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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1968
Page
2
The forecast calls for sunny skies and hot conditions with a few light showers in the eastern portion this morning. Thunderstorms stay limited to the east while Amarillo highs reach the lower 90s and poolside heat dominates.
Partly cloudy and warm today with thunderstorms mainly in the eastern Panhandle. High near 90 with SW winds 10 to 20 mph and a 20 percent rain chance this afternoon and evening. Sunrise 6 2 am, sunset 9 0 pm. Data from U S Weather Bureau. Harry Truman vetoed a 1947 income tax cut bill.
Amarillo Daily News founded November 4, 1909 as an independent paper. Published by The Globe-News Publishing Company in Amarillo, Texas, with listed executives and departments including editor, publisher, and other staff.
Miss Fulman testified she saw Kennedy 40 feet away and heard shots at the Ambassador Hotel. She wore a green suit with a polka dot scarf and a blond wig, standing during a grand jury hearing as Sirhan Sirhan faced possible indictment for Kennedy's murder.
About 24 300 students in 57 locations across Japan protested the U S U S Japan security treaty the Kyushu University jet crash and Asia Pacific Council ASPAC. Clashes with police injured at least 150 and led to 240 arrests near the U S Embassy in Tokyo the U S Consulate in Fukuoka and Itazuke Air Base.
Two people were killed and four wounded in Viet Nam after rockets struck south of Saigon. Huynh Van Vinh, head of investigations for the South Vietnamese customs service, was killed when a missile hit his house. Rockets damaged residences and a church, with several officials affected, as Allied units patrol suspected rocket sites west of Saigon.
France's De Gaulle seeks mass support for proposed participation in government as leaders from Mitterrand to Seguy attack the plan as hollow or paternalistic. Georges Seguy and Waldeck Rochet denounce social demagogy while Mollet calls it picturesque. The president warns that bad election results endanger republic liberty and peace. The crisis follows student protests over education.
Amarillo Planning and Zoning Commission will meet at 3 p.m. Monday in Conference Room C City Hall to process public hearing suggestions on a proposed zoning ordinance. It will review 201 requests as part of orderly city expansion and shift to afternoon meetings on the second and fourth Mondays each month.
Mourners gathered as Robert Kennedy lay in state at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York after his Los Angeles death from an assassin's bullet. Rose Kennedy attended, joined by Ethel Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, while federal and state authorities pursued leads and public tributes closed schools and events.
The article recounts witness accounts from the night of Senator Kennedy's assassination. It notes Sirhan Sirhan’s indictment proceedings and a secret grand jury hearing. Witnesses include Jesus Perez, Ira Goldstein, and Paul Ziffren along with medical staff and law enforcement figures detailing events and actions taken after the shooting.
Senate restraintist Roman L. Hruska predicted Friday that Congress will reject President Johnsons call to ban mail order sales of rifles and shotguns. He said even a ban would not stop buying in local stores and cited FBI data to downplay firearm misuse in crime. Johnson urged stronger state laws but Hruska praised governors review while noting past gun controls failed to avert RFK's assassination.
Armbruster Helen Louise Armbruster 39 of 616 St Francis Rosary 7 p.m. Friday Burn-Shaw Memorial Chapel Mass 2 p.m. Saturday St Laurence Catholic Church. Gilbert Monroe Elgin 72 of 2110 South Arthur Services 4 p.m. Saturday Friendship Baptist Church. Elliott Larry Dwayne 18 of Orange California Services pending. Hill James LeRoy 1900 Alice Services pending.
An Amarillo man reported a stereo player stolen from his car but the thief left the mounting bracket. The burglar later returned and took the bracket and the player, making it harder to operate without the bracket. Police were told the thief would have trouble finding a replacement locally.
Judge Grainger McIlhany of Wheeler is named to a 10 member Texas Bar Association judicial section committee. Chairman Jack Langdon announced the appointment and also named Judge Lewis Dickson of Houston to head the panel. Langdon serves on the Fort Worth Court of Civil Appeals.
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