Space Age Exhibition Opens at Tri-State Fair Grounds
Space Age exhibits start Friday at the Tri-State Fair Grounds tied to the Golden Spread Nuclear Space Seminar on Aug 27 28. The free display features space vehicles scale models and mock-ups with a full sized Telstar communications satellite drawing special interest. Space items are in the public view with News coverage continuing on SPACE on Page 2.
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Tri-State Fair Grounds
Golden Spread
Telstar
Invitation to Golden Spread Nuclear Space Seminar
About a hundred guests from across the region and state will attend the Golden Spread Nuclear Space Seminar set for August 27 28 at the Municipal Auditorium Amarillo. Noted experts including Dr Edward Teller Dr Zdenek Kopal and Martin Byrnes will discuss the Russian twin cosmonaut launch with public sessions and exclusive luncheons for registered attendees. Registration costs 15 and can be arranged via the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce with a Sunday August 26 welcome reception for guests.
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Golden Spread
Amarillo
Southwest
Edward Teller
Zdenek Kopal
Ralph Overman
Oakridge
Martin Byrnes
NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Kidnaping Gunman Grabs 18 200 in Roswell Heist
A lone gunman abducted Maxwell Carey his wife and infant held them at gunpoint at Farr's Super Market and forced the safe to yield 18 200 in cash and checks police say the haul is Roswell's largest robbery total. The suspect drove the family to Parkview School then fled abandoning the car with roadblocks set toward Vaughn Clovis Artesia TaTum and Ruidoso. Carey earlier reported a July 4 heist at the same store with 10 000 stolen.
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Roswell, N.M
Roswell
Maxwell Carey
Farr’s
Broadmoor
Carey
Parkview School
Alameda
Careys
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Adjacent Regions
Weather briefing from US Weather Bureau notes clear to hot conditions in Amarillo and Ancinity with highs near 97. Northwest Texas shows wet to clear skies with highs 96 to 102. New Mexico expects sun and possible scattered showers afternoon and evening with highs 85 to 100. Temperatures around Beuge at 7am show 66, with morning and afternoon readings erratic but generally warm. sunrise at 6:00am and sunset near 7:31pm.
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Amarillo
Ancinity
Northwest
Texas
New Mexico
Beuge
Yeutardev
Kennedy seeks to salvage wheat controls in farm bill debate
The Kennedy administration fights to keep mandatory wheat controls in an omnibus farm bill as the Senate opens debate. Sen Humphrey says votes exist to keep the wheat restrictions, despite House rejection, while Dirksen signals retreat from broad opposition.
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Washington
Kennedy
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
House
Mundt Amendment Could Let Farmers Pick Extension Or Allotment
The Mundt amendment would let farmers choose between a two year extension of the present stopgap voluntary system or the domestic allotment plan in the Senate bill. Republicans argue Midwest farmers fear strict production controls, while administration officials say controls are needed to cut grain surpluses and curb storage costs and price depressions amid a partisan Senate battle.
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Senate
Agriculture Committee
House
Sen
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.d
Midwest
Kennedy
U S Rules Out Atmospheric Nuke Test Ban Step
United States weighing a partial ban on atmospheric explosions as Geneva talks stall over inside Russia inspections. U S prefers a full underground ban but undecided on timing, with a broader approach possible before the 17 nation disarmament session ends.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Geneva
U.N. General Assembly
Russia
Red
Seventeen Children and Teacher Drowned in Picnic Boat
In Quincy Florida a Sunday school group of seventeen children aged 5 to 14 and their teacher Joseph Bouie 25 drowned when their seven foot boat sank in a lake during a church picnic. One boy survived clinging to the boat as others disappeared under seven feet of water. The sinking occurred about 300 feet from shore and involved members of the Blessed Hope Church near Quincy.
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Quincy, Fla
Joseph Bouie
Blessed Hope Church
Quincy
Florida
Tallahassee
West Berliners stone bus carrying Russian soldiers
West Berliners attacked a bus carrying Russian soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie and shouted Yankee Go Home after the shooting of an 18 year old youth by East German guards. Seven people were arrested as police escorted the bus to the Soviet war memorial for relief of the Russian guard.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie
Peter Fechter
Two San Antonio men held in Carlsbad girls killings case
In Carlsbad Eddy County two men Joe Earl Berrington and Ernest Berrington, both 20s, are jailed in Lubbock after Texas Rangers arrested them in Houston. They admit hot check schemes in Big Spring and San Antonio and are linked to the Aug 11 1961 slayings of Patty Sue Pritz 14 and Mary Catherine Restine 13, whose bodies were found 12 miles northwest of Carlsbad. Franklin D Parsons 22, held as material witness in Monahans, claims witnessing the double killing.
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Carlsbad
San Antonio
Lubbock
Joe Earl Berrington
Ernest Berrington
Big Spring
Weather notes from Amarillo and other cities in 1962
The record shows Amarillo with sun on two of230 days in 1962. Comparative readings list 3 p.m. winds from 0 to 7 mph, visibility clear, and sky conditions overall clear in multiple cities including Houston Dallas and Clay Oxia.
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Amarillo
Houston
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Ruidoso
US Weather Bureau
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Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
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Kremlin
St. George’s Hall
Nikita Krushchev
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Leonid Brezhnev
Lenin
Yuri Gagarin
Gherman Titov
Space Club
Popovich
Natasha
Khrushchev
Red Square
Vnukovo
Nikolayev
Capital
Lenin Mausoleum
Jerome Maples
Franklin D Parsons
Monahans
Tex
Nikita
Associated Press
Nikita Khrushchev
Andrian Nikoslayev
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