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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1971
Page
2
Netherlands joke program features comedian Max Tailleur delivering a daily laugh at Amsterdam 211811 while weather updates for Texas and national figures are noted as of 6 p m yesterday.
Two men remain in critical condition after separate Saturday accidents in Amarillo. Gary Turley, 18, was injured when his southbound car overturned near Broadway and Hastings. Leo Riddle, 35, was hurt in a motorcycle crash at Interstate 40 and Canyon Expressway, plunging 15 feet after hitting a guardrail. Vickie Rangel, 17, the Turley car passenger, was treated and released.
publication page lists Globe-News Publishing Company staff roles led by S B Whittenburg with top editors Jim Walker Wesley L Izard Jim Clark Jack Porter and others and provides subscription rates for morning evening and Sunday editions and mailing details including post 1971 reference.
Traditional lifeinsurance ad offers a $1000 cash burial policy to age 90 with no medical exam and no salesman calls. Money-back guarantee via plain envelope to W White at National Benefit Life Insurance Co Fort Worth Texas Box 11476 AG.
Congress faces votes this week on antiwar measures. The Senate will test the McGovern Hatfield plan to end U S combat by December 31, with a possible two month extension if talks with North Vietnam fail. In the House, Nedzi Whalen push would bar funding for Vietnam actions after December 11, while Findley seeks withdrawal at the earliest practicable date.
Coast Guard suspends search for 25 year old James Brinton of Seattle Community College after his 17 foot kayak was found capsized off the Olympic Peninsula. Rescue planes a cutter and a civilian boat covered about 90 square miles as seas ran six to ten feet with 25 knot winds. Brinton aimed to cross the Pacific in 70 to 90 days and was carrying life saving gear though no vest was found.
A brief note recalls bread lore from Germany with pumpernickel as the famed black loaf. Folklore mentions a traveling Frenchman saying bon pour Nicol for his horse. A second tale claims Turkish bakers faced punishment for adulterated flour.
Maurice Schooler Mack Gordon listed at 1010 West Sth Ave with phone number 376-4626 for direct inquiries.
Washington UPI Robert B Choate told a House small business subcommittee that cereals have improved since his charges last year though many still pack excess sugar. He noted fortification but warned some cereals remain sugar heavy and urged clearer labels and dental health cautions.
Houston health officials confirmed three Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases in Harris County and Houston city residents. Two sisters aged 11 and 5 and their mother contracted the disease around May 1. The oldest sister has gone home, the 5-year-old remains hospitalized, and the mother recovered after earlier illness.
Michael Edwards, seven, sent a postcard to Buckingham Palace during a Tower of London trip. The queen’s lady in waiting answered that Her Majesty is pleased to hear you like her.
FDA Commissioner Charles C Edwards said the move aims at more consumer information about fat types and sources. Two rules would require specific fat labels and ban vague terms like shortening or vegetable oil, with hydrogenation noted. A second rule allows low fat claims but must disclose saturated and polyunsaturated fat percentages, total fat, calories per serving, and calories from fat.
Three Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Salyut space station voted from orbit in a broadcast to earth while tending a Chinese cabbage garden. They described voting for the Communist bloc and hailed the five year plan as experiments continue to study weightless plant growth aboard the lab on its 100th orbit since June 7.
Maj. Gen. George Bowman Jr. of Camp Pendleton was named superintendent of the Marine Military Academy at Harlingen. He will assume Jan. 1 after retiring from the Marine Corps, succeeding Brig. Gen. Hunter Hurst who resigned after 30 years. John Hodgdon will act as superintendent until Bowman arrives.
George Wagner, 21, formerly of Sparks, Nevada, sent back 76 in unemployment benefit checks to the Nevada Department of Unemployment Security saying he was temporarily self employed in North Carolina and did not need the funds. He thanked the agency for past help.
Lola Harris 88 of Canon City Colorado died. Services 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at Groom United Methodist Church Groom Texas with burial at Groom Cemetery. Ida M. Riggs 88 of Vivian's Rest Home died. Graveside service 2:00 p.m. Monday Llano Cemetery. Dell Wilson Nilson 79 of 1111 Clyde died. Services 2:30 p.m. Monday at Schooler Gordon Colonial Chapel with graveside 5:00 p.m. at Fairview Cemetery Pampa Texas.
Five children remain unaccounted for after seven were drowned when a car carrying them to a swimming party lost brakes on a steep hill and plunged into the Mississippi River near Chester Illinois. Debby Canady and Tammy Clark bodies were recovered inside the car, with search extending toward Grand Tower as state police and divers scour the river. Becky Clark Norma Clark Cindy Clark Robbin Phillips and Becky Roberts are still missing.
A two-place Cessna crashed 17 miles east of Henderson in Panola County on Saturday, killing two people whose bodies were burned beyond recognition. The aircraft clipped treetops, broke in two, and burst into flames in a pasture on Aubrey Sparks farm. weather was clear and visibility unlimited. Bodies were taken to Hawthorne funeral home in Carthage.
North Texas State University reports a record 8 364 students enrolled for the first term, up 717 from last summer. Analysts cite unstable employment, returning veterans, and efforts to avoid higher tuition starting this fall as reasons for the rise.
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