20 Mar 1964
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1964
Page
1
A fragment notes a seek for the Republican nomination for the seat held by Senator Ralph Yarborough. The brief appears on page 71 with unclear surrounding details.
Rest of the World reports Ruby, after being convicted, fired Melvin Belli, hired a fresh attorney to head his appeal strategy. The piece notes changes in his legal team as he pursues escape from the electric chair.
Amarillo Kiwanis members in Perryton lauded the Panhandle’s wealth and growth from irrigation to oil and gas. The note highlights Perryton and Spearman as young men’s towns, strong communities, and regional progress, with anecdotes of local figures and a remark on phonics teaching.
About 50 Moroccan students seized the Moroccan embassy in Moscow in protest against Rabat death sentences. Soviet police moved in after long pleas, removing the students by three buses as they linked arms and rested in dormitories, amid posters calling for liberation of political prisoners.
A winter storm with 75 mph winds struck Texas upper Gulf Coast and East Texas injuring a dozen. It smashed through Houston's area and Beaumont Port Arthur Orange region, damaging buildings and two dairy barns, with eight trailer homes toppled at Nederland and numerous injuries and a death in San Antonio.
Horace Ray Cox 40 faced a misdemeanor for needlessly killing a neighbor's dog with a hot 9000 volt transformer wired fence. Police found the setup in Cox's yard around three feet high. He posted $25 bond and requested a jury trial after pleading not guilty.
A brief note reports a coastal Texas crash injuring a dozen or more people and causing over half a million dollars in damage. The page mentions the United States challenging the Soviet Union to a bonfire of 960 bombers, which the Russians rejected.
President Johnson asks Congress for 3.4 billion for a no waste foreign aid program to strengthen other nations against communism. He backs modest reforms, permanent arms aid authority, and emphasizes private enterprise and self-help while testimony proceeds before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Washington March 19 House member W R Poage chairman of the agriculture subcommittee on live stock said retail beef prices are high despite low live cattle prices. He bought chicken at a dollar thirty five per pound and ordered staff to obtain last week’s beef price schedules from major Washington retailers to judge if retailers are tough in pricing.
Pierre Salinger resigns as White House press secretary and flies to California to file for the Democratic Senate nomination. George Reedy Jr. is named to replace him, joining President Johnson's staff since 1951.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk rejects ABC reports he will quit after the election whether Johnson is elected. He says he enjoys serving the President and has not discussed resignation with Johnson. Rusk warns the Soviet Union against exploiting the spy case and notes his finances are modest.
An auto accident on US 54 near Nevada left a truck loaded with 6000 chickens wrecked after four ducks crossed the road in wet conditions. Driver Willard Smith 39 of Noel Missouri escaped injury while the ducks calmly watched the wreckage from the road.
Shortly after Jack Ruby was found guilty and sentenced to death his sister Eileen Kaminsky and family sought to replace chief defender Melvin Belli. They hired Percy Foreman in Houston to take over as lead counsel against what they call Dallas and Texas judicial pressure.
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