Naming a High Plains hero Laura Hamner deserves tribute
Local readers urge the community to honor Laura Hamner by naming a school park or street after the beloved High Plains historian. The effort recalls prior memorials to Alamo era figures and asks officials to act before it is too late.
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Margaret Wills
Alice Landergin
Elizabeth Nixson
Laura V. Hamner
High Plains
Howard Puckett
Alice Puckett
Commission
Laura Hamner
Aspen color peaks and local notes from Red River area
Aspen color is expected to peak around Sept 29 in Red River per Bill Stewart and his son Bob. Eunice Loftus of Taos also notes best display from Sept 29 to Oct 6. Other items mention Frank Elmore shooting his age at Ross Rogers course and later a 71, plus local commentary on Miami Beach riots and campus parking issues at Amarillo College.
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Aspen
Bill Stewart
Red River
Bob
Eunice Loftus
Taos
Frank Elmore
Ross Rogers Course
Dean Pavillard
Knox Whitney
Jack Phillips
Marines Enter Central Vietnam DMZ to Disrupt Infiltration
About 2,000 U S Marines penetrated the central DMZ using helicopters to block a North Vietnamese thrust. The operation targeted a newly found speed trails network near the Ben Hai River and The Rockpile, with about 100 enemy soldiers reported killed and ongoing sporadic fighting for six days. No U S casualties announced.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Ben Hai River
Rockpile
South China Sea
Far-Soaring Tri-State Fair Tops Attendance Records
Rex Baxter reports the Tri-State Fair drew 136 909 attendees by the fourth day with 32 261 on Thursday. Friday’s total not yet listed but expected large due to the Tennessee Ernie Ford shows and Eddy Arnold’s crowd advantage. Today features Junior Quarter Horses judging at 9 a.m. in the portside arena.
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Rex Baxter
Eddy Arnold
Baxter
Portside Arena
Kidnapped 7-Year-Old Rescued. 3 Suspects Held
FBI agents rescued Hillard Willis Marks, seven, unharmed after two days in a southwest Chicago bungalow. Three suspects were captured for alleged abduction and ransom demands of 125000, with no payment made. Hillard returned to his parents after a birthday party in Oak Brook.
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Hillard Willis Marks
FBI
Chicago
Oak Brook
Mark
William E. Marks
Judy
Barry
UPI
Granson
Lard Willis Marks
Marks
Marlin Johnson
Father of Quads Saws Pill Failed
Mrs. Victor Millar 30 gave birth to quadruplets three boys and a girl in Ottawa. Husband 33 says he will picket the company after the pill failed his faith. All are stable and in hospital incubators for about a month due to prematurity.
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Ottawa
Victor Millar
Zond 5 Flies Around the Moon in Soviet Space Flight
The Soviet Zond 5 unmanned probe completed a lunar flyby and continues its mission to study outer space. Tass reported a trajectory correction to observe space near the moon and a close approach within about 1 200 miles. Cosmos 242 was also launched to study outer space while Earth orbiting.
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Moscow
Outer Space
Soviet Union
Tass
Outer
Earth
Zond 5
Lovell
Jodrell Bank
Moon
Plane crash at Farnborough Air Show kills several
A 40 ton French experimental plane crashed in flames onto a social club roof during the Farnborough Air Show as 16 000 spectators watched. Police counted five air crewmen and one civilian among known dead, with ambulance crews later reporting up to 12 bodies. The aircraft exploded near a fuel dump moments after the crash.
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Farnborough
England
Air Force
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Panhandle Storm Slams Amarillo Area With Lightning
Rain, lightning, and strong winds swept the Panhandle with a cold front around 3 pm. A lightning strike hit the Van Buren substation causing a brief downtown power outage. Hospitals reported emergency power outages and brief failures of backup units affecting facilities including St Anthony's.
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Carroll Wilson
Panhandle
Tri-State Fair
Amarillo
van Buren
Southwestern Public Service Co
NW 3Rd
NW 4Th Streets
Amarillo Boulevard
Northwest
St Anthony's Hospital
City Aims Higher Ambulance Rates After Review
City Manager John Stiff says Metropolitan Ambulance must raise charges to stay in business. Proposed rates include 32.50 for emergency calls and 27.50 for transfer calls, with hospitals paying 75 percent of charges upon delivery. The move follows Southwest Ambulance Service going out of business and a threat of service cessation.
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Metropolitan Ambulance Co
John Stiff
Stiff
Northwest Texas Hospital and
Osteopathic Hospital
Southwest Ambulance Service
Metropolitan
City Commission
Northwest Texas Hospital Board of Managers
LaWayne Guengerich
Miss Hamner Missed No Chance to Write in Claude
Miss Hamner came to the Panhandle in 1891 to teach in Claude where her father bought the Claude News. She found writing was her true vocation though she avoided the routine weekly paper task. She taught in Claude and Amarillo and served as postmaster at Claude and Potter County superintendent from 1922 to 1934.
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Laura V. Hamner
Birmingham
Ala
Herring Hotel
Memphis
Tenn
Miss Hamner
Panhandle
Claude
Col
James Hamner
Claude News
Amarilla
Potter County
Hamner
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Wucrru
I. Trom Atolzzard
West Texas State
Amarillo College
Texas
Stephen F. Austin
James Bowie
Plains
M. G. Sooter
Spruce
Miami Beach
Miami
Reynold Gardner
Jim Thomas
Wes Izzard
Dmz
Jack Porter
Quads
Bernard Lovell
Britain
Jodrell Bank Space Observatory
Foreign Ministry
Oklahoma
New Mexico
John Connally
J. R
Dick) Brown
House of Representatives
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