Major High School Awards Are Presented
A high school awards assembly at Childress High School gym named Valedictorian Bobby Blackwell and Salutatorian Jennilyn Sprayberry. The evening honored top students across academics and activities with multiple subject awards and class honor recognitions.
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Childress High School
Bobby Blackwell
Gene Blackwell
Jennilyn Sprayberry
Joe B. Sprayberry
Joe Holland
Carol Hart
Deborah Fischer
Kent Wood
Selestino Dela Rosa
Pamela Vaughan
Guy Nelson
Jackie Gray
Guy Dugan
John Howard
Sheree Havins
Betty Bell
Paula Parr
Ann Harmon
David Statham
Hazel Crawford
Denise Rasberry
Bobby Felton
Terry Moore
Sherrie Smith
Beverly O’daniel
Crisco
Lisa Fowler
DAR
Cheryl Weatherbee
Steve Bird
Patty Sprayberry
Gary Stranik
Denise Barfield
Molly Trent
Patricia Hart
Karen Leonard
Beverlye Weatherbee
Linda Gorley
Kay Grantham
Donna Cook
Frank Stepp
Kathy Sager
Bryan Crook
Larry Johnson
Geometry
Lord Jellicoe resigns over casual affairs in sex scandal
Lord Jellicoe quits as government leader in the Lords after admitting casual affairs with prostitutes, becoming the second Heath cabinet member to resign following Lord Lambton. Britain debates possible wider fallout as security checks reveal the misconduct.
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Fred Coleman
Associated Press
London
Lord Jellicoe
House of Lords
Jellicoe
Edward Heath
Lord Lambton
Air Force
Lambton
Nores
Heath
Two Childress Women Return From Convention
Mrs. Malone Hagan president of the Childress Hospital District Auxiliary and Mrs. Charles Christy publicity chairman returned from the HA state convention in Houston. The local organization entered the 1972-73 scrapbook for judging with Mrs. Christy as scrapbook chair and Mrs. Fletcher Carter as publicity chair. Hagan is serving a second term as president and this is her second convention. Agenda included workshops and seminars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malone Hagan
Childress Hospital
Charles Christy
Houston
Christy
Fletcher Carter
Hagan
FCIC Official Explains Insurance program to Childress County farmers
Ben Jordon, FCIC Area Director, spoke to about 50 Childress County farmers Tuesday night on the federal crop insurance program. He noted few new counties join each year, Texas had 81 counties in 1973, and 13 new counties nationwide for the 1973 crop year with none added in 1972. The plan covers 24 crops with three insurance stages and is all risk. it does not replace other coverages. He stressed the aim is to keep producers in business, not guarantee profit, and mentioned a 5 percent reserve. Don Ray Crook introduced the program and prospective signups can contact him.
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Ben Jordon
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Childress County
Jordon
Texas
FCIC
Jordan
Don Ray Crook
Crook
Councilmen Oppose Gas Rate Hike in Childress
Childress city council voted to oppose Lone Star Gas Co request for a rate increase and to pursue Railroad Commission action if needed. They also approved two new air conditioners for police and fire departments, a street sweeper, TOPICS paving on Avenue I Nn, and fire plugs for a north Childress apartment project with landowners covering installation costs. They referred Otto Moates property reclassification to the planning commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress
Lone Star Gas Co
Bill Sager
Austin
Avenue I Nn
Planning and Zoning Commission
North Childress
Otto Moates
C. Ne
Watergate Hearings Expanded By Senate Panel
The Senate Watergate committee added three days of hearings June 5 to 7 to speed the inquiry amid a dispute over James W. McCord Jr. testimony on the wiretap burglary. Chairman Sam Ervin said he would not be drawn into the lawyers dispute as Gerald Alch and Caulfield contest McCord’s motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks Jackson
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Watergate Committee
James W. McCord Jr
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D. N.C
Ervin
Gerald Alch
McCord
White House
John J. Caulfield
Anthony T. Ulasewicz
Alch
Caulfield
Memorial Services Slated for Monday at Courthouse
Memorial Day services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday on the west side of the Childress County Courthouse along Commerce Street between Ave. F and Ave. E. The Foreign Squad will march and post the Flag as names of county veterans who died in the past year are read.
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Childress County
Commerce Street
Ave. F
Ave. E
Budget Passes In Texas Two Year State Budget
Texas lawmakers approve a 9.7 billion two year general appropriation bill for 1974 75 with a projected surplus and no new taxes. House Senate negotiators oversee lobby reporting rules and revise school finance and welfare work requirements amid broader budget actions.
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Austin
Texas
Dolph Briscoe
Price Daniel Jr
Senate
Daniel
House
Dean Cobb
D—Dumas
Representatives
Robert S. Calvert
Neil Caldwell
D— Angleton
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Nixon Hosts White House POW Return Homecoming Dinner
President Nixon and family prepare a historic 1,214 guest homecoming event for returning POWs at the White House with a massive tent on the South Lawn. Nixon works at Camp David and will address the guests at a State Department briefing this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
White House
Camp David
State Department
Julie Eisenhower
Tricia Cox
House
Senate
Thunderstorm Tears Through Kirkland Causing Property Damage
A line of thunderstorms hit Childress County with a tornado-like event demolishing a two car garage at Jimmie McClain’s Kirkland home. A tree uprooted and debris struck walls. no injuries reported. Hail pellets fell northwest of Childress. FAA gauge recorded 0.44 inches of rain.
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Childress County
Kirkland
Jimmie McClain
McClain
Childress
FAA
Rites Held For Clarence Biddy In Paducah
Funeral services for Clarence Biddy 66 of Waxahachie formerly Paducah were to be held at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church Paducah with Rev. Robert Beck officiating Burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery Paducah He died Tuesday in a Waxahachie hospital Survivors include son Maurice Biddy Paducah brothers Luther Biddy Paducah Claude Biddy Palo Pinto sister Stella Mae Biddy Palo Pinto and cousins Floyd Biddy Highpoint and Mrs Sherrell Creamer Childress
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Clarence Biddy
Waxahachie
Paducah
First Baptist Church
Garden of Memories
Robert Beck
Biddy
Floyd Biddy
Highpoint
Sherrell Creamer
Childress
Creamer
Maurice Biddy
Luther Biddy
Claude Biddy
Palo Pinto
Stella Mae Biddy
POW Wants McGovern Out
A returned POW urged ousting Sen. George McGovern and was advised by the Air Force to avoid politically tinged statements. Lt. Col. Leo K. Thorsness of Sioux Falls authored the piece in First Monday, criticizing McGovern’s antiwar stance during the 1972 race.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
George McGovern
Air Force
Leo K. Thorsness
Sioux Falls
S.D
Republican National Committee
United States
Thorsness
South Dakota
Williams widow loses damages in Hank Williams film case
The 5th U S Circuit Court affirmed a lower court ruling that Billie Jean Williams Berlin, widow of Hank Williams, was libeled by the movie Your Cheatin Heart but not entitled to monetary damages due to lack of malice by the filmmakers. A second item notes a water district employee testifying about a girl resembling one of two San Benito individuals.
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New Orleans
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Hank Williams
U.S. District Court
Atlanta
Billie Jean Williams Berlin
Salvation Army Camp For Three Childress Boys
Three Childress boys Billy Walker Alonzo Jeter and Oscar Turner will spend a free week at Camp Hoblitzelle near Dallas this summer. The trip June 17 is financed by the Childress Service Unit Committee with help from local donors. Camp offers boating hiking archery horseback riding fishing swimming crafts worship and Bible study supervised by coaches and counselors. Over 4 000 campers expected this summer at Camp Hoblitzelle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress
Salvation Army
Camp
Hoblitzelle
Dallas
R. J. Cordell
Albert Bird
Billy Walker
Alonzo Jeter
Oscar Turner
Cordell
Camp Hoblitzelle
Jeffrey Klepper Listed In Fair Condition At Galveston Shrine
Grandmother Mrs. Ben Trent says four year old Jeffrey Klepper remains in fair condition at Shrine Burn Center Galveston after severe burns to his left leg. He was admitted May 3 to Childress General Hospital and will stay in Room 315 Ward Three for six to eight weeks. The child is the son of Mrs. Billy Klepper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Joel Underwood
O'Donnell Independent
Childress High School
Roy Dodds
Plains
Underwood
Tolar
Sands Consolidated
Knox City
Ben Trent
Jeffrey Klepper
Jeffrey
Shrine Burn Center
Galveston
Childress General Hospital
Trent
Billy Klepper
Senate approves new Texas death penalty law
The Texas Senate voted 28 to 3 to approve a death penalty bill offering life imprisonment or death for six murder crimes after a guilty verdict. A punishment hearing would let a jury choose life or death, with House differences to be resolved in a conference committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
U. S. Supreme Court
House
Austin
Texas
Bill Meier
D—Euless
Tom Creighton
Mineral Wells
World War I Veterans District Convention Planned
The 18th District of the Veterans of World War I meets at the Veterans' Building in Childress. Registration starts at 9 30 a m Saturday with lunch and a business session to follow. Delegates from Amarillo Borger Pampa and Hereford are invited along with several state officers.
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18Th District
The
Veterans
Childress
George Spear
Amarillo
Borger
Pampa
Hereford
Bloomington
Tex
Ernest Roper
Brownwood
E. R. Bruce
Girl Scout Bridging Ceremony Planned at Fair Park
A Girl Scout Bridging Ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. tonight in Fair Park. All troops and Girl Scouts are urged to attend, and families and friends are invited.
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Fair Park
CHS All Sports Picnic At Fair Park Friday Evening
Bobcat Mothers announce an all-sports picnic at 7 30 p m Friday in Fair Park. New officers will be elected. Guests include CHS athletes and families, coaches, Bobcat Boosters and their families.
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CHS
Bobcat
Fair Park
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