Campus revolt splits nation over military ties
A UCS led campus walkout spreads to over 30 campuses including Maryland NYU Fordham Columbia Stanford amid protests against military funding in research. MIT linked group aims to remove military from higher education while ROTC credits and draft issues spark debate.
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Stanford
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Snow Green To Farmers Piecing Panhandle Hope From Snow
Snow blanketed the Panhandle for three weeks leaving five inch accumulations in places. Farmers plan to feed cattle for days as pastures recover with snow melt. Warmer weather and apricot trees in bloom contrast with the lingering snow and provide moisture for crops and economics.
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Jerry Harlan
Amarillo
Hutchinson County
Charles Beedy
Hansford
Bob Adamson
U.S. Weather Bureau
Bearded Bandit Robs Jiffy Food Store on Plains Boulevard
A lone gunman robbed Jiffy Food Store No. 27 at 4901 Plains Blvd around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday. Police describe a 25-year-old, 6-foot, 160 to 165 pounds, with a one inch beard, wearing a black jacket with tan collar. Night clerk James Albert, 64, forced into a back room then restroom, watched the robber, who fled after about three minutes. The weapon was a .22 caliber revolver.
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April Draft Call Reaches 1737 Texans
The Texas April draft call totals 1,737, up 165 from March. Col Morris Schwartz says Texas must furnish 18 medical doctors for the Army from July 1969 to January 1970, plus two optometrists and one osteopath for the same period.
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Rockets Hit Saigon in Deadly Fourth Rocket Barrage
The Saigon capital faced a fourth Russian rocket attack as six 122mm shells struck downtown at 6 am wounding many and killing at least twenty five civilians. The strikes hit the 4th Precinct and Dien Hong area amid a curfew lull.
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Melvin R .Laird
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South Vietnmese House
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Apollo 9 Space Walk Aborted After Illness Strikes
Apollo 9 aborts a planned Thursday space walk after Russell Schweickart reports vomiting twice and poor appetite. McDivitt retains plan to depressurize the lunar module and open hatches while Schweickart wears the portable life support system. TV transmission remains on schedule.
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McDivitt
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Country Parson Begins Visit Here
Frank Clark author of The Country Parson will begin a daily feature on Page 2 of the Amarillo Daily News. Clark, a church layman and Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate managing editor, plans witty satirical writing that promotes livelier Christian living.
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Frank Clark
Amarillo
Surveyor aims to tarnish Texas image reported
A surveyor named Kaal eres pointed a tran sit at a sight described as tarnishing the Texas image. Details are promised on page 3.
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Eres
Texas
Picturesque car hop held on abduction charge in Georgia case
PICTURE was arrested while working as a car hop at the Boomerang Drive-In, 30 miles from Oklahoma City arraignment before US Commissioner James Gullett. Bond set at 4500,000, with a court-appointed attorney to be provided at 1:30 p.m. Miss Schier and Steven Krist, 23, face abduction charges in the Barbara Mackle case. Mackle, daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert F Mackle, was found unharmed but buried in a box northeast of Atlanta after a Decatur motel disappearance. Krist captured December 22 after a large manhunt near Punta Gorda Florida. Norman restaurant owner Bob Lehman said he employed...
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Oklahoma City
James Gullett Gullett
Gullett
Miss Schier
Steven Krist
Barbara Jane Mackle
Decatur
Last Dee
Miss Mackle
Robert F. Mack
Derailed Gas Cars Burning North of Stinnett
A Rock Island freight train derailed seven miles north of Stinnett. Nine of thirty two cars left the track and two propane tanks exploded causing large flames. Four Amarillo crew members were not injured. Fire units from Stinnett Hutchinson County and DPS responded as explosions were heard for miles.
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Stinnett
Hutchinson County Sheriff's Office
Department of Public Safety
Prison humor blooms in California’s San Quentin and Folsom papers
The San Quentin News and The Folsom Observer reveal inmate wit and grievances from California’s two largest prisons. Humor targets prison life from meals to parole, reflecting longing for freedom, with columns on garbled translations of outside life and jokes about food, guards, and the parole process.
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Folsom
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