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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1973
Page
1
A column questions U S foreign aid totaling 182 billion since World War II and 8.4 billion this year with 4.9 billion for military aid. Sen Lloyd Bentsen warns resources are exhausted and calls for cuts. The piece urges readers to write their congressman to stop the outflow.
The explorer Jack Allen hunts wildflowers along a roadside in the eastern Panhandle near Canadian. He and friends traced a 60 foot circle and reported 15 flower varieties within it. He notes the season runs from late spring to mid fall with ample time left for exploration.
Groundbreaking for the 100 million American Smelting and Refining copper refinery will begin in late July on 180 acres northeast of Amarillo. The complex centers on a 2000 by 280 foot tank house with multiple adjacent plants including nickel and copper purification and a refined copper casting unit.
In Sutter Creek California gunsmith D D Dema rests on the job with an irregular schedule. A shop sign proclaims Saturday Sunday hours 10 am to 3 pm usually and notes that Thursday Friday may also appear but not always.
The Associated Press reports a severe storm lashed the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex with heavy rain hail and high winds. Downtown Dallas traffic stopped and floods blocked major routes in Dallas and Fort Worth causing flash flood warnings across their counties. Rainfall rates reached up to 1.5 inches per hour between Denton Gainesville and Waxahachie.
A fiery multi vehicle crash on Interstate 55 near Osceola Arkansas during a dust storm left at least five dead and five injured. Police counted six tractor trailers and twelve cars involved as motorists fled into soybean fields seeking cover. The incident began about 6 p.m. and the death toll remained unconfirmed three hours later.
Gulf Oil Corp president predicted energy problems will be solved but the American way of life will never be the same. He cited big cars and costly suburban and vacation living as symbols of prosperity likely to fade or transform.
In Buenos Aires authorities report John R. Thompson of Firestone and Juan Kurdt of Silvana were kidnapped within 24 hours amid a surge of political abductions targeting foreign firms. Thompson, 50, was seized Monday night in a bold operation. Kurdt, 61, was taken Tuesday morning as he backed from his garage.
Police logs detail two odd incidents on Crazy Day Tuesday. Officer Rob Leutke Hansen spotted a gold bank bag marked FIRST NATIONAL BANK with PAPER scrawled on it and found it filled with blank paper. Later, 11-year-old girl confronts Neal Texaco Service Station owner over a Coke machine dispute, refusing to return a soda.
Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, denounces relentless media intrusion outside their $200,000 1030 Fifth Ave residence in New York. She demands privacy after days of surveillance by reporters and broadcasters seeking comment on Watergate.
A tranquil forecast shows fair and cooler conditions today with a warm up on Thursday. Tonight will be fair with temperatures in the low 50s and highs around the upper 70s today and near 80 on Thursday. Winds will be light and variable.
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