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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1965
Page
1
Brief items note a 25 acre parcel at the southwest corner of Interstate 40 and Bell proposed for a shopping center. HUD announcement may be issued today. Also reports Region 1-C Jaycees decide Amarillo for next work forum and New York transit strike efforts amid stalled public transit.
American and Australian forces launched a major operation in the Iron Triangle northwest of Saigon to trap a Viet Cong unit. The push began Saturday with B52 bombing and heavy artillery, aided by tanks and air power, as helicopters repeatedly lifted troops into the dense Ho Bo Woods.
A gas furnace caused a blast at Mount Joy Baptist Church in a southeast Washington neighborhood during services. One woman died and several injured as brick and timber collapsed behind the pulpit. Firemen reported a secondary explosion as they entered.
Floyd Eaton Chalkley, 56, husband of actress Susan Hayward, died at his Fort Lauderdale home. An attorney and owner of a Carrollton, Georgia auto agency, Chalkley was born in Washington, D.C. and formerly FBI. The couple wed February 8, 1957 in Phoenix. He had been hospitalized three weeks and was discharged last week.
A Formosa incident saw three Communist airmen defecting to Nationalist China after a pre-dawn battle that killed seven crew members aboard a 25-ton landing barge. The defectors surrendered at Matsu before heading to Taipei aboard a Navy aircraft.
Senator Everett Dirksen argues Vietnam War must be priority for the 89th Congress, with space and moon programs seen as potential cuts. He notes security and prestige of the country justify pausing domestic Great Society spending to fund the war, as Congress opens and prepares for Johnson's State of the Union.
New York officials face another day of transit chaos as a 6 p.m. deadline passed without progress. Mayor John Lindsay summoned negotiators from the Transit Authority and the Transport Workers Union to City Hall, but both sides remained far apart on pay. Union negotiator Douglas L. Mac Mahon cast doubt on a quick settlement, and Quill's absence due to arrest was noted.
A fierce northeast storm battered New England with gale winds and heavy snow, dumping up to a foot in places. Temperatures plunged 20 to 30 degrees in western Massachusetts Vermont and New Hampshire with many readings below zero. Upstate New York saw continued subzero conditions as snowdrifts slowed highways and kept plows busy.
In St Paul Minnesota a rascally mouse burrowed into the Jensen family mattress and refuses to be dislodged by cheese bacon or an exterminator. The rodent has bedrooms to itself as the Jensens swap spaces while four sons ages 5 to 8 watch the odd siege unfold.
Episcopal minister Rev. William J. Alberts urged couples to renew vows at Christ Episcopal Church MEDIA Pennsylvania as a response to rising divorce rates. More than 100 couples stood to reaffirm commitments while Alberts listed ten commandments urging self examination and patience before blaming a partner.
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