Spokesmen at AFL-CIO Convention Clash with Reuther
Spokesmen at the seventh biennial AFL-CIO convention in Miami Beach slapped United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, backed President Johnson’s war policy, and rejected calls to limit wage demands. The report also notes a killer fog blamed for Texas accidents and Florida Governor Claude Kirk praising reporters before correcting the joint Florida story.
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Afl-Cio Labor Organization
Miami Beach
Fla
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Johnson
Governor's European Honeymoon Bill Sparks Debate
The report notes a $1,627 bill tied to the governor's European honeymoon. Sports coverage mentions Billy Hobbs of Texas A&M from Tascosa High in Amarillo named to the AP All American first team. A Wisconsin sophomore football player lost a leg from this year's Minnesota game.
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Billy Hobbs
Texas A&m
Tascosa High
Amarillo
Associated Press
University of Wisconsin
Three Testify in Dalhart Against Train Service Cut
Only three persons testified Thursday in Dalhart opposing the Rock Island Railroad plan to discontinue the Golden State Limited passenger train. The hearing focused on potential impacts to the region and local travel needs.
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Dalhart
Golden State Limited
Rock Island Railroad
Oratorical Contest Winner In Brownfield Scores Fourth Division
In Our Town TED BALLARD a Tascosa High senior won the 4th division of the American Legion Oratorical Contest last Thursday in Brownfield. Ballard is the son of Mr and Mrs Woody W Ballard of 1116 Buena Vista. The report also notes related local items from the Amarillo and Potter Randall areas including a water well contract and a reunion at a hospital.
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Ted Ballard
Tascosa High School
American Legion
Brownfield
Ballard
Woody W. Ballard
Buena Vista
Cattle Growers Seek Deep Federal Cuts in Exchange for Tax Hike
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association at Deming meeting urges eliminating nonessential federal spending. They list 14 target areas including space program, welfare overhead, foreign aid to adversarial nations, urban renewal, and pay freezes. They offer to send a committee to guide cost reductions.
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Cowmen
Deming
New Mexico
Eight Hurt After Cuba-Bound Package Explodes in Manhattan Post Office
A package believed to contain a bomb exploded at Morgan Station post office in Manhattan around 9 40 p m injuring eight people. The blast scattered mail sacks shattered windows and prompted a bomb arson squad and fire crews to respond.
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New York
UPI
Cuba
Manhattan
New York Metropolitan Area
Thomas V. Flanagan
Morgan Station
Flanagan
Elizabeth, N.J
Amarillo Robber Beats Attendant Then Seeks Escape
A 60 year old Jiffy Food Store worker was beaten with a ball peen hammer by a large Negro bandit who escaped with about 88 dollars. Coffey was found in a pool of blood and rushed to Northwest Texas Hospital in critical condition. A hammer believed used in the robbery was recovered at the Holiday Shell Station and matched descriptions from two witnesses including a 13 year old boy and a 49 year old man.
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Amarillo
Lindsey F. Coffey
Northwest Texas Hospital
Coffey
Amarillo Blvd
Potter County
Levi DeBose
Stoner’ Jackson
Jim Hines
Holiday Shell Service Station
Hines
Jackson
DeBose
Air Cavalry Combat in Nineteenth Vietnam Scene
American air cavalry and artillery battled North Vietnamese forces 300 miles northeast of Saigon, killing 159 enemy soldiers over two days. U S casualties were reported as light, with ongoing sporadic fighting and no figures given. Many dead were from the 22nd Regiment, 3rd North Vietnamese Division, felled by helicopters rockets and machine gun fire plus Air Force bombing.
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Saigon
U. S
U.S
Meany voices balanced stance as AFL CIO opens convention
AFL CIO President George Meany opened the seventh biennial convention defending labor and opposing both war critics and wage restraint calls. He avoided labeling as hawk or dove on Vietnam while condemning critics from left and right who use Vietnam to attack Johnson's war or poverty programs.
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America
Meany
Business pacetype meeting draws 600 in Borger
About 600 people attended the Magic Plains Business Opportunities Federal Procurement Conference at the Aluminum Dome in Borger. Government procurement officials and industry representatives from five western states exchanged contacts and explored Department of Defense bid opportunities.
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Larry Lawrence
Borger
Canyon
Aluminum Dome
Magic Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
Colorado
Department of Defense
Antiwar AF Pilot Charged At Clovis
Capt. Dale E. Noyd an F100 instructor at Cannon AFB is charged with disobeying a superior officer after allegedly refusing a training flight with a student. He sought to resign in 1966 as a conscientious objector opposing the Vietnam War. the base says no arrest or restraint is in place. An investigation under the Uniform Code of Military Justice will determine if a court martial follows for the Dec 5 1967 incident.
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Bobbie Lutz
New Mexico
Clovis
N.M
Dale E. Noyd
Cannon Air Force Base
Base Information Office
Noyd
Air Force
Vietnam
Cannon
U.S. Air Force Academy
Missing Lakeview farmer sought after farmhouse fire
A Lakeview farmer, Shelby Hignight, 31, is missing after a farmhouse fire on the Jim McMurry farm near Lakeview nine miles west of Memphis. His pickup was found running at the scene as Hall County deputies, Texas Rangers, and volunteers searched the area Thursday for clues. The fire, reported at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, left the home vacant and unoccupied.
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Memphis
Lakeview
Hall County
Texas Rangers
Shelby Hignight
Hignight
Jim McMurry
McMurry Farm
Tower Attacks Isolationist Tone After Vietnam Review
Sen. John Tower charged some senators echoed a new isolationism after returning from a Vietnam inspection tour. He suggested Sen. Robert Kennedy may be among them and criticized shifting U.S. aims from defending South Vietnam to containing communism for national security. He called such a policy shift immoral.
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Washington
John Tower
Texas Republican
Robert
Bobby) Kennedy
D-N.y
Kennedy
Johnson
U.S
South Vietnam
Tower
Senate
Governor Kirk's European honeymoon cost under probe
Reporters allege Florida state funds paid 1627 for Gov Claude Kirk's three week European honeymoon with Erika his bride of under a year. Kirk says he did not know and praises reporters while noting trust fund arrangements and private debts billed to the fund.
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Palm Beach, Fla
State of Florida
Claude Kirk
Kirk
Palm Beach
Europe
Erika
Ashley Verlander
Jacksonville
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