Refuge near Umbarger eyed for National Job Corps Camp
The Wildlife Refuge near Umbarger is among six sites under consideration for a National Job Corps Camp. Up to 9 boys and 14 staff would be stationed for a two year public works program while local businessmen and farmers in Lamesa raise funds to hire Rain Inc led by Don Brunton of Amarillo.
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Umbarger
Page
Lamesa
the Rain, Inc
Don Brunton
Amarillo
United Press International
Edith Roosevelt Reveals Disarmament Vigilance at Event
Edith Roosevelt granddaughter of Teddy Roosevelt and journalist exposes disarmament ideas she views as dangerous. She cites a compulsory informer system discussed at a 1960 Pugwash Conference and notes involvement by Jerome Wiesner with Russian delegates. She will speak at the Auditorium tonight.
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Disarmament Agency
Jermoe Wiesner
Kennedy
Miss Roosevelt
Amarillo golf plans and local quotes spark city talks
Amarillo eyes an 18 hole base course after base closure in a few years and ponders expanding Ross Rovers to 36 holes. Shriners seek 225000 for a new Temple building near the courthouse as P A Don Nunnelley notes many Collingsworth County natives live in Amarillo. A lighthearted note weds weather and a supermarket quip.
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Oon
Ross Rovers
Panhandle Weather Deluge Brings Snow and Flooded Roads
Dense fog blankets the Texas Panhandle with visibility down to a city block in Hereford Vega and other towns. Snow and sleet mix with rain, thunder and lightning, continuing into Saturday as the region receives moisture for dryland crops. Local agents call it one of the nicest snows in years and note it could ease pre irrigation needs for maize and cotton.
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New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandles
Panhandle
Hereford
Vega
Amarillo
Dumas
Plainview
Tri State
Moore County
Bryan Swaim
Palmer County
Joe van Zandt
Farwell
Ochiltree County
Panhandle Plains Historical Society Annual Dinner Plans
The Panhandle Plains Historical Society announces its annual dinner at 7 pm on March 19 in the West Texas State University East Dining Room. Guest speaker John Connally will address attendees. Reservations are $5 and preempt each other, with 600 seats set aside for members.
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Panhandle Plains Historical Society
John Connally
West Texas State University
Boon McClure
Canyon
Boone McClure
Wilson To Meet Thant In New York April Fourteen
Prime Minister Harold Wilson will meet United Nations Secretary General Thant in New York on April 14. He will also hold a small summit with President Johnson in Washington during his U S visit next month.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
United Nations
Thant
New York
Johnson
Washington
United States
White House Sit-In Ends at Nightfall
A group of 14 young demonstrators occupied a White House hallway for seven hours demanding a meeting with President Johnson. Police removed them at nightfall after plans for a hunger strike to push for federal intervention in Selma, Alabama.
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White House
Washington
Johnson
Selma
Ala
Plane Crash Kills Two Near Needville Texas
A private Cessna 182 crashed in an open field near Needville killing two people. The dead are David O. Rudine Jr., 40, Houston businessman and president of Rudine Construction Co., and Th Theodora Judith Bustman, 25, of Corpus Christi. The wreck gouged a three by ten foot hole in the field.
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Tex
Fort Bend County
David O. Rudine Jr
Houston
Theodora Judith Bustman
Corpus Christi
Rudine
Rudine Construction Co
Brownsville
Legislature Advances 1966 67 Budget Dispute Amid Debate
In Austin the 59th Legislature moves the 1966 67 appropriations bill toward final conference action. Aimed at balancing an $11 million gap, the plan centers on education welfare and hospital funding with a conference panel to spend six weeks resolving differences. The House and Senate budgets differ by about $11 million in general revenue. The session also advances tuberculosis program transfers and malt liquor legislation.
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Senate
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Conference
Smith
Conference Committee
Hospital
Health Department
Gus Mutscher
Menton Murray
Harlingen
US to send more forces to South Vietnam amid Viet Cong activity
Washington reports additional American units may be dispatched to South Vietnam as North Vietnamese battalions of about 500 men are suspected in northern regions. Da Nang air base hosts 3,500 US Marines and jet crews, with questions over whether the new force will be Army or Marine. Defense Secretary McNamara notes 'several hundred' more advisers will train 100,000 Vietnamese for military service in Ligon.
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North Viet
We Oune Fress
Washington
South Viet Nam
da Nang Air Base
Okinawa
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Laigon
To Face Murder Case
Rev James J Reeb a white Boston minister who came to Alabama to help civil rights protests died in a Birmingham hospital after a beating in Selma He was 38 and the father of four children Four men arrested in connection with the beating faced murder charges while a fourth suspect surrendered Earlier in Selma demonstrators gathered in his honor as investigations continued into the assault on Reed and his companions by segregationists in a rain swept street
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Ala
UPI
James J. Reeb
Boston
Alabama
Selma
Ree Reeb
Ween Ne Reeb
Amarillo
Wilson Baker
O'Neal Namon
Duck) Hoggle
Fred Shuttlesworth
Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
Reed
Rev
Girl Held for Clovis Slaying
ROSWELL, N.M. Miss Lavern Sue Hopper, 21, of Dexter, N.M., jailed on murder charges after the fatal shooting of her brother in law Charles Clements, 24, of 703 S. Missouri. She expects arraignment before Justice L. O Thompson Jr. Hopper surrendered with a .22 revolver after a family dispute.
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Roswell
N.M
Miss_Lavern Sue Hopper
Dexter
Chaves County
Justice of the Peace L
Thompson Jr
Charles C. Clements
S. Missouri
Clements
Josephine
Miss Hopper
Missouri
St. Mary's Hospital
Pat Hanagan
Hopper
Mrs Clements
Roosevelt kin critiques aid use as propaganda in Amarillo talk
Edith Roosevelt daughter of Theodore Roosevelt spoke in Amarillo at City Auditorium despite local injunction efforts aimed at blocking Egypt commodity shipments. She warned that misused international aid props up propaganda and confuses national issues while highlighting disarmament studies and hidden foundation strategies.
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Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Washington
Miss Roosevelt
Amarillo
City
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University of Alabama Hospital
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