Recreation plan expanded for highway right of way use
The Texas Highway Commission approved an expanded program for multiple use of highway right of way. It envisions parking areas, parks, hike and bike trails, playgrounds and boat launches beneath overpasses with the highway department handling construction and local units supplying equipment. Cooperative agreements with city, county, state and federal authorities will cover law enforcement and safety inspections, with termination possible if a facility becomes unsafe or not in the public interest.
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Austin
Texas Highway Commission
Highway Department
Goldwater to Speak in Amarillo Fall Stop
Congressman Bob Price announced Senator Barry Goldwater will visit the Panhandle with a Sept 18 appearance at the Amarillo Civic Center. Ticket sales will be managed by Jack Seale in Amarillo with Jim Campbell handling outside sales. further details on county outlets will follow.
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Bob Price
Barry Goldwater
Panhandle
Amarillo Civic Center
Goldwater
Senate
Jack Seale
Amarillo Pampa
Jim Campbell
Amarillo
Local Teachers Return From Dallas Workshops
Truman Kidwell returned from Dallas after a week long vocational agriculture teachers in service workshop. Miss Barbara Waybourn returned from Dallas after a homemaking teachers in service conference. She then left for a driving vacation through South Dakota with Mrs Lillie Mae Fowler and her daughter Celia, stopping in Pampa for the start of the trip.
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Truman Kidwell
Dallas
Barbara Waybourn
Pampa
Lillie Mae Fowler
Celia
South Dakota
Desegregation threat guards superintendent amid cases
AP reports school superintendent Nolan Estes under police protection after a death threat tied to Dallas desegregation efforts. Two off duty officers guard him as tensions rise in Texas.
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Dallas
Nolan Estes
Times Herald
Estes
Visitors and residents drop by amid Texan city ties
A roundup of local visits shows Ida Blankenship in Amarillo on business while Jeff Bartke from Arlington traveled to Childress. Houston and Lincoln relatives vacationed in Austin and south Texas, with Colorado and Yellowstone trips mentioned. Crews from Shreveport and Lake Charles also visited local families as distant kin keep in touch.
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al Devoll
Cheryl
Melba Curtis
Lincoln
Neb
Jess Hildebrand
Houston
Bulk mail group vows court action over rate rise plan
The Direct Mail Advertising Association says it will sue to block a proposed September 15 third class mail rate increase from 4.2 to 5 cents a piece. It argues the one step hike would cause irreparable damage to third class mailers. In Japan, Armstrong attends the 13th World Scout Jamboree in uniform with his son Ricky at Mt. Fuji site near Tokyo.
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Washington
Direct Mail Advertising Association
Postal Service
Asagiri
Japan
Neil A. Armstrong
U. S
Armin Meyer
Armstrong
Ricky
Meyer
Armstrongs
Nippon
Mt. Fuji
Tokyo
Special Fund Established for Lynn Jones Hospital Aid
A special fund is set up for Lynn Jones who has relied on oxygen at Childress General Hospital for nearly two years. Contributions should be sent to First National Bank. Jones is a former employee of Sims Super Service and will reach two years in the hospital this October.
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Lynn Jones
Childress General Hospital
First National Bank
Sims Super Service
Jones
Stalin Criticized in New Official Biography
Moscow reports an official biographical sketch of Joseph Stalin accuses the late dictator of enabling mass repressions in the 1930s and errors in agricultural collectivization and wartime planning. The two page excerpt in the Soviet Historical Encyclopedia critiques purges harming the party, people, and army and cites miscalculations about a potential German attack.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Germany
Stalin's wartime missteps and purges cited in encyclopedia
The encyclopedia notes Stalin's brutal 1930s purge of the Soviet officer corps and his failure to heed military warnings before World War II. It states he trusted a secret nonaggression pact with Hitler, doubted betrayal, and criticizes his economic writings as biased and later corrected.
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Stalin
Hitler
Russia
the Encyclopedia
Leadville Mines Endure High Elevation Frontier Boom
In Leadville Colorado the highest incorporated city in the United States sits at 10 152 feet. Founded in 1859 after gold finds and booming in the 1880s due to lead and silver, its population around 7 000 sustains working mines that produce rare metals.
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Leadville
Colo
United States
Rockies
Hospital Notes and London Foreign Office Cost Cut
Hospital notes list admissions Perry Hill Franklin Vaughn Mrs Mattie McDonald Mrs Charlene Clouse Mrs Johnny Bigham Mrs Gary Hargrove Glenn Reed Kirkland and discharges Paul Goodson Jerry Jefferies Mrs Dennis Clements and baby Lucia Medina Shamrock Billy Wayne Sorrels Mrs Clarence Taylor. London reports Foreign Office expects a 24 million dollar drop in next year costs from passport and visa receipts and smaller payments for defense aid and training for commonwealth and former colonies.
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Franklin Vaughn
Mattie McDonald
Charlene Clouse
Johnny Bigham
Gary Hargrove
Glenn Reed
Kirkland
Paul Goodson
Jerry Jefferies
Dennis Clements
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Lucia Medina
Shamrock
Billy Wayne Sorrels
Clarence Taylor
UPS and Downs London
Britain
Foreign Office
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