Golden Spread Jet Holiday Tour Eyes Luxembourg Stop
A group of Golden Spread travelers on the European Jet Holiday Tour will cross into Luxembourg on April 27 as the first leg of a 17 day $995 itinerary starting with a TWA jet flight. The trip includes Rhine cruise to Heidelberg and a 11 p.m. hotel curfew in Luxembourg City. A January 25 YMCA meeting will organize sign ups and brochure requests.
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Europe
Luxembourg City
Fielding
TWA
Atlantic
YMCA
Camel sightings near Waynoka draw local witnesses
Local readers confirm camels seen near Waynoka Oklahoma with Lester McKee, J E Haworth, and Harold L Ashpaugh cited as observers. A photo by Sandy Thiel may be offered soon. The piece mixes light jokes and regional color about Texas and West Texas tourism.
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Waynoka
Oklo
Lester McKee
Follett
J. E. Haworth
Borger
Harold L. Ashpaugh
Benham
Ernest Ashpaugh
Sandy Thiel
Travis
Borger Officers Cleared in City Commission Action
Borger Texas January 9 special report the Borger City Commission dismissed an oral complaint claiming three police officers beat a man during a Christmas night arrest for driving while intoxicated. Texas Rangers investigation was reviewed. no formal charges were filed and the panel cleared the officers. The accuser Raymond R. Bybee through attorney Harold Oschner of Amarillo initiated the complaint January 3.
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Borger
Texas Rangers
City Commission
Raymond R. Bybee
Harold Oschner
Amarillo
Wilson Eyes Senate Post
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson plans to formally enter the special U. S. Senate race Friday in Austin. The race fills the Johnson vacancy ending Jan. 3, 1967, and Wilson would be the eleventh announced candidate in the April 4 election. only Arthur Glover and State Sen. Henry Gonzalez have filed official candidacies.
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Wilson
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Regions
The bulletin notes clear skies across Amarillo and nearby cities with light winds. Temperature readings show Amarillo at 17 miles per hour visibility 15 miles and calm conditions in Dallas and Oklahoma City.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Okla
Georgia Governor Shuts University Amid Integration Crisis
Governor Vandiver announced the closing of the University of Georgia in Athens to block federal court orders for integration. He urged the legislature to repeal the law denying state funds to an integrated university, warning the system would otherwise close and jeopardize 7 500 students’ futures.
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Atlanta
Ernest Vandiver
University of Georgia
University At Athens
Legisla
Ture
Atty
Eugene Cook
Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
Hugo Black
Supreme Court
Vandiver
Georgia
Body of Missing Coed Found Near Sunset Highway
Beverly Ann Allan a 19 year old Washington State University student was found dead beside a highway 37 miles west of Portland. She had been sought since November 27 the day her boyfriend Larry Peyton 19 was found murdered in his car on a Portland lover's lane. Peyton was killed and Allan abducted near a curve off Sunset Highway near a tunnel. Sheriff officials say the body lay face down on a steep slope and may have been there since Peyton’s killing.
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Portland
Ore
Beverly Ann Allan
Washington State University
Larry Ralph Peyton
Lover's Lane
State Cattle Count Up
Washington reports Texas livestock gains from the 1959 agricultural census. Texas held 8,507,658 cattle and calves, up from 5,239,905 in 1950. Steers and bulls reached 2,013,011, cows including calving heifers 4,408,067, milk cows 506,7%, and heifer calves 2,086,580, while horses and mules declined to 237,373.
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Washington
Texas
Lone Star
New Mexico Commission Gets New Combine of Commissioners
Santa Fe's Will Harrison reports a fresh alignment on the New Mexico Corporation Commission as Pickett and Block team up in ongoing negotiations. The Daily News details the shifts and expected impacts on state regulation.
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Pickett and Block
New Mexico Corporation Commission
Wheeling
Will Harrison
Santa Fe
Daily News
House Facing Leader Test in Split Texas Legislature
AP report from Austin notes a sharply divided House leadership battle as lawmakers brace for a heavy workload at noon Tuesday, signaling a potential marathon session amid ongoing internal disputes.
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Austin
Texas Budget Forecast Targets Record General Revenue Deficit
Governor Price Daniel proposes a sweeping two year budget plan totaling 2.476 billion dollars with 376 million drawn from the General Revenue Fund. The forecast assumes the fund will be 63 million in the red by fiscal year end as the state seeks fresh 200 to 300 million in new money for services.
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General Revenue Fund
Price Daniel
Hazlewood Pushes Merit Plan To Reform Safe Driver System
Sen Grady Hazlewood introduces a bill to erase minor traffic violations and under $100 injury accidents from merit records and reset the system from Jan 1 1960. Penalty units would be based on one year prior to policy application unless three or more penalties occur. The measure challenges the current three year lookback used by the State Board of Insurance.
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Austin
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
State Board of Insurance
Sen. Hazlewood
Amarillo Area Weather Summary
Amarillo ando vicinity remains fair to partly cloudy through Wednesday with little temperature change. Today’s low around 2 and high near 62. Northwest Texas sees fair skies and warmer trends southward, highs near 55 to 45 later. Northern New Mexico stays generally fair with no major temperature shifts.
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Amarillo
Ando
Northwest
Texas
New Mexico
City Men Appointed to Helium Posts
The Bureau of Mines appoints two Amarillo officials to a private company proposals board for the helium conservation program. P. W. Mullins, general manager of helium operations, and George B. Shelton, chief of the division of gas fields operation, join other senior bureau members on the panel. The program starts March 1 and no firm commitments are made yet.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Amarillo
P. W. Mullins
Broadmoor
George B. Shelton
Austin
Bureau of Mites
Marling J. Ankeny
Henry P. Wheeler Jr
C. C. Anderson
C. J. Hann
Householder Foils Bandit at Window
A man armed with a pistol attempted a west Amarillo residence robbery Monday night but fled when owner Walter Diggs and his wife spotted the intruder. Diggs grabbed a loaded 12 gauge shotgun, shouted he would shoot, and the gunman escaped as a car sounded outside.
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West Amarillo
Walter Diggs
Bonham
Diggs
16Th and
van Buren
Dear Editor Letter on Qualifications for Secretary of Agriculture
A reader defends Freeman as Secretary of Agriculture arguing that practical farming knowledge is less essential than age color and political and college connections. The writer claims some view true qualification as un-American if it requires actual farming experience.
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