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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1961
Page
1
A government official reports the East German regime plans arrest and mass deportation of Germans along the Berlin and East German boundaries with Soviet backing. The plan would freeze movement, close border crossing points, and violate Soviet commitments and human rights. The Aug. 13 events are cited as an ominous precursor.
Three carpenters died when a scaffold inside the Marina City concrete core buckled at the 43rd floor in downtown Chicago. Seven other workers were on the scaffold piece that remained. Ed ward Scheck, 28, was saved after hanging from a beam. Foreman L. J. Schreck cited a slipped cable as the cause. Work halted for the weekend.
The writer notes a nationwide surge of drive in venues from banks to theatres and eateries and jokes about people living and dying in cars. He mentions a drive in church and wittily suggests drive in Heaven as a future. The piece by D E Scott from Wellington comments on modern mobility culture.
Albany reports Newburgh scrapped its strict get tough welfare plan and shows fewer people on relief. City manager Joseph Mitchell says the document reflects original intentions and this is not a compromise. Welfare rolls fell from 1382 in February to 865 in August amid ongoing efforts to cut relief usage.
In a best of seven tied 2-2, San Antonio defeated Veracruz 5-2 as Pan American Association playoff action continued. In American League games, New York routed Detroit 11-1 while Washington beat Kansas City and Boston edged Baltimore. National League results saw Arceles defeat Milwaukee 11-2 and Varancisco topple Chicago 5-2.
The House vetoed a move to ban amendments to a $520 million postal rate bill and advanced plans for voting on higher increases for newspapers magazines and junk mail. The 222 to 142 vote followed protests over shifting most revenue onto first class mail users. Sponsors warned changes would kill the measure since the Senate would not act this session if left unchanged. A defeated gag rule gave way to a debate rule allowing amendments before adjournment, leaving passage for a Saturday session in question and possibly being delayed until next year. The compromise bill would lift first class and air mail by one cent and raise second and third class rates by 18 and 16 percent respectively, far below the administration’s original request. The Post Office deficit near $900 million annually framed the behind the scenes pressure. The measure was called at see POSTAL BILL on Page 2.
The Senate voted 62 to 17 to back Kennedy’s overseas aid plan, restoring most House cuts. It approved 4.2 billion dollars for foreign aid, with 1.2 billion for loans and 480 million for supporting military aid, surpassing the House totals. Representatives Passman and Ellender led the push to modify the bill during conference.
In Galveston Texas on September 15 AP reports Fred L. Carson survived after a tornado from Hurricane Carla toppled an apartment building. He remained trapped for more than five hours with a large boxer dog sitting on his face, the animal belonging to another family in the same building.
National Guardsmen were mobilized in Brownsville after cloudbursts dropped more than 10 inches of rain in two days. Water flooded streets and stalled cars, with children rescued from Skinner elementary school and high water forcing the airport to close. Sheriff Boynton Flemming said guardsmen moved to evacuate 550 pupils as rivers overflowed into the Gulf from the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The sun shone over Amarillo for 248 of 257 days in 1961, marking a sunny stretch. A brief weekend note references Friday’s comparative readings and local weather context.
Elisabethville erupts in all out conflict as casualties top 1000 amid UN martial law and threats of execution for armed civilians. Katanga President Tshombe vows war to the death while UN radio reports talks with U.N. civilian chief Conor Cruise O'Brien to avert further collapse.
An aircraft mechanic stabbed his estranged wife to death in her Clayton office and, twenty minutes later, shot and killed the wife’s elderly parents as their one year old daughter watched. Police seek 40 year old Austin V. Johnson in connection with all three deaths.
U S Weather Bureau notes partly cloudy conditions in Amarillo and vicinity with a slow warming trend. Highs range 74 to 82 degrees in the day, with further warmth and scattered showers possible in New Mexico and eastern sectors. Sunday expected partly cloudy with continued warming and fair elsewhere.
A Commerce Department employee suggested installing fire poles in the 100 year old Commerce annex to cut elevator use. The four story building, once a hospital, has three often inoperative elevators. The anonymous proposer noted poles could lead to the cafeteria and credit union, with others toward the parking lot, but warned poles could only be used for going down.
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