06 Jul 1964
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1964
Page
1
William H. Dean of 2114 Parker was admitted to Northwest Texas Hospital as a state court appeared to order his confinement in the penitentiary. The incident came as a state court of criminal appeals prepared to act.
Dalton Sarrels, a Chil dress watchmaker, began making violins four years ago and spends at least 250 hours shaping each instrument. The notes also mention political, military, and sports items across the same page.
Page 1 report notes gunfire injuring three African American men and one White person. The incident is briefly mentioned amid coverage of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco where Goldwater supporters gather to form a platform acceptable to all factions.
In San Francisco Republicans, led by Goldwater supporters, push for a platform accepting limited civil rights changes. Scranton backers seek a clash at platform hearings to fracture Goldwater delegates, while officials reject a constitutional challenge to the civil rights law and hint at a possible Scranton vice presidential pairing.
The Associated Press reports 465 people killed in highway crashes over a 78 hour Fourth of July period ending Sunday midnight. NSC cautions toll could reach 450 to 550. California saw 73 auto deaths, the worst since 1961 Christmas.
A stock car spun through a fence at Craterville Amusement Park near Mangum Oklahoma killing 41-year-old Rickie Williams of Vernon Texas and injuring eight others. The Williams parents were hospitalized in serious condition. several other Texas and Ohio residents were treated for injuries as the crowd watched.
Dalon Sarrels of Childress, a watch repairman by trade, has become a budding violin maker after meeting a professional from Abilene. He has carved 15 instruments, learning wood types and tonal development, with spruce tops and curly maple backs. A professional appraised one at about 300 dollars as a bargain for its tone. The article notes the process requires roughly 250 hours per master violin and describes his workshop methods and material choices.
Women pilots racing the Powder Puff Derby arrived at Amarillo Air Terminal as part of the transcontinental event sponsored by the Ninety-Niners. Forty eight or fifty eight contestants from across the nation trailed stops through Winslow Arizona Fayetteville Arkansas Camp Girardeau Missouri with Atlantic City as the final destination. The first arrivals included Myrtle Amelia Wright and Anita J. Conley flying a Beech Travelair from Fresno California arriving Saturday evening.
Milton G. Patterson, 53, and three other golfers were knocked down by a bolt of lightning at a suburban Denver course. Patterson suffered burns after a second strike as they rushed to the club house. he was hospitalized in fair condition at Presbyterian Hospital. The bolt melted the cleats on his golf shoes.
Civil rights protests spread in the South with a Texarkana shooting near a white swim area injuring four people. A white man and three Black youths were wounded as protests tested access to public facilities. In Albany, Ga., police arrested 13 for loitering at a pool test. Jackson, Miss., saw Black guests register at downtown hotels and attend a white cinema. Five people were arrested in Selma after a fist fight outside a theater.
Albert E. Sellers, 25, a Kansas native discharged after five years in the Air Force at Reese AFB Lubbock, rides a purebred Arabian stallion toward Wichita. He halts Saturday night at Noel Bryant’s farm for water as his boots and spurs click.
Los Angeles fire crews halted a swift 20 mile brush blaze that scorched 12 800 acres across foothills canyons and the San Gabriel Mountains. No homes were lost and no serious injuries reported as 800 firemen aided by helicopters and bulldozers contained the fire by Sunday afternoon.
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