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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1963
Page
1
Chief Alvis Maddox warned all pet owners to pen dogs and keep pets confined after a Northwest woman threatened to poison dogs unless penned up. Poisoning dogs is a misdemeanor with fines from ten to two hundred dollars after conviction.
March 7 1963 Austin Daybook notes the 59th day of the 140 day legislative session. Gov Connally says state funds are under tight restraints. Senate hosts five big civics classes as Bryan’s attack on a land grant bill becomes focal.
The District 13 VFW and Auxiliary convention starts Saturday at the Veterans Building in Childress with 1 p.m. member registration. Cecil Joslin of Plainview is Commander and Mrs. Dorothy Hunnicutt of Canyon is Auxiliary president. Jim Starkey of Austin will represent the Texas VFW Department. A Saturday dinner and dance will cap the evening, with Sunday featuring more registrations and joint VFW Auxiliary meetings.
Warm spring like weather spread across Texas with clear skies and temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above Wednesday. Afternoon highs may reach the upper 80s in the Rio Grande Valley while overnight lows ranged from 18 at Dalhart to 62 at Corpus Christi.
A caravan of Shamrock boosters arrived in Childress around 12 30 p m today to greet visitors for the annual St Patrick s Day celebration in Shamrock on March 16. The booster group traveled from Wellington.
The Agriculture Department reported 1962 average farm income per farm at 3498 dollars, about 4 percent above 1961’s 3360 dollars. Net farm income rose slightly while farm numbers declined to an estimated 3.69 million, with total market receipts led by California and Iowa. Texas, Illinois and other states also top the cash received from marketings.
News of Patsy Cline Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins death from a private plane crash near Camden Tennessee shocked Nashville listeners. Randy Hughes pilot and Copas son in law also died. Friday services planned with Cline burial in Virginia and funeral arrangements for Hughes and Copas.
Paris reports Charles de Gaulle rules out a Kennedy meeting in the near term citing wide American French policy gaps. He may meet only after major US policy shifts, unhappy with U S Britain relations, and opposed to Britain’s early Common Market entry. He also opposes NATO nuclear plans linked to the Nassau accord.
Gov. Orval Faubus accuses the federal government of secretly recruiting Arkansas National Guard pilots for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and betraying them. Brig. Gen. Frank Bailey denies knowledge of such planes or involvement. Defense Dept. declines to comment.
The 41st annual Farmers Cooperative Gin meeting will be held Saturday March 9 at 1 30 p m in the Childress High School auditorium. Three directors will be elected and members may raise other business per Truman McFarland.
Nadine Parr becomes the sixth candidate for Childress Independent School District trustee as midnight deadline passes. Two vacancies exist with Dr. Bob Jones seeking re election and W A King not running. Others: E O Sims William T King R M Nance Littleton Havins. Election April 6. polling at Childress Junior High School Community Center and Lonie Community. Absentee voting March 16 to April 2 at County Clerk Office.
London and Birmingham chambers of commerce will send a trade mission to Moscow on May 6 to promote two way commerce with the Soviet Union. A spokesman for the London Chamber of Commerce said the mission will focus on expanding bilateral trade and discussions with Soviet officials.
The first section of the Unisphere was moved into place in New York on Wednesday in ceremonies attended by Rene Legrain Eiffel’s grandson. He presented a model of the Eiffel Tower to U S Steel board chairman Roger M Blough as part of the event signaling a 12 story stainless globe with satellite models.
James Wylie aged 85, Scotland’s oldest railway commuter, died Wednesday less than a month after receiving a free one year rail pass from British railways.
John B Nabers aged about 72 died at 3 a m today in a Wichita Falls hospital after about a month of illness He was a former District Highway Engineer at Childress and had worked for the Highway Department in several Texas towns He is survived by his widow two sisters and three sons Claude San Antonio Jack Wichita Falls and Henry Tacoma Wash Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Friday at First Methodist Church Vernon with interment there He had retired about 1952 and lived in Vernon earlier in his career
Moscow reports an editorial in Pravda condemning dogmatists who favor war over peaceful coexistence. The piece marks the 45th anniversary of the Communist movement and signals the ideological rift with Beijing over Khrushchev's policy.
Police report says no injuries in a 12:35 p m collision on Commerce Street. Jimmy T Smith northbound hit Don Strickland’s eastbound car on Avenue H NW. Smith cited for speeding and Strickland for failing to yield.
Childress High School principal Terrell spoke at noon with the Childress Jaycees about diploma changes and multiple diplomas in graduates. He cited about 60 percent college bound graduates and only 40 percent college capable, plus classroom space limits and ADA figures.
Band Boosters plan a 7 30 pm meeting today in the Band Hall to discuss activities and support for the group.
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