13 Mar 1969
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1969
Page
1
Nixon backs vindication for Otto Otepka as the State Department security officer awaits Senate confirmation for a Subversive Activities Control Board post. The piece recalls Otepka’s 1961 firing, demotion, and harassment after opposing rushed security clearances. It notes SDS and REP rhetoric from Ann Arbor on campus agitation.
A New Mexico court rules that Indians owe tax on earnings from reservations, while other campus notes mention Beta Alpha Psi UT chapter donating funds to equip Texas A&M University with teletypewriter consoles for accounting education. Amarillo’s Jim Hibbetts presided the presentation. First Baptist Church ushers distribute quarter sized aluminum medallions asking if members invited someone to church. Prof Sam Urban notes Buffs travel to the NIT in New York with Ned Irish involved at Madison Square Garden. Gus Miller confirms basketball’s Garden link.
Apollo 9 crews consider an extra 100 minutes in orbit to dodge rough seas and splash down at 12 01 p m EST after 151 orbits. James McDivitt David Scott and Russell Schweickart prepare for Thursday re entry as Ann Scott and children listen in at Mission Control.
Legislators from Lubbock Amarillo and surrounding areas agreed to an area wide inventory of existing medical facilities in West Texas once Texas approves a Texas Tech medical school. The survey aims to show how Amarillo Midland Odesse and Lubbock facilities fit into the overall plan and will guide future construction and coordination with Amarillo Medical Center.
Borger Schools superintendent J. C. Knowles presented at a Tuesday night board meeting the administration’s recommended policy on student drug and alcohol abuse. The policy stems from a Crawford Martin attorney general opinion stating boards must have an established policy to expel for drug abuse and must conduct its own hearing, with state court charges used only as evidence.
A surveyor swivels his transit over broad High Plains pastures where cattle graze and young wheat grows. The scene captures rural work and the era’s land use in a single image of frontier life.
University of Southern California urban ecology expert Dr. Arthur A. Atkisson Jr. spoke at West Texas State University on urbanization. He warned that by 2000 eighty percent of Americans would live in large municipal complexes, with half in four regions, and noted internal and external causes of urban problems.
The timetable lists Apollo 4 reentry events in EST with times for retrofire to slow Apollo 9, descent, gravity after weightlessness, radio blackout from hot gases, and main parachute deployment.
An autopsy was ordered for Charles Olsen of Wisconsin and Janet Marochinski of unknown address after a light plane crash near Tucumcari New Mexico. The FAA in Fort Worth said the autopsy by Dr Ralph Zeiitek in Amarillo would be routine for such incidents and completed late Wednesday. The wreckage of a Cessna 180 was found by the New Mexico Civil Air Patrol around 7 45 am with a four wheel drive ambulance taking the bodies to Doughty Funeral Home. Weather hindered continued search efforts after the aircraft was last contacted Friday afternoon by Amarillo Air Terminal.
On Monday conditions allowed a thorough look at the area after Wednesday. Olsen served as president of Steel King Inc Milwaukee and Mercury Manufacturing Co Stevens Point Wis. Fred Anderson led King Manufacturing Co which designs and engineers steel prefabricated service stations for major oil companies.
Splashdown area map sets Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas as the Apollo 9 landing site after its 15th orbit. Weather is forecast excellent for the landing today with favorable conditions for the recovery.
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