Amarillo News Briefs Highlight Local and National Topics
Amarillo Public School offers a morning gram from 8 30 to noon on Monday. A bill for a third Amarillo municipal court faced Senate approval but was blocked by telegraph and telephone campaigns. Evangeline Downs near Lafayette will have Richard D. Thompson as general manager starting July 1. A San Juan Chama Project water tunnel begins 26 miles under the Continental Divide. Wheat subcommittee provisions for Texas growers to be recommended next week.
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American Quarter Horse Association
Evangeline Downs
Lafayette
Amarillo
New Mexico Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Rio Grande
San Juan Chama
Bureau of Reclamation
Continental Divide
Texas Wheat Growers
Global unrest and price rises stamp the week
Rest of the World reports a dynamite campaign in La Paz aimed at terrorizing the population after co presidential appointments. Food clothing and gasoline price hikes increased living costs three cents per ten dollars in April. A U S enters the Vietnam war with a coastal bombing raid. Texas House backs four year terms and a 39 member Senate.
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la Paz
Bolivia
From A to Izzard Eetttttiet ee No Place for Grandparents
A report from Tascosa High School graduation notes crowding at the Municipal Auditorium. Only three tickets per senior caused grandparents and friends to miss the event, prompting minor ticket scalping. Police chaperones helped maintain order at the Sandie all night party.
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Izzard
Imbert denounces Inter-American bid for Dominican govt
Santo Domingo reports Brig. Gen Antonio Imbert leader of the right wing junta addressed about 2,000 supporters at his Reconstruction Government HQ within the International Security Zone. He urged Dominicans to decide their own government and oppose foreign forces. The rally occurred as clashes around Ciudad Nueva intensified and Caamano’s Constitutionalists faced Reconstruction forces amid continuing turmoil and casualties.
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Dominican Republic
Antonio Imbert
inter-American
Imbert
Reconstruction
International Security Zone
United States
Ciudad Neuva
Ciudad Nueva
Francisco Caamano
Caamano
Late Drive Sets Accord on Term Lengths in Texas House
The Texas House reversed course to approve an amendment for four-year terms for members after passing an accompanying plan to create a 39-member state Senate. The move follows debate on legislative structure and staggered terms affecting both chambers.
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Austin, Tex
UPS
House
Senate
House edges toward redistricting amid heated session
The lower chamber approved a Sept 7 amendment to expand the Senate from 31 to 39 members. A four year term proposal failed 89-51, then passed 108-37 after a reconsideration. Rep Maurice Doke condemned threats as House members argued amid tense hearings in Chicago with Dr Jeremiah Stamler and Yolanda Hall walking out of a UN American Activities Committee session. Police restrained demonstrations as arrests rose to 72 in tense events surrounding the day.
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Wichita Falls
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Houston
Doke
Chicago
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House Committee On UN
Stamler
United States
San Francisco
US Court of Appeals
Peking Lashes India Critics in Breadth of Attacks
The Peking regime denounces India as bedfellows with Russia and accuses Moscow of using India against China in a published attack in People's Daily. The piece cites Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Moscow visit and warns against alignment with the United States while Khrushchev’s past line is cited as a cautionary example. Moscow urges China to cooperate with other Communists on Vietnam and related issues.
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Shastri
Washington
Defends Viet Stand Benton Resigns From Arts Academy
Renowned muralist Thomas Hart Benton resigns from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York after criticizing U S policy in Vietnam voiced by Lewis Mumford. Benton says he quit on return from Arkansas sketching trip, denouncing Mumford's remarks as moral outrage.
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Kansas City, Mo
Thomas Hart Benton
American Academy of Arts and Letters
New York
U.S
Viet Nam
Lewis Mumford
Buffalo River
Arkansas
Benton
Academy
Mumford
North
Berton
LBJ signs extended arms control agency in peace pledge
President Johnson spoke of nuclear dangers and the need for restraint during a White House ceremony before extending the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for three years. He and top advisers then briefed Senate and House leaders on Viet Nam and other world affairs. The economic note covered the cost of living index rising to 109.3, the highest on record, with average monthly expenditures up from 1957 to 1959.
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United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Johnson
Viet Nam
Dominican Republic
George E. Reedy
Grady Hazlewood
Senate
Law Bureau of Labor Statistics
Salaries Said Living Cost Up
The cost of living rose three tenths of one per cent in April while factory workers' take home pay fell one dollar a week, the Labor Department reported. Administration officials minimized inflation signals but worried about the future as buying power dropped 1.5 per cent from March. They note the 1.2 per cent annual rise is not now seen as a serious inflation trend unless decline accelerates. Sidney Jaffe, deputy assistant.
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Washington
Labor Department
Long
Amarillo Lawyers Block New Court Bill in Texas House
Amarillo lawyers blocked a bill creating a third municipal court in Amarillo, aimed at appellate and original jurisdiction over traffic misdemeanors. The measure, sponsored by Rep. J. M. Simpson, would have shifted appeals from corporation court to the new court and placed judge selection under the city commission. Lawyers learned of the bill Wednesday night amid last minute action and an unofficial telephone campaign followed Thursday.
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Amarillo
Senate
Wolflin
First Christian Church
Georgia
Jor
J. M
Red) Simpson
Potter County
State of
Texas
Toll to Remember Two-Bits Nets Bank Job
Elizabeth New Jersey AP reports toll collector Stewart W Pogue loaned 25 cents to a motorist in November causing a chain of events leading to a job offer. The motorist turned out to be Charles J Walker vice president of Summit Elizabeth Trust Co who thanked him by letter and helped Pogue secure a bank interview. Pogue, father of three, has since begun a training program for a bookkeeping position after passing tests. He estimates he lent money to about 100 drivers over five years and believes in trusting daily commuters despite the risk.
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Summit & Elizabeth Trust Cologue
Charles J Walker
Walker
Pogue
Turnpike Interchange
Elizabeth
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