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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1962
Page
3
Pearl Robinson presents a devotional piece focusing on Jesus as the vine and believers as branches. The text emphasizes abiding in the vine to bear fruit, divine mercy, the Holy Spirit, and requests blessings, healing, and salvation through Jesus.
United Press International notes that Mount Whitney soars to 14 495 feet while Death Valley sinks to 282 feet below sea level, both in California and separated by 85 miles.
Last services for G. D. Beard a 44 year resident of Childress since 1939 will be held at 4 p.m. today at Newberry Chapel. Beard died at 11 a.m. at Yous Rest Home Friday. He was father of the late Mrs. Malone Hagan who died in 1993. He was a member of Memphis Masonic Lodge. Graveside rites will be at 5 p.m. at Memphis cemetery. Pallbearers listed: Bill Sager Walker Lockhoof Charles Reynolds Bill Adams John Forbis and Bill Atheley.
Graveside rites for former Childress resident Orville Johnson of Dexter New Mexico will be held at 4 p m Monday at Childress Cemetery by Rev Ira L Parrack. Mr Johnson is 76 and died Thursday in a Roswell New Mexico hospital. Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at Dexter.
In a joint AMA and Aerospace Medical Association statement air travel is not harmful to normal pregnancies regardless of duration and seven day old infants may be transported by air with no age based contraindications. It also notes well conditioned older adults tolerate flight well. Detroit Tigers sign pitcher Tom Fletcher to a bonus contract valued about 65 000 assigned to Knoxville Sally League.
Local residents host and travel through weekend visits from families in Wellington Shamrock Bakersfield Denver and Midland. Notables include Elder Meece Odis Meece and S T Cheatheam visiting from various Texas towns with relatives in Childress. An upcoming wedding and family visits stretch through July.
Dorothy McGee and Fern Reid of Wichita Falls are weekend guests of Mrs. Nannie Ward. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Todd of Denver visit Mrs. Fay Weatherbee and their daughter-in-law Mrs. Jimmy Todd in the city, visiting relatives and friends.
CAB and FBI link May 22 disaster to dynamite aboard the Continental Airlines 707 killing 45. Investigators point to a saboteur placing a fuse in a soiled towel receptacle in the lavatory before the plane exploded at 39,000 feet over Iowa.
The National Review criticizes Robert Welch for sowing confusion that hinders conservative action. Senators Goldwater and Tower back the critique, urging Welch to resign. California’s attorney general drafts a hostile Birch report, and Gen. Walker is removed for birch-linked indoctrination.
The State Democratic Executive Committee met as Naniel pledged to back Democratic nominees. Cox accused Connally of funding his campaigns with large sums, while Connally mocked Cox as a Republican renegade and warned of GOP unity to seize Texas governance.
In a bitter June 5 primary Nixon defeated state Senator Joseph Shell amid a conservative Birch Society push. The party split raises doubts about unifying to beat Democrat Brown in November, with Brown holding a registration edge. Welch speeches draw large crowds, though Birch membership data remains undisclosed.
George Cabot Lodge, 34, won the Massachusetts Republican convention’s official endorsement for senator, edging U S Rep Laurence Curtis 936 to 848 on the first ballot. Ted Kennedy was named Democratic candidate, setting up a potential Kennedy Lodge duel as in past eras.
A head-on collision one mile east of Lubbock killed three people and critically injured two others. Victims were Don Gene Rucker 21 and James Franklin Boyd 20, both Texas Tech students from Lubbock and Fort Worth, and Earl T. Brown 40 of Lubbock in the other car.
New York markets show cotton futures more active with a two sided week. July spot gains on covering and tight supply prospects while new crop months stay weaker ahead of first notice day June 25.
Week ended June 15 shows Dow Jones 601.48 to 603.20 intraday, closing 578.18 with a 23.43 drop. Rail index moves 126.00 to 126.45 intraday, closing 121.48. Utilities and steels also slide with mixed intraday highs and lows.
Weekly cattle and calves receipts total 6,000, down from 6,400 last week and 12,000 a year earlier. Slaughter steers ranged 25.60 for Choice to 23.25 25.50 for Good, with heifers 22.25 26. Calves 23.50 26.50, feeders 22 26. Baby calves 34.75 36, fan cy 30. hogs receipts 1,500, smallest since February. Trading active with barrows and gilts higher. week high for US 1-3 195-265 lb at 16.25-17.0.
Mack Taylor and Edna Neil Kirk, both residents of Lubbock, were injured in a collision on Farm Road 835 and taken to Methodist Hospital in Lubbock, according to the Department of Public Safety.
Prices paid midweek and Thursday mark the highest since late March. Sheep receipts total 18 900 with about 70 percent in slaughter classes. Slaughter choice and prime spring lambs 21 50 to 22, good and choice 18 to 21, shorn lambs 18 to 19. Feeders good and choice spring lambs 10 to 14 and old crop shorn lambs 10 to 11.
In Chicago traders saw irregular results as wheat rose up to 2 percent and rye climbed to 44 percent after early week demand due to harvest delays in the Southwest. Corn oats and soybeans fluctuated with varied moves as crop news dominated the pits.
The American Hospital Association reports higher wages for hospital workers and the cost of scientific breakthroughs as the main drivers of rising hospital costs. Payroll increases accounted for nearly two thirds of the rise in U S general hospitals since 1956, with average cost per patient day climbing from 24 15 to 32 23 dollars between 1956 and 1960.
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