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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1967
Page
1
The House voted to allow Texas cities to impose a 1 percent city sales tax after lengthy debate and many amendments. Local voters will have a chance to approve the measure as well.
A physician from Jackson Mississippi will arrive in Amarillo on April 15 to serve his preceptorship in surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital. The program is expected to advance a local medical residency system. Page 7. J. McAdams of the North Texas Producers Association. The 7th Court of Civil Appeals in Amarillo ruled that Judy Rae Anderson a Canyon High student may attend Canyon Junior High School. The Canyon School Board has a special meeting scheduled today. Page 1. Volume 58 number 101.
A PTA panel recommends adding sex education to the curriculum, arguing teachers can do a better job than parents. The piece recalls TV host Sam Levenson and contrasts past hush hush norms with today’s open discussion and rising teen issues.
Bookstores report strong requests for Quotations From Chairman Mao while Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall draws interest after his Vietnam death. Community notes reflect on Plainsmen WWII reunion plans, local historian chatter, and a 1967 Washington birthday tale.
The 7th Court of Civil Appeals ruled Canyon School Board policy denying admission to a married student for one semester is not final. The board must act within 15 days to seek rehearing. if denied, Mrs. Anderson may attend school this semester. The case may go to the Texas Supreme Court if rehearing is requested.
A federal grand jury at Jackson indicted 19 people on Monday including Rainey Price and Sam Bowers Jr. The indictment accuses the group of conspiring to injure oppress threaten and intimidate Michael Schwerner and James Earl Chaney. Bond set at 5000 for each defendant. The FBI identifies Bowers as imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan White Knights.
Fierce fighting erupted in War Zone C as Viet Cong attacked a company of the U S 1st Infantry Division 178 men near Tay Ninh City near the Cambodian border. American units wore gas masks during a tear gas assault but suffered no casualties. The engagement, the heaviest since Operation Junction City began, saw helicopter reinforcements and air power pounded Viet Cong positions.
President Johnson nominated Ramsey Clark to be attorney general. Justice Tom C. Clark indicated he will retire from the Supreme Court to avoid conflicts with the new Justice Department. He will decide after reviewing the court docket whether to retire by June 1967 or wait until Ramsey takes office.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed a consular treaty with the Soviet Union by a 15 to 4 vote sending the pact to the Senate floor for possible action within a week or two. Supporters say it could ease tensions and move U S Soviet relations forward while opponents warn it may extend the Vietnam war by boosting trade and weapons flow to North Vietnam.
In Munich, dumpling maker Helmut Winter agreed to a cease fire with the Luftwaffe after firing potato dumplings at low-flying aircraft from a catapult built from Leonardo da Vinci design. The air force promised higher altitudes and Winter said he would quit firing once the pilots kept to prescribed heights. He also sought talks with U.S. Air Force officials about helicopters, which have since started to fly higher.
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