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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1964
Page
10
Partly cloudy and warm through Sunday with possible afternoon thundershowers. High near 90 and low around 65. Mr and Mrs Weldon Fromm and family of Amarillo are visiting.
The compilation features fiction titles including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre The Night in Lisbon by Remarque and The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever Nonfiction items include Four Days American Heritage and United Press International A Day in the Life of President Kennedy by Jim Bishop and Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy.
Ray Cooper is listed as dismissed on Friday along with C A Williams Mrs Ethel Adams and Mrs FB Preston. Additional dismissals include Mrs KG Pratt Jr on Saturday. The article notes the name of Mrs W H Barbee was omitted from the United Daughters of the Confederacy attending member list.
This weekend several local residents host and visit relatives. Larry Miller of Lubbock visits Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Stiner. Jane Cawthon of Chillicothe stays with her parents, the Steeds. the Goodman family from Hollis visits Mrs. Charlie Johnson. Sooter of Muleshoe visits friends. attendees at the Dallas market include Ater, Czewski, Stiner, Saied, Lockhoof, Dail, Nave, Glover, Rutledge, and others. Rodney Evans receives eye treatment in Amarillo. Joe Dan Jones moves to Lubbock to join Oakwood Lanes. Price College graduation brings Michael Ehrle a diploma. Mr and Mrs Wilmer Rutledge travel to Denton to visit their daughter.
Final rites for Marion Ercie Jones were conducted at 4 p.m. Saturday at First Methodist Church with Rev. L. L Hill officiating. Burial followed in Childress Cemetery. Jones, a retired farmer, died Thursday morning in the local hospital.
Defense Department expenditures on missile weapon systems first topped one billion dollars in 1952, per the Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. This milestone highlights early growth in strategic weapon programs during the postwar period.
Wild West themed show at Palo Duro Canyon portrays life around Fort Griffin with period action. The Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation plans a historical drama about Panhandle settlement written by Paul Green and seeks funds for final equipment and production costs.
Amid tensions with Cambodia, Laos invasion plans hinge on Thailand as the sole overland path. Laos spans 700 miles of rugged jungle with few roads, railways, or airfields, and about 2 million people live near the Mekong lowlands along the Thai border. In 1962 a U S Kennedy order moved 5000 troops with Marines and air units into Thailand for potential Laos use.
The Piper Aztec carrying 51 year old Morrison and seven others disappeared after leaving Matamoros and was found with no survivors as weather cleared. Units from Ciudad Victoria reported grim wreckage findings. Family relations include Toni Morrison’s son and several U S and Mexican residents aboard.
Local notes record numerous visits and family gatherings. Residents from Amarillo Tulsa Memphis and Springer NM traveled to see relatives, with several receiving eye treatment and others recovering from illness or injury.
A Roman Catholic priest and the Morrison family in New Orleans awaited word on a Mexican pilot said the crash site was destroyed and survivors unlikely. Morri son, longtime New Orleans mayor and former ambassador, was a gubernatorial candidate who lost in a December runoff to John J. McKeithen, who became governor last week.
Browning of Memphis were visitors of the Cecil Phillips family. Several from here attended the Memphis High School Band concert. Mr and Mrs Triston Davis visited her parents in Memphis while his mother Mrs T E Davis was also there. Logan Richards attended a page recital in Memphis at teacher Mrs George Ferris home. Farmers look to plant cotton after a good shower in the week.
Washington sources report the committee chairman, linked to suggestions, facing removal from the committee. Commerce Department data show personal income rising to a $483 billion annual rate in April, up $2.2 billion from March, driven mainly by higher wages and salaries which climbed to $327 billion, up $1.5 billion.
Emperor Haile Selassie plans a state visit to Tanganyika and Zanzibar June 12 to 17 and to Uganda June 17 to 21, according to a Foreign Ministry communique released Saturday. A separate note confirms the Uganda leg.
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