03 Oct 1963
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1963
Page
1
The Pentagon orders an exhaustive survey of racial discrimination in transportation education public accommodations housing and other local life factors near military bases. Commanders will use field checks and notebooks to compile data for future policy, with Adam Yarmolinsky overseeing enforcement of integration.
Dr Tom Hohstadt recalls Americans and Russians sharing a march encore The Stars and Stripes Forever during a Soviet tour The note highlights cultural reach and misreadings of a tune’s title with light editorial context.
Roy Wendt 44 was shot at 1300 Buchanan after he went to confront neighbor William Idell 65 about a dog tied to a clothesline that allegedly knocked his wife, Phyllis Wendt, 24 who was pregnant. Idell admits shooting after seeing a hatchet in Wendt’s hand.
Dear Editor notes critics of the greatest ban treaty cite Russian breach records from the International League. The writer’s faltering statistics compare treaty breakage to campaign promise gaps among Senators.
Weather tally shows Amarillo totaling 263 of 275 days sunlit in 1963. Office reading at 3 PM reveals clear skies across major cities with light winds and good visibility from Amarillo to Dallas.
News brief notes the opening production Everybody Loves Opal at the Amarillo Little Theatre. Also mentions bids opening for a 90.1 mile Canadian River Dam aqueduct project and awards for Southwestern Public Service Co. veterans at Amarillo Country Club. Includes event listings and various pages.
Joseph Valachi testified to senators about a gangland doublecross within La Cosa Nostra. He described a power struggle among New York mob overlords, a list of top bosses from years past, and the slaying of Salvatore Maranzano after Masseria’s faction killed their own boss in a Coney Island restaurant. The war lasted 14 months and left 40 to 60 dead.
Mary Rose of Lubbock Christian College carried the torch in the longest relay in the nation from Los Angeles to Detroit. Runners from LCC and South Plains Junior College planned to pass the flame from Vega to Texola Oklahoma, reaching Vega at 9 p.m.
Fifteen year old Nancy Ladehott died after ingesting cyanide poison with undetermined method. Sheriff Lowell Sharp directed the probe as investigators seek how the Vega school student obtained the poison while her best friend Paulette Wood recalls their close days at Wildorado and Vega schools.
Boom Duke Oklahoma population 320 confronts economic challenge as plans move forward for a four million dollar wallboard plant to hire about two hundred workers.
Tucumcari resident Emmett Jennings, age two in 1919, ambles into California for the 1963 Series, likely to be in the crowd as the weathered observer roots for the Yankees, despite no team allegiance, and maintains lifelong ties to baseball and press work.
A prisoner in Potter County jail wagers his evening meal on the World Series score with a visiting federal agent. He recalls the Dodgers leading 4 to something at that moment, illustrating a humorous sports bet amid confinement.
Hereford authorities report three isolated cases where carrots tainted with trace Endrin pesticide were stopped by the FDA before reaching eastern and southern markets. Additional seizures totaling 19,200 pounds were made in Baltimore, and 13,650 pounds were destroyed by Salt River Valley Product Co at Austex division of Frito-Lay in Con yors.
Sam Fine of the FDA in Dallas says Endrin residue in carrots is extremely low and unlikely to harm from a single carrot but could affect health with long term exposure. The Amarlillo Weather Bureau notes little temperature change through Thursday. A 30,000 pound shipment investigated as source is under study.
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