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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1976
Page
2
A garbled collection mentions Paul, Suemeladeon, and a Kane bequest, plus a reference to 45,500 hives in 1975 and American safety statistics. It cites a volcanic eruption inland of Krekatog in the Netherlands Indies on August 28, with unclear context and multiple disjoint names and phrases.
LeRoy Gaines, longtime American National Insurance Co. agent and staff manager, will be honored Thursday at a retirement party during a noon gathering. He has spent 39 years with the company, earning many awards while serving alongside wife Maggie at their home.
R J Hodges Jr a College Station project leader in crops and extension agronomist at Texas A M University won the Texas Superior Service Award for dynamic leadership and dedication in planning and executing agronomic educational programs that improved production and profits for Texas rice small grains and soybeans.
The Continental Congress appointed a five member committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Adams Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston served, with Livingston absent in New York and never signing. By the time New York delegates could sign, Lovingston had left to join the New York convention.
The Childress Lions Club will sponsor sack races during the Happy Birthday USA Celebration. Races are set for 10 a.m. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on the baseball field south of the Community Center Building. Cash prizes await the first and second place finishers.
The article lists contributions to the Heart Fund honoring individuals and groups, including the Carey Baptist Church and several families. It contrasts farm wages from 1890s with 1969 70 levels, noting 65-75 cents daily to over $10. It cites Census Bureau data from Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970. Residential electricity use rose from 265 kWh per customer in 1912 to over 5,000 by 1970 per the same source.
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