Time To Get Our Guard Up In Cold War Exchange
Khrushchev touts Kennedy victory as a repudiation of Eisenhower policy and calls for peace and coexistence after releasing two pilots captured at sea. The piece warns that soft thinking persists in the State Department and urges vigilance as a new phase of Cold War tension looms.
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Nikita Khrushchev
John Kennedy
Eisenhower
Russia
Washington
Kremlin
Khrushchev
State Department
Charles Stevenson
Current
Reader's Digest
Word study at Amarillo High School Vocabulary 40 course
Miss Faye Dillingham heads the English department introducing a full course in words titled Vocabulary 40. Larry Hilgers prepared a prize notebook listing 615 rare words with contexts. The accelerated junior and senior class had 25 students last semester and many more words await discovery through roots and dictionaries.
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Amarillo High School
Faye Dillingham
Larry Hilgers
Larry
Canyon High stages A Man Called Peter by senior class
The Canyon High Senior class presents A Man Called Peter about the late Congressional chaplain Peter Marshall directed by Mrs Margaret Foster. She notes the cast pauses for prayers during rehearsals and says the production deeply moves the students. The final performance is tonight.
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Canyon High School
Peter
Peter Marshall
Margaret Foster
Arctic bigh ts flee to Hawaii and other city notes
Plains Party Line reports on North Plains residents escaping Arctic blight to Hawaii. Sumner and Eve features on page 21 with editor Sumarion Sumner and Adam. New Mexico road board nomination dominates top press coverage with Harrison essay on page 33. Amarillo asphalt jungle impacts tower residents, noted by John Holt on page 33.
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North Plains
Hawaii
Sumarion Sumner
Plains
New Mexico Road Board
Ee Harrison
Dailyews
Amarillo
John Holt
Daily News
Got Four Feet Visit With Sam Whatley and Family
Sam Whatley of Pai mpa and his family of blacksmiths travel nationwide to race tracks and rodeos. Aida, 16, is among three women licensed to shoe horses. The family set up at the Amarillo Stock Show with a portable smithy, shoeing many horse types during racing season.
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Sam Whatley
Paimpa
Whatleys
Sam
Aida
Aida Whatley
Amarillo
Sam Whatleys
Pampa
Miss Monsieur
Dudley
Acre
Osborne
Kan
R. W. Dudley
Farm Policy Still Divided After Meet
A Kennedy administration chaired conference of 36 farm leaders failed to forge a unified farm policy. Leaders split on government action to bolster prices and boost income, with five major national groups presenting divergent recommendations and no compromise. The session ended early due to a snowstorm.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Amarillo Seaman Among 23 Aboard Vanished MATS Plane
Anvil Jack Spakes 35, first class petty officer from Amarillo, is listed among 13 passengers and 10 crewmen on a U S Military Air Transport plane that vanished over Canada's Atlantic coast. Spakes, son of W M Spakes of 406 Fairmont, Denver hospital reports show his brother Walter died Sunday. Spakes enlisted in 1953, veteran of Iwo Jima, stationed at Port Lyautey for five months, married with two children Cindy and Dennis. The flight left Port Lyautey bound for Norfolk via the Azores and Newfoundland.
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Canada
Atlantic
Anvil
Jack Spakes
W. M. Spakes
Fairmont
Walter W. Spakes
Veterans Hospital
Denver
Colo
Spakes
Navy Department
MATS
Port Lyautey
French Morocco
Anvil Spakes
San Diego
Calif
Navy
Iwo Jima
Cindy
Dennis Lee
Associated Press
Morocco
Norfolk
Azores
Newfoundland
Witness Nebbie Sworn in Miller Murder Trial
State witness Nebbie, eight-year-old daughter of William Gerald Miller, testifies in the murder trial of her father while court reporter Robert George records the proceedings in the foreground.
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Nebbie
William Gerald Miller
Robert George
Two Women Charged in $224000 Bank Embezzlement Case
In Fairmont West Virginia two Shinnston Bank of Shinnston staffers Lucy Fortney and Jo Ann Stevens faced U S Commissioner L T Eddy on federal embezzlement charges totaling 224 224 76. Bond was set at 10000 each with delay until Friday and they were held overnight in Marion County jail. Fortney joined the bank staff in 1932 and Stevens had eight years of employment. Fortney is a long time resident of Shinnston and Stevens was recently discharged from St Marys Hospital after sedative overdose treatment.
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W. Va
Bank of Shinnston
Shinnston
Lucy Fortney
Jo Ann Stevens
U. S
L. T. Eddy
Eddy
Marion County
Stevens
St. Mary's Hospital
Clarksburg
Miss Fortney
Two Women Charged In Bank Swindling Case
Two women face charges in a bank swindle spanning between Fairmont and Clarksburg along the West Fork River. Wayne C. Hawker, bank president, assured depositors no losses occurred as deposits were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance.
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Fairmont
Clarksburg
West Fork River
Wayne C. Hawker
Federal Deposit Insurance
Storm Hits East and South in major winter storm
A Gulf of Mexico born storm battered Texas and the south with sleet and freezing rain then spread heavy snow up the Eastern Seaboard. The weather disrupted schools and offices from Texas to Maryland, left many without power, and raised the death toll from traffic and exposure. Snow fell in the capital area as government workers were sent home early.
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Gulf of Mexico
Texas
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Seaboard
Georgia
Maryland
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New England
Weath
Tennessee
California
Los Angeles
Washington
Virginia
Fraser Zeroed Frasers Cold Claim Sparks Debate
Fraser Colorado once billed as the nation’s coldest place drops the No 1 designation after Denver officials say Alaska readings delay timely comparisons. Pueblo and Colorado Springs chambers protested the image, while locals like Patricia Leonard and Pat Cunneen defend Fraser’s notoriety despite today’s light snowstorm showing Poncho Springs as colder at 2 below.
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Fraser
Colo
U.S
Alaska
Chambers of Commerce
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Eisenhower
Patricia Leonard
Pat Cunneen
Springfield
Poncho Springs
Southcentral
Daughter testifies in Miller murder trial in Levelland
Debbie Miller, eight, testified as the state rested its case against William Gerald Miller charged with murder with malice in the Nov. 22 1959 pistol slaying of his wife Barbara Miller at their Amarillo home. The body was found at 906 Jefferson. Defense set to begin Friday at 9 am.
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Levelland
121St District
Debbie Miller
William Gerald Miller
Miller
Barbara
Barbara Miller
Jefferson, Amarillo
Crossroads Report Speculates on Tax cuts to Spur Boom
Wellington reader D. E. Scott cites a Kennedy task force idea to speed up spending and consider tax cuts of three to four percent for a few months to boost the economy. He argues if small cuts work, why not outlaw taxes and let growth run wild.
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Pres. Kennedy
Admiral Asks Quick Passenger Landing
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico January 26 The U S commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier urged Capt Henrique Galvao to arrange the rapid disembarkation of passengers from the Santa Maria The rebel ship with about 70 revolutionaries and 42 Americans aboard may drift toward Brazil if blocked By radio Galvao said he and his crew will not be confused with pirates He claimed to be a Portuguese Angola politician fighting for liberty in West Africa and refused a Navy plea to turn back The ship remains under Navy guidance as a patrol plane noted Galvao may seek high seas disembarkation while destroyers standby for security
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Puerto Rico
U.S
Caribbean Sea Frontier Tonight
Adm. Smith
Henrique Galvao
High Seas
Angola
West Africa
Dren
Portugal
U.S. Navy
Santa Maria
Galvao
Amarillo Weather Review 1961 Readings Report
The record notes 26 days of sun in Amarillo for 1961 with comparative readings taken at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Observations list wind speed, visibility, sky condition, and status for several locations including Cidy Houston for Cidy Dailos and Ptty Cidy Oklo in the VW area.
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Amarilla
Amarillo
Houston
Oklo
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