End of an Era as Students Attend College by Public Aid
The piece argues that many Americans, including Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, funded through college by work or aid, noting leaders like Harold Dunn and Gen. William H. Lee rose without federal tuition. It questions if government programs will send 40,000 graduates to college next year, hinting at unintended consequences.
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Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
General Motors
Amarillo
A&m
Harold Dunn
Shamrock Oil & Gas
William H. Lee
Amarillo Air Force Base
Eisenhower
Folsom
National Education Association
Night driver Fred Field runs a tri city route on the High Plains
Fred Field a professional night driver for the Daily News covers Amarillo Dalhart and Tucumcari routes. He cites sleep deprivation as the top cause of night time highway accidents and says his eight man crew avoids pills and naps in bar ditches when tired. He adds alcohol as the second major factor.
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Fred Field
High Plains
Daily News
Fred
Amarillo
Dalhart
Tucum
Nara
California
Arkansas
Illinois
Hereford Banquet Sells Out Again At 850 Tickets
Hereford hosts its annual chamber of commerce banquet on January 16 sold out at 850 tickets. Bill Lenderman reports the event is the biggest in the Southwest with no ticket committee and crowds buying at the door. Rural counties attend, showing strong local support.
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Hereford
Chamber of Commerce
Southwest
Bill Lenderman
Chamber
Islands Stay At Wolflin And Georgia
Southwest Amarillo action on traffic islands ends with a unanimous decision to keep the islands as they are. City officials weighed engineering safety concerns and traffic flow before the final vote.
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Wolflin
Georgia
Amarillo
City Commission
City Traffic Commission
Traffic Commission
Gateway
Blackburn
Stanley
John DeShazo
Hay Wyrick
Daily News
Wolflin-Georgia
Ambulance Service in Jeopardy Over Unpaid Bills
Amarillo Ambulance owner Homer Ewton warned the City Commission that unpaid emergency ride fees threaten service viability. He noted only about 50 percent collection, with subsidies from Potter County and the city totaling $200 monthly, and urged hospitals to consider including ambulance fees in bills to improve revenue.
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Homer Eaton
Amarillo
City Commission
Ewton
Potter County
Siren Call Alerts for Gas Fumes Incident in Amarillo
At 9 32 p m Amarillo Ambulance Service responded to 1312 West 16th Street where a child was overcome by gasoline fumes and transported to Northwest Texas Hospital.
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Amarillo
W. 16Th
Northwest Texas Hospital
Hearing Concluded on Estate Life Insurance Plea in Austin
State Insurance Commissioner William A. Harrison weighed Estate Life Insurance Co. plea to cancel a 1.142 billion dollar transfer from Physicians Life and Accident. The decision hinges on whether to urge the receivership court to void the deal. testimony cited lack of cash and expertise.
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Austin
William A. Harrison
Plea of Estate Life Insurance Co
Harrison
Insurance Department
Estate Life
Physicians Life and Accident Insurance Co
J. D. Wheeler
Wheeler
Physicians Life
McCarty
Harry Brodnax
Universal Life and Accident Insurance Co
Dallas
Maurice I. Carlson
Price Daniel
Brodnax
Carlson
Senate
Congress convenes to seek space weapons fund and defense boost
President Eisenhower asked Congress for 1.26 billion dollars to develop space weapons, strengthen the Strategic Air Command, and hire scientists. The request would add to the current defense budget, totaling about 38.9 billion, as lawmakers pledged rapid approval amid a space race with the Soviet Union. Senate and House leaders urged urgency to meet missile threats and maintain U.S. superiority.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Strategic Air Command
House
Defense Department
Sam Rayburn
Fat Stock Show opens January. boy survives gasoline exposure
A six year old boy was hospitalized at Northwest Texas Hospital after being exposed to gasoline fumes. Ronald Rayburn Spence was found unconscious atop a gasoline saddle tank near his father's dump truck, missing several hours after school. Police had issued a city wide alert before his parents found him. He remained in fair condition with fumes and cold exposure noted by doctors.
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Northwest Texas Hospital
Ronald Rayburn Spence
Rayburn Spence
W. 16Th
Ronald
Bus Falls When Bridge Collapses Over Susquehanna River
Forty one school children escaped injury when their bus fell 25 feet to the riverbank after a bridge collapse in Wysox Bradford County. The operator and his truck also plunged but were rescued unharmed.
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Towanda
Susquéhanna River
Wysox
Bradford County
TV Schedule Fragment for KGNC Theater Times
KGNC TV colorcast lineup includes Howard Miller Show at 12 30 p.m Matinee Theater at 2 p.m Kraft TV Theater in the evening. The fragment lists program names and times with incomplete portions but identifies the channel and hosts.
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Howard Miller
Russia Missioned Manned Rocket Flight Rumor Debunked
U S officials say a Moscow Radio fiction broadcast sparked Western rumors of a Soviet manned missile flight. The program described a future manned launch but was clearly labeled as fiction. A Soviet official in Moscow refuted the rumor, saying no truth to the reports.
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State Department
Moscow Radio
U.S
Orson Welles
Moscow
White House
Soviet Committee For Cultural Relations
Magazine Report Denied by Pentagon
The Pentagon rejected a trade magazine claim that U S bombers are flying mapping missions over the Soviet Union. Seabrook Huftl cited SAC flights as evidence of retaliatory capability, but the Defense Department said no photographing over Russia is being conducted.
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U.S
Russia
Pentagon
Air Force
Soviet
Defense Department
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Seabrook Huftl
United States
Soviet Union
Weather snapshot shows clear skies across Texas and Oklahoma
Amarillo records seven days of sunshine in 1958 with afternoon readings at 3 p.m. showing clear skies in Houston Dallas Oklahoma City Amarillo. Wind speeds range around 15 MPH with visibility good.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Okla
City
Potter County to vote on $600000 hospital bonds January 25
Potter County commissioners set January 25 for a $600000 bond election to fund enlarging and equipping Northwest Texas Hospital. The order follows petitions certified by County Tax Assessor-Collector Hubert Cole and County Clerk Loren Jones. The election details, posting, and publication plan were approved by the court.
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Potter County
Northwest Texas Hospital
Hubert Cole
Loren Jones
Cole
Commissioners’ Court
Jones
Kingfish Charged in Row With In-Laws
Los Angeles January 7 Harry Tim Moore 70 known as Kingfish on Amos n Andy faces a January 16 preliminary hearing in municipal court on an assault with a deadly weapon charge after a Sunday night dispute with his wife Vivian 39 over in law tensions a shot fired but it missed Moore appeared for arraignment and was released on his own recognizance.
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Los Angeles
Harry
Tim) Moore
Amos N’ Andy
Moore
Vivian
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