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Childress Index

Location

Childress, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1973

Page

4

The Childress Index Advertisement and Publication Details

The Childress Index is a Sunday Tuesday and Thursday paper published in Childress Texas by The Childress Index Inc printed by Ox Bow Printing Inc. It is independent with corrections policy. Subscription rates include mailed and carrier options for local and surrounding counties.

Childress Index Main Street Childress Texas The Childress Index, Inc Ox Bow Printing, Inc Morris Higley

Death Penalty Revived in Nixon Reform Push

Editorial argues the death penalty may return as part of Nixon's federal reform package. It traces abolition history, notes a unified national sentencing plan with aggravating and mitigating factors, and questions deterrence and future court impact amid public alarm and political momentum.

Supreme Court Nixon Congress United States Liechtenstein France Spain Europe Africa Asia Middle East England Pennsylvania Alexander Bickel Yale Law School

Today in History March 22 1973 Associated Press

Highlights include the Stamp Act passage in 1765, a 1622 massacre in Virginia, an 1794 ban on U S ships trading slaves, Stephen Decatur wounded in 1820, and the Arab League founding in 1945. Also Sukarno ceded authority in 1967 and Vietnam war notes.

Associated Press North America Congress U.S Stephen Decatur James Barron Washington Arab League Cairo Indonesia Sukarno Suharto United States South Vietnam Vietnam William C. Westmoreland Belfast Northern Ireland

Thank You For Girl Scout Week Publicity

Letter from Soundra Christy Director S. U. 61 thanks Morris and Carol for year round coverage of Girl Scout activities. Praises local news media for credit toward Childress achieving outstanding councilwide outreach and girl participation.

Morris Carol Girl Scouts of Service Unit 61 Childress Council Soundra Christy S. U

Coolidge Gains Spotlight During Boston Police Strike

In September 1919 Calvin Coolidge rose to national prominence by asserting there is no right to strike against public safety. He made the statement at the outset of the Boston police strike.

Calvin Coolidge Boston

Shadow on the Alamo and local election echoes in Texas politics

The column discusses a new book Shadow on the Alamo and notes limited sales at Murrah's Book Shop. It suggests ideas for a girls basketball funding ballot and ponders a no tax increase option. It references a Supreme Court decision on local property taxes and comments on Nixon court appointments. It ends with a meteorological note about the eye of a hurricane.

Morris Higley Texas the Alamo Tam Murrah Supreme Court Childress Nixon HHH

Memory castles and small town traces of by gone days

HAL BOYLE reflects on memory as a vast castle of recollections, with rooms filled by everyday scenes. The column recalls bar foams, nudity calendars, barber shop norms, pocket watches, phone calls, travel tales, candy declining, fudge rumors, horse fashion, grandparents’ tricks, and keys left under mats.

Hal Boyle New York Versailles Louvre Vatican America

Video Tape Network aims college closed-circuit TV package

The Video Tape Network founded by John S. Lollos leases self produced programs to 234 colleges and universities for closed circuit campus viewing. The shows, including Movie Orgy Part II, are not broadcast publicly but shown on campus monitors in high traffic areas.

Jay Sharbutt NEW York (Ap New York Video Tape Network John S. Lollos VTN Lollos NBC

Breakup of bureaucratic cliques used to rebalance power

Analysis argues that presidents, including Nixon, must dismantle and reallocate government sections to disrupt entrenched career cliques. By reorganizing agencies or moving divisions, leaders can remove top officials without violating employment protections, breaking old empires and enabling new administration control.

Washington NEA United States Nixon Johnson Kennedy Eisenhower Truman Congress White House Newspaper Enterprise Assn

From Picayune to Zucchetto and El Camino Real

The term picayune denotes small value as in not worth a picayune. Zucchetto refers to the skull cap worn by Catholic prelates with white pope, red cardinals, violet bishops, and black others. The oldest road is El Camino Real from Santa Fe to Chihuahua, first used in 1581 and now U S highway 85.

U.S United States Santa Fe N.M Chihuahua Mexico

VTN Mixes Classic Films and Cartoons in Evening Lineup

The schedule blends VTN produced programs with older films such as Reefer Madness a 1936 epic about marijuana dangers free lance documentaries like Lenny Bruce Without Tears and a Bullwinkle cartoon set at Wassamotta U for the viewing lineup.

VTN Lenny Bruce Wassamotta U

Businessmen face uncertain market rules and shifting values

In a volatile era, currencies drift, markets restructure, and government roles blur. Inflation may rise toward 3.75 percent, life policies may float with inflation, and Nixon era price controls linger. Despite instability, many firms buy their own stock, signaling confidence in future profits.

John Cunniff New York Nixon

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