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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1971
Page
2
A LASL STRETCH computer, once billed as the most powerful, ends ten years of work on June 30. Built by IBM with LASL input, the machine has been superseded by systems twelve times faster. The name STRETCH reflected its strain on IBM resources.
At the OAU summit in Addis Ababa, a roll call vote of 28 nations opposed opening dialogue with South Africa, six supported, five abstained, with two absent. The conference adjourned after confirming Rabat hosting for June 1972.
A group of women law students filed a federal complaint against the University of Texas alleging broad sex discrimination in academics and employment. They seek a HEW investigation into the university’s practices, warning of possible loss of $25 million in federal contracts and citing pay gaps of about $2000 between women and men in the same departments.
Three Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Salute orbital station set a new space endurance record, surpassing the prior record of 17 days 16 hours 59 minutes. The crew Dobrovolsky Volkow Patsayev launched June 6 on Sojuz 11 and docked with Salute, now conducting medical and biological tests and about 140 experiments as they aim to perfect long term orbital operation.
Carl E. Campbell, 27, of 1211 Sycamore, was shot in the right leg and beaten in a vacant lot on S Van Buren around 6:30 p.m. Witness Roy Duke described two late teen or early 20s assailants who fired at least five times then assaulted Campbell with fists and rocks before fleeing toward Jackson Street. Authorities continued searching for the attackers at press time.
A 37 year old Amarillo man David Lee Booker was indicted on assault with intent to murder in a shooting at a salvage yard at 2614 NW 14th. Other indictments include Ralph McClelland 17 for car taking from Craig Garage, George Hyman 20 for assault with a prohibited weapon, Roy Kouba 44 for burglary at 412 S Bryan, Richard Rehwalt 19 for forging an $80 check, and Alfred Fields 34 for theft of an auto transmission.
Minnie Jo Hardee, 78, of Evermon Texas died. Services set for 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church Evermon. Interment at Alvarado Cemetery Alvarado Texas.
The New Mexico State Corporation Commission schedules a Thursday hearing in Santa Fe on complaints against Western States Telephone Co. serving Espanola and Chicayo. The SCC notes that Western States promised a $2 million construction program in August 1969, but complaints to staff have continued to increase since then.
Roswell insurance agent Lawrence Goodell, 57, a former state legislator from Chaves County, was appointed by Gov. Bruce King to fill the vacancy left by Irving E. Moore on the State Police Board. The term runs until Jan. 1, 1975 and awaits Senate confirmation in 1972.
Obituaries list multiple figures with ages and service details. Curtis H Curtis 59 of Polk. Richard Pryor 91 of Hereford. Marilyn McClellan 44 of Riverside California. Pearle Thweet 74 of Santa Clara California. Whitaker Jr 47 of Rt 2 Box 154 Whitaker Read. Services scheduled at Saint Andrews Episcopal Church Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel Memorial1.
Boise City Oklahoma story highlights Austin Burdick who runs Burdick and Daughters trucking with ten tractors hauling wheat from Wichita Falls to Canada. The firm displays a bucking donkey and his four daughters in branding while his son Jimmy, 13, also drives.
The Texas Control Board granted Cabot Corp of Pampa another year to reduce pollution from its Skellytown channel black plant. Emissions are down 70 percent this past year and output will be cut another 10 to 15 percent next year. Also approved were a month for Colorado Interstate Gas to install smokeless flare equipment north of Amarillo and a variance extension for American Zinc through October 31 to phase out its Dumas plant.
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