Meat prices rise 20 percent but ranchers contest blame
AP notes meat prices at supermarkets jumped 20 percent from last year to their highest since the Korean War era. Ranchers defend themselves against consumer groups linking inflation to cattle, arguing prices in 1951 were higher and government controls loom. A Perryton High School literary magazine Frontier featured student poems including What Is a Mom for Mother's Day.
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Associated Press
Jan Crum
Perryton High School
Bill Cody Livestock Arena named at Tri-State Fair
Fair directors vote to name the new show barn at the Tri State Fair Grounds the Bill Cody Livestock Arena. Bill Cody, famed quarter horse, belonged to Glen Casey of Amarillo. The item sits among a mix of notes on local figures and light regional content.
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Tri-State Fair Grounds
Texas
Bill Cody
Glen Casey
Amarillo
Greatest Show Opens In Amarillo Circuits At Civic Center
The Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus arrives at the Santa Fe station in Amarillo for a four day stand at the Civic Center Coliseum. The 28 car train is staged into three sidings as animal cars and equipment are moved for setup ahead of the 4 15 p m first performance and 8 15 p m show. Tickets range 4 3 2 dollars with children 1 dollar less for matinees and Saturday morning.
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Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Amarillo
Santa Fe Railway
Civic Center Coliseum
Civic Center
Fire at Sunray gas plant kills man, injures seven
A 200 foot geyser of fire and a black mushroom cloud followed an explosion at the Northern Natural Gas Co plant south of Sunray on Farm Road 119. One man, Seymour Clinton Pritchett Jr., 51, was killed. seven others were injured, three critically. Authorities warned the area was still too hot to approach as damages were estimated above 500000.
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Sunray
Northern Natural Gas Co
Seymour Clinton Pritchett, Jr
Ave. L
Delton Emmett
Peach
Dumas
Don Fletcher
Ave P
Ben Collins
Phillips Drive
Ethan Noble
Noble
Calm Wives Await Word After Sunray Explosion
Seven men badly burned in a Sunray area explosion near Dumas fight for survival as hospital staff work to treat their injuries. Wives in the lobby await updates, with one husband later listed in critical condition. Hospital administrator calls it the worst disaster since a 1956 plant explosion.
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Dumas
Dumas Memorial Hospital
Herbert Marquis
Frank Cheevers
Shamrock McKee
Cheevers
Northwest Texas
Amarillo
North Plains
Dallas
Senate Plea Sputters Over Voc Tech Bonds at Amarillo
Texas Senate cleared a measure to fix defects in a bill creating a vocation-technical school at Amarillo Air Force Base but the House halted the plan. The bill would empower a Texas State Technical Institute Board to issue revenue bonds for base property purchases and transfer James Connally Tech from A&M to the new board with campuses in Waco Amarillo and Harlingen. Senator Murray Watson Jr. pledged a new bill to grant bond authority.
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Austin
Amarillo Air Force Base
Senate
House
Texas State Technical Institute
Vocational Technical School Board
James Connally Tech
Waco
Board of
Texas A&m University
Texas State Technical Institute Board
Amarillo
Harlingen
Amarilla Weather Forecast Turns Calm for 1969
The forecast notes Amarilla has seen sun on 4 of 127 days this year. Expect highs in the upper 60s with northeast winds 10 to 12 mph turning southeasterly by evening.
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Amarilla
Snow and Rain Move Through Clovis and Amarillo
Rainfall gave way to light snow in Clovis New Mexico and Dalhart areas Thursday morning before quickly melting as temperatures rose. Amarillo saw morning showers and a late break with a high near 52 degrees at 8 am and a midday dip to 44. Northeasterly winds shift to southeast by evening as a warming trend appears.
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Clovis
N. M
Dalhart
Hare
Amarillo
Grand Jury Receives Evidence in Merrill Lynch Theft
A Suffolk County grand jury in Boston has begun hearing evidence in a theft case involving several hundred thousand dollars in securities from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. The Massachusetts attorney general's office is presenting the case, with a statement expected after a grand jury action. An Merrill Lynch vice president deferred to public relations. an employee noted the case dates back two years.
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Suffolk County
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner and Smith
Massachusetts
Edward N. McMullian
New York
la Rue Applegate
Boston Record American
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