28 Jan 1967
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1967
Page
1
Numerous looters attacked the snowbound streets of Chicago smashing store windows and breaking into stalled cars as the city copes with a record snow storm. The chaos follows a day of power outages and emergency disrupti ons across downtown neighborhoods.
The piece argues that by 2000 the High Plains will finish cattle locally with a major Hereford packing plant, creating a fed-beef hub in Hereford and surrounding towns. It notes 150,000 cattle within 20 miles, local financiers, and plants in Clovis Guymon Lub bock and ongoing packer decentralization. It stresses irrigation and sorghum hybridization as enablers and predicts continued demand for T-bone steaks.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP three crewmen Virgil Grissom Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a flash fire during a ground test of the Saturn Apollo 1 spacecraft The fire occurred at 531 p m CST during a full scale launch simulation trapping them behind closed hatches Officials said 26 launch pad crew were treated for smoke inhalation with 2 hospitalized in good condition Space agency officials were alerted from the ground as emergency crews tried to reach the astronauts
A winter storm blankets Chicago and suburbs with 20 to 26 inches of snow as airports and transit halt. Police pursue looters while 13 year old Delores Miller is shot on West Roosevelt Road amid unrest. Weather worsens with zero or below temperatures.
Washington leaders vow to press ahead in space exploration after the deaths of all three Apollo crew members at Cape Kennedy. President Johnson, Vice President Humphrey, and NASA chief James Webb voiced sorrow and pledged forward momentum, honoring the astronauts and their families.
In U.S. District Court Robert G. Baker faced closing arguments over larceny tax evasion and fraud as prosecutors said greed drove his actions while his defense called the case a hoax. Following Judge Gasch's instruction the jury prepares to begin deliberations.
ALAMOGORDO N M A 19 year old Cannon Air Force Base airman charged with indecently keeping handling and exposing his dead wife's body was freed after posting 2 500 bond. James Ulmer was released after a brief conversation with minister Paul S Hartzler 61 of The Bible Study Group Hartzler pleaded guilty to a similar charge for keeping Jerry Ulmer 19 in his cabin and shed from Dec 24 to Wednesday night An autopsy showed Mrs Ulmer died of natural causes Hartzler was sentenced to six months in jail and fined 100 The two men discussed paying a utility bill at Hartzler's 80 acre farm about eight miles north of here.
New York AP report recalls prior fatalities in the U S space program. Theodore C Freeman, 34, test pilot and 1963 astronaut group member, died October 31 1964 when a goose struck his jet trainer during landing at Ellington AFB near Houston.
Two bandits with pistols robbed the Safeway Store at 2627 W. 22nd, taking about $5,000 after forcing Clyde Eicke, the store manager from 2124 Fairfield, to open the safe. Police described the act as more a creditor collecting his debt than a holdup.
Six foot brunette wearing blue jeans robs a Duval Federal Savings and Loan branch in Jacksonville using a hunting knife and two sacks of cash totaling $1,280. She calmly walks to a bar, orders a zombie, is arrested after slugging a patrolman, and is identified as Charlotte Harriet Boggs, 33, of Jacksonville, handed to the FBI on bank robbery charges. The incident involves multiple suspects at a remodeling job across town and ends with police questioning and a page two robbery report.
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