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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1968
Page
6
INDEXING BY MORRIS HIGLEY discusses reports north of the Red River of a mysterious light or flying object. He notes Curtis Watts' hoax claim, cites police activity and UPI inquiries, and mentions Alvis Maddox and others who saw the light while skeptics fear being labeled nuts.
Reports say Gen. Abrams was sent to the northern I Corps to take over Demilitarized Zone and Khe Sanh duties, signaling friction despite Westmoreland's reaffirmation of faith in Marine leadership. Quan Long in An Xuyen Province is described as a major government gain after heavy guerrilla fighting and civilian casualties.
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Claude Sisco 67 of Modesto Calif former resident will be held at 1:39 p.m Thursday in the United Pentecostal Church in Modesto. Interment will follow in the Modesto Laurel Cemetery. She died Sunday afternoon in Modesto hospital after about four weeks illness. Survivors include four sons five daughters a sister three brothers several grandchildren and great grandchildren and a niece.
Kenneth Bearden of Childress elected executive vice president of the new Maryland Old Line Insurance Co in Baltimore. He and his family will move to Severna Park after working at Twentieth Century Life Insurance Co since 1964 in Harrisburg. Bearden, a 1950 Childress High School graduate, later studied at Howard Payne and Texas A and M, with teaching stints in Quanah Gainesville Corpus Christi Arizona and California.
Funeral services were conducted today at 2 p.m. at the Kirkland Church of Christ for Mrs. Leonard Myers 65 a former Kirkland resident. E A Sanders officiated and burial followed in Kirkland Cemetery by Newberry's. Mrs Myers died early Tuesday and left behind her daughter in Del Rio where she had lived about a year.
Wilson and Junior High hosted visits for parents as teachers swap shifts at 9 a m Thursday to observe classes. In Childress High School parents attended study halls and heard explanations while student guides served meals in the gym during Public Schools Week.
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