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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1966
Page
2
The writer questions Senator Robert Kennedy and Senator Mike Mansfield for urging negotiation with Communist China after a nuclear test. The piece laments soft stance by Democratic leaders and wonders about loyalty to the President amid ongoing war plans.
A gunman masked as a mountain man abducted Peggy Ann as she and five siblings walked home from school near Shade Gap Pennsylvania. Authorities and volunteers hunted an 18 mile area while FBI and state police pressed the search. Agent Anderson and two tracking dogs were shot. the dogs were killed during the encounter.
Nebraskan lawmakers touring Washington note a price hike for a Senate Dining Room breakfast from $1.00 to $1.25 earlier this year and to $1.35 on Tuesday. The inflationary jump reflects broader cost pressures faced by visitors and staff.
The Texas and Southern Association released the 1920 schedule today through June listing matchups among Giants Dodgers Phillies Cards and other teams. W L Eikman, president of the baseball program, announced the dates for key series including Giants vs Dodgers and Phillies vs Cards.
In Saigon a march by Buddhist monks and nuns prompts U.S. Marines to bolster order as Ky moves to ready reinforcements. Operation Birmingham in War Zone C reports 116 guerrillas killed, a Da Nang crash injures two U S personnel, and leaflets provoke Viet Cong fire amid a growing U S troop buildup toward 400,000.
Treasury accounts show withdrawals 199 81 207 396 deposits 11 087 708 38 cash balance 8 569 000 455 public debt 319 60 114 185 gold 13 592 465 882 38 and related balances.
The text traces horses from their wild hunting for food around 3000 B.C. to their domestication, with mounted invaders bringing them into the Tigris Euphrates valleys by 2000 B.C. They reached China before 1500 B.C. Horses were kept for flesh and riding, and earlier used for chariots and transport.
The document details district officer eligibility residents taxpaying voters, public record access, fiscal year Oct 1 to Sept 30, budget process and public hearings, annual audits, and expenditure controls. It sets tax limits at 75 cents per $100 assessed value for debt service and operations, with board levy authority and tax collection by Childress County. Citizens Hospital Committee members listed include John Glover as chairman and others.
The new Richard P Burton and Elizabeth Taylor movie Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will debut with its world premiere next June in New York City.
British investigator Charles Goring found about as many so called Lombroso criminal types among English university students as among convicts, weakening the idea that criminals share unique physical traits.
A 1963 operation left a patient living four days post surgery before dying. A New York surgeon reported using another heart device earlier that year. The Meecans patient died 24 hours after the operation. a Methodist Hospital spokesman said the implant followed over three hours after an aortic ball valve was installed in Mece- Cans' heart.
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