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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1966
Page
1
Hereford becomes the first Texas city and second in the U S to receive the new Touch Tone telephone push button dialing and tune playing features. The arrival is noted as part of a wider statewide rollout.
In Our Town Amarillo Zoological Society reps met with city commissioners to discuss reclaiming 105 acres of the T Anchor Lake bed for a zoological and botanical garden. 800000 cubic yards of earth would be moved. Three men were arraigned in Potter County for burglaries, a fourth arrested by Amarillo police in a separate station burglary. Al Mengert of Tacoma shot 67 to take one stroke lead in the opening round of the 66th US golf championship in San Francisco.
The piece notes a forthcoming Communist convention in Manhattan Center New York with Bettina Aptheker expected to keynote and Herbert Aptheker nominated for Congress. It cites Dorothy Healey’s Los Angeles votes and argues conservatives gain ground amid global tensions and domestic politics. It also references a Topeka expressway revival after a tornado and a Vietnam casualty update.
Rest of World reports John Young and Michael Collins plan an orbital flight on Gemini 10 next month aiming for a world altitude record in space. SOVIET PREMIER Kosygin prioritizes European security talks with President Kekkonen. Two tankers collided in New York Harbor causing a massive blaze and at least 17 deaths. Premier Nguyen Coo Ky orders 500 more paratroopers to Hue to suppress rebel elements.
Gunman robs First State Bank of Matador of over 9000 dollars and takes hostage Mrs. Rachael Harrison, 28, head bookkeeper. She is found unharmed in a stolen car abandoned west of Texas 70. Sheriff J D Spray and a wide law enforcement team pursue suspects as darkness stops the search.
Two tankers the Alva Cape and the Texaco Massachusetts collided in New York Harbor igniting a firestorm that rose as high as a ten story building. Coast Guard reports at least 20 dead and many missing with about 100 aboard total. Eyewitnesses described water on fire as flames engulfed the channel between Staten Island and New Jersey.
New York AP report notes a Thursday stock market retreat as profit-taking ends a five-day rally. Volume fell to 688 million shares while the Dow Jones average dropped 395 points to 897.16 before late recovery.
Ex Airman implicates three men in the Kimbell Foods Co. warehouse burglary at 1501 Johnson. Larry Bowerman 22 and Delbert Black Jr. 20 were arrested and arraigned with bonds of 3000. Peterson 20 was jailed on a related October safe theft. the report cites a written statement from Bowerman.
Two tornadoes moved through south Hale County on Thursday night with heavy rain and a moving thunderstorm. A patrol car was blown off U S 87 about 10 miles south of Hale Center. no injuries reported. Eyewitnesses Manuel Salazar and Hale Center police reported two ground twisters near Cotton Center and Hale Center.
Premier Ky moves 1000 airborne troops and 600 riot police into Hue to seize key points and declare martial law. A curfew is ordered in Saigon while insurgent units and Buddhist anti-government elements clash with paratroopers and security forces. Five Western reporters were fired upon as the stalemate continues.
A surveyor pivots his transit to review the parking layout for the new city complex, signaling ongoing site work and planning considerations. The article directs readers to page 35 for full details.
A House Judiciary subcommittee ducked a test vote on an open housing provision amid administration talks with Senate Republicans. Chairman Emanuel Celler sent the housing section of the civil rights bill to the full committee without recommendation, criticizing Attorney General Katzenbach for meetings with Senate Minority Leader Dirksen. Katzenbach said the Dirksen talks were at Dirksen’s request and avoided specifics.
An 18 man Marine patrol near Chu Lai repelled a much larger Communist force with grenades bayonets and rocks. Seven Marines managed to fire at the end and 40 enemy dead were counted. Two pilots were missing. Sgt Howard led a bayonet charge despite a back wound.
Deodet Clejan a young engineer who developed a piggy back automobile died when his Piper Aztec collided with a twin engine C46 cargo plane. The C46’s two crewmen Joseph P. Alvarez and Ross William Burt perished. Clejan’s plane crashed in a farm field while the C46 burned in a pasture near a woods. The elder Elmer Layden Sr. said his son and grandson flew a new plane home while Clejan piloted the older craft en route from Fort Wayne to Meigs Field.
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