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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1968
Page
1
UPI reports the United States logged 509 servicemen killed and 2,766 wounded in the week ending last Saturday, the largest weekly total of the war. Communist losses were 4,335. American jets bombed 10 major Haiphong Hanoi targets as raids continued.
Benjamin Lach a Polish born graduate student arrested in Lubbock faces murder charge in Texas Tech cleaner Sarah Morgan slaying. Boston officers plan to question Lach about the May 31 Suffolk University security guard killing. Lach was captured after a car chase ending in a cemetery.
Mac Crone, son of Mr and Mrs M L Crone, freshman at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, is listed on the Dean’s Honor Roll for the fall semester with a 3.56 grade average. He will be honored at the All-College Recognition Service at 2 p.m. March 24 in Lubbock Municipal Auditorium for Individual Honors, followed by a tea in the Tech Union.
The District Scout Round Table holds its regular monthly meeting at 7 30 p m tonight in the First Methodist Church.
Treasury Secretary Henry H Fowler urged Congress to pass President Johnson's 10 percent income tax surcharge within 30 days. He warned that volatile European gold markets threaten the international monetary system and tied the bill to budget deficits and Vietnam costs.
The federal embezzlement trial of Dorothea Jean Clements, tied to First National Bank of Lakeview Texas, was postponed to May 3 after counsel requested time to negotiate restitution with a bonding company. A $70,000 shortage surfaced after the murder of her husband R. C. Clements, when a gun lay beside his body on a country road and the bank closed with funds missing.
Public invited to the 1968 Chil dress County Spelling Bee at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the library lunchroom of Junior High School. The winner will advance to Amarillo for the Golden Spread Spelling Bee next month. Judges are Mrs. Morris Higley, Mrs. Gene Blackwell, and Mrs. Sam Carmack. Sponsored by The Index. Gene Conn, sixth grade, was winner of last week's junior spell-downs.
A dance class is scheduled for tomorrow at the Childress Hotel, with instructor Gene leading the session. Guests are invited to join for a beginner friendly workout and social dance format.
The Chil dress Red Cross chapter urges a 1968 fund drive goal of 4733 dollars opening March 19 and closing the 23rd. Secretary Avis Bailey lists services and donations, noting 63 emergency messages for servicemen, clothing and food aid to families, and help for illness or unemployment.
Preston Smith predicted he would be Texas governor as Waggoner Carr and Don Yarborough split the governor hopeful vote, while Eugene Locke urged a State Democratic Executive Committee meeting to reaffirm support for Lyndon B. Johnson. Critics accused Smith of misstatements about West Texas State University and a Houston medical school.
Funeral services for Laura Mae Clements 63 are set for 2 p.m. Friday at Newberry Funeral Chapel with E A Sanders of Kirkland Church of Christ officiating. Burial follows in Childress Cemetery with pallbearers from Bellevue. She was found dead by her husband at the family home about 11 miles west of Childress. death ruled a self-inflicted act. Survivors include her husband, a sister Janice Jenkins of Los Angeles, five brothers including Joe Farley of Clearwater and James of Oklahoma City, and a son who died in 1940.
European gold markets surge as dealers close due to overwhelming demand. Investors fear dollar devaluation prompting frantic buying. London and Zurich firms struggle to handle orders while Washington considers tax measures to stabilize the economy.
Camp Fire Week starts Sunday in Childress running through March 23 with a candy sale by members beginning Friday. Camp Fire Girls Founder’s Day falls on Sunday as Blue Birds CF Girls and Horizon Club attend a 10 55 a m service at First Artist Church. Funds from the sale are shared between the local council and groups. Dr. Luther Gulick founded Camp Fire Girls in 1910 as a nonsectarian youth program for girls, symbolized by crossed logs and flames. A National Historical Wax Museum tableau in Washington will feature Gulick, unveiled by Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, noting his work with Camp Fire Girls.
The Jaycees plan to elect their queen next week from submitted nominees at the upcoming meeting. A fundraising event featuring recording artist J. Frank Wilson of Lubbock will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Fair Park Auditorium with admission $2, or $1.75 for adults and $1 for students. Tickets are sold by Jaycee members.
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