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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1964
Page
1
A community appeals for donations to the Jerry Cawthon Fund and the Police Benefit Fund to aid a fallen Dallas officer and his family. The plea notes another Dallas shooting of a policeman, with funds already surpassing the half‑million mark, urging support for lawmen amid rising violence.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller said President Johnson is tougher to defeat than the Kennedy administration would have been and may hold minority groups in big city centers. He cited Johnson's south shift and stronger support in the north, though Johnson could be vulnerable among minority groups. Rockefeller, campaigning in New Hampshire, analyzed Johnson's potential strength and noted Goldwater's possible entry into primaries.
The piece warns against accepting Moscow’s words as peace and urges pressing policy against the Soviet base in Cuba and the Berlin wall. It cites Edward Crankshaw noting broad surveillance and lack of true freedoms in the Soviet Union while criticizing Wheat credit guarantees to the USSR.
A collection of short items notes a professional auditor advising his third grade son on arithmetic, Hinsdale County Squire Perk Vickers visits town en route to the Rose Bowl, and satirical jabs on science and politics. Air Force SOS signals and a Navy death aboard a transport bound for Hawaii hint at a search and recovery operation with a radar destroyer escort leaving Pearl Harbor.
In a Crossroads Report letter D. E. Scott from Wellington argues that extremism is being combated by talented critics while praising moderation as the easiest creed. He says a modern doctrine lets a person feel righteous while staying moderately honest patriotic truthful and faithful to his party.
Patrolman Jerry Wayne Cawthon 24, killed in the line of duty, was laid to rest at Llano Cemetery after services at Amarillo Bible Church. An Am arillo Police Department honor guard and K-9 unit attended. graveside rites were conducted by Palo Duro Masonic Lodge.
Report from a Hawaii based agency center details a mysterious air incident involving a Globemaster aircraft from Hill Air Force Base Utah. The plane refueled at Wake Island and set a 2 300 mile leg to Honolulu with uncertain fate awaiting survivors.
A Roswell bus delivering the first 1964 baby halted on a highway when labor pains struck 16 year old Elizabeth Merriweather. The baby girl Sherylynn Denise 5 pounds 12 ounces was born at Alamagordo City Hospital. the mother expects Los Angeles family. The bus driver and crew aided the journey as a military cargo plane disappeared 750 miles west of Honolulu with nine crew aboard.
Amarillo records two days of sun in 1944 with clear conditions. Readings at 3 p.m. Thursday show winds from the west southwest at 23 mph with 15 miles visibility. Houston and Oklahoma City report similar clear skies and light visibility conditions.
Donations pour in from residents and firms for the Jerry Cawthon Fund. Amarillo and Childress police, area officers, and sheriff’s deputies contribute as communities organize benefit drives. Funds to be tax deductible and turned over to Mrs. Cawthon.
Considerable cloudiness and cooler today with a colder night ahead. Partly cloudy and a little warmer Saturday with highs in the 40s to 60s across regions from northwest Texas to southeast New Mexico. Mountains may see light snow, with clearer skies and diminishing winds tonight. Temperatures today range from 35 to 60 across zones, with no measurable precipitation in the last 24 hours.
Barry Goldwater announces plans to run for the Republican presidential nomination from Phoenix. He says he never sought the post yet feels he cannot disappoint supporters and believes a close defeat would still be a victory for conservatism. He criticizes Johnson over foreign aid and expresses respect for the new President.
A family fund for slain Amarillo Policeman Jerry Wayne Cawthon has reached 2000 with donations from children businesses and law enforcement agencies. A similar fund has begun in his hometown Childress. Merle Tucker of Albuquerque visiting Amarillo for a Downtown Kiwanis Club installation banquet hints at a gubernatorial run in New Mexico. Helium from the Panhandle aids America's space program in pre-launch servicing fuel systems and capsule control.
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