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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1973
Page
1
A humorous hometown feature recounts Sioux City and Amarillo pride during an Iowa Beef Processors celebration. Local officials praise weather, new plants, and industry ties as attendees compare civic strengths and swap hometown boasts. The piece ends with Wes Izzard's aphorisms.
Nixon and Brezhnev open a week of talks at the White House with no set agenda plan to discuss world problems and U S Soviet relations. Brezhnev will be welcomed on the South Lawn and will meet Kissinger Rogers and others before a state dinner.
Police say the body of 46 year old Alex Curtis Sanders was found face down in Martin Road Lake by a girl walking the shore. An autopsy suggests drowning while investigators seek how his broken upper left jaw occurred and why he was at the Northeast Amarillo lake area. Sanders had no known address beyond General Delivery in Amarillo and was identified by fingerprint matching. The discovery was reported after 2 p.m. with the body located about 100 feet from the north shore center.
Fair today with partly cloudy skies and cooler tonight and Tuesday. Highs near the middle 90s today, in the 80s Tuesday. Lows around the middle 50s tonight. Wind southwest 15 to 25 mph. Precipitation probability 20 percent tonight.
A four man 21 foot research submarine was trapped 341 feet down in the Atlantic by the wreck of the destroyer USS Fred T. Berry off Key West Florida. Navy divers who reached the sub reported the crew in good condition as rescuers raced to free them before their air supply. a deep diving bell and 12 divers were en route from San Diego to assist.
In Vi Thanh the International Commission of Control and Supervision members, including Capt. Pat Dillon of Canada, sit in a bar during a second cease fire night as mortar fire and helicopter evacuations punctuate their conversation. The RVN forces fire near a bridge while mortuary and hospital rear areas are shelled.
Space Center Houston reports Skylab 1 crew Charles Conrad Jr Joseph P Kerwin and Paul J Weitz nearing a space endurance record at 28 days with Nixon calling to say man still matters in space. Kerwin and Conrad photographed the sun while Weitz tested star fields and motion sickness. Conrad marked his 20th wedding anniversary with roses delivery plans.
U S agriculture expands amid world shortages and rising prices. Exports soar with grain sales to China and the Soviet Union, pushing farm trade toward record levels. Forecasts project continued 5 percent annual growth barring tariff clashes.
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