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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1955
Page
4
The CIO reports many firms can grant substantial wage boosts and guaranteed plans for a year without raising prices due to improved productivity. It notes current gains in wages could expand consumer sales and support markets, with historic pay increases averaging 5 cents last year and rising to 7 to 9 cents this year.
The CIO reported 1954 profits of leading corporations up 4 percent after taxes despite lower sales. Dividends in early 1955 ran at a record annual rate of 10 billion dollars, with sales also rising. It urged substantial wage gains in 1955 to strengthen consumer markets and support ongoing economic improvement.
Sheri Susanne Castleberry infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Don Castleberry died in a Lubbock hospital Saturday morning. The mother Fern Smith of Childress. Graveside services set for 2:30 this afternoon at Childress cemetery.
Morrow asserts that Washington influence is not needed and emphasizes the principle of state rights. He recalls Gov. Shivers’s forthright 1952 position and says his family supported it with vigor, noting his belief in doing the right thing.
A community donation drive publishes a preliminary donor list and invites corrections. People may give at The Index or ASC office in the courthouse with mail options available. The list includes J L Smith Grady Gilliland Earl Tosh and many others.
The article lists 10 Americans among returning Austrians including Pvt. Sidney Sparks of Tennille Georgia who says he was kidnapped from Berlin in 1952, and John Ford of Oklahoma claimed prisoner since 1940 with a wife and two children. Bob Cunish a naturalized American once from New Orleans says he was seized in Soviet Austria in 1947. It also notes two bird facts about skuas diving and attacking.
New York reports the National Education Association launches an international survey of history textbooks. Educators in over 50 non Iron Curtain countries participate. Dr Howard E Wilson says the study aims to assess how textbooks foster intergroup relations and improve classroom use.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports a continued shift toward earlier farrowing of spring pigs across the year 58 countries surveyed. Preliminary findings from a Brussels based commission point to evolving global plans in education and policy adjustments beginning in July.
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