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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1964
Page
1
An Amarillo firm Gil vin Terrill Inc will be awarded a contract by the U S Forest Service for expanding the dam at Lake McClellan near Groom. Also notes a thunderstorm sequence and a Borger blast injuring Orville Gray at Phillips Petroleum plant.
Reports include Richard Miller charged with second degree murder in Liberal Kansas after a prior shooting. a segregated motel restaurant service arrest. a month long Prague visit despite a U S travel ban to Cuba. Senator Goldwater welcoming Gov Scranton into the GOP race. a Swedish colonel jailed for 14 years for betraying secrets. a deadly Dominican ammunition dump explosion. Senate rejects a popular vote on civil rights. Soviet Union and East Germany sign a friendship treaty. Laos to resume U S reconnaissance flights with policy shift.
Opinion piece argues tolerance became a cultural fetish about 30 years ago and now yields social harms. Cites examples from violence to privacy invasion, citing public figures and a 37 New Yorkers incident. Urges that evil must be destroyed rather than tolerated.
A series of blasts at the 27th of February bar in Santo Domingo killed 12 and wounded 111 as saboteurs were blamed. Police arrested two port workers near the French liner Flandre. authorities searched the University of Santo Domingo for suspects. The government called for justice and said the investigation continues.
June rainfall shows spotty pattern while tests at the Houston dome reveal Tiffany Bermuda grass for the field. The stadium’s sound system uses 6 000 speakers and floodlights total 1 960, illustrating tech scale inside the venue.
An East Berlin doctor, his wife, a 54 year old mother, and a 17 year old son escaped into West Berlin with help from friends in the West. Gunfire erupted as border guards attempted to stop them at Wilhelmsruher Damm, but accomplices cut wire barriers and a rug was thrown over a third. The mother and son were injured during the dash. The group planned the escape with West Berlin contacts and later told AP.
Lee Roy Kinney a 37 year old Turpin Oklahoma farmer was arraigned in Liberal county court on second degree murder charges for the shooting of Clarence Dodd 63 of Goltry Ohio who was wounded earlier and Dorothy Dodd 38 who is in good condition. Kinney allegedly befriended Mrs Dodd and used the name Lee Roy Dodd. Bond set at 10000 with preliminary hearing scheduled June 23.
Tommy Lee Knott, 41, of Mannsville Oklahoma, charged with three bank burglaries and one bank robbery in four months, including Grover. Held on 60 000 bond as removal proceedings delayed. FBI says he is among the most active bank men in recent times and was arrested without resistance. Knott faces eight additional theft charges across Terral Eldridge Alto Pass Grover.
A Superior Court judge ordered that Bette Davis may not work on other projects unless she agrees to a nine second mad scene for Paramount Pictures. Judge Macklin Fleming issued the injunction despite Fox's claim the order could cost $500,000 in losses. Davis is currently filming a Fox picture.
The Highway Department said it will set a contract during the June 17 18 meeting for another pontoon bridge on the Intracoastal Canal in Matagorda County.
Sen. Barry Goldwater welcomed Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton's bid for the Republican presidential nomination but said it is too late to prevent a Goldwater victory. Goldwater spoke in an NBC interview after Scranton's public announcement.
Flag Day observance unfolds on Polk Street with a second annual parade scheduled to begin at 1 a.m. from 12th and Polk led by Air Force color guards and city service groups. A reviewing stand at 8th and Polk will honor military personnel and dignitaries. {|} Participants include the fire department VFW Boy Scouts Cub Scouts Girl Scouts Kids Inc and YMCA plus Amarillo youths in a bicycle brigade.
Profile of Governor William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania who formally joined the Republican presidential contest is shown in profile on Page 6.
Littlefield city manager J. W. Harrison faced angry calls as the water system upgrade stalls due to heavy rains. Voters had approved both a larger water supply and a storm sewer project, but wet weather worsened mud in trenches and delayed completion to the end of next week.
A line of afternoon thunderstorms moved from New Mexico into the Texas Panhandle causing tornado sightings and damage. A Texico area house suffered about 7000 dollars in losses and a trailer overturned, with other tornadoes reported near Clovis and Farwell. Rainfall varied from heavy to light across the region, with Hereford and surrounding towns receiving hail and rain as the system moved eastward.
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