The Childress Index Publication Details
The Childress Index is a Sunday Tuesday and Thursday newspaper published in Childress Texas by The Childress Index Inc. It is printed by Ox Bow Printing Inc in Childress. The publisher Morris Higley notes independence and impartial news coverage with corrections on notification. Subscription rates vary by location with annual and semiannual options for mail and carrier delivery.
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Editorials Shoot-Down Laid To Fear Complex
Editorial argues fear fueled the Libyan airliner tragedy and calls for ending fear in the Middle East. It urges Israel to resist terrorist threats and Arab states to disarm extremists while seeking peace and responsibility from both sides.
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Mideast
Nixon
Congress
Golda Meir
Israel
David Elazar
Cairo
Egypt
Hafez Ismail
Middle East
Divorce Law Incongruity Highlights Prisoner of War Return
A POW back home after six years in North Vietnam files for divorce in Ohio with mutual consent. The case cites gross neglect and extreme cruelty, illustrating how state laws demand one innocent party accuse the other, a legal fiction the author calls unsound and in need of reform.
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United States
North Vietnam
Ohio
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Today in History highlights for March 4
On March 4 1739 the first U S Congress met in New York City but adjourned for lack of a quorum. Other events: 1681 Penn chartered for Pennsylvania 1791 Vermont statehood 1829 Jackson inauguration riot 1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes first woman in Congress 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea 1945 Soviet Baltic advance 1963 hospital bus crash NYC East River seven dead.
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U.S
Congress
Federal Hall
New York City
England
Charles II
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Vermont
White House
Andrew Jackson
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Bismarck Sea
Baltic Sea
Germany
Pomerania
East River
Public reflections on Nixon era policy and history notes
A columnist muses on public opinion of President Nixon, tax policy, and federal spending. He credits Nixon with toughness in foreign affairs and recalls historical milestones from the presidential desk to early telephone use, ending with a birthday and a political thought about possessions.
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Morris Higley
Nixon
Hanoi
Memory trips in Hal Boyle column reminisce past life
In a nostalgic essay Hal Boyle notes memory as a global tourist site, recalling porch chats, Granny with a corncob pipe, Pluto Water reactions, childhood medicine, village gossip, rural fashion from flour sacks, gartered stockings, bootlegger alerts with bells, and doctors prescribing corn whisky, ending with the question those were the days remember.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Grand Canyon
Empire State Building
Niagara Falls
Taj Mahal
Granny
Highlands
Shantyboys and John Brown’s Family Legacy
The article notes lumbermen as shantyboys from the French chanter meaning to sing. It also details abolitionist John Brown, who led the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid, having seven children with his first wife and thirteen with his second.
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John Brown
U.S
Harpers Ferry
Market swings rise as uncertainty drives Dow volatility
The Dow Jones Industrial Average shows larger point moves as nervousness and big institutional trading push prices. Meigs of Argus Research notes news from Washington and abroad fuels rapid buys and sells while broader indexes swing less due to more stocks.
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Laurance F. Stuntz
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Dow
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Argus Research
Washington
Meigs
Stock Exchange
Devaluation Swings Markets. Confusion Sparks Caution
By Kim Grove lowers exchange. The devaluation will help most American companies, so it is no reason to sell stocks. But a report like that will cause the big swings, just because people are con fused.
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Magic as Habit and Spirit in Williams Play
Bruce Biossat surveys Tennessee Williams Out Cry noting the closing line Magic is a habit and arguing sustaining magic comes from conscious living, curiosity, and constructive struggle. He urges readers to seek innocence in life, act with imagination, and confront hardship without despair. The essay ends with personal faith and a plea to seek truth and share hope.
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Washington
NEA
Tennessee Williams
Williams
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Letters From Readers Promote Ads And Faith Critique
A set of letters discusses distributing a Warner & Swasey advertisement booklet in Childress and critiques churchgoers who ignore scripture, arguing for personal study over inherited belief and tradition.
Unknown Soldier Tomb Established at Arlington
The first national Unknown Soldier monument honors unidentified World War I dead. The tomb was entombed November 11, 1921, at Arlington National Cemetery in the presence of President Warren G. Harding. The inscription reads Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Virginia
Warren G. Harding
World Almanac
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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