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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1962
Page
5
Le Mans prepares for the 24 hour race drawing about 250 000 visitors with 55 drivers set to start. The event, famed as Europe’s largest of its kind, attracts top racers while spectators pack into the town where no rooms are available within 30 miles. The start scene features drivers lined at track side before the signal, then racing off.
Funeral rites for Byrd Bain two year old former Childress County resident will be held at 2 pm Thursday at Newberry Chapel. Rev L L Hill of First Methodist Church will officiate. Bain died Tuesday morning in a Portales New Mexico hospital where he had lived since leaving Childress in 1934. He farmed in the Northfield community for about 40 years. Pallbearers named are W R Jones James Mitchell Joe King Ben Hardison John Ballew and G A Williams. Interment will be in Childress cemetery by Newberrys.
Final services for Mrs. Roy E Barr were held at 2 p.m. at Newberry Chapel conducted by Mrs Barr a longtime resident of Childress. She died Monday morning in a Dallas convalescent home and interment followed in Childress Cemetery.
Listing of individuals associated with hospital notices includes Mrs. Ed Inman, Mrs. Jerry Smith, Glenda Trolinder, Bob Collins, Jeanette Coyle and W. E. Royal, all marked Tuesday.
A congressional subcommittee probes AGWA and AGVA in multiple U S cities over coercive club practices. Testimony cites bar-girl duties, prostitution, and lax enforcement by unions with Baltimore stripper Kim Standlee recounting personal, partially corroborated experiences.
Kennedy and de Gaulle wrapped a brief session with unity on NATO but no movement toward resolving deep U S France nuclear policy rift. Officials say talks were too short to probe broad disagreements and affirmed shared commitments.
Brown announced 50 housing units to be built in Southwest Northwest and Northeast Childress. Contractors have 280 calendar days to complete the construction.
A local official notes that area invoices will be important in making the adjustments. The statement underscores the role of invoices in aligning figures with expected changes, though specifics were not disclosed.
Janet Leigh rehearses at Columbia Studio for Bye Bye Birdie wearing a black wig over her blonde hair. She notes friends fail to recognize her at first, speaks of busy dance rehearsals, bruises from the production, and her return to film after My Sister Eileen in 1955. Her children identify her but joke about the hair. Despite not being a trained dancer, she embraces the six minute dance sequence without song.
Last services for James Harvey Shorty Spurlock age 54 were to be held at 4 p.m. today at Newberry Chapel. The Church of Christ minister Jack Hackworth conducted the rites. Spurlock died Monday morning in Childress General Hospital. Interment was to be in Childress Cemetery by Newberry Funeral Home.
Washington UPI report recalls Guy Lombardo’s 24 year run at presidential balls. Since 1961 his orchestra played outside the White House and now amid Kennedy politics he promotes his music from the Shoreham Hotel. Lombardo jokes about Welk and a proposed International Corn Festival as a way to boost culture and business.
Visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Mote were Mrs. Jimmy Miller, Miss Betty Witt of Wichita Falls, Mr. and Mrs. A. FE. Mote and Kathy of Wellington, and Mrs. Johnny Mote who will join her husband in Frankfort Germany. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Snider and Scherry moved to 700 2nd St. SE in Childress. A. E. Mote and his father left for Kansas where A FE. Mote will harvest. J. E. Melton visited the Mote home before heading to Amarillo for work.
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