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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1965
Page
1
President Johnson announced he will sign the 47 billion excise tax cut into law Monday with hopes American consumers will see lower prices by Tuesday. The plan comes as a major stimulus and signals an expected shift in retail costs nationwide.
In El Paso Texas a bandit robbed First State Bank of 1620 dollars then discarded the loot and clothing. He fled pursued by police and pedestrians, leaped into a garbage can where he hid in striped trunks before being captured by officers and FBI agents. The suspect was identified as 27 year old Richard Roscow Jessee, a vacuum cleaner salesman.
Seventeen spectators were wounded when a clown fired an allegedly unloaded shotgun into a rodeo crowd in Gladewater Texas. Eleven treated and dismissed, six admitted at City Hospital. injuries not critical. Spectator Wilmer Earhart of Waco said several children were hit as pandemonium ensued. The incident occurred during a rodeo act with a small donkey entry.
Three youths aged 17, 16, and 15 were arrested near Amarillo for vandalizing a cemetery by overturning stones. They admitted the act, with the 16-year-old explaining a ghost story motivated the incident. two tombstones were overturned and others damaged.
FBI agents arrested a 16 year old boy in Brownsville on Friday in connection with an $18,000 Del Rey bank robbery. The youth stood near the International Bridge to Mexico and refused to provide information about his father Dean Rainey, listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted.
UPI reports that 27 B52s dispersed a Viet Cong concentration 28 miles northwest of Saigon in a two square mile area near Ben Cat. The strike, with 500 tons of bombs, disrupted possible Viet Cong maneuvers as ground units reconnoitered for four hours with no casualties.
Washington report notes many congressmen visit Paris for the international air show over a long weekend. Costs run to about 50 dollars daily per person, with some lawmakers who have been to Paris before commenting on living costs. President Johnson backs the trip as a dollar-stabilizing gesture, sending Vice President Humphrey and astronauts as guests.
A third major storm in three days drenched Raton New Mexico with a record 5.6 inches of rain. Flooding closed roads and bridges stranded an ambulance with bodies of Jo Frances Scott and Mardi Ann Scott from Washington. Authorities warned boil water and dispatched health reinforcements as Koehler miners escaped a flooded shaft.
The Arkansas River flood isolated Lamar and Holly in southeast Colorado, cutting highway access and knocking out communications and power. Las Animas and La Junta evacuated, with five believed dead and seven fatalities noted across three days of tornadoes and floods. Disaster aid sought totals 31 million dollars.
Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, commander of South Viet Nam's air force, accepted the job of premier at age 34. He said he would do his best for the people and nation, calling it a great honor. Ky, the youngest premier in the republic's history, has led air strikes against Communist forces.
Flood waters from the Arkansas River breached a concrete and earth levee south and west of Garden City Kansas forcing evacuations. Two nursing homes and St Catherine's Hospital lost first floors and basements to rising water. City sewage plant flooded as crests approached and National Guard aid was requested for sandbagging.
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