Nine Different Guided Missiles Now In Use By Combat Troops
United Press reports nine guided missiles are in combat units with plans for at least 18 more. The inventory includes Nike-Ajax, Corporal, Matador, Falcon-A, Regulus, Terrier, Sparrow, Sidewinder, Petrel, and Redstone with varied ranges and payloads. Defense officials note inter-service duplication but defend it to ensure top missile development.
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New Fiction On Library Shelves At Childressub Lic Library
New best sellers arrive for the fiction shelf as Mrs Davis chairing the book selection committee calls them light entertaining reading for summer. Titles include The Durable Fire by Howard Swiggett Three Faces of Love by Faith Baldwin Too Much Too Soon by Diana Barrymore Jane by Phyllis Bottome Life At Happy Knoll by John Marquand. Storms usually travel across the United States from west to east.
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Childressublic Library
Dan Davis
Magie
Jane
Philis Bottome
Time Magazine
Happy Knoll
John Marquand
America
Rome to Naples on a traveler’s journal during a grand tour
The author notes morning sightseing in Rome Roma and a lively street scene with open shops outdoor cafes and horse and buggy tours. He compares American reception in Italy to France and Switzerland credits human behavior with daily life including begging cigarette butt habits and hyena lore.
James Gardenhire On WT Honor Roll
Sammie Edwin James and Charles Lee Gardenhire of Estelline were named to the West Texas State College spring semester honor roll, listing the upper five percent of undergraduates. James is president-elect of the student body, a sophomore math major, and member of the Buffalo Bills and Mary E. Hudsbeth society. Gardenhire is a senior math student and WT alumnus of Estelline High School class of 1953, with prior study at Amarillo College.
Penguins descended from ancient flighted birds
Penguins trace their lineage to early birds that had normal wings for flight but gradually lost the ability to fly over millions of years, adapting to life in the sea.
Childress Major Returning From Overseas Tour
Major John H. Carter of Childress returns to the United States after three and a half years abroad. Accompanied by his wife and two stepsons, he will join the B-47 program at Hunter Air Base Georgia after a visit to Childress and Wichita Falls. He served in Europe including six NATO nations and was promoted in 1957.
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Maddox Assigned To Fort Benning Post
Army Specialist Ronnie E. Maddox 18, son of Mr and Mrs L W Maddox of Memphis, has been assigned to The School Brigade at Fort Benning Georgia. He was last stationed in Korea and joins Company G of the brigade Infantry School Detachment after basic training at Fort Chaffee Arkansas. He entered the Army in September 1955 and previously worked for Cudd Brothers of Memphis.
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Military officer’s tour spans three continents to NATO post
November 1953 to Eleanor Tims of Wichita Falls Texas. Major and Mrs Carter left the United States with the Tims boys the next month for Sculthorpe England where he served as flight commander with a bomber squadron until June 1956. He then moved to Italy with his family to begin a NATO tour in Naples.
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