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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1968
Page
1
J W Abel head of United Steelworkers expected to be named president of the AFL C IO Industrial Union Department succeeding Walter Reuther. The move comes as sources said Friday after weeks of speculation.
Reports say the asteroid Icarus made its closest approach to Earth in 19 years on Friday. Congressional aides met to map strategy for stalled Vietnam talks as Hanoi propaganda clouds prospects for peace. Bert Yancey matched a U S Open pace through two rounds. Red skins sign Beban and Fischer to NFL deals. State lawmakers push tax hike and tuition increase bills amid debate on barber shop safety and hazard fees.
Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty defended public comments about alleged communist sympathies of Sirhan Sirhan amid debates over a 258 page grand jury transcript release. California Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch criticized the disclosure as inflammatory while the ACLU lamented the mayor’s remarks.
In Our Town notes Amarillo faces a steady doctor count with one physician for every 1 250 residents, a ratio that has barely shifted over the last three years.
The Soviet Weekly declares the U S Sixth Fleet has no justification for operating in the Mediterranean while the Soviet Mediterranean fleet now exceeds 45 vessels is entitled to be there due to Middle East tensions. The report contrasts Washington’s stance with Moscow’s naval expansion.
Dr. Benjamin Spock and three of his four codefendants were convicted of conspiracy to counsel young men to avoid the draft. Acquitted was Marcus Raskin. The verdict followed a 19 day trial with sentencing set for July 19.
The House Appropriations Committee reported a lean public works bill keeping $892 000 for the Mississippi River Valley water import study to West Texas and eastern New Mexico. The panel trimmed overall pork barrel projects to about $4.5 billion and reduced Johnson budget requests by $408 million. The study contemplates importing 16.5 million acre feet annually to Bull Lake near Lubbock, with possible funding beyond current years.
The United States Britain and France plan formal protests to the Soviet Union over a new West Berlin squeeze. West Germany will recall its ambassador from Moscow and seek a June 20 vote on nonproliferation talks. East Germany warns of more measures as Rusk talks with Kuznetsov.
In the capital today a surveyor centers the transit lens on a famed newspaperman uncle and references the uncle’s cats. The note directs readers to turn to page 9 page 23 for full feature details.
Viet Cong gunners fired 20 mortar rounds at Saigon's southern edge as a major allied sweep neared. Casualties were light. two police wounded near a border outpost. three civilians hit by two rounds inside the city. A Viet Cong unit attacked near Go Vap with heavy artillery called. Parachute flares lit the capital night sky.
Amarillo legislator J M Red Simpson and Springlake’s Bill Clayton plan to introduce a bill in the Texas House that would add one percent to the state sales tax, broaden the base, tax cigarettes liquor and some services, and double resident tuition from 50 to 100 per semester. They argue the move would cover state needs, fund a surplus, and avoid bigger tax bills in 1969, while opposing city revenue sharing.
Republican governors at a Tulsa Ohio conference flag a broad gun control program to guide the GOP platform. Gov Raymond P. Shafer backs stronger controls while Gov Tim Babcock predicts later differences of opinion. The governors’ handbook outlines eight domestic issues with proposed solutions.
The article notes recommendations favoring a negative income tax as a form of guaranteed annual income and potential civil rights laws. It explains that under the proposal a family below a set income would receive money yearly rather than pay taxes. It also reports governors not yet unified behind any GOP presidential candidates.
Six lawmakers formerly voting against a proposed ban on mail order rifles and shotguns now back President Johnsons gun control bill. The switch includes Senators Warren Magnuson Edmund Muskie A S Monroney Gaylord Nelson William Proxmire and Hugh Scott. The bill is before the Commerce Committee and another committee as the administration pushes for stronger gun controls.
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