Indian Rights in Spotlight at Senate Hearings
Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights conducted hearings on American Indian rights with 21 witnesses at Pierre and 16 at Minot detailing deprivation of due process police brutality and jurisdictional gaps. The piece stresses Indians as a small scattered minority with voting rights often unmet and urges protection of their rights as original Americans.
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Senate
Subcommittee On
Denver
John A. Carroll
Colorado
Pierre
D.D
Minot
N.D
Second Blast In Plowshare Series Fired
CAMP MERCURY Nevada AP reports a massive H-bomb type test in Yucca Flat. The blast produced a 7,000 foot chrysanthemum shaped cloud and a 30,000 foot smoke plume. Radioactivity was said to fall harmlessly on unpopulated areas. See PLOWSHARE on Page 2.
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Camp Mercury
Nev
United States
Yucca Flat
Nevada
Atomic Energy Commission
Weather Summary For Amarillo And New Mexico
Weather service reports clear to partly cloudy conditions across Amarillo and vicinity with scattered afternoon and evening showers thunderstorms. Highs near 92 in Texas southward to New Mexico with little change in temperatures. Precipitation over the last 24 hours ended at 6 p.m. yesterday remains 0.
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U.S
Amarillo
Rowan
New Mexico
Bill's Surplus Food Delivery Captures Relief Era Trend
In St. Louis THE ST. LOUIS Crusader highlights Bill’s Surplus Food Delivery, run by “the Commodity Man,” delivering USDA surplus food directly to homes for a fee. The issue also features an ADC Mothers & Pensioners ad offering rebuilt TVs with free taxi service, illustrating relief programs fueling private business and a shift toward permanent reliance on aid.
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ST. Louis
Bill
USDA
ADC Mothers & Pensioners
Zenith
RCA
Admiral
Motorola
Philee
ADC
Glasses Found Belong to Local Photographer
Walter Rogers found glasses at Sanford Dam and sent them from Washington after forgetting he had them. They belong to Bill Clough Jr., photographer for the weekly Citizen, who claimed them yesterday. Mrs. Addison Charless sparked nearly 10 percent flag display on Julian Boulevard for the Fourth by rallying neighbors to fly flags.
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Walter Rogers
Sanford Dam
Washington
Bill Clough, Jr
Parker
Weekly Citizen
Bob Parr
Julian Boulevard
Addis Charless
Julian
Italian airliner vanishes near Bombay during monsoon downpour
An Alitalia DC8 with 94 or 95 aboard from Sydney to Rome disappeared shortly before landing at Santa Cruz Airport in Bombay amid monsoon rain. Search efforts spanned dawn with no trace. aircraft had stops in Darwin Singapore Bangkok Bombay Karachi Tehran and Rome.
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India
Australia
Rome
Santa Cruz
Alitalia Airlines
Alitalia
Sydney
Darwin
Singapore
Bangkok
Karachi
Tehran
KLM
Indonesia
Thailand
Bay of Bengal
Hyderabad
Search Uncovers Money Stacks Linked to Bookie Moriarty
In Jersey City a garage on Oxford Street yielded two paper sacks containing 168 675 52 dollars and a loaded 25 caliber pistol. Police tie the cache to imprisoned bookmaker Joseph Moriarty who lawfully received a 2 to 3 year sentence last February. The discovery follows a prior find of 2.4 million dollars in an abandoned car on the same street.
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Jersey City
Joseph
Newsboy) Moriarty
Austin J. Conley
William V. McLaughlin
Moriarty
Amarillo Construction Worker Killed in Early Morning Crash
A 20-year-old Amarillo man, Antonio Aguilar, died when his car left 17th Street and Roberts and struck two elm trees near El Alamo Park after reaching about 100 mph. Rev Daniel Arguijo, who lived nearby, found him dying. police noted the year’s ith traffic fatality.
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Amarillo
Bagoya
Roberts
Antonio Aguilar
Daniel Arguijo
St. Matthews Methodist Church
Aguilar
17Th and
Roeberts
el Alamo Park
S. Roberts
Freeman Suspends Two Oklahoma Officials
Two mid aged Oklahoma farm officials told Senate investigators they lied under oath about $1640.80 in a Billie Sol Estes cotton allotment deal and did not report the money on taxes. They said they resigned from the Agriculture Department effective Monday, but Freeman ordered their suspension and not yet accepted.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Senate
Billie Sol Estes
Louis N. Dumas
Arthur Daniel Stone
Agriculture Department
Dumas
Stone
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Department
Eufala, Okla
Billie So Estes
Texas
Oklahoma Lawmaker Killed in Highway Crash Near Beaver
State Rep. George Karnes of Beaver dies from head and chest injuries after a headon collision on State Highway 270 near Beaver. Soldier Raymond Sutton home on leave from Fort Hood also dies. Sutton was to marry a Beaver girl Aleeta Abrahams. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Beaver
Okla
Here
George Howard Karnes
Raymond Sutton
Forgan
Fort Hood
Tex
Aleeta Abrahams
Karnes
Beaver County Memorial Hospital
Sutton
Carl Sutton
Goodner Funeral Home
Robert Welch to Speak at Amarillo Municipal Auditorium
John Birch Society founder Robert Welch of Belmont Massachusetts will speak in Amarillo this afternoon at the Municipal Auditorium tonight. His talk titled In Just 10 Years will begin at 8 p.m. Delegations from the tri state area are expected. Admission is $1 at the door. this is his second Amarillo visit in just over a year.
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John Birch Society
Robert Welch
Belmont
Mass
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
P.m
Tristate
Welch
Weather summary for Amarillo 1962 season days
A clipped weather note records 178 sunlit days in Amarillo across 186 days in 1962. Includes comparative 3 pm readings with visibility 5 to 15 miles and sky conditions listed for Houston Dallas Oklahoma City and Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Okla
City
Senator Humphrey Urged Less Drinking by Officials
Dear Editor, a reader recalls Humphrey urging State Department and aid officials to cut cocktail hours overseas. The note suggests a sober diplomacy trial run, noting many say officials try to do their jobs but must be drunk to understand foreign policy. Sent by D. E. Scott of Wellington.
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Humphrey
State Department
Foreign Aid
Pink car registrations puzzle roadblock in New Mexico
Santa Fe notes California issued pink automobile registration certificates. A state police roadblock highlights the issue when a California woman claims her pink slip is in her suitcase while she shows a black plate.
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Santa FE
N.M
California
New Mexico
Amarillo Banks Report Second-Highest Deposit Total
Deposits across Amarillo's five banks reached 213.18 million at the June 29 year end, the second highest ever behind the 219.60 million record. Loans stood at 108.74 million, a new all-time high. The figures were disclosed by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency.
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Amarillo
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
Gun-Wielding Bandit Robs City Service Station
A bandit armed with a blue steel pistol robbed Hudson O Co at 605 NE 8th around 8 40 p m Friday forcing attendant Eugene Wood 30 to walk two blocks to Lincoln and 10th where about $50 was taken from the attendant while Wood kept his own money. The robber ordered Wood north up Lincoln then north two blocks and made him stop before leaving with the cash. Wood described the bandit as large and curly haired and noted no cash register in the station.
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Hudson O Co
Eugene Wood
10Th and
Lincoln
Wood
Lincoln J
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