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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1954
Page
1
President Eisenhower said he asked the Atomic Energy Commission to reexamine J Robert Oppenheimer after a disturbing report. The AEC vote refused security clearance for Oppenheimer citing imprudent and dangerous associations with subversives. Oppenheimer may not appeal to the White House and his AEC consultant contract ends at midnight.
Mexico officials estimated on Wednesday that the great Rio Grande flood drowned 200 to 500 persons in Piedras Negras and other unconfirmed reports said the toll could be higher. Piedras Negras sits across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas, about 100 miles upstream from Laredo. Lt. D. T. McMains, a National Guard officer on duty.
Seventy seven wounded French soldiers from the Dien Bien Phu clash resume homeward after a Hawaii stopover. They toured native dances and a TV program at Hickam Field before departing Honolulu for Travis Air Force Base, California. Ambulances moved sixteen stretcher cases to Tripler Army Hospital for rest before the flight.
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas and Guatemala’s interim government head plan talks on San Salvador soil within 24 hours to negotiate a truce following a cease fire in the 12 day revolt. The move aims to ease tensions and pave the way for Castillo Armas to return to Guatemala City after three years in exile.
The State Highway Commission outlined a preliminary flood damage estimate of 450000 to West Texas bridges and highways not counting the Pecos River bridge replacement at about 1 million. Emergency measures authorize a temporary low water bridge across the Pecos River at Val Verde county and immediate repairs including two extra spans on the Seminole Creek bridge on U S 290 and Live Oak Creek bridge work on U S 290.
Senate Investigating subcommittee called a closed meeting to review why two staff members lacked clearance to handle Defense secrets and to set agenda items for its McCarthy Army hearings report. The panel will also decide how to treat a confidential Army report on Maj. Irving Peress.
The Mac Pieratt No 1 well was drilling below 3550 feet at noon southeast of Kirkland. The test aims for 6000 feet of oil or gas production and may be deepened if no hydrocarbons are found. Moran Drilling Company of Wichita Falls operates the test.
Childress Chapter No 262 Roy al Arch Masons and Childress Council No 197 royal and select masters will meet at the Masonic Hall at 8 p m tonight for installation of officers announced by secretary Ben Aardison.
President Eisenhower described his discussions with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden as encouraging for American British policy aims. They agreed to push a Southeast Asian collective defense plan and to seek peaceful coexistence without appeasement of communism, insisting the United States will not join any treaty that makes a country a slave.
The VFW and American Legion announce a July 5 dance at the Air Field Officers Club to celebrate Independence Day. Willard Neal and His Ideal Cowboys perform from 9 to 1.
George D. Cowan was installed as Boss Lion to lead the Childress Lions Club for 1954-55. Incoming district governor Jim Ed Waller of Plainview installed officers and paid tribute to outgoing president W. T. Nelson, who received the Lion of the Year plaque. Cowan announced a three month temporary duty in Abilene starting July 1 with KRBC TV before deciding his future in Childress.
Senate Republican leaders agreed to back a compromise to raise personal income tax exemptions for low bracket taxpayers. The announcement came at the end of a Republican caucus aimed at blocking a Democratic amendment to the administration's big tax reform bill.
Thunderstorms caused the greatest flood in Rio Grande history, moving into northern Texas on Wednesday. Midland logged 1.24 inches with Texarkana 0.40 and Amarillo 0.01 as forecasts warned more rain by nightfall.
The East Team for the Greenbelt Bowl Game to be played August 6 in Greenbelt was announced today. The squad includes Dale Jackson Mangum Charles Roberson Ronnie Mason Harold Lamb and others with positions listed from ends to fullbacks. Tickets are expected to go on sale soon with advance ducats at reduced prices. The West Texas team had been announced earlier.
William Hardy Krigbaum, longtime Childress County resident since age seven, died at 75 after a brief illness. Born November 13, 1878, in Moberly Missouri, he worked gins in Carey and Garden Valley and in the Rio Grande Valley, and served as a Church of Christ elder. Funeral services are set for 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of Christ with Harrell Collard presiding. pallbearers and floral attendants listed.
World observers in Minneapolis and St Paul witnessed a 76 second total solar eclipse as the sun was momentarily obscured by the moon. Dr. Harold Urey and Dr. Donald Menzel, aboard a Northwest Orient plane with 49 others, studied the event from about 240000 miles away, while ground observers saw the crescent and corona before darkness returned.
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