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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1958
Page
3
The Texas Employment Commission reports May nonfarm employment at 2,958,700 a rise of 1,100 with unemployment down 4,200 to 195,200. Gains in construction and services offset losses in manufacturing while farm work rose 33,600 from April to 459,000. Seasonal gains expected in soft goods like food processing and cotton oil mills.
Six Texas women pilots join a field of 100 starting the 12th Powder Puff Derby from San Diego on July 4 toward Charleston South Carolina. The 2177 mile course allows stops at El Paso Midland Abilene and Tyler. Dallas Abilene Corpus Christi entrants include Mrs Geraldine Sloan Mrs Martha Ann Reading Mrs Marion T Petty Miss Jo Ann Elliott Mrs Pauline Glasson and Mary Ann Smothers.
Partly cloudy and warmer through Sunday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Charley W Buster of San Manuel Arizona visiting at the Buster home and others from Dallas Midland Dumas Wichita Pam and more locals in town for visits with family and friends.
The column lists local residents visiting relatives and traveling to events. Mack Barron and family returned to Midland after visiting here with the Black and Barron families. Mickey Barron stayed for a weekend visit. Several others, including Mrs Abbe of Dublin, Mrs Stillwell, Roy Williamson family, Ed Hollis, Bebe Amacker, Truman Dukett and relatives, are noted as spending weekends or planning trips in Amarillo Paris Plainview Fordyce Ark and Wichita Falls with family and friends.
About 275 iron workers in Texas New Mexico Oklahoma and Kansas plan a strike starting Monday after wage talks failed. Union officials say the action targets non signing contractors while six firms reached wage deals. The current rate is $3.12 12 hourly with demands for a 10 cent raise now and another on Oct 1 plus a two year retroactive contract. Major projects include Phillips Petroleum carbon black plant expansion near Borger and Amarillo Base and school construction across the four states.
Washington officials say the United States and Russia are not closer to all out war despite Khrushchev's new Stalinist line. Eisenhower plans a letter reaffirming U S aims for an advance prepared summit and rejecting charges of stalling. Experts view Khrushchev as changing tactics not policy and foresee no risk of a nuclear holocaust.
The Soviet Union moved toward participation in the Geneva East West science talks with visa approval and a reply to the U S note after a shift in their stance. Izvestia announced a Romanian member joined the Soviet Geneva delegation as talks loomed.
The saying to spin a yarn originates on ships where sailors told long tales while twisting rope hemp into yarn. The practice fueled a figure of speech about tall stories in maritime life.
A devotional urging readers to seek salvation through Jesus Christ. It emphasizes Christ’s crucifixion and intercession as divine love and compassion. It invites readers to attend church this Sunday and notes a welcome to the House of Prayer.
Senate Rackets Committee will focus on underworld operations including the Apalachin meeting and Mafia activity. Testimony will name gangland figures and expose how criminals use unions and businesses for power in a sweeping four phase inquiry led by Chairman John L. McClellan.
The first phase of a hearing will focus on a November 14 1957 gangland meeting at Joseph Barbara’s home and on infiltration of gangsters into the New York and Pennsylvania garment industry. NY State Police Set Edgar Cresswell will testify about breaking up an upstate underworld convention and the delegates claim their purpose was to visit a sick friend.
A group of skirts blouses and station wagon snap front dresses are arranged for a woman who prefers not to wear shorts or pedal pushers. The collection aims for a smart relaxed look.
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