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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1960
Page
1
The San Francisco Curriculum Survey Committee urges replacing Social Studies with Geography Civics and History and advocates phonetic reading methods. The report critiques current Social Studies teaching as unsystematic and shallow while praising focused subject mastery and current events schooling.
In a United Nations Security Council debate Andrei Gromyko accuses the United States of aggressive acts over Soviet airspace while U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge listens. Sir Pierson Dixon of England and Arkady Sobolev of Russia stand nearby.
The Gettysburg name traces to James Getty an Irish immigrant and early town settler. He was elder cousin of John Getty and an ancestor of J Paul Getty the prominent American oil magnate. The piece also muses on decision making and a hypothetical money doubling puzzle.
Delegates begin to arrive for the Northwest Texas Methodist Conference 51st annual meeting in Amarillo with opening sessions at Polk Street Methodist Church. The nine district cabinets meet and memorial services, communion, and sermons by Dr. Wesley H. Hager and Bishop William C. Martin are planned across the four day event.
Four seismic sea waves from Chilean earthquake strike Hawaii's Hilo causing 26 deaths and dozens missing. Hospitals report 51 injured as Waikiki hotels flood and coast guards rescue mariners. Widespread siren alerts preceded the 12 25 a m HST wave.
A reader laments U S submarine incident with Cuba as news from Castro prompts mockery of war threats. The writer accuses Castro of financial strain and seeks harsher U S action, criticizing aid to enemies and referencing a satirical fund.
Portales May 23 AP Dr Floyd D Golden will leave the ENMU presidency July 1 and be transferred to consultant the regents say He will become president emeritus Jan 1 1961 and work 60 days yearly through 1963 writing the history of Eastern New Mexico University The board is accepting applications for a new president with Dr Donald among the applicants.
A Chilean disaster reports heavy earthquakes and landslides over 72 hours. Government tallies show 407 dead or missing and over 1,000 injured as relief efforts begin. A lava burst from the 7,740 foot Chesuenco peak near Valdivia triggered landslides leaving nine missing. a fresh quake struck Ancud on Chiloe Island.
Randall County commissioners discuss naming country roads feeding the new expressway as the state highway department suggests. Precinct 1’s Bailie McCormick and Precinct 4’s C Y Johnson will select names, while McCormick seeks state appraisal of land for a 19 mile loop around South Amarillo and an Washington Street underpass. The court also approves park program funds of 1600 from Amarillo and 500 from Canyon.
Amarillo beat Tulsa 12 to 11 in ten innings. Austin topped San Antonio 5 to 3 in a later game. Rio Grande Valley won 3 to 0 against Victoria. In the National League Los Angeles defeated Pittsburgh 1 to 0. Chicago beat Cincinnati 7 to 0 in 13 innings. In the American League New York edged Kansas City 4 to 3 in the only scheduled game.
In a Security Council exchange United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge charges the Soviet Union maintains thousands of spies worldwide while opposing U S aerial reconnaissance. He cites recent spy arrests and a Soviet vessel near Montauk Point to claim Western security is at risk.
The Senate erupts in sharp debate as Republicans attack Democrats over summit handling and potential soft on communism charges. Objections to investigations into the U2 spy plane incident mix with calls for a nonpolitical inquiry and plans for Christian Herter to testify before the Foreign Relations Committee.
U S Weather Bureau reports clear to partly cloudy conditions with continued warmth from Amarillo to Northwest Texas through Wednesday. Highs reach 85 to 95 in some areas, lows 35 to 60, with moderate winds and generally fair skies in New Mexico regions.
U S Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge told the U N Security Council about Vadim Kirilyuk an accused Soviet spy seeking data on cryptographic machines used for secret codes He had been a United Nations secretariat trustee division researcher and Nixon had said he was dismissed from his post Lodge listed Kirilyuk among ten Russians on an illustrative list of agents
The Daily News previews a six part series on Jean Paul Getty the world’s richest American. Biographer Ralph Hewins examines Getty’s life business empire marriages art collecting and habits to explain how a man worth a billion dollars lives and acts.
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