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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1975
Page
1
Several Congress members including Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas show a wait-and-see stance on the Panama Canal give-away. Amarillo officials say the debate ignores ownership, as the deed is in our pocket and sovereignty over the canal and zone was granted in perpetuity.
A column argues for focusing on saving usable downtown structures rather than using federal funds to tear them down. It references Panhandle architects, Bus Dugger of Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, and local trivia about Stampede in Texas, with reflections on aging cinema and inflation.
Partly cloudy skies with little temperature change through Tuesday. Highs near 85 degrees today and Tuesday, lows around 60. Southerly winds up to 18 mph today.
Rescue teams labored as Diyarbakir region towns including Lice faced up to 1800 dead after a 6.8 magnitude quake. Premier Demirel pledged aid while troops and Red Crescent relief fanned out with mobile hospitals and kitchens amid ongoing aftershocks.
Congress prepares to challenge President Ford on two major bills. The House votes on an $8 billion education appropriation to fund federal aid programs for schools and students, while the Senate weighs Ford’s expected veto of an extension of oil price controls. Both chambers aim to override with two thirds, amid ongoing energy talks and Ford’s veto strategy.
The site committee awarded Kansas City the 1976 GOP convention by a 7 to 0 vote after 342 hours of closed deliberation. The event, expected Aug 13, will draw over 2,200 delegates, the largest GOP gathering, with Cleveland and Miami Beach as rivals and other bidders San Francisco New Orleans and New York.
About 25 people were arrested in Louisville Kentucky on Sunday night during a fourth straight antibusing protest near Southern High School. Police said arrests ranged from disorderly conduct to wanton endangerment as National Guardsmen patrolled the area.
In Charleston West Virginia miners idle for a month due to a wildcat strike met informally Sunday across the coalfields to choose whether to resume the midnight shift. The reinstatement decision affects the weekly graveyard shift and a progressive union fine of 1.2 million dollars unless most of the 50 000 idle workers return to work.
In Tripoli Lebanon police reported four teens killed and 36 wounded as fighting between Muslims and Christians escalated. An armed group ambushed a civilian bus at dusk, machine gunning its occupants with 11 killed and at least 25 wounded.
About 50 hooded Klan members picketed outside the Airport Sheraton Hotel in Kenner Louisiana while police protected black fraternity representatives inside. The demonstrators carried White Power signs sang and chanted for two hours drawing several hundred spectators before dispersing.
A hurricane hunter plane was dispatched to study a newly formed tropical low 159 miles east of Tampico in the Gulf. Forecasters also tracked satellite imagery of a second tropical low in the mid Atlantic.
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