Four Men Charged In Ned Alday Family Slayings
Four men from Baltimore remain in undisclosed Georgia jails after being charged in the Ned Alday family murders in Seminole County. Coleman 26 Isaacs 19 Isaacs 15 and Dungee 35 were flown from West Virginia and jailed separately near Atlanta. Coleman and the Isaacs brothers had escaped from a Maryland prison May 5. Coleman admitted killing a 19 year old Pennsylvania student during FBI questioning.
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Gene Marnell
Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga
South Georgia
Wayne C. Coleman
Carl Isaacs
William Isaacs
George Dungee
Baltimore
Ned Alday
Seminole County
Georgia
West Virginia
Atlanta
Coleman
Isaac Brothers
Dungee
Maryland
Isaacs
FBI
Bluefield
W. Va
McConnellsburg
City Council to Discuss Rate Increase at 7 P M
Childress City Council meets at City Hall at 7 p m Tuesday with a public hearing on a zoning ordinance and discussion of a gas rate increase and a possible Federal aid application for the Airport. Also on the agenda are fire protection for the apartment complex and renewal of the surplus commodities program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress
City Hall
Brown Hudson
Construction of 50 unit apartments starts in June
The 50 unit Childress Manor in north Childress will begin next month after delays due to weather and regulations. Owner Earl Harwell and associates plan to hire locally as possible, with estimated cost at 700000 dollars on land cleared in December. Six months are projected for completion.
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North Childress
Wallace W. Smith
San Angelo
Smith
Childress
Childress Manor, Ltd
Earl Harwell and Associates
Harwell
Doran seeks referendum on daylight saving time in Texas
Rep. Hilary Doran wins House approval to let Texans vote in a non binding daylight saving time referendum in November 1974. Final vote to send to the Senate expected Monday. A separate AP report notes a DPS officer was shot dead by narcotics officers in Houston, Monroe Scott, 22. Provisional IRA claims car bomb killed four British soldiers, disputing British charges.
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Austin
Tex
Hilary Doran
Senate
Houston
Department of Public Safety
Harris County
Monroe Scott
Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Mamie Green Elected President of BaPW Club
Mamie Green was elected president of the Business and Professional Women's Club at Thursday’s meeting and installed with officers including Juanita Knight Mary Witcher Christine Menefee and Jean McNeeley Anne Carter officiating. The group announced three pairs of shoes for needy school children and invited members to a May 22 salad supper in Wellington. June 21 meeting set for 7 p.m. at Mrs Green’s home.
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Mamie Green
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Juanita Knight
Mary Witcher
Christine Menefee
Jean McNeeley
Anne Carter
Wellington
Wellington B&pw
Lois Stiner
Viola Johnson
Aubra Hawkins
Louise Leach
Green
Mmes. Green
Ben Robinson
Witcher
Nell Rogers
el Paso
B&pw
Skylab 1 Crew Plans Repairs
Skylab 1 astronauts in bulky space suits rehearse a day long emergency repair to protect the station from sun heat. An inflatable sunshade would be deployed either by an astronaut from the Apollo ferry or from the space station hatch after a flight around the lab. Crew members Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz prepare for the salvage operation pending sunshade tools and training.
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AP Aerospace
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Station
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Space Agency
Riot Quelled At Walpole Prison
Walpole state prison faced an inmate riot that caused heavy damage before five inmates were wounded by plastic bullets. State troopers entered at 6 30 a m and secured inmates by 8 30 a m amid fires in the chapel and auditorium and damaged cell locking systems. The revolt followed a planned shakedown search for weapons and drugs.
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Walpole
Mass
Walpole State Prison
Corrections Department
John C. MacLean
MacLean
Ehrle Named Editor of The Index in Childress
Michael Ehrle, a Childress native and North Texas State University graduate, returns to Childress to take over as editor of The Index. He will oversee local and wire news and paper editing after previous roles as KDNT radio news director and two years teaching at Childress High School.
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David Anderson
Childress
Georgetown
Anderson
Lamar
Michael Graham
Ehrle
Index
Mike
Leo Ehrle
North Texas State University
KDNT
Denton
Childress High School
Kindergarten Is Okayed For Free School System
Texas Senators approved a bill by Rep. Wilson Foreman to make kindergarten part of free public schooling starting 1973 74 with local boards choosing half day or full day formats. The session also considered renaming the State Finance Building the Lyndon B Johnson Building and plans to plant a Johnson family oak at the Capitol. Debate on a rewritten crime code continued amid a near quorum. the old 1856 code drew sharp criticism for its odd punishments.
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Lee Jones
Senate
House
State Finance
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Johnson Family
State Capitol
Washington, D.C
Jim Nugent
Kerrville
Price Daniel Jr
Nugent
Senators Favor Cox In Watergate Prosecution
Archibald Cox 61 a Harvard law professor was named government prosecutor for the Watergate case. He pledged a wide ranging investigation and told a Boston news conference he would report if evidence implicates President Nixon. The appointment came as Senate hearings proceeded with Cox free to staff his office though Richardson retains removal power. Senators praised Cox and predicted cooperation with the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Chadwick
Associated Press
Washington
Harvard Law
Archibald Cox
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
Boston
Nixon
Cox
Senate Select Watergate Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
D— Minn
Hugh Scott
R—Pa
Richardson
Pentagon
Edward M. Kennedy
D—Mass
Judiciary Committee
Robert C. Byrd
D. W.va
Senate
Charles McC. Mathias
Republican Committee
Maryland
County Oil Production on Increase in Texas and county peak
Childress County reported 70,342 barrels produced in 1972 at 192 barrels per day, boosting its total to 1,063,919 by year end. Texas crude set a state all time record of about 1.3 billion barrels, 38 percent of U.S. output, with value near $4.5 billion across 203 of 254 counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress County
Texas
U.S
Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association
Texas Railroad Commission
Sanders to Speak at RC Dinner and Annual Meeting
Norman Sanders of Fort Worth will speak at the Red Cross Dinner and annual meeting at 7 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church. Sanders, safety programs field representative for the West Texas Division and ABC, brings First Aid and Water Safety instruction credentials. Richard Bird will be master of ceremonies. H. P. Powers invites Childress residents to attend. reservations: 7-3111 or 7-4563.
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Norman Sanders
Fort Worth
Red Cross
Sanders
West Texas
ABC
Fellowship Hall
First United Methodist Church
Richard Bird
H. P. Powers
Childress
Kent Rites To Be Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Kent 76 will be at 2 p.m. in Newberry Chapel with Rev. H. T. Harris officiating. Burial in Childress Cemetery. Survivors include daughter Mrs. Claude King and relatives across Texas and California. She was born January 4 1897 in Wilbarger County and was a Southside Baptist Church member.
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Bessie Kent
Newberry Chapel
H. T. Harris
Childress Cemetery
O. E. Seal
Evel King
Paul Havens
Charles Bierschmidt
R. D. Moyer
Jack Kindle
Otho Thomas Kent
White’s Creek
Childress County
Kent
Southside Baptist Church
Claude King
Childress
Taft Jones
Bremerton
Wash
Walter Jones
San Francisco
Frank Jones
Carlsbad
N.M
Bedford Jones
Amarillo
Delay Sought in Farm Tax Information Action
A congressional panel pressed Secretary Earl L. Butz to suspend using a presidential order that lets the Agriculture Department access farmers income tax information. The House Government Information subcommittee, at a hearing on the order, voted to delay further use pending committee conclusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl C. Craft
Associated Press
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Department
Butz
House Government Information Subcommittee
Childress Street Seal-Coating Project Planned
City manager Louis Sally says a seal-coating project will cover 40 blocks across Childress and start between Monday and Wednesday. The work should wrap up in one to two days at a total cost of 11 700 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress
Louis Sally
Sally
Farmers and bankers urged to attend Tuesday meeting
All farmers and bankers are urged to attend an 8 p.m. meeting Tuesday in the District Courtroom to hear a discussion on Federal Corp. Insurance. Speaker will be Ben Jordan of College Station.
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Federal Corp. Insurance
Ben Jordan
College Station
Singing Today Draws Texas and Oklahoma Voices
A public singing is set for today from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Veterans Building. Singers from nearby Texas and Oklahoma towns will attend.
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Veterans Building
Texas
Oklahoma
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