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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1968
Page
13
In Longview Texas Mary Collins, a counselor in seven grade schools, moonlights as a handwriting analyst. She explains how letter strokes, cross height, and word slant reflect traits such as ambition, creativity, irritability, and motivation, using examples from students.
Today brings a calm, low exertion day with caution on a nosy neighbor. Aries and Taurus show strong money luck and alliances, while Gemini to Pisces receive varied guidance. The Appalachian Trail spans 2050 miles from Mount Katahdin to Mount Oglethorpe, Montreal port moves 20 million tons yearly, and Hostel derives from an old English term meaning resting place.
A compiled guide notes rereleases and current screenings including Gone with the Wind at Esquire Theatre, In the Heat of the Night at Sunset, The Ambushers and The Silencers at Tascosa South and Twin-Front screens, The Way West, Where Angels Go Trouble Follows, Blue, Divorce American Style, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Day of the Evil Gun, A Man Called Dagger, The Frozen Dead, and It.
Reynosa official Ephriam Cantu Pena, a police inspector famed for turning the city into a haircut capital, was charged with running a burglary ring. A 14-year-old boy, Juan Munoz Alvarez, testified that Pena ordered the theft and took a share of the loot.
Belgrade reports Nicolae Ceausescu flew to Tito for a final round of five day official talks on Brioni, Tito’s Adriatic island retreat. The Romanian Communist Party chief will wrap up the visit on Saturday.
Ottawa reports Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau staging a new mini expo on Expo 67 grounds titled Man and His World. The event opens May 17 and runs to Oct 14 with over 40 nationa l exhibits and 22 city exhibits. Drapeau plans about 28 million dollars in spending and expects 34 million pounds in receipts. The U S sphere biosphere remains, while other pavilions are reassigned to the city. The La Ronde amusement center is back with new rides.
Laredo Texas will host a new cultural center funded up to 500000 by the Office of Economic Opportunity to aid job access. Dwight Davis of the U S Mexico Commission said Thursday the center will partner with Laredo Junior College on job preparation plans and support industrialization efforts.
Thirty three bridges span the Seine in Paris in a city with famed river crossings. The layout highlights the dense bridge network connecting left and right banks.
Bill Risley headlines a week long Villa Inn Club engagement with a guillotine act that wowed audiences alongside his other illusions. The show starts around 9 p.m. with a hypnotic second act at 11 p.m. and features the Bobby Burns Quartet and Claire Holiday.
The 1969 Gandhi centenary celebrations will begin with a biographical film of the Indian freedom fighter. The 25,000-foot film is in preparation and due for release in October 1968, Gandhi’s birth anniversary. One hundred twenty two countries will participate, with exhibitions seminars and symposia planned in India and abroad under UNESCO auspices.
In New Delhi the government reports that about 1.3 million civil servants earn less than 100 rupees a month while only 732 workers receive 2,000 rupees or more and 6,814 earn over 1,000 rupees monthly. The figures underscore widespread low pay among India’s government staff.
A letter to a New Delhi paper thanks the editor and its lost and found column for returning a gold watch. The writer had placed an ad and later found the watch in another suit pocket. The note ends with a blessing for the paper and a aside on the cedar of Lebanon as the tree of God.
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