Closing of Amarillo Air Force Base Amid Mixed Outlook
In Our Town the economic impact of the base closure is not expected to be as severe as first predicted, according to Mayor F. V. Wallace speaking to the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce women’s division. Local events include a motorcade for the U S 278 Highway Association to boost business and travel, a Panhandle Plains Historical Society banquet in Canyon, and the Patti Rachmaninoff recital.
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Amarillo Air Force Base
F. V. Wallace
Amarilo
Amarillo
Panhandle-Plains Historical Society
Canyon
Judge cites money and liquor as top divorce causes
Judge Carl Perlman of Potter County Court of Domestic Relations told the Downtown Kiwanis Club that money and liquor drive most divorces in Texas first, infidelity a distant third, and the mother in low problem negligible. He linked juvenile trouble to broken homes failing school and lack of religious life.
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Carl Perlman
Potter County
Nonviolent tensions and local reactions spark debate
An Amarillo reader shares a student letter critiquing a SNCC meeting where a professor allegedly endorsed armed resistance and legal violence. The note cites violence examples, plus local anecdotes on a Elk City summons ticket and other regional observations.
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John Whinery
Amarillo
Mid-West
SNCC
Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Johnson vows path to peace as air strikes intensify
UPI reports President Johnson presses for a broad peace effort as a fresh aerial strike targets a 100 mile from Hanoi. General Wheeler calls the attack on a communist ammunition dump favorable based on early reconnaissance, while Gen. Johnson returns from South Vietnam briefing reporters.
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Hanoi
Harold Johnson
South
Viet Nam
Bubonic Plague Reports Rise in South Viet Nam Areas
The Public Health Ministry in Saigon reports over 60 plague cases this year with 16 deaths. Cases are clustered in eight provinces, mainly central regions and coastal locales. Authorities spray DDT near affected areas and conduct immunizations.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Public
Marchers mourn slain pastor in Selma march
Dr Martin Luther King Jr led nearly 4 000 marchers in a twilight memorial for Rev James J Reed a 38 year old Boston clergyman fatally stabbed last week White and black participants gathered at Browns Chapel M E Church and the Dallas County Courthouse King pledged to rededicate lives to voting rights A federal court had allowed the march and police kept a protective ring as the crowd moved to the courthouse and back
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Selma
Ala
Johnson
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Supreme Court
King
Dallas County
James J. Reed
Boston
Browns Chapel
M.E. Church
Mr. Reed
Fedral
Ralph D Abernathy
Atlanta
Walter P Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Dana McLean Greeley
Unitarian Universalist Association
Wilson
U S Plans Boost for Helicopter and Logistics Forces
The President heard Johnson's report at a brief White House meeting with Defense Secretary McNamara and the Joint Chiefs. Officials said Monday's air strike marked an intensified phase of the campaign to force Communists to halt aggression in South Vietnam as over 100 US carrier and land based jets participated in a deep strike.
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Johnson
White House
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
Stage Fright Bandit Boots Holdup Lines
Garland Turner, 21, and Douglas Farmer, 26, were involved in a liquor store holdup in Los Angeles. Turner claimed no holdup but was arrested for armed robbery. Farmer, alleged to threaten clerks with a gun, was shot three times with his own pistol during the struggle.
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Garland
Turner
Douglas Farmer
Turner Farmer
Farmer
Man acquitted after 21 years idle life in Auckland
Harald Rennie, 48, was cleared of a charge of idleness and disorderly conduct in Auckland after 21 years without work. Magistrate L G Sinclair told him he seemed to have solved the problem of living without work as Rennie’s wife supported him.
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L. GH. Sinclair
Harald Rennie
Rennie
States Rights Issue Mulled by West Texas Congressmen
West Texas lawmakers including Reps. Walter Rogers Omar Burleson George Mahon O Fisher and Richard White voiced reservations about federal voting rights measures. They urged local governments to safeguard the right to vote while arguing against federal overreach in elections. Rep Graham Purcell was in Texas and unavailable for comment.
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Washington
Fisher
White
Johnson urges broad civil rights legislation after vigil
President Johnson told a joint session that the time has come to guarantee every American the right to vote. He honored Negro demonstrators and pledged to introduce new civil rights proposals to Congress Wednesday with No. 1 priority. He warned protests must remain lawful and free, and noted 30 pickets outside the White House continued their vigil.
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Johnson
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Blast Injures Moore County Woman
A Moore County woman, Mrs. Lucille Harmon 53, was critically injured in a home explosion at about 6 30 p m on Killgore Ranch 13 miles southwest of Dumas. She was found under burning timbers and taken to Dumas Memorial Hospital with a broken leg and burns in critical condition.
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Dumas
Moore County
Killgore Ranch
Lucille Harmon
Dumas Memorial Hospital
Texas Tech Medical School Bill Advances in House
A Texas House panel backed a measure authorizing a medical school at Texas Tech despite Amarillo opposition. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill Parsley, passed to engrossment 99-28 with a Beretee amendment defeated 66-55 delaying location decisions west of the 100th Meridian. The plan awaits final action later in the week as funds and study timelines are set.
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Amarillo
Bill Parsley
Lubbock
Walter Knapp
Coordinating Board For Higher Education
College and
Texas ‘Tech Board
Texas Senate
University of Texas Board of Regents
Senate Education Committee
Parlsey
House
Hazlewood
Four Die in West of State Line Auto Crash on US 66
Four people died in a two car crash about 11:30 a.m. Monday on US 66, ten miles west of the Texas New Mexico line. Victims were Arthur H Helms, 57, and his wife Catherine 51 of Slatsburg Missouri, and Hazel Alice Risch, 46, with her daughter Karen 10 of Silver Grove Kentucky. The wreck occurred when an eastbound station wagon and the Risch sedan collided after one car veered into the oncoming lane. Both Risch vehicles’ occupants died at the scene. the wife died later at Trigg Memorial Hospital. The incident was investigated by local officers.
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Arthur H Helms
University of Texas
Atherine
Board of Regents
Burg
Hazel Alice
Risch
Karen
Silvergrove
Heim
Texas
Ingo
J. M. Simpson
Amaon
Rillo
Califor
Nwo
Ceiling Placed On Bank Deductions
Washington AP The Treasury Department sets a 4 ceiling on deductions banks may claim for bad debts in tax calculations The limit is 2.4 percent of a bank’s outstanding loans regardless of its loan default record
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Washington
Treasury Department
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