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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1971
Page
8
Ralph E. Bayless 75 of Borger died Saturday evening at home of an apparent heart attack. Funeral services are pending with Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors in Borger.
The notices list Mrs Eunice Frances Allen and Mary L Bynum among Amarillo deaths with services at Morrison Schooler Gordon and burial at Oak Grove and Cottonwood Cemeteries. Frank Wallace Savage Jr and Melinda Stephens also memorialized with services pending or held. Additional items include obituaries for Hollis Cortelyou and Javier Garcia infant, with Conway details and survivor lists.
The East Dining Hall expansion at West Texas State University drew about 400 people for the formal opening. The circular two story structure adds seating for 750 and features a scramble system to speed service. The project, part of a 3.34 million campus build, includes two new dormitories and more kitchen equipment. Grants and revenue bonds fund the work, with mandatory meal tickets for dorm residents starting fall.
Two Israeli papers report Anwar Sadat as the captive of Moscow and claim he plans another war with Soviet help. Analysts say Israel would need more U.S. arms shipments to counter the pact and a large Egyptian force reportedly under arms.
A helper aiding victims of a two-vehicle crash at the old Amarillo Air Force Base exit on U S 66 was injured when a second car struck the wreckage. Four people were hurt including David W. Pilcher 44 of Pampa and Lucretia Hertz 75 of Norwalk Calif. All were taken to St Anthony’s Hospital.
Lobby discussions in Cleveland to Pittsburgh and Buffalo target 24 Senate members. Speeches at an 8 p.m. downtown hotel include Edward Kennedy and Mark Hatfield with Clark Clifford and John Kerry among participants. The drive lines up 27 co sponsors with McGovern Hatfield amendment and 18 who opposed in 1970.
A night of tornado warnings and thunderstorms brought dust rains and some hail to Potter and Randall counties. Amarillo logged .20 inch rainfall while Lamb County areas saw up to 3.50 inches moisture. Severe thunderstorm watch issued for parts of Oklahoma. Severe winds damaged property along I-40 and East Amarillo Blvd. Lightning damaged a Silverton area roof. no injuries reported.
Soviet reports say Soyuz 10 with a three man crew linked with Salute for about 50 hours before returning to Earth. Tass noted a docking collar test as success though weightlessness issues may have affected one crew member. Soyuz 11 then began six orbits and prepared to reenter radio visibility as cosmonauts rest.
AP report says 22-year-old Garland resident Thomas Kirschner died Friday night after a car struck his motorcycle in North Dallas. He was thrown from the bike and run over by the vehicle, which officers say did not stop.
Viet says the operation aims to clear the area and block infiltration on the Ho Chi Minh trail corridor. South Vietnamese forces report 32 North Vietnamese troops killed around Firebase 5 in the central highlands, with three own soldiers wounded. Enemy sappers breached Katum helicopter base near the Cambodian border and destroyed two fuel bladders holding 15 000 gallons. no casualties.
A Clovis man Johny Zamora, 30, died when the car he rode in collided with another on I-40 near Santa Rosa New Mexico. The crash occurred at a road work area as Sostino Zamora drove eastbound into a barricade, hitting Amon Ewan McKay’s vehicle from Poteau Oklahoma. Michael McKay of Poteau was injured and treated. Funeral services for Zamora are pending.
A Sunday car train collision on Farm Road 400 within Plainview city limits left 84 year old Mrs Dean Thegpen in fair condition with a fractured right hip at Central Plains Hospital. The car’s unidentified female driver was not admitted. The train struck the car’s right rear door. the vehicle was destroyed.
A house fire at 301 Cedar in Plainview late Saturday night killed 85 year old Sally Frances Speed of La Puente California and left sister Mary Hamilton in critical condition. Firemen rescued the pair from a hallway using air packs and performed resuscitation outside. Speed’s death followed a thunderstorm with lightning. cause under investigation. Speed had lived in Plainview since 1895, with a large family including two daughters two sons a sister and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
A stunt pilot, Gilbert Gillette of New Haven, was killed when his one seat biplane nosedived into a sand pit near Plainville airfield. The two day show saw three separate accidents with four other pilots killed at Cape May and Quonset Point events. The FAA is investigating the Cape May crashes.
A grain elevator owned by Robert Morton, about 30 by 100 feet and 60 feet tall, was destroyed by a lightning strike late Saturday. The 240000 pounds of mile stored inside and two railroad boxcars were consumed, with an estimated $50000 in damages. Firefighters from Kress Plainview and Tulia fought the blaze but could not save the structure, and sparks spread across the highway amid high wind and rain. The building stood about 65 feet high and burned to smoldering rubble before dawn.
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