26 Mar 1964
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1964
Page
1
Transportation superintendent W. E Brack of Chicago will become acting assistant general manager of the line at Amarillo on Monday. Also notes Gray, Oklahoma, as the last active point of the Post Office before its closure.
While driving through Hamlet Village we saw how Amarillo schools use adjacent park spaces for campuses. The city and schools jointly maintain park and playground areas for new sites, reflecting a city school cooperative drive. The Hamlet district mirrors the Robert E. Lee School setup with park-friendly campuses and PTA landscaping efforts across town.
Mrs. C. L. Garrett of Phillips recalls Webbers Falls Oklahoma and a giant bois d are tree measuring 15 feet around the trunk. The tree, planted beside a buffalo wallow near Panhandle, was dedicated last October after Thomas Cree hauled it from the canyon. Reporter Vernon Kouts in Webbers Falls heard the tree itself comment on the naming of a young sapling as an official historical site in Texas.
The piece notes Senator Russell proposing government backing for moving African Americans to the North and whites to the South, drawing casual attention in Washington. It mentions Dr Malcolm Muggeridge praising Britain as an empire on which the sun never rises and cites an Associated Press description of Albuquerque as a sleepy tourist city of 300,000 after a basketball feature.
Bay Sharp emerges on a Florida beach after the 65 foot fishing boat Two Georges capsizes in the Atlantic off Boynton Beach inlet. The vessel struck by a large wave throws 20 persons into the water during a returning excursion.
Clovis March 25 report notes concerns about tampering with scales at livestock auction rings raising questions about accuracy and potential fraud. The fragment hints at ongoing investigations or scrutiny by officials or auditors.
Fifty cent pieces bearing John F Kennedy’s likeness flooded Amarillo banks on Wednesday. Banks including Tascosa National North State Bank Bank of the Southwest Amarillo National First National and American National each had thousands and sold out quickly. Restrictions limited purchases to one or two coins per customer to widen access. Separate reports linked scales tampering to cattle auctions with USDA and stockyards officials promising clarification in a forthcoming release.
Houston AP report details Clyde Nathan Williams who presented a newspaper clipping of his marriage to Glenda Cone dated March 7 and a Bible verse from Deuteronomy 24 verse five. Judge Arnold Krichamer reviewed the notes and released him for a week, citing the passage about remaining at home with a new wife.
In Jacksonville Florida a white man, Lester Phillips aged 53, was severely injured by 12 to 15 youths in a racially tense incident. A biracial peace committee formed with mayoral sanction seeks calm as Phillips faces a probable skull fracture and forehead laceration.
A tornado ripped through Clubb Missouri demolishing a one room schoolhouse injuring teacher William Meador and 13 pupils. Ambulances rushed students to hospitals as Meador recalled children screaming and bookcases flying. The storm system extended from the Central Plains to the Great Lakes with multiple tornado warnings across eight states.
Amarillo leads Texas metro growth with 3.6 percent rise from 1960 to 1965, reaching an estimated 166,616 in 1963. Austin Dallas and Lubbock trail at 3.3 percent, while Brownsville Harlingen San Benito Odessa show declines. UT Bureau of Business Research released figures based on scholastic estimates and a school census model.
A large wave capsized the two foot sport fishing boat Two Georges near the Boynton Beach inlet injuring and drowning passengers. Four were killed, at least six trapped beneath the overturned craft, and one person remained missing hours later. Survivors described fighting for life as the vessel tipped and vanished into turbulent waters near Palm Beach, about 65 miles north of Miami. Rescuers pulled others to a sandbar as authorities investigated the drifting excursion boat’s fate.
Washington reports halted silver dollar sales as the treasury halts further releases. The silver dollar program meets scrutiny over misaligned value with silver certificates. Secretary Dillon notes the remaining vault stock far exceeds one dollar each and would flood collectors and dealers, not general circulation.
Three of four gunmen who held up a National Tea store were shot and killed by police after a running gun battle in Chicago. The surviving suspect is Chris Pantels, 27. The dead were Neil McCauley 49 Michael Farille 37 and Russell Bredon. They had been under surveillance by the police central intelligence unit for weeks and had previously been tied to a Cicero garage raid where police found $70,000 in stolen tools. The incident followed a heist in which the group robbed the cash registers and store safe, with officers including a undercover cab driver among the pursuing team.
A surveyor reports on page 36 as his tran sit crosses the Oklahoma Panhandle and reaches the Kansas state line, detailing the route and positions observed. The note emphasizes the transition area where state boundaries affect mapping.
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