08 Feb 2001
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 2001
Page
1
Vicki Cook of Childress has devoted extensive hours to beautifying her town. She helped organize murals downtown, maintain the gazebo park, and run the Rolling Plains Heritage Festival through the Women's Council of the Chamber of Commerce. Northwest Texas Healthcare.
Nine high school football players from the Panhandle area sign Division 1 scholarships on national signing day. Six players hail from District 3 4A. The Amarillo Daily News notes a Motley Fool piece on affluenza, the debil itating affliction linked to inherited wealth.
Weather brief notes a 30 percent rain chance this morning shifting to sleet or snow by late afternoon with an early high around 50 to 55. Tonight, a 50 percent chance of snow is expected as conditions gradient.
A middle aged accountant with mental illness fired shots outside the White House Wednesday and was shot by Secret Service while waving a handgun near the South Lawn. Robert W. Pickett, 47, from Evansville Indiana, wounded in the knee and hospitalized, had been fired by the IRS in the mid 1980s and feared West Point after a 1972 semester. Bush was in the White House exercising and not in danger.
Robert Pickett a 47 year old Evansville tax accountant with a history of mental illness and a West Point dropout shot outside the White House after brandishing a handgun. He had previously sued the IRS over his firing and alleged persecution by government offices dating back to West Point. He attempted suicide in 1987 amid IRS job troubles and Cadet betrayal claims.
Dale Evans, famed singer actress who partnered with Roy Rogers in films and TV, died at 88 of congestive heart failure at her Apple Valley home. Born Frances Octavia Smith in 1912, she and Rogers starred in 35 movies and several TV shows, with their theme "Happy Trails to You" and her horse Buttermilk becoming iconic symbols of the western era.
TxDOT notified Amarillo that the Coulter Street rehabilitation will be funded from a 2005 allocation, allowing a spring 2002 start. The project, previously delayed by funding gaps, will use about half of the anticipated urban mobility funds, with Borger slated for remaining allocation. City officials had criticized prior completion dates as misleading.
City leaders say they will seek several bid options to restore downtown brick streets, balancing residents’ desire to preserve the historic sidewalks with worries over a possible 50 percent overrun on the $24.6 million estimate. City Manager John Ward noted the figure as ballpark, covering 120 blocks citywide. Commissioners Knapp and Keys favor using Ninth Avenue as a cost gauge for future work, with options including rebricking entire blocks, crosswalks only, or crosswalks and intersections.
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