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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1971
Page
1
A profile of Rick Scott of Amarillo who covered the AP Columbia bureau and learned to type on a cathode ray terminal. The piece notes the coming shift to CRT terminals, reduced need for paper and pencils, and Scott’s view of the new system as a faster tool for journalism.
Alaska Senator Mike Gravel began reading a study he called top secret Pentagon papers to press reporters in a Senate subcommittee room. He argued the material should be disclosed to the public and defended his actions as non jeopardizing to national security.
A Texas jury convicted Rene Guzman and Leonardo Lopez of the 1964 Dallas murder of Ellis County Deputy A. J. Robertson and sentenced both men to death in the electric chair. The case also left Deputy Wendell Dover wounded, and witnesses noted the courtroom emotion as the verdict and sentence were read.
Boise City Oklahoma hosts the Santa Fe Mule Train parade with about 20 vehicles and dozens of mules and horses. The caravan, from New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Oregon, follows a Santa Fe Trail tribute route near Cimarron County with placards honoring William Becknell and the 1821 mule train.
Senator Clinton P Anderson announced a $100000 grant from the Department of Health Education and Welfare to fund a July first to September thirtieth Medicaid review program in New Mexico. The statewide system will employ computer techniques and medical teams to audit Medicaid use and ensure proper treatment, with participation by the New Mexico Foundation for Medical Care and its doctors and osteopaths who will survey claims and be compensated.
Canyon Republican Rep. Tom Christian denounced state government as a dictatorship during a Canyon Rotary Club talk. He urged limited seniority on committees and warned redistricting could create unconstitutional islands that protect power in the Panhandle.
The Panhandle could gain two representatives by a redistricting plan that others call excessive. Critics accuse the plan of pairing Midland with Abilene to boost control. Christian urges term limits for the speaker to curb power and the ability to name committee chairs. He warns the speaker could bury bills via the rules committee.
ANKARA Turkey has agreed to ban all opium production after 1972 U S officials estimate up to 80 percent of heroin smuggled into the United States comes from Turkish opium The ban aims to satisfy a major American policy goal with compensation to Turkish poppy growers and would restrict planting to four western provinces before this fall The prohibition would take full effect after July harvest and end opium production in Turkey.
Moscow dispatch reports three Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Salute space laboratory have died in flight Tass said early Wednesday.
Congress negotiators reach tentative accord on most draft extension provisions but clash over a Senate amendment aiming to withdraw all U S forces from Vietnam within nine months. White House discussions influence stalemate as conferees also weigh a $2.7 billion pay raise and changes to alternate service terms.
Democrats vow to press Congress to override Nixon veto of a 5.6 billion public works bill while the Senate advances a 2.25 billion public service jobs measure to the House. Some talk of extensions to Appalachian regional development and the Public Works and Economic Development Act, with political stakes ahead of elections.
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