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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1962
Page
1
A long running debate over an Amarillo coliseum ends in stalled plans and committee activity. Livestock interests tout arena aims while town needs argue for broader facilities for shows and sports. The existing arena is too small for rodeos and major events, with limited seating and standard ice rinks. Knoxville plans a $5.5 million downtown coliseum for 12 000 capacity and seven simultaneous events.
Yaleman and ex college professor John Furbay, now a Trans World Airlines publicist, stirred attendees with a chamber of commerce banquet talk. He warned that primitive peoples emerging in Africa and Asia are learning civilization rapidly, reshaping global economic and social patterns, yet stressed that history remains valid and moral truths endure.
A conservative rally is planned tonight at Natural Gas Pipeline Station 112, about midway between Dumas and Stinnett. The event begins at 7 30 p m with speakers Amarillo's Jack Seale and Don Hughes announced by Jim White, sponsor Moore County Conservative Club and pipeline employees.
In TEXHOMA Oklahoma a three state search targets rustlers who used a neighbor’s horse to corral seven cattle missing from W. E. Worley’s herd. Worley says the horse was taken from the corral and returned after trucks were loaded.
U S Weather Bureau reports cloudy conditions with light snow today and cooler temperatures. Northwest Texas clears today with short flurries. fair tonight and Saturday. New Mexico notes snow above 5500 feet and possible rain elsewhere, ending east of the Rio Grande Valley early today. highs 40 to 55.
Cape Canaveral reports NASA preparing Enos the chimpanzee for orbital flight as Atlas 109D faces safety review for Glenn. Ranger moon mission targets Earth orbit then moon photos, landing gear checks, and 30 days of quake and meteorite measurements amid weather uncertainties and potential delays.
Montana Governor Donald G. Nutter and five others perished when a Montana Air National Guard twin engine C47 crashed into a steep timbered mountainside five miles west of Wolf Creek. The crash happened around 4 30 p.m. MST after the plane left Helena en route to a speaking engagement in Cut Bank. Named aboard were Nutter executive secretary Dennis B. Gordon agriculture commissioner Edward Wren pilot Cliff Hansen co pilot Andy Devine flight engineer Tech Sgt C W Ballard and two loggers reported the crash. News of the crash reached Helena about 4 30 p.m. and FAA later confirmed the downed craft bore Nutter s flight number. Nutter was to address the Cut Bank Chamber of Commerce before the incident is noted to have occurred.
A Frosinone high school assignment writing about an old lady who slips in the street becomes a national talking point. Students read Communist, Fascist, and Christian Democrat papers and wrote themes. deputies demand government action while newspapers call it a scandal.
Reading excerpts report comparative wind visibilities and overcast conditions across cities including Amarillo Houston and Oklo during 1962 travel period. Data lists PM readings, wind, sky conditions and MPHs with multiple overcast entries across locations.
Dear Editor, the writer critiques new social engineering theories that label criminals and other problem citizens as sick rather than bad. He mocks the idea of curing society with drugs and eliminating jails and churches, imagining government enforcement to force medicine on people. D, E, SCOTT Wellington.
In Austin on January 26 the Senate passed a small loan bill 25 to 4 in an amended form returning to the House. Controversy centers on the largest regulated loan and the maximum rate, with a $200 cap and a monthly or 3 percent charge. Senator Reagan defended the bill amid calls for better regulation.
President Kennedy's push for a cabinet level Department of Urban Affairs triggers a fierce fight as Rep. John Byrnes accuses him of injecting race into the issue. Byrnes calls the move callous and raw while Bailey defends opposition as not race based.
Admiral Arleigh Burke and General Thomas White told a Senate armed services subcommittee they never felt muzzled by Pentagon censorship though they disputed changes to their speeches. White called some edits frustrating though he won when he protested. Burke endorsed censorship yet urged top officials to take responsibility for slips. The hearing focused on anti communist utterances and censorship scope as officers argued for clearer public speech rules.
A 20 year old Texas Tech student from Hale Center died in a plane crash three miles south of Amarillo near Washington Street about 11 45 a m Thursday. William Milton Matthews was killed when a Cessna 150 plunged into a field ten minutes after taking off from Trade Wind Airport of Amarillo. He was the sole occupant. The airplane belonged to Champs Aviation Inc of Lubbock. Bob Brookshire sales representative.
Clarendon January 25 A 100th District Court jury faces two questions in a civil case involving Queen Robberson 71 alleging Harold E Erlandson 53 and Flora Erlandson took her 94 000 from a safety deposit box at Amarillo National Bank She seeks 394 000 plus 4900 for a ring claims the defendants had only one aim to drain her savings The Erlandsons deny involvement and say they collected only old money The jury deliberations begin Friday morning after a brief overnight recess
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