03 Mar 1967
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1967
Page
1
A Group of Teamster Union leaders secretly seeks support to call a special convention to name Hoffa’s successor if he misses a reprieve. Hoffa opponents favoring Frank E. Fitzsimmons are noted, with references to page highlights on various topics.
In Our Town the shelter ed workshop subcommittee of the Potter Rand al Citizen Committee will meet with a representative of Goodwill Industries of America Inc today to discuss locating such a workshop here.
U S Marines ended a three day battle by capturing a strategic Viet Cong hill near the DMZ in War Zone C with heavy losses on both sides. The report notes intensified clashes and significant casualties for both forces.
Incumbent school trustees in the Panhandle seek re election amid competition. The story notes April 1 voting in the period with details on candidates and districts, including the local polling situation.
The piece cites J Edgar Hoover urging swift arrest and certain punishment as essential to deter crime. It cites a state supreme court justice and critic James J Kilpatrick, referencing the President's Crime Commission and calls for rehabilitation, then shifts to local notes including bass catches, the National Write Your Congressman Club, and a gun-safety message from Paul Timmins.
A Tarrant County Grand Jury indicted James S. Clary Olin A. Cole Oliver W. Hayes Charles A. Lindsey and Andrew J. Rhoads on theft over $50 and theft by bailee in connection with Bethel Baptist University bonds. A civil suit seeks 84 920 in damages from the same defendants. Bond set at 10 000 each. University trustees say interest will be paid and deny any fraud.
Jim Martin reports a 17 year old Tascosa High junior died after his father attempted mouth to mouth resuscitation at Northwest Texas Hospital following a heart wound from a gunshot at Cecil's Steakhouse in the Stardust Motel area. Witnesses heard the shot and police prepared to rule on the death.
In Austin the House, with little debate, sent ethics measures and an emergency purchase loophole bill to the Senate. Nugent's ethics bill cleared 140 to 6 on second reading. Whatley's Sunday closing reform passed 132 to 14. Rep. Cory proposed a city sales tax repeal. he warned of a possible 1 percent state tax increase.
President Johnson announced Kosygin agreed to U S Soviet discussions on limiting offensive and defensive nuclear missiles. Ambassador Thompson named as U S representative in Moscow with talks to begin in the Soviet capital. No start date set. Johnson stressed aim to avoid expensive missile defense before agreement.
Eleanor Dart a 20 year old college coed and her fiancé faced a brutal 18 days without food while stranded on a 10600 foot peak in the Sierra San Pedro Martir. Dart emerged weak but alive after a months long search began February 13 when they failed to return to Clairemont California. Kellogg 21 was also found safe in the same terrain.
Washington dispatch reports the Communist Party and allied groups plan a week of anti Vietnam demonstrations at colleges across the United States starting April 8 15 Student mobilization committees and front groups like W E B DuBois Clubs Youth Against War and Facism and Students for a Democratic Society coordinate sit ins and attacks on the CIA Bettina Aptheker a UC protest leader and CP national committee member attended a December Chicago planning meeting Major rallies are set April 15 in New York and San Francisco with preliminary sit ins urged at colleges draft boards and government agencies.
New Orleans reports that District Attorney Jim Garrison claims evidence of meetings in September 1962 and 1963 among Lee Harvey Oswald Clay Shaw and David Ferrie to plan Kennedy's murder. An informant under truth serum provided corroborating statements.
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