Local Youth Gets Publishing Post in Nashville
Jimmie Murphy, a Childress youth, completed an intensive training course sponsored by Southwestern Publishing Company in Nashville Tennessee and was sent into the firm to represent it. The program included talks by Governor Frank Clement and Senator Estes Kefauver and closed with a dinner at the Maxwell House. Murphy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Murphy and was chosen from applicants nationwide to work with the firm which publishes family Bible and religious storybooks.
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Childress
Southwestern Publishing Company
Nashville
Tenn
Jimmie Murphy
Second St
N.E
Edgar Murphy
Maxwell House
Tennessee
Frank Clement
Estes Kefauver
Old South
Southwestern
Murphy
Open House at Southwestern Bell Dial Building
The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company holds open house in its new dial telephone building today and Friday from 5 to 7 and 9 p.m. A cordial invitation goes out to subscribers, friends and neighbors. Fink’s Furniture Fifth Anniversary Sale continues through Saturday with many sale items showcased. Tolison to move Childress operation. Acme Mattress & Spring Co to be renamed. Westmoreland returns from vacation. Hudson Thomas on leave. White’s Auto Stores 24th anniversary event ends Saturday with special offers. Charley Buster and family vacationed in Childress. now residing in Douglas, Arizona.
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Southwestern Bell Tele- Company
Dial Telephone
Fink
Kenneth
White’s Auto Stores
Vince Craft
White's Auto Store
Sign in bakery harks back to old pie days
Windsor shop displays a retro sign reading Pies like moth r used to bake before she got a TV set. The quirky message bridges past and present as locals smile.
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Windsor
Ont
Turner Machine Shop Handles Big and Small Jobs
Turner Machine Shop on 17th Street east of the highway offices offers light and heavy machine work, welding in shop or field, and complete services for farmers and business people. It can build TV towers and custom trailers, with Jim Turner inviting inquiries and offering obligation free estimates.
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Turner Machine Shop
Turner's
17Th Street
Highway Department
Turner
Jim Turner
West Childress
Larned
A. O. Larned
Henderson Lumber Company
Famous Allied Paints
Henderson
Henderson's
Gunn Brothers
Popular Lumber Company
Speedway Grocery and Auto Needs One Stop Center
The Bradford family runs Speedway Grocery and Market at 400 Avenue B SW offering fresh meats produce and staples with Sundays open all day and Saturdays until 6 pm. They provide car services including oil gasoline wash radiator and battery checks and operate a trailer park behind the store with shopper parking available.
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Speedway
Avenue B. Sw
Wade Bradford
California Liquor and Wine Consumption per Adult
California finance figures show that among 8,457,000 adults in the state the annual per person intake averages 2.38 gallons of hard liquor, 22.3 gallons of beer, 1.1 gallons of dry wine, 1.9 gallons of sweet wine, and 0.5 gallon of sparkling wine.
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Sacramento
California Department of Finance
New Television Comedian Has Many Talents
HOLLYWOOD June 25 Joe Television discovers a multi talented comic who sings dances juggles boxes swings on a trapeze plays eight instruments and stars in a seven year NBC contract. Paul Gilbert tops the club circuit and TV guest spots designs furniture drives a race car keeps a speedboat aims for stardom on his show The Duke. He says he wants to be to comedy what Jose Ferrer is to drama and has spent 22 years in show business though only 29.
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Hollywood
Joe Television
Jose Ferrer
Paul Gilbert
Gilbert
NBC
Duke
Madison Square Garden
Las Vegas
Jackie Gleason
Showboat Memories In Small Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown Illinois a river town with 600 residents preserves showboat history. Posters mention French's New Sensation Golden Rod and Cottonblossom, while a landing visit featured steam calliope bands parading through town and boats with animals and performers.
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Elizabethtown
Ill
Ohio
Mississippi
McCanns News Analysis Highlights East Asia Shifts
United Press analysis notes hopeful U.S. Britain unity on Asia policy at Washington conference while signaling gaps. Eisenhower cites Japan as key to western Pacific defense. rearmament steps and Sabrejet shipments to Formosa discussed. Vietnam Delta morale improves as Hanoi nervousness eases after battles along Red River Delta and Tuyhoa.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
United States
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Churchill
Britain
Japan
Western Pacific
East Asia
Hokkaido
Sakhalin Island
Formosa
Indo - China
Red River
Tuyhoa
Local Shops Highlight Historic Town’s Sweet Mix
An advertisement spotlights a compact town hub featuring Borden’s Ice Cream Martha Washington Candies and Max Factor Cosmetics at 207 F NW. Dial WE 7 9002 to inquire about offerings and store hours.
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Borden's
Martha Washington
Max Factor Cosmetics
F. Nw
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Coin
E. J. Huddleston
C. H. Telison
Lubbock
Malone Hagan
Tolison
Acme Mattress& Spring Companies
Amarillo
Mattress Company
Acme Mattress & Spring Co
Juls
al Westmoreland
Purr Food
Hudson Thomas
Figgi's
Charley Buster
The
Index
Frank Buster
Busters
Douglas, Ariz
Childress Office Supply
Main Street
At Speedway
California
Showboat Memories
Clyde Clark
Montgomery-Ward
Clark
McCann’s News Analysis
Charles M. McCann
United Press
Hanoi
Nguyen Huu Tri
Viet Nam
Dien Bien Phu
Guatemala
Santiago
Chile
Montevideo
Uruguay
Geneva
Chou En-Lai
Pierre Mendes- France
Switzerland
Indo- China
Mitchell-Goodwin Lumber Company
Ave. A
Inez
Speedway Station
Bennett Drug
Fender
Sam Privitt
Dial
Childress Lumber CO
Cook's Quality Paints
Pioneer Home
Bulldere
Childress Sand & Gravel CO
Ave. D
W&b Sheet Metal Shop
Diai
Desoto
Plymouth
Collins Motor CO
Service Department
Montgomery Wards
Commerce
Harry Mitchell
Woodrow Czewski
Henderson Lumber
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