Remembrance of Sheriff Bill Adams by a longtime friend
Bill Adams, longtime Potter County sheriff and later county judge, is remembered by a newspaper colleague who files memories of their years working together. The writer recalls jail routines, WMA holds, daily coffee in the jail, and Adams’ distinctive style and friendship.
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Bill Adams
Potter County
News-Globe
Hhins Waetelantar
Canton
Bill Wallace
Cal Farley
East Fourth
WMA
Amarillo man held on federal theft warrant
A 23 year old Amarillo man was arrested by police Tuesday night on a federal warrant charging theft from an interstate shipment. The suspect, taken into custody at Polk Street, faces arraignment before a U S Commissioner. The Levi Strauss plant trousers were valued at 56 dollars. A witness described two suspects and an abandoned car with three boxes of trousers was found.
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Amarillo
Gary L. Vernon
Polk Street
Levi-Strauss
Sta- Prest Co
U.S
Terry L McCarty
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Two East German Guards Defect Across Berlin Wall
Two East German border guards climbed the wall into West Berlin on patrol. They surrendered to West Berlin police and were handed to U.S. authorities, bringing total defectors since 1961 to 503.
Sapulpa Man Crashes After Brake Failure Damage at Shop
A Sapulpa man could not stop due to faulty brakes on Monday and crashed into a tire changer inside a shop. His car struck the wall, bricks flew, and extensive damage followed the 69 cent sale.
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Sapulpa, Okla
Sapulpa
Tony Curtis Signs for Bugsy Siegel Biopic We Only Kill
Tony Curtis has signed with Paramount to star in We Only Kill Each Other, the life story of notorious underworld figure Bugsy Siegel. The project marks Curtis’s foray into a Siegel biopic, signaling a high profile gangster drama for the studio.
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Curtis
Gang Film
Hollywood
UPI
Tony Curtis
Paramount
Underworld
Bugsy Siegel
Amarillo Funeral Notices and Obituaries Take Coverage
Multiple Amarillo area obituaries and funeral notices list Mrs Larona Alexander 37 of 310 8 W 3rd with service at New Hope Baptist Church and burial at Llano Cemetery. Also notes Mrs Reda Bond 68 served in WAC died at VA Hospital with services at St Joseph’s. Funeral arrangements for Roscoe Martin 84 and William McFarland 70. Manly Walker 44. Rev C N Wylie 84. their rites planned at local chapels and cemeteries with survivors and burial details.
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Larona Alexander
W. 3Rd
New Hope Baptist Church
David Hill
Liano Cemetery
Watford’s
Alexander
Amarillo
Northwest Texas Hospital
Rosary for Miss Julia Archuleta in Clayton Church
Clayton New Mexico rosary for 21 year old Julia Louise Archuleta of Amarillo will be recited at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church with a funeral mass to follow. She died after a car crash near Amarillo Dragway and is survived by two sisters and three brothers.
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Clayton
N.M
Julia Louise Archuleta
Brinkman
Amarillo
St. Francis Xavier Catholic
Kilburn Funeral Home
Archuleta
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo Dragway
Belgian Officials Visit to Buy U.S. Wheat
Five Belgian flour milling officials will visit Kansas and Oklahoma to explore a seven million bushel U S wheat purchase. They aim to supplement Belgian wheat with high quality grain, mainly hard red winter, to standardize standards in Belgium’s mills.
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Liberal
Kan
Belgium
United States
Kansas
Oklahoma
U.S
Rites Friday for Soldier Pvt Pacheco Vietnam Death
Rosary services for Pvt. 1st Andy J. Pacheco who died in Vietnam will be at 7 p.m. Friday at Dunn Memorial Chapel. Requiem Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St Anne's Catholic Church in Tucumcari. Burial with military rites will follow at Tucumcari Memorial Park. He enlisted January 1968 and had served in Vietnam less than one month. Survivors include his parents Mr and Mrs Paul Pacheco, two brothers and nine sisters.
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C. N Wylie
Kansas City
Powhondie
Village Presbyterian Church
Charles Spivey
First Presbyterian Church
Dalhart
Staten Presbyterian Church
Ore
Wylie
Eloht
Jerry Jack Johnson
Dumas
Central Methodist Church
Carlton Thomson
Memorial Park Cemetery
Walker Funeral Home
Johnson
Dyihart
Charles Horruf
Texas Tech Sosveor
St Vincent de Paul Catholic Church
Andy J. Pacheco
Vietnam
Dunn Memorial Chapel
Pacheco
St Anne's Catholic Church
Fracis Nava
Tucumcari Memorial Park
Funeral services for Lena Mertice Smith in Calvary Temple
Lena Mertice Smith 69 died Monday at her Perryton home after living in the area five years. Funeral at Calvary Temple today at pm with Rev E O Bishop. burial Fairview Cemetery Pomona at 430 pm. Survivors include husband four sons a daughter brothers M Porter Pampa W S Porter Shreveport sisters Lila Lee Harvey Houston Alice Aldridge Fort Worth Grace Smith Sweetwater and Moudine Weeks San Angelo. 13 great grandchildren.
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Blake
Pampa
Hedley
Rufus Milton Saunders
First Baptist Church
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C. H. Murphy
Sounders
Conoco
Butane Co
Healey
Healey Lions Club
John R. Saunders
Memphis
Wayne
Harrison
Amarillo
J. D
San Angelo
Lyne Davis
Wellington
W. HH. Butler
Houston
George Williams
Zeno Lemons
Perryton
Lena Mertice Smith
Calvary Temple
E. O. Bishop
Auriga
Fairview
Pomoo
Smith
Trudeau Victory Clinches Liberal Majority in Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau led the Liberal party to a clear victory in Canada’s election, securing a majority government for the first time since 1962. The Liberals captured key seats in Quebec and Ontario, with Trudeau and Stanfield re elected in their districts while regional results showed Conservatives fading nationwide.
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Toronto
Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Liberal Party
Liberals
Lester B. Pearson
Trudeau
Quebec
Ontario
Marcel Faribault
Robert Stanfield
Arthur Portelance
National Union Party
Montreal
House of Commons
Conservatives
New Democratic Party
Creditistes
Stanfield
Nova Scotia
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Joseph Smallwood
Halifax
Real Caouette
Creditiste
Pearson
Senate Approves Wheeler for Fifth Year as JCS Chairman
The Senate confirmed Gen Earle G. Wheeler by voice vote to continue as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a fifth year, until July 1969. Law previously allowed one extra year beyond the standard four-year term.
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Washington
Senate
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wheeler
Congress
Texans Killed In Vietnam War
The Defense Department reports two Texans were killed recently in Vietnam. Both in the Army, the casualties include CWO Charles M. Cotton of Angleton and WO Ross C. Barlow of San Benito, sons and husbands respectively.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Vietnam
CWO
Charles M. Cotton
Diane M. Cotton
Angleton
Ross C. Barlow
Duble Barlow
San Benito
Funeral services set for Judge W. M. Adams 82
Judge W. M. Adams 82 dies after heart attack in St Anthony's Hospital Amarillo resident since 1906 served Potter County as sheriff 1933 1949 Precinct 1 county commissioner 1950 1954 and county judge since 1955 He belonged to First Presbyterian Church American Legion survived by two sons a daughter two sisters and eight grandchildren Services Thursday at First Presbyterian Church with burial at Llano Cemetery.
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N. S. Griggs and Sons
Tol Ware
Allen Arly Jr
Hughes Leeward
F. W. Wallace
J. C Sowers
Pitts Crudgington
James G. Lumpkin
W. N. Lampe
Burin
Llano
Adams
St. Anthony's Hospital
Amarillo
Potter County
Precinct 1
First Presbyterian Church
American Legion
Van Zandt County Reunion at Mackenzie Park
Lubbock reports a Van Zandt County Reunion set for Friday July 7 on Mackenzie Park grounds. Alt Van Zandters from West Texas and beyond are invited, a committee spokesman said.
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Lubbock
Mackenzie Park
West Texas
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