31 Aug 1961
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1961
Page
1
A Chicago columnist Sydney Harris quote outlines that schools educate children in reading writing and basic skills while warning that schools cannot build character guarantee success or happiness. He argues parental responsibility shapes a child’s moral climate and that top students come from homes that foster learning regardless of school effort.
The column notes apparent U S moves toward resuming nuclear tests and a Soviet response while also detailing local items such as the Mobeetie Old Settlers Reunion at the Old Jail on Labor Day with free barbecue and cake brought by attendees. It also mentions a church attendance quip from a United Press clipping, a Coronet joke about Christmas and Easter, a feather market stockpile update with a GSA sale proposal, and a Rotary Scandal Sheet quip urging sincerity in pay obligations.
President Kennedy outlined steps to handle the Berlin crisis noting a Western Big Four foreign ministers meeting in Washington on Sept 14 and the appointment of retired General Lucius Clay as his personal representative in Berlin. He stressed no solution via force and the aim of peaceful settlement.
Weather U S Weathe RMARILLO AND VICINITY Generally fair through Friday with little change in temperatures High today 89 Northwest Texas clear to partly cloudy through Friday with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers in south portion Highs today 84 to 94 Bureau New Mexico northern isolated thunderstorms eastern plains late today partly cloudy elsewhere with scattered storms this afternoon and night becoming warmer west today Highs 75 to 90 Temperatures by hours yesterday show 83 to 87 highs and 63 to 78 lows Sunrise 6 18 Sunset 7 15
Dear Editor a reader writes about the craze for low calorie foods and the tax hit on high incomes for bringing real no calorie beefsteak and pecan pie. A neighbor claims a special high-efficiency stomach can convert an ounce of peanuts into a pound of blubber and mocks calorie theory.
More than 40 condemnation suits have been filed by Assistant U S Attorney Clayton Bray of Fort Worth against South Plains landowners to gain land entry for surveying possible Minuteman missile sites. Bray, chief of the Lands Division for the Northern District of Texas, said the suits were not to gain exclusive possession of the 40 to 80 acre sites. Filed before U S Commissioners in Dallas and Lubbock, the actions target farmers who Bray says are not going to lose 80 acres of cotton. The suits are a hunting license, served by the U S Marshal in Lubbock, in Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Motley, Swisher, Kent, Dickens, Crosby, Borden and Garza counties.
Hut chinson County shows 2239 eligible bachelors versus 1431 marriageable women per a U S Census release. Despite the tilt, the marriage license bureau is busy as 77 7 percent of locals are married, above national and Texas averages. observers wonder what happens when single women learn of the gap.
Brazil’s top military leaders declared opposition to Vice President Joao Goulart’s return, claiming he is linked to communists and would trigger bloodshed. War minister Odylio Denys issued a decree dissolving the 3rd Army in Rio Grande do Sul. General Machado Lopes refused to transfer allegiance and kept command of about 60,000 troops as acting President Ranieri Mazzilli ordered his firing.
Dr. Wernher Von Braun told a Southwest Seminar in Hot Springs that the space program already pays off in dollars. He estimated moon-landing costs at about 100 dollars per person and cited advances like the electronic computer solar cells and satellite communication as commercial benefits. More than 600 attended the Harlington Hotel dinner with Gov. involvement noted.
Veteran actor Charles Coburn died of a heart attack at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York at age 64 after arriving for a checkup. Coburn’s career spanned more than six decades across stage, film, radio and television, winning an Academy Award in 1943 for The More the Merrier.
The Soviet Union said it will resume experimental explosions under pressure from Western powers. It announced projects for superpowerful bombs up to 100 million tons, deliverable by rockets akin to those used for space missions, with steps to minimize fallout.
President Kennedy charges the Soviet Union with posing a global hazard as it resumes nuclear weapons testing. He orders Ambassador Dean recalled from Geneva talks and weighs U.S. options while Britain and the U.S. have moratoriums in place amid ongoing negotiations for a test ban.
Texas League Amarillo beat Tulsa 4 0 while Austin edged San Antonio and Victoria defeated Ardmore. American League Cleveland routed Washington 9 0 and New York topped Minnesota 4 0. Chicago beat Detroit 7 4 and Boston won 9 3, while Baltimore won 11 4. National League Los Angeles defeated Chicago 5 ? San Francisco beat Milwaukee 2 1 and Philadelphia topped St Louis 4 3 as Pittsburgh and Cincinnati tied 3 3.
Mickey Mantle belted his 47th homer in the seventh inning against the Minnesota Twins, remaining four behind Roger Maris’s 51 and one game ahead of Babe Ruth’s 60 pace. Mantle and Maris have 23 games to chase Ruth’s 60 within baseball’s 154-game limit.
Phil Dessauer writes a Page 38 essay in The Daily News about close associates of Governor Edmondson facing obstacles in their campaign plans. The piece identifies several Oklahoma politicians and traces how political dynamics around the governor shape their prospects.
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