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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1973
Page
1
President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev witnessed the signing of four cooperative agreements and then shifted to a discussion on trade during their summit talks. The mood and specifics of the accords remain under close scrutiny as negotiators seek mutual gains.
The New York stock market drifted lower in moderate trading after failing to hold an early rally. Analysts cited dollar improvement abroad as a partial spark, while others called the rise purely technical.
Mrs. Gene Keys of 901 Avenue D Northwest named chairwoman of the Breath of Life Campaign to fight pediatric lung diseases. She will lead Childress volunteers in raising funds for cystic fibrosis research and care programs across CF centers nationwide.
C A Black 73 of Lubbock died in Lubbock after a long illness. He was brother to Mrs Bill Heckathorn Childress and Mrs Willie Moates Carey. Funeral 2 p m Wednesday at Rix Funeral Home Lubbock with burial in a Lubbock cemetery. Born March 12 1900 in Freestone County Texas he moved to Collingsworth County in 1906. He married Ruby Heckathorn of High Point in the mid 1920s. Survivors include his wife three sisters two brothers three daughters two sons several grandchildren and one great grandchild.
AP survey shows Western Europe suffers higher inflation despite controls. Britain France Spain Italy Denmark and Finland face 9.2 percent inflation, with Prime Minister Edward Heath enacting strict wage and price limits last November as food prices climb.
Commander Charles Conrad Jr and Paul J. Weitz outside Skylab repaired a dead battery with a hammer and retrieved six film canisters. The two finished in half the planned three hours as Kerwin filmed inside. The 28 day mission neared splashdown in the Pacific.
A new cool front moved through Northwest and North Central Texas bringing showers and thunderstorms and easing early summer heat. Tornado sightings were reported near Plainview and northwest of Wichita Falls as turbulence spread toward Oklahoma and Arkansas. A twister touched down near Frederick just across the Oklahoma line.
In Key West the Johnson Sea Link minisub trapped 351 feet underwater for 31 hours is freed. Two rear chamber crewmen Clayton Link and Albert Stover are pronounced dead, while two forward chamber crewmen survive.
New officers were elected for Childress Masonic Lodge No. 695 last week and will be installed soon. Elected officers include Harper Knight as Worshipful Master, James D. Smith Senior Warden, Charles Baker Junior Warden, Willard Williams Treasurer, H. E. Wright Secretary, and Gene Frisbie Tiler. appointed officers will be chosen by the new Worshipful Master.
The U S Supreme Court ordered a reshaping of Texas legislative and congressional districts in two decisions handed down Monday. It upheld the lower court against multi member Dallas and San Antonio districts and overturned a ruling invalidating the Texas Legislature's apportionment plan. It also ruled the lower court chose the most inappropriate of three reapportionment plans for Congress, creating single member districts in Dallas and San Antonio and signaling possible federal challenges to multimember districts elsewhere due to a history of discrimination against Blacks and Mexican Americans.
A Oklahoma tornado leveled the Hallmark Villa nursing home in Frederick injuring more than 60 people and causing millions in damage. Hospitals reported 43 hospitalized locally, with aid from Altus Lawton Snyder responders and more than 300 volunteers assisting emergency operations.
A Senate Watergate inquiry source says John W. Dean III will testify that President Nixon knew of the coverup. The source claims Dean will name the President, based on his information from an antique sale context.
In Weatherford an auction Saturday will sell antiques from estates donated to the Pythian Home. Inspections are set for Friday. The items, some nearly 200 years old, originate from endowments to the home reported by Delbert Wasson.
Miss Maud Stewart 97, longtime Childress resident, will be laid to rest at Childress Cemetery after services at 2 p.m. in the Newberry Funeral Chapel. Rev. H Paul Henderson will officiate with Rev. Murray Travis assisting. Burial will follow. Pallbearers include Bill Sager Ronny Leach Herbert Clift Ross Smith Louis Sally and Frank Mitchell. She moved to Childress in 1880 and worked as rural schoolteacher and company bookkeeper before serving as church secretary. Survivors include two cousins Mrs Lora Glenn Amarillo and Mrs Marion Gaston Chattanooga Tenn.
The Appropriations Committee sent a $19 billion budget busting appropriation to the House floor for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It funds HUD space and science agencies the Veterans Administration and other independent agencies. The total exceeds Nixon’s request by $461 million but is $1.78 billion below last year’s total. The largest rise of $782.5 million targets community development urban renewal model cities rehabilitation loans open space land neighborhood facilities and water and sewer grants.
Wheat harvest in Childress County was 80 percent complete with 294 cars shipped and 30 cars in elevators. An elevator operator predicted only a few more days of dry weather would finish the harvest.
A meeting of retired federal employees will be held at 2 30 p m on Wednesday at the Childress Retirement Club.
Vernon Social Security representative Richard Lawhorn will be at the Childress Courthouse at 10 00 a m on Monday June 25 to take social security applications.
A garage sale will be held in June 2022 at 701 Avenue Se to raise funds for the Childress High School twirlers. Proceeds support the girls’ attendance at the SMU twirler camp.
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