Bacone Junior College tale of campus registration
Dr. Garold Holstine recalls a hectic Bacone College registration with housing delays. Students and staff cooperated in a respectful, orderly process as upperclassmen helped others carry luggage and smooth the move in amid crowded facilities. The piece suggests similar scenes occur across campuses without dramatic protests.
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Garold Holstine
Bacone Junior College
Muskogee
Okla
Phoenix
Senate sets Fortas vote as opposition grows
The bid to confirm Abe Fortas as chief justice weakens as Senate leaders schedule a 1 p.m. Tuesday test vote. Key Republicans doubt his nomination, while calls to withdraw come from both parties. McClellan urges Johnson to drop Fortas to spare party credibility. others urge resignation. The vote targets closing debate to end a filibuster, with 35 opponents already counted in AP polling.
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Washington
Abe Fortas
Senate
Fortas
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Johnson
John L. McClellan
f-Ark
Democratic Party
McClellan
Supreme Court
Clifford P. Hansen
Wyoming
Associated Press
Panhandle lore and mountain color in a single week
Regional musings mix prairie fire myths near the XIT with grand plans for a 32 story bank in Fort Worth as locals note autumn leaves in Lake City and snow on Slumgullion Pass. Aged adages and rumors blend with winter forecasts from Dalhart to Vail.
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Panhandle
XIT
Fort Worth
Dalhart
George Lynch
Colorado
Lake City
Gillihan Found Guilty on Four Counts of Murder
A district court jury in Silver City, New Mexico, found Riley Iven Gillihan guilty on four counts of first degree murder for the March 30 killings on a Grant County rural road. The court set sentencing for Monday at 4 p.m. Defenders prepared for a possible new trial or appeal. The victims were Andrea Rodriguez and her son David, her sister Maria, and Moises Rodriguez.
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Silver City
N.M
Riley Iven Gillihan
Gillihan
Grant County
Norman Hodges
J. Wayne Woodbury
Hilton A. Dickson
Andrea Rodriguez
David
Maria
Moises Rodriguez
Ray May Lose His Lawyer in King Case
Arthur J. Hanes said he may withdraw as defense attorney for James Earl Ray amid serious disagreements over trial strategy. Ray faces trial November 12 for the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis in April. Hanes and three others were in court over contempt concerns tied to newspaper articles about Ray’s jail treatment.
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Memphis, Tenn
Arthur J. Hanes
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Hanes
Shelby County Criminal Court
Ray
King
Birmingham
Danny the Red Gets Sentence in Frankfurt Riot
Daniel Cohn-Bendit known as Danny the Red received an eight month suspended sentence from a Frankfurt court for his part in a demonstration that sparked clashes between students and police. The charges included breaches of the peace trespassing rioting and resisting arrest after the protest against awarding a peace prize to Senegal President Leopold Senghor.
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Frankfurt
Germany
UPI
Daniel
Danny the Red
Cohn-Bendit
Senegal
Leopold Senghor
Helium Centennial events mark final observance in Amarillo
Officials from government and industry join residents for the 1968 Helium Centennial closing ceremonies at the Time Columns monument near Interstate 40 and Nelson. Highlights include two conservation essays, a Sears catalog in the 1,000 year section, and a Goodyear blimp aerial tour for national essay winners Dennis Cook and Kristopher Galvin who will also receive $500 savings bonds.
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Amarillo
E. Interstate 40
Nelson
Sears' Roebuck and Co
Pennsylvania
HemisFair
San Antonio
Dennis Cook
Brighton
Mass
Kristopher Galvin
Enumclaw
Wash
Henry P. Wheeler Jr
Helium
Department of the Interior
J. Ernest Stroud
Bob Price
Pampa
Sing Out 68
Hysterical Society
Kenneth Lloyd
Lloyd's Reptile House
Fritch
Palo Duro Canyon
Sales Tax Hike In Effect Soon
Amarillo merchants and the state will collect an additional 1 percent sales tax on sales after Tuesday raising the state rate to 3 percent for items costing 13 cents or more. Tuesday sales taxed at the old rate must be reported this quarter. Wednesday sales at the new rate will be included in the Dec 31 report. The Legislature boosted taxes including motor vehicles and franchise taxes. Localities with a 1 percent local tax will total 4 percent.
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State Comptroller's Department
Bases in Spain may be dismantled by 1970
UPI reports the United States faces possibly moving its Spain bases early in 1970 after Spain refused to extend the five year contract. The March 26, 1969 expiry looms unless new talks succeed. Core dispute centers on Spain’s costly equipment demands and US willingness to concede.
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U.S
Spain
Washington
UPI
United States
Fernando Maria Castiella
Castrella
Torrejon
Saragosa
Moron
Rota
Xerox CIT merger talks eyed in 1.5 billion stock swap
Negotiations toward a Xerox Corp and CIT Financial Corp combination in a 1.5 billion stock exchange are underway. The plan would trade one Xerox share for three CIT shares, pending board, stockholder approvals, a definitive contract, and a favorable tax ruling.
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New York
Xerox Corp
C.I.T. Financial Corp
C.lt
Xerox
C.I.T. Common
C.I.T
Xerox Common
Viet Civies Berets Repel Two Nva Attacks Near Saigon
Allied forces and South Vietnamese civilian irregulars led by U S Green Berets repelled two North Vietnamese assaults aimed at border posts guarding the Saigon invasion route. North Vietnamese losses were about 276 killed and 3 captured. allied casualties 11 killed and 100 wounded. Four Green Berets were wounded.
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Saigon
Green Berets
Tay Ninh
Phuoc Tan
Thien Ngon
Phuoc ‘Tan
U.S
Huey Newton Sentenced to Two to Fifteen Years in Manslaughter
Huey Newton, Black Panther leader, was sentenced in Oakland to two to 15 years for voluntary manslaughter in the fatal gunfight with a white police officer. Spectators shouted power to the people as the judge ordered the term prescribed by law and Newton was moved to prison. Eldridge Cleaver, then involved in controversy, planned a news conference on the courthouse steps.
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Oakland
Calif
Huey Newton
John Frey
Huey
Superior Court
Monroe ‘Friedman
Newton
Alameda County
Eldridge Cleaver
University of California
Eisenhower Wife Says General Much Better in Hospital
Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters at a Maryland campaign event that the general is very much better. The former president remains at Walter Reed Army Hospital recovering from multiple heart attacks.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Haul of a Day: Woman Moves Rice Thresher by Sled
A Vietnamese peasant woman hauls home a rice thresher after a long day in a rice paddy on the southern edge of Saigon. The machine is mounted on a sled to facilitate moving it around the paddies.
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Saigon
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