March winds bring wet and dry hopes in Amarillo forecast
Weather notes from Amarillo report eight months with above normal moisture totaling 14 inches since last July. Officials differ on March outlook with Lawson Harman predicting warmer wetter weather and scattered moisture, while US Weather Bureau maps warn of below normal temperatures but above normal precipitation panhandle and far west Texas.
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Amarillo
Lawson Harman
Electric Company
Mareh
Panhandle
West Texas
Seth Kemble
KGNC
Weather Forecasters, Inc
Iainois
Hig
Irving P. Krick
Denver
Naan
Schools shift to linguistic approach in English teaching
A newspaper report states the College Entrance Board commission on English will advocate a linguistic method. Critics argue schools have failed in English instruction and seek a shortcut, but there is no shortcut to learning. The Kiwanis News calls Washington a place where hidden pasts shame residents. Grae Grit notes riches come from restraint.
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College Entrance Board
Commission On English
Natchitoches Pipeline Blast Kills Many Homes
A Tennessee Gas Transmission pipeline exploded near Natchitoches Louisiana in pre dawn hours killing at least 11 people including children and injuring six. Four homes a trailer and seven cars burned as a 500 foot flame towered above the countryside. Fire burned for 30 minutes while crews searched the debris.
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Natchitoches
la Upi
Tennnessee
Leavenworth Prison to House Texas Promoter Fates
Billie Sel Fates, a convicted Texas promoter, will serve the year federal sentence at Leavenworth Kansas unless paroled earlier. Bureau of Prisons officials said Thursday the Leavenworth institution was chosen based on sentence length and the area of conviction. When Fates is sent to Leavenworth, it depends on the U S marshal currently holding him.
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Washington
Billie Sel Fates
Texas
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kan
Bureau of Prisons
Fates
U.S
Ten Acres of Tragedy North of Natchitoches
Eyewitness recounts describe a destruction zone three miles north of Natchitoches where a natural gas pipeline explosion leveled a rural compound. Police sift smouldering debris as 17 people died in the Flaming nightmare near La 1, with three bodies found along a dirt road as the blast shattered autos and homes.
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Natchitoches
La. 1
Natchitoches Parish
March Midwest storm floods towns and halts transit
A vigorous March storm drove 1,200 people from homes across the Midwest as blizzard warnings stretched from Minnesota to Missouri. Snow and sleet blocked St. Louis streets while a Miami Beach squall battered hotels and a synagogue.
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Midwest
Minnesota
Missouri
St. Louis
Miami Beach
Temple Emanu-F
Mental Health Bill Advances Amid Amendments and Talks
In Austin, debate surrounds a proposed Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation department replacing the state board, with a suppression amendment replacing a physician leader. House approval temps, while a veterans land program constitutional amendment clears the Senate 30 to 0 and moves toward voter decision in November.
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Austin
Gov. Connally
John Connally
Sen
House
Bruce Reagan
Senate
Menta Health
Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
WH Miller
Houston
Miller
Kiembell Lopa
Mental Health Agency
Snow diving unlikely to catch on at St Johns
Collegeville Minnesota AP A St Johns University freshman Paul Barrow 18 of Minneapolis invented snow diving a graceful swan dive from a third floor dorm window into a six foot snow drift He emerged soaked but unharmed The stunt followed a week of heavy snows leaving drifts up to ten feet with little chance the sport spreads further.
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Collegeville
Minon
St. John's University
Paul
Bingo) Barrow
Minneapolis
Barrow
U S closes five libraries in Indonesia amid harassment
The United States halts all USIA operations in Indonesia, closing five libraries and reading rooms and withdrawing 17 officers due to intolerable government harassment. VOA continues three hours daily in Indonesian from a Philippine transmitter as Jakarta seizure reports loom.
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Washington
United States
Indonesia
U.S. Information Agency
U.S
USIA
Carl T. Rowan
Jakarta
Jogjakarta
Surabaya
Medan
Makassar US
Voice of America
US S
Sukarno
Amercan
Moscow Embassy Stoned In Viet Nam Protest Riot
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko apologized to the American Embassy for damage during a three hour two wave demonstration by about two thousand Vietnamese and Chinese students. He pledged Russia will pay for the damage and warned raids on North Vietnam threaten peaceful coexistence and U.S.-Soviet relations.
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Moscow
Red Army
Andrei Gromyko
Foy D. Kohler
Russia
Viet Nam
Gromyko
U.S
Quebec Breaks Into Laughter Over Jail Escape Rivard
RCMP sought Lucie Rivard, reputed narcotics boss held in Texas, after she and another prisoner fled Montreal jail with a wooden weapon. Rivard sent a letter to the jail governor apologizing for the escape, claiming no outside help and a sudden decision at 4 pm Tuesday. Her signature was verified. Marie Rivard reportedly visited and left with $2,000.
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Rivard
Texas
Montreal
Quebec
Claude Wagner
Marie
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