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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1961
Page
1
A masked gang robbed a Tulsa discount department store of over 60000 in cash checks and jewelry. Four employees and the assistant manager's wife were held at gunpoint and bound. Max Oertle, store president, was unaware until a worker freed himself. The robbers fled with most Saturday receipts.
Soviet Navy Day display near Leningrad boasted of armed atomic submarines as backbone of the fleet yet none appeared in the parade. About 60 ships were shown including cruiser Kirov with Deputy Defense Minister Grechko at the salute. Observers noted rocket carrying units and automatic launch claims, but mixed reactions on their impressiveness.
Two Clovis men S Sgt Albert B Simmons 36 of Cannon AFB and Jess Hughes 30 drowned at Hidden Lake near Santa Rosa New Mexico. Simmons body recovered by skin divers at 5 pm while Hughes body found at 7 15 pm. Officials say one slipped into deep water and the other tried to help both likely drowned between 3 and 4 am Sunday.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan plans to announce Britain's formal application to join the European Economic Community under the Rome Treaty. Officials indicate Britain seeks modifications to the treaty before final entry, citing concerns for Commonwealth trade and home agriculture.
Weather Bureau notes fair to partly cloudy conditions across Amarillo, Northwest Texas, and New Mexico. Afternoon cloudiness with possible thundershowers in western areas. highs mainly 85 to 95 in New Mexico and 90 to 95 in Texas, with cooler late hours and typical sunrise sunset times.
Polish spy ring tied to French navy secrets for a decade. Ten people jailed from three-year suspensions to life terms. five sentenced in absentia. Two acquitted. Investigation traced to Polish military attache secretary and an Italian-born Frenchman at Toulon navy plant.
Comparative readings at 2 pm on a Sunday note Amarillo had sun on 203 of 211 days during 1941. The report lists wind speed and visibility across multiple cities with consistent readings and conditions.
Tunisia nears patience limit in its clash with France and Western diplomats. Minister Mohamed Masmoudi cites exhausted diplomatic options after the UN is accused of inaction and obstruction by colonial solidarity. Tunisian officials blame the United States and Britain over the Bizerte stand in the Security Council.
Afro Asian bloc plans a special General Assembly session to address the French Tunisian deadlock over the Bizerte naval base. Liberian Ambassador Nathan Barnes called for the session after the Security Council failed to resolve the dispute. The move could prompt Dag Hammarskjold to poll the full U N membership within 15 days.
U S Special Envoy John J McCloy flew from Moscow with a personal note from Soviet Premier Khrushchev to President Kennedy. He will brief Secretary Rusk and likely Kennedy on Berlin tensions and disarmament talks, which failed to hit an August 1 conference deadline. He did not reveal details of the Moscow mission.
In Crossroads report a note from Wellington Texas recounts Pope John XXIII urging lower profits and higher worker pay. A local talker says his preacher advised the same, yet the businessman faced conflict when attempting to take a 10 percent loss from tithes after a bad week, the preacher insisting on keeping it.
The new Soviet Communist Party program rejects dogmatism and sectarianism as essential to a modern socialist movement. It denounces Titoist revisionism and hints at sharp critique of China’s Maoist line while pledging adoption at the 22nd Party Congress in October.
Moscow reports the Soviet Communist Party program promises free education free school lunches free homes for the aged and free medical care within twenty years. It pledges housing reform including rent abolition and each family receiving a comfortable apartment by the 1970s and new modern houses replacing log huts with utilities. It also calls for lighter better paid work for women and aims to narrow income differences while expanding public services.
Scores show Mexican League All-Stars 12 Texas League All-Stars 3. American League results include Chicago 4.8 to Boston 29 and Baltimore 4-2 over New York 01 Minnesota 4 to Detroit 0 Washington 4 over Kansas City 0 Los Angeles 8 over Cleveland 4. National League notes include St. Louis 5-2 over Milwaukee 2 Cincinnati 2-8 over Chicago 3-4 San Francisco 5 over Philadelphia and Los Angeles 7 over Pittsburgh.
Austin reports lawmakers privately discuss the risk of a Sept 1 budget lapse if no appropriations bill passes. Without funding, state agencies could halt payments to salaries for officials and staff, though existing tax collections would continue briefly. The looming stalemate in the current special session heightens concern.
London dispatch says Allied military planners seriously consider an emergency airlift to Berlin if a Communist blockade occurs. Airlift favored over land routes. plans to be reviewed by Dean Rusk and NATO, with Paris talks between Macmillan and Couve De Murville.
Denis Holmes of the London Daily Mail reports after tracking 110 women motorists over two miles each that 84 are unsafe while 4 prove outstanding. He cites lack of concentration, vanity in mirrors, erratic hand signals, and notes young girls with sports cars show the best driving traits.
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