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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1955
Page
2
The contract committee met in Plainview to draft final water purchase contracts with 1 member cities for private financing of the project. The authority weighs high project water costs against groundwater reserves owned by the city and development costs. A special session is set for 1 30 p.m.
Corporal Dunn of Baldwinsville and Syracuse area, a Korean War veteran, pleads at a nine member board trial. The panel later finds him guilty after review and offers a second phase for extenuating circumstances. Dunn, a 1st Cavalry Division veteran, received a hero’s homecoming and was crowned king of the New York State Fair. He says he attended Communist lectures but is not and never will be a Communist.
Defend ant Washington testifies he did not own the pistol found in his car and never pointed a gun at anyone. Witnesses place him with a woman and other men in Dallas on April 2 and 3. judge clears courtroom as spectators storm the evidence. Poole, an airman at Bryan and formerly Connally bases, was killed in the shooting following a robbery.
The Amarillo commission appointed F W Wallace to a police chief examination panel alongside Joe Fletcher and Dr Roy Boger with interviews July 5 or 6 for 17 applicants including 15 Amarillo police, and approved annexing 471.76 acres south of the city limits.
Evangelist Billy Graham ends his Germany revival campaign with a Tuesday night indoor meeting at Westfalen Hall in Dortmund. Managers predict about 20 000 attendees and a total audience near 200 000 across seven German cities, noting Dortmund’s 26 000 capacity. Last year in Düsseldorf he drew 34 000 at Rhine Stadium.
A reader returns a hub cap to the Globe News Building Lost and Found Department after the owner Wisner of 908 Western failed to leave his name and address. The item was reported by H Wisner in the Amarillo Daily News and Globe-Times.
The Bundestag approved rearmament in principle as Adenauer urges quick steps to rebuild the army before the Geneva summit. Deputies pressed for civilian control guarantees and strict parliamentary oversight to prevent a state within a state, signaling a battle over the plan. Security Committee members cite U S examples of parliamentary control.
Thunderstorms formed late yesterday from southeast Colorado along the Texas New Mexico border and were set to move east overnight. Amarillo expected 88 with 60 for a low as showers target scattered Texas Panhandle areas. Other highs include Guymon 88 Albuquerque 2 Roswell 97 Lubbock 90 Tucumcari 95.
Searchers use partial signals from a raft emergency radio to locate downed fliers. An Air Force spokesman notes survival depends on constitution and sea state, with favorable conditions allowing more than a week. Michigan's last coal mine closed in 1952.
Queen Salote of Tonga asks Fiji for the loan of a hangman to execute two convicted murderers. Fiji weighs the request as the executioner is hard to locate and lives deep in the forest on Viti Levu island.
The exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on January 16 1928 in a political move by the Stalinist leadership.
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