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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1965
Page
1
A Spokane Portland and Seattle freight train derailed about five miles east of Pasco on Sunday, wrecking 25 cars and injuring at least three transients. A Coast Guard boarding party found three crewmen slain and four missing aboard a derelict Panamanian motor ship.
US jets and naval aircraft unleash wide raids from Can Tho to Chu Lai in Operation Thunderbolt. Air and ground forces report hundreds of Viet Cong killed and many structures damaged or destroyed in two days of fighting near central coast and Mekong Delta regions.
A Middle East dispatch describes a bright unidentified flying object with a comet tail sighted over Nha Trang and Baghdad area, and a Sunday crash of a B57 bomber injuring an American. The scene reports ongoing searches for unexploded bombs as authorities describe the object as saucer shaped.
New Delhi reports security forces rushed to Kashmir to counter infiltrators from Pakistan. An official spokesman said extensive infiltration along the cease-fire line since August 5 has swelled the number of armed intruders, with no immediate Pakistani response.
A public hearing in New Haven examines grade-changing patterns at Hillhouse High School. Discrepancies show a chemistry student with a passing transcript and others with elevated grades in Democracy coursework. Principal Robert LeVine, suspended, faces charges as the board alleges at least 155 students were boosted over five years. Superintendent George W. oversees investigations.
In Raleigh a big black Mynah bird named Joe, famed for his whistles at a local department store, vanished last week. Saleswomen watched as Joe was taken from the shop in his cage, leaving patrons and staff with a sad moment and broken ego-building antics.
In the Gulf Stream near Miami a 125-foot cargo vessel adrift was found after a mutiny aboard the Seven Seas. A crewman said eight to nine people were aboard. he witnessed a crew member shoot the first mate and the captain later died on the bridge. Coast Guard divers recovered three bodies. a fourth may have been thrown overboard. The ship, flying a Panamanian flag, was en route to Tampa. Captain Rogelio Diaz was identified as skipper.
King Constantine refused to authorize former Premier George Papandreou to form a new Greek government. He urged a "third force" regime headed by Stephen Stefanopoulos, provoking a rapid political crisis as Papandreou declined to cooperate.
An Amarito man, Jameson Monty T. Moore, 32, was shot in the chest at a home on 601 Jameson Monty T. Moore is listed in critical condition at Northwest Texas Hospital after surgery to remove the bullet. Police arrested ex husband Robert Lee Anderson, 37, at 1300 Beverly for assault with intent to murder. Mrs Anderson identified Anderson as the shooter.
James Cross Jr. 22, UT student, recreated a police statement in jail about the killings of Dallas women Susan Rigsby and Shirley Stark. District attorney Tom Blackwell seeks the electric chair. Cross is represented by Perry L Jones. The two 21 year old Chi Omega sisters dated Cross. Stark had just broken an engagement. Cross invited them to his apartment where he attacked Rigsby and then strangled Stark. The question remains if he will address reporters.
Two inmates fled Donley County jail about 9 30 p m Sunday escaping in a car owned by one of them. Identified are Roy Strother Jr 26 a soldier from Ft Sill Okla and Dallas Clark 17 with unknown address. Strother held on AWOL from the Army and Clark on burglary charges.
Singapore and Malaysia signed an eight article agreement ending Singapore's federation tenure. Singapore becomes independent and sovereign with external defense treaty plans and joint defense council. Malaysia retains bases and facilities in Singapore with possible continued military use.
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