FIELD ENTERPRISES WILL NOT RENEW CONTRACTS
FIELD ENTERPRISES INC says it will not renew its contract paying astronauts for their life stories due to the large number of stories and impracticality. Additional items note Derby Trial entrants at Churchill Downs, Don Perkins close to a football return on a two year contract, and other Amarillo news including local elections and a Marine death in Vietnam.
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Field Enterprises, Inc
Churchill Downs
Don Perkins
New Mexico
Liberal Republicans Plot Rockefeller Candidacy
A fragment from a political column discusses Liberal Republicans allied against Rockefeller for the GOP nomination, mentions the New York Times Washington Post axis, Percy as a sponsor, and calls for party unity while noting conservative opposition and past Goldwater controversy. It also includes unrelated notes on congressional expenses and local fishing reports.
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Axis
Percy
Rockefeller
Pat Brown
San Francisco
Vessels Convicted in Amarillo Assault Case
Thomas Ray Vessels, 29, of Pampa, was found guilty by Canyon A 47th District Court jurors of assault with intent to murder an Amarillo housewife. He received a three year penitentiary sentence. A sanity hearing was set for 9 a m today. Vessels awaits appeal outcomes from a death sentence for rape.
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Thomas Ray Vessels
Pampa
Amarillo
Vessels
Pulitzer Prizes Awarded Across Public Service and Arts
The Louisville Courier Journal and Milwaukee Journal win public service prizes. A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee is drama winner. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud wins fiction. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan wins biography. Other journalism, history, and editorial prizes listed.
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Mr. Clemens
Mark Twain
Voters Return Beverley and Thompson to Amarillo City Council
Voters in Amarillo held a record runoff turnout as L O'Brien Thompson Place 1 and Henry Beverley Place 2 retained their seats. New members W S Mays and Glen B Gibson defeated incumbents to join Mayor elect Stroud on May 8. Thompson defeated an investor and former commissioner 9 820 to 5708 while Beverley beat Dovalina 8955 to 6497.
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New City Commission
J. Ernest Stroud
L. O’brien Thompson
Henry Beverley
W. S
Bill) Mays
Glen B. Gibson
W. S. Mays
Reese
McCarty
Thompson-Blackburn
New Mayor Pleased With Vote Outcome
Voters chose L O'Brien Thompson and Henry Beverley for reelection to the city commission, with W S Bill Mays and Glen Gibson winning seats. The result, announced at the Press Club in the Herring Hotel, drew about a hundred people as precinct returns rolled in from City Hall. The new board pledged closer citizen ties and diligent use of tax dollars.
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Herring Hotel
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Press Club
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Henry Beverley
W. S
Bill) ‘Mays
Glen Gibson
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Yanks Shoot Down MIGs In Vietnam Air Fights
US jets claim three MIGs shot down over North Vietnam on Monday and at least three more destroyed on ground at Hoa Lac and Kep, amid heavy fighting near the DMZ as Marines clash with North Vietnamese regulars at Hill 881. US losses include 49 killed and 156 wounded, the heaviest Leatherneck toll since Operation Hastings.
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City Marine Dies in Raid
Marine Cpl. Clifford Davis, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Davis Jr., Amarillo, was killed in a Sunday raid in North Vietnam near the Laotian border. A 1956 Amarillo High School graduate, he had served in the Marines since October 1956 and attended Amarillo College five years prior to enlisting. Davis, of Polk Street Methodist Church, had been in Vietnam since July 1966 and was with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.
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Congress Blocks Rail Strike Again
Congress moved to block a nationwide rail strike for 47 additional days, with the House voting 301 to 56 and the Senate 72 to 2 to order 137,000 shop craft workers to stay on the job past the 12:01 a.m. Wednesday deadline. The move follows a similar action 19 days earlier amid clashes over arbitration and bargaining.
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Senate
Congress
Goldfinger style raid robs London armored truck of bullion
London police track a $21 million bullion heist as four masked bandits spray ammonia, beat guards, and switch the 140 bars weighing 154 tons to a second vehicle. The loot, owned by N M Rothschild and Sons, likely to be melted and sold in small lots. Guard Jack Chandler injured as robbers disappear into North London streets.
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Goldfinger
Touch
Britain
N.M. Rothschild and Sons
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