Amarillo transit plan release and college test sites
The First volume of the Amarillo Urban Transportation Plan was released at a State Highway Department district office meeting. Seven area colleges were named as test sites to gauge draft status of students with tests on May 14 21 and June 3 and applications available at draft boards. A murder trial involving Billy Joe Cochran of Clovis New Mexico was moved to Tucumcari New Mexico on a change of venue.
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Amarillo
State Highway Department
Billy Joe Cochran
Clovis
N. M
Dora, N. M
Tucumcari
N.M
Dalhart Educator Resigns to Lead Rio Grande Valley District
Dean Skiles, longtime superintendent of Dalhart schools, resigns effective July 1 to become head of the Pharr San Juan Alamo School District in the Rio Grande Valley. The move follows a decade of service and opens a leadership slot in Texas education.
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Dean Skiles
Dalhart Schools
Pharr
We Need a Break From Atolzzard Tet
A brief read notes a need for rest after a period of intense activity. The piece highlights fatigue, calls for pause, and suggests resuming tasks with renewed energy. It frames the break as essential for long term performance and wellbeing.
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Atolzzard
Texas road map gaps and a monument request rattle readers
A reader letter criticizes the absence of limited access highways and the Amarillo area on a new state map. The writer highlights missing AliBates monument near Lake Meredith and a lack of Texas sites, urging inclusion. The column also notes a Freedom Forum anecdote and a church banquet for widowed members as minor summaries of current topics.
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Austin
Lubbock
el Paso
Beaumont
Texas
Lake Meredith
Blizzard paralyzes Midwest. 20 die in winter storm
A spring blizzard froze travel from Nebraska to Minnesota with 20 deaths. Six were in Nebraska, three in Minnesota, two in South Dakota and two in Wyoming. Two farmers Ernie and Eddie Lowe died near Greeley Neb from carbon monoxide as their truck stalled. Blizzard blankets Nebraska with 75 mph winds and sleet. Schools closed across the region. Minnesota State Capitol shut. Spearheaded by university and governor actions as the storm veers toward Michigan.
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Great Lakes
Midwest
Nebraska
Minnesota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Ernie
Eddie Lowe
Greeley
Neb
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
University of Minnesota
Karl F. Rol
Vaag
Rolvaag
State Capitol
Jwas
Gerald
Spee) ‘Aufdengart
Ner
Arthur
Peking Rejects Soviet Party Congress Invitation
AP report notes Peking accuses Moscow of plotting with the United States to encircle China and back North Vietnam. China denounces Soviet “dirty deals” and warns of a split with the USSR after declining to attend the Moscow Communist party congress. Albania also declines.
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Tokyo
Peking
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
China
Radio
Communist Party
Albania
Europe
Communist Parties
West Germany
Viet Nam
Mart Closes On Low Note
The stock market closed lower in New York on Wednesday ending a five day rise. Blue chip averages fell while profit taking pressed leaders such as color televisions, steel, airlines and aerospace stocks. Volume was moderate with attention on Lionel Benguet and A.J. Industries among low priced issues.
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New York
Lionel
Benguet
A.J. Industries
Premonition of Death: Marine Dies in Bangalore Torpedo Blast
John P. Gilliam, a Viet Nam era Marine stationed in Chu Lai, wrote a friend in mid February saying he felt he would be hit before May. His hunch proved fatal when he died in a Bangalore torpedo charge 11 days after the letter. He was buried with full military honors at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego.
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Viet Nam
Gillespie County
Lyndon B. Johnson State Park
Guy Smith
Herring Hotel
Oxnard
Calif
Smith
Wrtten
Chu Lai
Penninsula
Charley Co
U.S
Fort Rosencrans National Cemetery
San Diego
Ten-Year-Old Heir Might Inherit Vast Norfolk Estate
Edward William Fitzalan Howard, 10, heir to the Duke of Norfolk, stands to receive 3,992,800 under court approved plans to cut death duties on one of Britain’s largest fortunes. The duke, Earl Marshal, oversees coronations and Churchill’s funeral arrangements. Estate valued at 8.4 million dollars.
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London
England
Duke of Norfolk
Edward William Fitzalan- Howard
Britain
Lord Howard of
Glossop
Earl Marshal
Winston Churchill
Drug industry espionage tale heard by Senate panel
Senate investigators heard H L Moore a New Britain Conn drug wholesaler claim a spy was placed in his firm by Smith Kline and French and that the spy's boss charged Moore's firm with bilking the manufacturer of 2000 a year The testimony before the administrative practice and procedure sub committee highlighted wiretapping eavesdropping and industrial espionage in the drug trade.
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Washington — Senate
Senate Administrative Practice and Procedure Subcommittee
H. L. Moore
New Britain, Conn
Smith, Kline and French Laboratories
Philadelphia
John Saviano
Inter - County Surveys, Inc
New York
David Terpstra
Saviano
Moore
Terpstra
Magazine Dealers Face Uncertain Obscenity Rulings
New York AP report shows magazine and book dealers in major cities shaken by Supreme Court decisions on obscenity. Publishers Ralph Ginzburg and Edward Mishkin were upheld on obscenity convictions. Fanny Hill ruling reversed. Dealers weigh next steps amid vague guidelines and law enforcement tempo.
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New York
Supreme Court
Ralph Ginzburg
Eros
Edward Mishkin
Yonkers
N.Y
Massachusetts
Fanny Hill
Philadelphia
Woman Kept Alive by Shocks After Heart Attack
A 51 year old woman at Dallas Osteopathic Hospital is kept alive by electrical heart shocks after a heart attack. Dr. C. D. Brashier says she was effectively dead when admitted and has received 147 shocks, while remaining conscious and in good spirits between sessions. The attack and collapse occurred Sunday at a physician's office and she was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.
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Dallas
Dallas Osteopathic Hospital
C. D. Brashier
Spy School Tactics Revealed By Defector Szabo
Maj Laszlo Szabo described a Soviet Hungarian spy school in Moscow and a plan to recruit Americans in Hungary. He testified before Rep L Mendel Rivers and detailed AVH surveillance of diplomats students and tourists, noting foreigners are prime targets for recruitment.
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Washington
Hungary
U. S
Laszlo Szabo
Moscow
London
United States
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
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