Resignation of Amarillo Schools official to join Centenary College
Frank D. Austin, longtime business manager and secretary of Amarillo Public Schools since 1958, resigned to become business manager and treasurer of Centenary College in Shreveport Louisiana. Indictments were returned against 11 people on felony charges by Potter County grand jury. two others were notified.
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Frank D. Austin
Amarillo Public Schools
Centenary College
Shreveport
Potter County
Grand Jury
Potter County courthouse exterior to be repaired
W. R. Kaufman to supervise exterior re pairing and repainting of the Potter County courthouse as announced. The item appears on page 6 of the edition.
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W. R. Kaufman
Potter County Court House
Press section chatter and Civil Rights protest at Cow Palace
Report from the Cow Palace during the convention week notes familiar reporters and GOP visitors from New Mexico and Texas. A civil rights demonstration outside the venue drew a mixed crowd while GOP leaders arranged film coverage of a placard incident for CBS and KGNC-TV. An Amarillo mayor boasted of beating Clovis to a Swift Packing Plant expansion as rumors of annexation swirled.
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Cow Palace
Glynn Morris
Amarillo
Borger
GOP
H. J. Simpson
Convention Committee For Civil Rights
Psychologist Simpson
Arizona
Jim Campbell
Pampa
Goldwater
Santa Fe
Bob Izzard
Kgnc-Tv
Jim
Bob
San Francisco
California
Swift
Clovis
Ted Waldhauser
Amarillo East Clovis
Santa
GOP Convention Opens With Gavel Signal In San Francisco
Rep. William Miller of New York opens the GOP Convention at the Cow Palace signaling its start. Miller chairs the Republican National Committee as Sen. Carl Curtis of Nebraska opposes seating moves for Scranton backers. Sen. Everett Dirksen shows a tally sheet after Barry Goldwater picks up four Illinois votes.
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William Miller
New York
San Francisco Cow Palace
Miller
Republican National Committee
Sen
Carl Curtis
Nebraska
William Scranton
Pennsylvania
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Scranton
Convention
National Gop
William E. Miller
Goldwater
Wisconsin
John W. Byrnes
Goldwater Push Surges at GOP Convention in San Francisco
At the 28th GOP Convention in San Francisco Goldwater supporters rally as the initial ballot tally shows a strong push toward a first ballot victory. Scranton faces setbacks with rules committee defeats and ongoing delegate friction while Eisenhower meets with Goldwater.
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Associated Press
William Board
Goldwater
W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Eisenhower
Scranton
Rhode Island
Utah
Illinois
Rail Lines Merger Given ICC Accord
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a major eastern consolidation, uniting the Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate, and Wabash lines into a 7450 mile network. The ruling ties to the Penn Central merger and requires Pennsylvania Railroad to shed controlling interest in N and W and Wabash before final action. The decision hinges on Penn Central prospects and future rulings, with months expected for related cases.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
ICC
Eastern Railroad
Washington
Sion
Norfolk & Western
Nickelby
Commis- Plate
Wabash
Willia H. Tucker
N&w
Penn
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Chesapeake & Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio
Casetown
Penn-Central
Kenneth H. Tuggle
Tuggle
Second torso found near Tallulah amid Mississippi arson fires
A second lower half of a man’s body was found near Tallulah Louisiana, in a scene also tied to fires that destroyed several Negro churches in rural Mississippi. Investigators linked the discoveries to earlier missing civil rights workers and arson patterns across multiple states. The report notes the first victim identified as Charles E. Moore, a student at Port Gibson A and M College, with broader ties to investigations into Mississippi’s civil rights era crimes.
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Mississippi River
Mississippi
Chicago Tribune Press Service
Tallulah
Propuscu Syoucu
ICC
Pennsyl
Vania
Pennsylvania
N&w
Charles E. Moore
Hamptonsdent
Alcorn Roads
Great Lakes
Natchez
G. O. Perry
Indianapolis
Ind
Harold T. Akins
J. D. Boyd
Alcross
Georgia
Moore’s
Boyd
Lemuel Penn
Louisiana
Willie Washington
Hatfield Challenges Extremists at GOP Convention
Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield keynoted the Republican convention urging equality in civil rights and denouncing the John Birch Society the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist party. He framed the battle between Goldwater and Scranton as a fight against bigotry and urged the party to defend human rights and equal opportunity.
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Oregon
Mark 0. Hatfield
San Francisco
UPI
Mark Hatfield
Barry Goldwater
William W. Scranton
John Birch Society
Ku Klux Klan
Communist Party
Hatfield
Pennsylvania
Republican Party
Scranton
Khrushchev Promises New Deal for Soviet Workers
Premier Khrushchev vows higher living standards at the Supreme Soviet summer session. He announces pensions for about 6.5 million collective farmers starting Jan. 1 and raises for doctors, local officials, and public service employees. The pay rises target 18 million workers with a planned further increase to 45 rubles for salaried staff by year end 1965.
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Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Great
Kremlin
Ex-Nazi General Pleads Innocent at Wartime Trial
Karl Wolff, a former Nazi general linked to 300000 murders, pleads not guilty at opening of his Munich trial. He claims his role in negotiating Italy surrender saved allied and German lives and cites meetings with Pope Pius XII and Allen Dulles. He faces a Minsk massacre charge and asserts he followed orders.
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Germany
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Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Wolff
Italy
Pius XII
Allen Dulles
Switzerland
Lord Alexander
Alexander
Hasso von Etzdorf
London
Himmler
Minsk
Belgium
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