Fort Worth and Amarillo News Highlights and Weather
Mixed briefs report a Fort Worth Star-Telegram payroll check incident in Amarillo, a Fort Worth man jailed after alias use, a 74 degree high in Amarillo tying a 72 degree record, and New Year schedules for city and federal offices. Also noted are a Dumas justice of the peace retirement, sports bowls outlook, Vietnam troop reinforcements, and a Colorado coal mine disaster with nine dead.
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Our Town
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Amarillo Airlines Pick Up Business Says Chamber
Five carriers serving Amarillo report higher local business this year with overall upticks in boardings. TWA shows 11 percent year over year growth and an 13.8 percent rise this month, Braniff up about 12 percent, Continental up 40.9 percent first ten months, and Central noting 6 to 7 percent annual rise. Train and bus travel also increasing as Amarillo promotes itself as a growing city.
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Amarillo
Herb Stancil
Trans World
TWA
Albuquerque
West Coast
OB Don Schomburg
Braniff
Oop
Jim Berg
Continental
Danny Johnson
Central
Envoys Harriman Goldberg Visit Poland Vatican on Viet Nam Peace Effort
President Johnson sent envoys to Poland and the Vatican to push for a Viet Nam peace. Harriman met Polish Foreign Minister Rapacki in Warsaw while Goldberg met Pope Paul VI in the Vatican on a Christmas cease fire appeal. Kohlne met Podgorny in Moscow for an hour of talks possibly tied to Viet Nam.
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Arthur J. Goldberg
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Foy D. Kohlne
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Nikolai Podgorny
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Adam Rapacki
Ho Chi Minh says US aggression fuels Vietnam war
North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh in a message to Pope Paul VI accused the United States of aggression as the sole cause of the Vietnam conflict. He urged peace while detailing alleged U.S. bombings and chemical weapons use, and said Vietnamese people earnestly want an end to fighting. The message was broadcast by VNA in Tokyo and sent to the Pope on December 28.
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Paul VI
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U.S
South Viet Nam
Amarillo and 74 Degrees
Don Reynolds reports on lingering warmth in Amarillo as residents of northern states consider travel plans for milder weather while unseasonably warm conditions persist across the region.
Winter Escape Cruise Deals and Mild North American Temps
Readers glimpse warm retreats as Northern winter chills persist. Coast cities in Florida report highs near 79 while Amarillo Texas reaches 74 setting a new 1919 record. multiple Panhandle towns log warm readings amid widespread midweek warmth across the United States.
Beachboys Catch 300-Pound Swordfish by Hand in Miami Beach
Two beachboys, Bob Neunzig and Barney Cipriani, wrestled a 300 pound swordfish from the Atlantic with bare hands and a rope off Motel Row. The chase lasted about 90 minutes and stretched a mile and a half, ending near the pier where they towed the fish ashore.
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Miami Beach
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Bar‘ney Cipriani
Motel Row
Kenny Braeseke
Braescke
Cipriani
Neunzig
Maid of Cotton Nancy Bernard Wins National Title
Nancy Bernard of Lubbock was crowned 1963 Maid of Cotton in Memphis after a dramatic capture of a giant swordfish off shore. Cipriani and Neunzig aided in the struggle and tied the fish’s gills with rope before it was beached and sold for about 175 pounds of swordfish teak. Martha Tate Stokely and Vivian Elizabeth Davis were named alternates.
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Neunzig
Memphis
Tenn
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Augusta
King Cotton
Nancy
University of Texas
South Plains of Texas
Patricia Patterson
Trenton, Tenn
Anna Frances Tipton
Greenville, S.C
Holiday Closing Planned
New Year’s holidays will be observed by city state and federal offices and some Amarillo businesses. City and county offices will be closed Friday with sanitation pickups Thursday and resume Monday. Parking meters holiday. Federal building switchboard open Friday noon. Post office regular Friday hours, holiday Saturday. Banks and most businesses observe Friday and Monday. AFB skeleton crews Friday Saturday. Schools resume Monday after break.
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Amarillo
Federal Building
Savings and Loan Assolations
Amarillo Air Force Base
Amarillo College
West Texas State University
Powder Plant Strike Triggers Reactivation At Badger Facility
The Defense Department orders immediate reactivation of Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Baraboo Wisconsin to supplement Olin Mathieson amid a strike threatening Viet Nam ammunition supplies. Officials warned the six month timeline and stressed public interest in a rapid settlement.
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Viet Nam
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Pentagon
Olin Mathieson
Simkin
East Alton
Onesource
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Gator Bowl Preparations Stir in Jacksonville
In Jacksonville Florida Sam Payne of our sports department reports coaches from Texas Tech and Georgia Tech share comments as they prepare for the Gator Bowl this Friday. Page 17.
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Fla
Sam Payne
Texas Tech
Georgia Tech
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