06 Dec 1967
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1967
Page
1
Reports from Paris say a jointly built European missile test failed Tuesday when the French built second stage misfired at the Woomera site in Australia. Pages note antiwar protest in Lower Manhattan and police standoff in Detroit.
News notes cover sports moves and upcoming events including Bill Bradley ending Air Force service and joining the Knicks, UCLA remaining top ranked, Purdue and Kansas clash, election outcomes, and local civic plans.
University of Illinois professors Carl Bereiter and Siegfried Englemann run experimental preschool classes that emphasize drill over play. The method teaches language arithmetic and reading through verbal repetition, claiming to produce rapid learning though it is tiring for four year olds. The approach has drawn media interest and critics question its long term effects.
Associated Press reports property owners voted for a one percent sales tax in at least 50 Texas cities, with Houston Dallas San Antonio and Fort Worth adopting the tax. Dallas San Antonio and Fort Worth shows landslides while several suburbs supported. Several cities including Alvarado Arlington Cleburne De Soto Euless Forest Hill Garland Haltom City Hurst Richland Hills Seagoville and White Settlement rejected the measure.
A planeload of 71 Cuban refugees, mostly elderly U.S. citizens and relatives, arrived in Matamoros and were moved by bus to Brownsville Texas. State Department official Carl Davis said all aboard were in good condition. The group included a child with a can vas bag and an elderly woman in a wheelchair. Residents said the refugees appeared in good spirits and relieved to leave Cuba.
Editor notes Holt Rinehart & Winston plans reissues of The Alger books focusing on dropouts who labored, aided others, and became capitalists. Mentions the Texas Millionaire motif and a character so rich he needed microfilming to carry wealth.
U S infan trymen kill a North Vietnamese regimental commander near Da Nang in a 75 minute exchange. 16 North Vietnamese bodies found. two U S soldiers wounded. Marines conduct daylight raid in the DMZ and withdraw after heavy firing.
Stunned Texas Tech students debated the macabre killing of 54 year old cleaning woman Sarah Alice Morgan in a third floor science building laboratory. An unknown assailant used a scalpel and saw blade as blood footprints appeared, prompting fears and lockdowns.
A Castlewood man, Roger Kruiter, 28, was pinned beneath an overturned car for nine hours in 17 degree cold after his vehicle slid into a creek bed. He freed himself when the ice melted, walked two miles, and was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and exposure.
Mrs. Sarah Alice Morgan, 54, was found slain in a science building on the campus with a severed throat and blood spatter. Police say a scalpel and a four inch saw blade fragment were found nearby while investigators questioned faculty and students who worked the 6 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. shift.
More than 1,000 demonstrators rioted outside the Whitehall induction center in Manhattan to protest the Vietnam War. About 260 were arrested including Dr. Benjamin Spock Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag. Police said the center's induction schedule remained unaffected.
Louis Washkansky, 55, shows progress after receiving a heart from a 25 year old woman killed in a traffic accident. Doctors, led by Dr Christian Barnard, keep him in an oxygen tent to prevent infection and prepare for a possible second transplant while awaiting a donor for another patient.
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