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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1972
Page
7
Plains area notes report Gary Hart son of Mr and Mrs Percy Hart among 53 Texas delegates to the 1972 National 4-H Citizen Short Course and Heritage Tour leaving College Station for Washington, D C after visiting several historical sites en route. The trip spans two weeks.
Anti liquor forces resume hearings on a liquor by the drink petition in Oklahoma City. Sooner Alcohol Narcotics Education head Ross McLennan predicts victory and says he expects to know more about signatures before the hearings. The court must invalidate about 40 000 of 144 000 signatures to block a statewide vote. Judge James Giles set new hearings after the state Supreme Court granted 45 more days. Dry advocates challenge thousands of signatures already ruled on.
Jack Haley Jr., longtime independent TV producer, is appointed MGM director of creative affairs. The move places Haley in charge of shaping development and production at the studio.
The U S S Batfish, a World War II submarine, arrived in Muskogee Oklahoma and will become a tourist display center. Officials say about a month of interior work is needed before it opens to the public as a museum exhibit.
Archie Dale Miller turned himself in to federal marshals to serve a five year sentence for showing Rex Brinlee how to wire explosives. Brinlee, serving life for the bomb death of Fern Bolding, 28, a Bristow kindergarten teacher, denies murder plot knowledge. Miller pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate explosives laws.
Milwaukee AP reports Indian groups pressed to rename Custer High School to avoid glorifying George Armstrong Custer. The board declined, noting the school will keep the name despite protests and calls for reconsideration.
Dr. Clarissa T. Kimber of Texas A&M, with support from the National Institute of Mental Health, leads a survey to locate and classify folk medicine plants across Texas and parts of Mexico. Some historic plants, once ignored, yield drugs like reserpine from Rauwolfia roots, a tranquilizer and antihypertensive agent.
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