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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1968
Page
1
The San Francisco star Willie Mays grows optimistic about surpassing Babe Ruth for the most career home runs in major league baseball. He faces long odds but has an outside chance if he stays healthy and productive.
Sen John Tower tops the Texas GOP convention vote at Corpus Christi defeating an opponent of Ronald Reagan in a favorite son race. Amarillo hosts a $1.5 million Bivins Memorial Nursing Home open house for 750 invited guests. Amarillo city leaders back Gov Connally tax bill and consider ad valorem tax cuts if approved. West Texas Chamber of Commerce maps plans for next year's program in Amarillo.
The Texas state convention gave overwhelming support to a unit rule binding the 114 vote delegation to John Connally as long as he stays favored. The tally reached 2 834 498 with an earlier 1 919 to 0 test vote. Liberal dissenters planned talks at a downtown hotel while court action and national committee review loomed.
At the state convention, supporters of Ronald Reagan had their protest overruled as the body approved a favored candidate, signaling a decisive win for the favorite.
In a late appearance Tower backed a resolution urging California Governor to engage more in national Republican politics. He said he could not endorse the resolution and noted most Texas Republicans preferred Richard Nixon. Peter O'Donnell Jr. spoke after a closed meeting.
Hereford officials announced a multi million dollar meat packing facility will start in late August on a 400 acre site three miles west of Hereford on US 60. Wilson & Co of Chicago will begin slaughter in 1969 at an initial 6400 head weekly capacity. The plant will employ 250 to 300 people and include a break ing operation for custom cuts. The project could exceed 100 million dollars in annual business and includes a planned 590 thousand dollar city revenue bond election for water line extension set for July 16.
A Senate subcommittee report cites shortages of major equipment and of officers in the U S Army 2nd and 7th Infantry Divisions in Korea after the Pueblo seizure. It notes austere facilities for US units and stresses the need for more construction to handle future forces.
In Amarillo Ellwood Park hosted a 25 voice Up With People style choir performance. Teenagers dressed simply sang the National Anthem with patriotic fervor under flags and streamers, delivering a spirited show that highlighted American pride.
Four inmates seized 18 men and 5 women as hostages at gunpoint after a failed jail break at the U S Penitentiary in Atlanta. One guard was grazed by a bullet and treated. Warden Blackwell coordinated with journalist William B Williams to publish the inmates grievances once safety of hostages was assured.
The House rejected moves to kill a $6.3 billion emergency Vietnam war appropriation and added $91 million in unasked aid to affected school districts while approving a supplemental spending bill. The vote to send $9 billion is noted.
James Earl Ray was moved to a maximum security cell at Wandsworth Prison in London as Scotland Yard traced his travels through Canada Britain and Portugal. Legal steps toward extradition to the United States for the King assassination were underway with a provisional British warrant and state officials filing papers. If Ray fights extradition the process could take up to two months while authorities review travel detentions after his arrest at London Airport.
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