Permits for Poor People Campaign Ended as Storm Approaches
The federal government refused to extend the permit for the Poor People Campaign town event. Austwell area faces 62 mph winds, high tides, heavy rain and potential flooding. A motorcyclist Lewis Richard Zimmerman of Amarillo was killed in Roy Utah when struck by a train while waiting to pass another at a crossing. A 21 year old Northwest Texas Hospital student nurse died Sunday. A Pampa Church custodian died at McLean Hospital after a heart attack while fishing at Lake McClelland. An airplane crash at Carillo Dragway injured a woman noon today.
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Lewis Richard Zimmerman
Roy, Utah
Northwest Texas Hospital
Dian
McLean Hospital
Lake McClelland
Poor People Campaign Permit Not Extended at Resurrection City
The federal government will not extend the camping permit for the Poor People's Campaign at Resurrection City near the Lincoln Memorial. Interior Department officials urged SCLC to vacate and arrange dismantling as protesters stayed in place despite government eviction actions and tear gas earlier.
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Washington
Resurrection City
Lincoln Memorial
Interior Department
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Department of the Interior
Park
Potter County Judge and Sheriff O Dudge Adams Dies
Potter County figure O Dudge Adams died at 82 after a heart attack Sunday night at St Anthony's Hospital. Born Will Mont Adams January 1, 1887 in Saylorsville Kentucky, he moved to Amarillo in 1906 and built a pioneering career in business, law and public service. He served as Potter County sheriff from 1933 to 1949 and practiced as a judge and commissioner. Funeral plans are with N S Griggs and Sons.
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Potter County
W. M
Bill) Adams
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Adams
N. S
Denver
Colo
Amarillo
De Gaulle Wins Strong Support in First-Round Returns
Paris AP reports France rallied behind President Charles de Gaulle in the first round of National Assembly elections. Gaullist gains spread nationwide as labor student upheavals had stirred talk of resignation, with partial results showing the president and allies expanding their seats.
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Paris
France
Charles de Gaulle
National Assembly
Gaullists Edge Toward Majority in New Parliament
In the national elections Gaullists secured a solid lead toward a 487 seat parliament with 244 seats last cycle and at least 130 candidates already declared elected. Runoffs are set for next Sunday as the system requires a majority to win.
Ambushes Hit ARVN Units Along Key Highway
Vietnamese government soldiers suffered casualties in multiple ambushes as infantry columns moved between bases along Highway 60 northeast of Saigon. Reports cite heavy enemy fire, airlifted reinforcements, and dozens of Viet Cong fatalities amid ongoing ground actions in the region.
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Saigon
Eeem
Woman Killed As Plane Slams Into Car At Amarillo Dragway
A light single engine plane veered in a cross wind and struck a parked car at the Amarillo Dragway killing Julia Archuleta, 21, a nurse’s aide. Seven others were injured, one seriously, including Jerry Oden, 14, undergoing surgery for a facial wound. Pilot Manton Leon Brown and his son were among those aboard. Archuleta planned to marry Kenney Lee Lawry next Saturday. witnesses cited a 20 to 25 knot crosswind at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Dragway
Julia Archuleta
Brinkman
Northwest Texas Hospital
Jerry Oden
Friona
Archuleta
Kenney Lee Lawry
Buchanan
Margaret Cuellar
Lawry
Manton Leon Brown
Robert Vaughn
N. Avondale
Brown
Matt Brown
Amarillo Air Force Base
Driver Avoids Mishap By JIM SANDS
An Amarillo ambulance driver, Rick Boone, expertly handled a four-stretcher unit after a tire blew out on South Washington while rushing five injured and a 21 year old fatality to Northwest Texas Hospital from the dragway crash. Attendant Paul Bartlow praised Boone for keeping the vehicle upright as swerving occurred at about 75 mph.
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Amarillo
Dragway
Rick Boone
Mimosa
Metropolitan Ambulance Co
South Washington
Northwest Texas Hospital
Washington
Paul Bartlow
Bowie
Boone
Banker Endures To Be President
Stratford’s First State Bank, decades through depressions and the dust bowl, elected H. M. Flores 59 to the presidency June 10 to fill a board vacancy. Flores joined in 1927, recalling the 1930s crisis, Roosevelt moratorium, and farm loans that kept the bank solvent as Stratford faced drought and war prosperity.
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Stratford
First State Bank of
Bonnie and Clyde
H. M. (Hose) Flores
J. A. Whittenburg III
Flores
Roosevelt
H. M. Flores
Martha Mitts
Candy Smashes Texas Coast With Rain and Tides
Tropical storm Candy slammed the Texas coast near Corpus Christi causing high tides and flooding. The center shifted east toward San Patricio and Matagorda Bays, prompting bridge washouts on Mustang Island and road closures on the John F. Kennedy Causeway. Tornado warnings covered more than 30 counties as twisters formed ahead of the storm.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Candy
Texas
Austwell
Gulf of Mexico
Brownsville
San Patricio Bay
Matagordo Bay
Mustang Island
John F. Kennedy
Padre Island
Corpus Christo
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Santa Fe Spotlight
Sylvio Porter
Ralph Leone
oDudge Adams
Judge Adams
Nobles Bros
Walter C. Parr
Adams and Parr
Polk Street
Camp Pike
Waco
Dorothy H. Wheeler
de Gaulle
By John Debaun
Jim Sands
Sam Allred
William Jennings Bryan
Dallas
Federal Depository
Gulf Coast
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