08 Mar 1967
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1967
Page
1
Sightings indicate a group believed to be alive were found Tuesday about 2 000 feet below the 20 320 foot summit. Governor Rockefeller vetoed a bill allowing Hot Springs Arkansas to legalize gambling, a long illegal industry in the city.
The paper reports Stratton’s 50 year prison term for the fatal beating of a 4 year old girl and a murder trial for Nikodemus Fries in Plainview. Amarillo approves land for a southwest branch library site at SW 45th and Prairie. Federal officials say an orangutan smuggling racket is cracked. Bridge City star Steve Worster will attend the University of Texas. A Texas Panhandle round-up highlights incumbents and newcomers in April elections. Olton agriculture club members groom animals for the stock show Thursday through Saturday. No bids were received by FHA for Beverley Towers Amarillo and 1965 sale offers were unsuccessful. Early next year targets opening the Amarillo State Center for Human CU 811181.
Frank Pfeiffer tours Rhodesia, praising Prime Minister Ian Smith and Rhodesian policies as peaceful and progressive. He claims broad black support and urges readers to carry home an honest view, criticizes U.S. sanctions and international pressure as misdirected, and says Russia and South Africa will ensure Rhodesia’s fate.
In Oklahoma a Tulsa newspaper reports a poll on daylight saving time with a sharp no vote remark comparing it to a blanket riddle about warmth. The comments reflect social humor amid a statewide discussion.
Former Fidel Castro official Manuel Apud testified to Senate investigators that four 70 foot long missiles with 6 to 7 foot bases were smuggled into Cuba aboard Russian vessels and now sit in a Cuban base near Washington target labels. He recalled seeing the missiles last November and said they resemble Moscow rocket designs.
A severe winter storm battered the East Coast with high winds rain and snow Tuesday. Flooding hit the South as transit networks stalled across the Northeast amid ongoing unsettled winter weather.
Two MBTA rapid transit trains collided at City Square Station in Boston Charlestown during a morning rush. More than 1 000 commuters were involved with 109 injured, none critically, as trains slid into each other at a trestle top elevated above the street.
James R Hoffa, head of the Teamsters Union, arrived at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg Pennsylvania to begin a eight year term for jury tampering. He walked from a car under marshal escort, smiling and nodding as he entered the facility amid security.
Hoffa was admitted to a penitentiary after a quick review of commitment papers by a prison official. The nation’s largest union leader surrendered in Washington, was fingerprinted, and then transported through a snowstorm for a four hour trip to Lewisburg Penitentiary in central Pennsylvania.
New York AP James Meredith chosen by Republicans to oppose Adam Clayton Powell in a Harlem special congressional race next month. Meredith accepts citing no automatic right to a seat while Powell faces ouster questions and possible re-election plans by Democrats. Powell plans no move to block the April 11 election scheduled by Gov. Rockefeller after his ouster. party leaders expect nominating actions in the 18th District.
U S Air Force B52s bomb jungle targets in two fronts of South Vietnam in support of infantry. Navy jets strike Haiphong coastal defense and comms site seventy miles from the city. Ground forces clash on Bong Son Plain with 76 enemy killed in a 12 hour battle. Seven Americans killed in the fighting.
Dennis the orangutan known as Dennis the baby boy weighing 27 pounds staged a news conference as authorities call him a key break in an international smuggling operation. Seized at Dulles Airport February 25 after a Bangkok tip, he was bound for a Southern pet shop and highlights the illegal wildlife trade.
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