Loop 335 construction to start Monday in Amarillo
A Texas Highway Department spokesman announced that the first segment of Loop 335 will begin construction on Monday. Amarillo College is designated as a state technical vocational school planning its own campus and a 40,000 square foot classroom building. Merchants and ministers will discuss blue laws at a noon meeting at the Coronado Inn. The Amarillo Chapter of the National Foundation March of Dimes expects a successful January fund drive despite board resignations.
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Our Town
Texas Highway Department
Amarillo College
Amarillo
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Charles Rittenberry
Hayden
Rittenberry
Civic Circle
David Moon
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Moon
Korea
Page 49 News: Robinson Resigns as Oklahoma U Coach
Frank Robinson announces resignation as football coach at Oklahoma University but will remain athletic director, clearing way for a new football mentor. Also notes zip code changes affect pa and Plainview, and a fatal one car crash near San Patrice New Mexico.
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Gomer Jones
Oklahoma U
Plainview
Gary R. Anderson
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales
U.S. 70
San Patrice
N.M
Communist Congress in Havana Signals Global Subversion Clash
In mid-1966 Cuba hosts a tri continental Communist Congress opening Jan 3 backed by Moscow and Peking to organize Red subversion Viet Cong style worldwide. A Viet Cong rep in Cuba cites Yankee deaths as aiding regional allies while OAS vows collective action and US warns of acting alone if allies falter.
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Havana
Moscow
Peking
United States
Cuba
Citizens Committee For A Free
South Viet Nam
Organization of American States
Rio
Dean Rusk
U.S
Santa Fe pushes Rock Island fight. Pullman praise cited
Wellington Leader columnist Deck Weiss lauds Santa Fe long haul service and hints at benefits if Rock Island collapses to Santa Fe. Fort Worth Rep Jim Wright buys TV time for Dec 18. Amarillo parking lot dispute sparks protest on Fisk mansion. Panhandle pioneer Frank Ewing dies. Will Rogers connection noted. Albuquerque federal buildings trio marks growth. local humor bits and quotes close.
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Deck Weiss
Wellington Leader
The
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Rock Island
Deck
Pwltropc
Memphis
Tenn
Jim Wright
Fort Worth
Waggoner Carr
Senate
Mikoyan Out as Soviets Promote Shelepin in Reshuffle
Anastas Mikoyan, 70, retires from the presidency amid party reshuffles that promote Alexander Shelepin, 47, as the new strongman in the Soviet Union. Nikolai Podgorny becomes president while Brezhnev and Kosygin retain top posts and reshuffle the party state control committee.
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Anastas Mikoyan
Nikolai Podgorny
Moscow
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Alexander N. Shelepin
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Communist Party
Alexei N. Kosygin
Mikoyan
Joseph Stalin
Nikita
Khrushchev
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Brezhnev
Podgorny
Commu- Peo
DL Olde
Poel Eoin Pictures
Shelepin
Soviet
Secret Police
Soviet Union
Committee
Kosygin
Committee of People’s Control
Pavel Kovanov
Gemini 6 Set to Chase Gemini 7 This Sunday
Gemini 6, 24 hours ahead in the chase, received clearance to launch Sunday from the Manned Space Center Houston to close in on Gemini 7. The 7 crew, orbiting in an egg shaped path, logged their 75th orbit as Lovell and Borman aimed for a near rendezvous.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
U.S
Air Force
Frank Borman
Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
Lovell
Valerie Bykovsky
Marines Push Inland After Thai Viet Cong Defeat
U S Marines rushed into action near Da Nang and Tam Ky after Vietnamese forces reportedly crushed a Viet Cong battalion. Marines said they killed 26 Viet Cong, including two women, as reinforcements moved to seal the front. Lt Col Leon Utter of Miami, Oklahoma, said they aim to close the loop on the retreating force.
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U.S
Tam Ky
Leon Utter
Miami
Oklo
Johnson orders grain rush and fertilizer loan to aid India
President Johnson speeds up wheat shipments to India and authorizes a 50 million dollar fertilizer loan to ease India’s food shortage. He urged surplus countries to help, and said next week’s talks with Pakistan Britain and West Germany will be in Washington.
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Austin, Tex
UPT
Johnson
India
White House
Washington
Texas
Orville L.,freeman
Rusk Defends U S Policy in Southeast Asia
Secretary of State Dean Rusk rejected Soviet charges of American aggression in Southeast Asia. He blamed Peking and Hanoi for seeking victory on their terms in South Viet Nam and urged a Geneva conference with Britain to push for peace.
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Secretary of State
Dean Rusk
Rusk
United States
Viet Nam
Washington
Southeast Asia
Peking
Hanoi
Alexei Kosygin
New York Times
Soviet Union
Britain
From Small Theft to Full Scale Home Theft Case
Vincent Linnane admitted to gradually stealing from a run-down seven room home in Salford England over time. Police described extensive removal of light fittings switches copper piping doors windows and fixtures with hundreds of tiles paint enamel and cement found inside. He received a 12 month jail term after pleading guilty.
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Salford
England
Vincent Linnane
Bernard Wright
Linnane
Wright
Fireball lights up skies over multiple states
A bright fireball flashed across the sky over Lake Erie near dusk, triggering scattered grass fires in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Ten small fires burned in Elyria area, while a woods fire near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania was investigated. A resident described a volleyball sized object. Air Force investigators are en route.
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Lake Erie
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Michigan
Elyria
Cleveland
Kecksburg
Jack Trumbull
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James Lovell
Gemini 6
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Atorzzard
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Fisk
Frank Ewing
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Will Rogers
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Shelpin
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