Ronni D. Upton Honored For Heroic Rescue In Amarillo
Ronnie D. Upton, a 27 year old Amarillo junior high school math teacher, saved two boys from a cesspool near Orton last July. He received a Carnegie Hero Fund Commission medal and $750 at a formal ceremony. The note also mentions a delayed purchase for a Potter County Tax Office billing machine and indictments by the Potter County grand jury.
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Ronnie D. Upton
Amarillo
Orton
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Potter County
Top of the Day News Highlights in Brief
A compact digest notes a horse contest and rodeos feature on page 28 while another item references a permanent reserve fund stock valued at $150,000 appearing on page 5. The brief points to sports event coverage and financial notices within the edition.
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Permanent Reserve Fund
GOP Discovers 1964 Not 1952
The East Coast Establishment of Republicans fears losing control as Goldwater delegates surge. Scranton is the popular hero among grassroots, while Lodge and Dewey defend old lines with moneyed backing. The piece blends political drama with regional anecdotes and a note on coming campaigns.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Viet Nam
Cape Cod
Tom Dewey
Bob Taft
Taft
Goldwater
Texas
Eisenhower
Scranton
Freeman News Gag Six Million Failure
Washington reports a government funded news service under Orville Freeman is a six million dollar failure. Senate witnesses criticize a censorship clause and call for abolition. Only 55 customers, none from press or broadcasting, remain on the service.
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Articulture
Orville Freeman
Freeman
Senate
Freeman Press Service
Segregation clash in St Augustine crowds clash quiet night
Civil rights demonstrators marched into downtown St Augustine while hundreds of police held back a screaming white segregationist crowd. It was the first march since last Thursday’s melee with no violence reported. A state's attorney filed felony charges against a segregationist for assaulting an officer, with as many as 14 more possible. About 125 whites observed the rally as Negroes, escorted by police, marched past the slave market.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
UPI
Atlantic
Dan Warren
William Thompson
Two U S planes crash off Bermuda during Gemini film shoot
Two U S Air Force aircraft collided two miles off Castle Island Bermuda while filming a Gemini space program recovery. Twelve men aboard split into survivors and 10 reported missing as rescue crews faced rough seas and sharks.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
UPI
U. S. Air Force
Atlantic
T. M. White
R. A. Martin
R. C. Brownley
Kindley Afb
R. S. Weddel
S. Posy
57Th Air Rescue Squadron
Azores
C. Tolbert
Orlando Afb
Fla
H. E. Monk
Robbins Afb
Lajes
Castle Island
Castle Harbor
Air Resecue Service
Orlando
Gemini
Tshombe Holds Hope Of Congo
Western diplomats fear Congo chaos as UN peacekeepers withdraw Tuesday. Moise Tshombe, katanga secessionist leader, seen as potential premier to reunify warring factions. Adoula’s mandate ends soon. Tshombe announces Gizen ga to be freed unconditionally from prison on the Congo River island.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Katanga
U. WN
Tshombe
Belgium
Cyrille Adoula
U. N
Adoula
Antoine Gizenga
Gizen
Sea Scoured For Swimmer Britt Sullivan Off Fire Island
New York Coast Guard led a five mile search Monday off Fire Island for Britt Sullivan the 29 year old marathon swimmer missing since Sunday night while attempting the Atlantic crossing She swam from Coney Island toward Montauk Point in a yellow striped un sinkable suit planned 18 hour days and a five month trek The Marine Center and Coast Guard used an 80 foot cutter two aircraft and floodlights as crews continued the rescue in poor conditions Sullivan a Omaha Nebraska native previously completed a 100 mile Long Island to Coney Island swim and Cincinnati to Louisville stunts
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Fire Island
Britt Sullivan
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Marine Center
Montauk Point
Long Island
Captree Point
Sullivan
Coney Island
Miss Sullivan
Omaha
Nebr
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Louisville
Warren Commission to Ask FBI to Probe Oswald Diary
The Warren Commission decided Monday to request the FBI investigate how Oswalds diary was obtained and from whom It follows the Dallas Morning News reports and notes leaks could mislead the public Rankin said the diary disclosure does not prejudice any points The commission is concerned about possible leaks and awaits the Republican National Convention in San Francisco with Cooper and Ford attending
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Washington
Warren Commission
FBI
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
J. Lee Rankin
Rankin
Earl Warren
Dallas Morning News
Oswald
Moscow
Russia
Commission
William A. McKenzie
Marina
Dallas
Ad- Commission
Republicans press Lodge policy clash in Vietnam debate
A group of House Republicans demanded that Vietnam policy be a major campaign issue despite Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge’s rejection. Rep. Gerald R. Ford led a 13 member task force criticizing a “Why win?” policy and urging full disclosure to candidates and the public. The report calls for halting Communist China’s military expansion and commitments to a victory for freedom in Southeast Asia.
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Washington
UPI
House
Viet Nam
Henry Cabot Lodge
Rep
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
U. S
Lodge
Southeast Asia
Ford
South Viet Nam
GOP
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Ride to Matador Recalled by Texas Educator
CANYON-C. A. Murray, 77, retired head of West Texas State University's mathematics department, recalls a 1908 ride to Matador aboard a stagecoach hitched to an ice block and mud, starting with a train from Commerce to Childress and ending in a misnamed stop called Shin nery.
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Canyon
C. A. Murray
Texas Frontier
West Texas State University
Matador
Commercce
Childress
Murray
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