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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1968
Page
2
A warm day greets the High Plains with upper 80s, sun dominates Amarillo regions, and panhandle areas see clouds and possible thunderstorms after 3 p.m. Southwest winds 12 to 18 mph. Thursday outlook: sunny with upper 80s to lower 90s and gusty winds.
Partly cloudy and warm today through Thursday with a few widely scattered late afternoon and night thundershowers. High today in the middle 80s. Low Thursday morning upper 50s. Rain probability about 20 percent. Data from the US Weather Bureau Amarillo. 24 hour precipitation ending 6 pm. Totals this year 0.79 inches, 4.07 inches year to date. Normal 0.43 inches.
The Amarillo Daily News notes it is published by Globe-News Publishing Company Inc with offices on Ninth and Harrison Amarillo Texas 79105. It lists key staff including S B Whittenburg president and other editors and managers. Home delivery rates for various plans are shown along with mail rates outside a 200 mile radius. Copyright 1980s generic line appears incomplete.
Kennedy wins in California with about 48 percent and seizes a 174 vote convention bloc while a Humphrey aligned slate trails in South Dakota. McCarthy places third in SD and predicts gains from Oregon results as Rafferty trails in the California GOP race with Kuchel leading 34,770 to 19,068 votes.
An unidentified gunman opened fire at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles during a Kennedy campaign celebration. Several people were wounded including Stephen Smith and William Wiesel. Kennedy died from a wound to the head. Witnesses recalled the assailant crying that he acted for his country as chaos erupted and the scene was broadcast nationally.
In Amarillo, Heatly and colleagues praise some plans while questioning liquor by the drink, sales tax shifts, and funding for the adjutant general. Rep. Moyer urges careful review of expenditures, and debates focus on crime laws and city revenue measures amid road and airport repair discussions.
Session leaders push a broad tax package raising the motor vehicle sales tax to 3 percent and the liquor by the drink tax. The plan would rebate most new revenue to cities, fund a national guard riot control program, and expand taxes to services and tobacco products while raising cigarette taxes. Barnes aims to bring the bill to floor debate in the third week, with emphasis on state and city revenue sharing.
A regional tally notes roughly one thousand lakes lie within an hour's drive of Detroit offering varied recreation and scenery for residents and visitors alike.
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