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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1966
Page
9
Wedding editor Helen Ponessy offers practical tips for formal and informal weddings. Attendants should wear coordinated soft colors with understated gowns to highlight the bride, mothers in floor-length gowns, and corsages without ribbons. The bride should manage her train and glove details, while informal weddings call for street-length dresses and smaller bouquets.
Pipe cleaners clean wall can opener openings. Vinegar removes glue from fabrics. Warm water speeds up drying of clothes and helps ironing. A little cooking oil in pasta water prevents boiling over. Plastic bags with holes serve as yarn containers. Colonial chimneys were built from sticks or cobblestones mortared with clay and grass.
Jerry Keys, valedictorian of Childress High School's class of 1966, is among national valedictorians receiving a one year free Reader's Digest subscription. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Keys.
The library closes for Memorial Day Monday. New memorials include Indian Wars of Texas by Mildred P Mayhall in memory of the Cox family and others. Judge Donald Blackack funds American Heritage subscription. Ray Tofts honors Mabel Hare with Who's Who of American Women 1966 67. Billy Graham biography by John Pollock praised. American homeowners spend about 360 million annually on roof replacements.
Wisconsin Democrats hosted a soda pop pre nuptial party for Luci Johnson and Patrick Nugent in Milwaukee with no liquor served due to age. The event, planned amid secrecy, precedes their August 6 wedding and includes security in case the Johnsons attend.
In Grangeville Idaho a community driven by Elks and Soroptimists created a dinner for graduating seniors with GPA of 3.2 or higher from Grangeville High and nearby schools. More than 150 attended last spring and Governor Smylie agreed to speak this year. The event aims to favor academics as much as athletics and become an annual observance.
About 250000 to 300000 homes are lost in the United States annually due to old age, fire, wind or condemnation, highlighting the scale of housing stock attrition and safety concerns.
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