25 Mar 1960
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1960
Page
1
A live Amarillo broadcast sparks unprecedented audience reaction as viewers watch crime coverage and locals react with relief and controversy. KGNC-TV reports record call volume while lawyers fear privacy breaches and the Texas House debates public access to the proceedings.
A reader lauds the Bell Avenue bridge for its graceful lines and styling, praising utilitarian concrete form over modernist structures. The comment, from Blythe Sears, notes the bridge’s artistic appeal and contrasts it with other urban works.
A weather summary reports general rainfall across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles with totals from Amarillo to Pampa, Canyon, Lockney, and Memphis. Light to moderate showers Thursday yield 1.19 inches at Amarillo and up to around an inch in surrounding towns as a cold front and a tornado alert move into north central and east Texas.
Mexico City AP reports police will destroy over three hundred seized pistols rifles and shotguns next week. Police seized the firearms during nightly patrols through cabarets bars and other night centers.
Judge Roy Joe Stevens faces testimony alleging he threatened witness Miller to influence a murder trial or arrange a lethal outcome. Miller testified he was warned while the hearing, overseen by Rep. Tom James, advanced with multiple witnesses and potential new angles on crime in Amarillo.
Roy Joe Stevens, 37, Randall County judge and Amarillo attorney, faced sharp questioning at Thursday hearings. Prosecutors pressed him on alleged fee collection after charges were dropped in a statutory rape case and on TV rights fees tied to the William McKnight murder trial. Stevens denied threats, said TV rights involved $1,000 with Brock and himself as attorneys, and testified he advised Miller on constitutional rights without coercion.
Weather bulletin for Amarillo and vicinity reports cloudy skies with light rain ending this morning. Expect partly cloudy conditions this afternoon and Saturday with rising temperatures. New Mexico shows partly cloudy skies today with decreasing showers and warmer temperatures in the west and north.
Two ex convicts on trial here for murder claim guilt split over the Clutter family killings near Garden City. Richard Hickock says Perry Smith killed all four. Smith says he killed Herb Clutter and Kenyon, Hickock killed Mrs. Clutter and Nancy.
The Oklahoma City Democratic ranks face a public airing of splits as new party chairman confronts internal rifts. The report details how factional tensions emerged amid coverage of murder case testimony and police disclosures.
Will Harrison of Santa Fe reports for The Daily News on page 20 about the New Mexico teachers' organization leaders condemning staff approval of the state bond swap.
A Wellington reader letter criticizes a school teacher who paddled 30 boys for poor lessons. He argues paddling aims to educate, while a neighbor predicts parenting will change and future generations may be born without such devices.
Amarillo attorney Branch Archer rejected allegations that he served as a payoff man for an Amarillo gambler. Archer spoke in Fort Worth where he was attending a relative's funeral and said the accusations by Mrs. Lester Davis were false. He indicated plans to appear before the House committee investigating crime and did not intend to make further statements.
William Gerald Miller, 26, a former airman at Amarillo Air Force Base and former employee of Judge Stevens, is awaiting trial for the murder of his wife in November.
William Gerald Miller aged 26 testifies at the witness table with Texas Rangers on either side. He describes his knowledge of Roy Joe and mentions a denial on another page.
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