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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1963
Page
2
The Defense Department elevates Lt. Gen. Andrew P. O’Meara to full general as Caribbean Command becomes U.S. Southern Command. The move accompanies reorganized regional command structure.
Pope John XXIII bestowed honors as five men were named Knights of St. Gregory and eight received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal during a May ceremony. Bishop John L. Morkovsky led the rites and later presided at a banquet at the Amarillo Country Club before departing for Houston Galveston duties. Notables from Amarillo Hale Center St. Francis Hereford Panhandle Lubbock received knighthood or papal medals.
In Miami 92 year old Lilian Tenney, a longtime driver with nine unpaid tickets, plans to meet traffic officials about her license status. She defends her skill, notes frequent tickets, mails tickets with small payments, and says officers are polite yet baffled by her driving record.
In Oklahoma City two competitors shone at the Jaycee International Rodeo. Bill Fedderson of El Reno delivered a 4.5 second steer throw while Barry Burk of Waggoner claimed calf roping in 10.5 seconds and Roy Barrington of Lubbock scored 173 points to win bareback bronc riding.
A press note cites seven products on the Agriculture Department protest registration list. Lindane Pellets for Use in Bug Death Vaporizer appears among items. other entries include Algimycin 200 and 300 for pool algaecide, Hari Kari Neodane Pellets, Lindane Tablets bug pills, Lindane Tablets Vapor TAABS, and Perma-Guard for Alfalfa Seed treatment.
A Brooklyn College study reports most women view themselves as better looking than they truly are based on self perception and wishful thinking.
Island and Pacific Railroad engages in merger studies with Union Pacific. Observers say three routes tie into the ongoing talks and potential consolidation, shaping regional rail strategy and future service.
The proposed merger invitation argues a Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific alliance is economically logical to counter smaller western roads, with DOJ likely opposing. Santa Fe runs 15,000 miles and MOPAC over 9,300 miles, while Alleghany holds 50 percent of MOPAC Class B stock in trust.
A night duty officer at the Pentagon received a call from a woman warning of an imminent attack on the Pentagon. The caller claimed many on the other side were trying to reach the staff and referenced a cemetery beneath the Pentagon. The call originated from a pay phone in San Jose, California.
Five Japanese youths reached Berthoud Pass on the North American Continental Divide while hiking from San Francisco to New York. They crossed the 11,307 foot summit and headed toward Denver, planning to reach Denver by Friday and New York in November after a week in the Colorado capital.
Actress Arlene Francis, injured May 26 in a fatal two car accident, was released from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Her condition was described as good. The collision involved her car skidding on wet pavement and crossing a divider to hit another vehicle head on.
The National Rivers and Harbors Congress is expected to formally endorse Friday the Trinity River basin development in Texas. A projects committee approved the plan giving it a Class I endorsement, usually for projects already authorized by Congress. So far the proposal has been approved only by the Army Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.
Gov Nelson Rockefeller and Mrs Rockefeller were hosted at a luncheon for 300 party chiefs and workers at the Roosevelt Hotel. Some state GOP leaders fear the marriage to a divorcee may hurt his bid for the 1964 GOP nomination, though Rockefeller remains confident. Senator Kenneth Keating challenged the Kennedy era policy at the Waldorf Astoria dinner.
United States Ambassador Charles C. Stelle and Soviet delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin lead a move to approve a hot line arrangement easing tensions amid a stalled conference. Both sides push for quicker direct contact in crisis.
Tsarapkin waits for Moscow go ahead as co chairmen brief other delegations on acceptance of the hot line idea. Officials say a transatlantic cable could carry the line in weeks via the United States and Britain with Stockholm Helsinki routing. Britain Sweden and Finland to provide circuits but not use the line. US and USSR reject British linkage initially to avoid a broader network. Code based communications will be used with scrambled signals to deter eavesdropping.
Albert S. Nemir, representative of Brazilian sugar growers, told a House subcommittee price rises may persist and disputed Agriculture Undersecretary Charles S. Murphy that prices would soon return to normal. Nemir blamed below consumption for higher prices and urged more capital to boost production during hearings before House and Senate committees.
Bert L Emerson age 66 of 502 Cleveland husband of Lucille father of Neil and Bert Emerson Jr Mrs Joy Hackleman Mrs Glen Phillips and Mrs Troy Mankin brother of Dennis John Daniel Jeff Martha Mae Childers Velma Linton seven grandchildren services 4 30 p m Saturday Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel burial Memorial Park memorial details incomplete others listed are Calvin Davie Jack 19 Adrian Texas Milton Billings Redd 58 1701 B Hughes burial pending pinks James L Spinks 55 Adrian Texas husband of King father of Lewis Marino Sue Hayes and Mrs Jimmie Hill two grandchildren services pending
The Pentagon upgrades the Carib bean command naming it United States Southern Command. General Andrew P. O'Meara, promoted to full general, will command all Army Navy and Air Force units in the region. The changes reflect heightened U.S. effort to counter militant communist influence in the Western Hemisphere.
The article notes the boundaries of the new joint command and unit attachments are military secrets. O'Meara's headquarters will stay at Quarry Heights in the Panama Canal Zone with no current force increase or mission change, though the command trains Latin American forces in anti guerrilla operations.
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