 million used non barbiturate sedatives and 100,000 were known narcotics addicts. The total social cost is 541 million dollars annually.
Testimony before a six nation board shows the Australian carrier Melbourne may have set 220 degree base course before colliding with the U S destroyer Frank E Evans on June 3 in the South China Sea during SEATO exercises. Officers on Evans and the accompanying destroyer James E Eyes face possible negligence charges as Melbourne's captain testified the ship was on a 260 degree heading due to an antisubmarine zigzag plan.
Nixon's proposal to extend the income tax surcharge for one year clears a first hurdle in the House Ways and Means Committee. The plan keeps 10 percent for six months and 5 percent for the next six, with the deadline if not extended set for June 30. Rep. Hale Boggs noted efforts to finish the bill that day.
Fifteen members of the local DeMolay chapter travel to Wichita Falls for Area 6 conclave. They will compete in swimming track tennis and basketball with Jim Wakefield delivering the flower talk and demonstrations on DeMolay degrees. Adults accompanying the group are D. P. Dodge Ted Shelton and Dewey Smith.
In Segovia, Spain, 50 people died and 120 were injured when a restaurant roof collapsed during a Sunday fiesta for a new convention hall in Los Angeles de San Rafael. Police seized the project owner and pursued designers as doctors warned many may not survive. About 300 diners were present at the event 50 miles northwest of Madrid.
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