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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1973
Page
3
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A detailed list of meals teas and banquets for seniors graduates and groups from March 14 to May 14. Activities include breakfasts luncheons dinners and teas hosted by multiple individuals at homes chaparral restaurant first baptist church and other venues. Notable names include Carol Hart Kathy Sager Denise Rasberry Joe Holland and Pamela Farley among many others.
This week in Childress lists meetings and gatherings including Brownie Troop 122 at Clint Crawford home and Junior Troop 37 in CAP building today 3:30 p.m. Cancer Society at Chaparral Restaurant 5:45 p.m. Hoobler Circle at First Methodist City Council at city hall 7 p.m. Riding Club and Rebekah Lodge events 7:30 p.m. on various venues. Wednesday features Union Flat HDC Rotary Club Kirkland Arts Club and others. Thursday covers Modern Home Club Jaycees Senior Citizens Club and Young Homemakers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that most athletes in ancient Olympic games were judged across multiple events, including combined competitions such as the pentathlon, reflecting a multi discipline standard of judging and skill.
George Washington Adams, child of John Quincy Adams, was born in 1801 in Berlin while his father served on a U S diplomatic assignment abroad. The birth marked the first time a president's child was born outside the United States.
College Station based Texas A&M Extension Service expert Mrs. Gwendolyne Clyatt advises shoppers to tailor cooking methods to rising meat costs. She notes bargains on duck, pork, fryer chicken, turkey parts, and eggs, plus affordable produce like cabbage, potatoes, turnips, carrots, and onions, with fruit broadly priced by the bag.
Mr and Mrs Max Kincanon of Velma Oklahoma announce the birth of a daughter in Altus Oklahoma hospital this morning. The infant weighs four pounds eleven ounces. Grandparents are Carl Spears of Childress and Leon Kincanon of Altus. The Kincanons have two other children Stacey and Jeffery.
Alpha Iota Iota Chapter met Monday evening at Mrs. Tommy Fisher home with co host Edna Owens presenting a show and tell program. Members displayed their crafts while other attendees included Mrs. Ricky Mills Hal Miller Joey Ranne and Kay Hickman.
The regular World War I Veterans meeting was conducted as a luncheon Saturday in the Veterans Building. Attendees included Mrs. Fern Sanders and Mrs. Minnie Colm among others and Messrs. George Spear Marvin Moates Erwin Shoemaker Ben Hardison R H Knight Ben H. Davis Henry Colm A A Beaver and Alvin Caldwell.
Birthday notices celebrate Mrs. Fred Cordell Howard Preston Ruthie McMinn Mrs. Tom Catherall Darlene Sessions Joan Czewski Terri Lee Crook Tomorrow greetings for Mrs. Bert Hargrave Sharon Briley Jack Wilson Mrs. Jim Andrews Mrs. Karl VanBidder Tom Hassell Jeremy Rutledge Happy anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. Fay Eatherly on their 40th. Refrigerate canned or packaged coconut after opening. a pound of snap beans yields about five servings.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Goundie announce the birth of a daughter Linda Kay at 7 20 p m March 11 in Childress General Hospital. The newborn weighed five pounds eleven ounces.
Two presidents led separate sessions at a combined meeting on Saturday. AAUW members planned an April 17 trip to Canyon with husbands for a play while Gamma Kappa teachers from Collingsworth Childress Donley and Hall Counties readied for a four county gathering.
Miss Cindy Keel spring 1973 graduate was honored with a Monday morning breakfast hosted by Mrs. Morris Higley in Chaparral Restaurant Lancer Room. Special guest was Cindy's mother Mrs. W. O. Keel. other guests included Paula Parr Denise Rasberry Beverlye Weatherbee Terri Loter Stacy Lanham Lisa Fowler and Donna Cook. Manzanita trees with blue birds served as table favors and she received a gift certificate from the hostess.
W Scane Bowler, Pioneer Western Corp. chairman, says 31.6 million of 83.8 million workers in 1971 are women. Fewer than 23 percent are single, most are married or widowed. In two or more breadwinner families, female workers rose to 19 million, with women increasingly involved in family financial planning.
The 1735 seditious libel trial of editor and printer John Peter Zenger ended in acquittal by a jury, marking a milestone victory for freedom of the press in New York Province.
A. Gerald Parker recalls serving as Molotov's food taster aboard the Queen Elizabeth in 1946. The Soviet minister enjoyed Alesbury duckling and Melton mobray pie, with Parker tasting each course before him. Molotov later fell seasick but recovered and inspected pill bottles with doctors.
Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the Marianas as Las Islas de Los Ladrones after a hostile attack in 1521. Spanish missionaries later settled the islands in 1667 and renamed them Marianas to honor Maria Anna of Austria, widow of Philip IV of Spain.
The Friday menu features chicken pot pie with cranberry sauce peas carrots tossed salad hot buttered bread and dessert of banana pudding and strawberries in jello with milk corn bread and buttered spinach cabbage slaw and fried banana pudding items. The line also lists hamburgers with mustard sliced onion pickles and cream potatoes pork beans 7 dollars fudge cake.
George Washington served on General Edward Braddock’s staff. Braddock was killed during the assault on Fort Duquesne, and Washington became his lone surviving aide from that campaign.
Poisonous sumacs show small waxy white berries that hang in drooping clusters. Conversely harmless sumacs bear red berries in dense erect clusters.
Dear Polly answers readers on using tension rods with existing traverse rods for sheer curtains. She advises two full sheet pairs for double windows to ease opening. She suggests adding extra panels when long panels are unavailable and offers a tip for removing sticky tape from cars without damage.
Readers share practical advice on laundry care and cleaning methods. Suggestions include hemming bedsheets for reversibility, marking drawer inches for sizing, using onion bag for washing dishes, removing rug lint with vacuum alternatives, coloring needles for quick identification, gifting useful jars and containers, turning dark knits inside out to prevent fuzz, and stain treatments for wine on rugs.
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