Probers Detail Amarillo Officers Paid Off in 1955 Raid
The report says officers received payoff after a Texas Ranger raid in 1955. Davis was fined $100 from that raid. Committee members said Mrs. Davis, fearing for her life, met investigators March 14 in Wichita Falls and has been in protective custody since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bagley
Texas Ranger
Dycus
Texas Rangers
Amarillo
Gaither
H. J
Doc) Blanchard
Lubbock
Tom James
Dallas
Carl Conley
Raymondville
Joe Burkett
Kerrville
John Allen
Longview
Randall County
Roy Joe
Stevens
Ruby Ferguson
Atty. Bagley
Frank Baughman
Stanley Blackburn
Rick Coon
George McCarthy
Branch Archer
Davis
Khrushchev Pushes Peace Plan With France and Germany
Khrushchev urged a peace treaty with Germany and argued for dissolving NATO and the Western European Union. He pressed for a new Franco Soviet understanding to preserve peace in Europe while criticizing Germany as a threat to the region. De Gaulle offered polite but noncommittal replies, with Khrushchev insisting on ending military blocs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
NATO
European Union
Europe
Khrushchev
de Gaulle
France
West Germany
Soviet Union
Mt. Valerian
Geneva
Road Plans for Loop 289 and Town Improvements
The Loop 289 six mile project would include a six lane route two frontage roads flexible base asphalt surface two overpasses over the Santa Fe Railroad at a total cost of 1 530 000. The widening of 19th Street would cost 225 000. Other authorized projects include Loop 218 in Dawson County 0 4 miles for 60 000 and U S Highway 84 in Lamb County about three miles southeast of Littlefield to the Hockley County line for two additional lanes and recon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page One
College Avenue
Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway
Santa Fe Railroad
19Th Street
U.S. 621
Dawson County
North 7Th Street
South 8Th Street
Lamesa
Lamb County
Beam
Littlefield
Hockley County
Amarillo Lubbock water talks hinge on cost split
Amarillo and Lubbock clash over water shares and cost apportionment for a Canadian River project. Amarillo proposes 35.97 percent water and $28 million capital. Lubbock suggests 40.26 percent water and $35 million. Negotiators meet after city leaders discuss options and defer a firm plan while awaiting authority input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Lubbock
Baker
David Casey
John Hickerson
Fat Stock Show Auction Sets New Beef Price High
Beef topped at 2.06 per pound as Baumgardner plans to fund agriculture education with about 400 dollars invested in the bid. Bidding surged to 1.90 before dropping to a half cent, with Frank Kain and Durwood Lewter securing the champion calf. The Panhandle South Plains Fairgrounds sale saw 102 lambs, 237 hogs, and 69 steers sold, with overall proceeds estimated near 65 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baumgardner
Corky Bozeman
Clifford Williams
Piggly Wiggly Stores
Ralph Wyatt
Hemphill
Panhandle
South Plains Fairgrounds
Cicero Smith Lumber Co
Danny Barousett
Poland
China
Anderson & Bigham Sheet Metal Works, Inc
John Todd
Seminole Ffa
Lubbock Auto Co. Inc
Kenneth Bozeman
Corky
Elms Equipment Co
Earl White
Plainview
Sears Roebuck
David Morrison
Orton Future Farmers of America
Lanny Brewer
O'Donnell Ffa
Lubbock Implement Co
Furr Food
Clinton Smith
Lamesa
Smith
JoAnn Lacy
O'Donnell
Southdown
D. Benson & Co. Hancock Manufacturing Co
Jeanette Jester
Swift & Co
the Plains Hog Co
Furr Foods Stores
Plains Hog Co
Lubbock Packing Co
Birth notices list numerous Amarillo area infants
Congratulations are extended to many families for births at Lauf Clinic and other area hospitals. A.M. Garcia of 115 Ave E welcomed a son. Gilbert Muniz and spouse announced a daughter. Willam Tryon and spouse welcomed a daughter. Additional births include families from Harris, Polvado, Hazlett, Hubbard, Inman, and more, with weights ranging from 6 pounds 1 ounce to 9 pounds 14 ounces and times from early morning to late afternoon in local hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afr
Manuel Garcia
Ave. E
Lauf Clinic
Gilbert Muniz
Rt. 1
Shallowater
Willam H. Tryon
White Swan Foods Inc
Bob Polvado
Morton
Taylor Hospital
Robert Edward Hazlett
43Rd St
Welshing
Dunlap's
John
Hubbard
14Th St
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Gene Greer Machine &Hop
Gordon Jenking
Mulberry Ave
Porter Clinic-Hospital
Dale Redwine
Buckley
Brownfield
Porter Clinic
J. J. Inman
West ‘Texas Hospital
General Electric
Delayed Vote Set On Rights Bill By House Leaders
The House completed its civil rights bill structure but delayed final passage by one day after Rep. John Bell Williams demanded a printed copy. The bill creates federal court aid for Negro voting rights and penalties for defying desegregation orders, with a Senate vote expected about April 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Davis Washington
House
John Bell Williams
D-Miss
Federal Civil Rights Commission
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
FBI
School Board Deliberates High School Additions and Portables
Turner Kimmel H A Padgett James Whiteside Nat Williams and Ross Wimbish discuss redesigns and portable building bids for Smylie Wilson and W B Atkins junior highs. Monterey High expansion to 2100 2300 or 2500 students with two cost plans, plus bond sale pacing and junior high enrollment study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner Kimmel
H. A. Padgett
James Whiteside
Nat Williams
Ross Wimbish
Smylie Wilson
W. B. Atkins
Monterey
Monterey High School
Williams
Trustees Whiteside
James Reynolds
Russell Wilkinson
John Christmann
Mark Hailey
John Blakey
Tom Murphey
Wimbish
A. W. Eckert
Funeral services for Mrs Filla Davis in Rotan Baptist Church
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the First Baptist Church Rotan for Mrs Filla Davis 85 who died Tuesday night in a Rotan hospital Burial will be in Rotan Survivors include daughter Mrs Juber Brown and grandson Wilburn Taylor Also Mrs Theo Noble and her three month old son Mark were treated after a car accident at 58th Street and South Ave near 6 p m They were taken to Methodist Hospital by San Iberg Funeral Home ambulance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Rotan
Filla Davis
Juber Brown
8Th St
Wilburn Taylor
18Th St
Theo Noble
6Thth St
Mark
Methodist Hospital
Adams Turbulent Career in Arts and Politics Span
The profile outlines Adams Tower a beloved columnist whose WWI service as a military intelligence captain interrupted his literary run. It tracks his moves from The Conning Tower at The New York World to the New York Herald Tribune then freelance work at the New York Post and This Little World. It notes his 1944 Connecticut State Senate bid, two marriages, four children, and his humorous verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tower
Adams
New York World
New York Herald Tribune
The
Tribune
New York Post
State Senate
Connecticut
F.P.A
Demand Release Escaped Convicts Hold 16 Captives in Prison Office
An armed duo seized a prison office and took 16 people captive including a lawyer husband among eight held inside the office. Authorities denied the request for release. Newsmen spoke by long distance telephone to the prisoners before officials cut the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles O'Donnell
Father O'Donnell
Keith Hampton
Lynn Bomar
Albert Balevre
Balevre
Bomar
Robert Rivera
Temple
Tex
Dover
Tenn
Charles Raymond Farra
Borderland
W. Va
Livingston
Rivera
Texas
Houston
Farra
Albany
Henry Walthall
Walthalls
Rodeo stars pace ahead in Texas showing big times
Johnson Tope Class Les Johnson of Omak Washington won the saddle bronc with 175 points. Buck Rutherford of Lenapah Oklahoma took steer wrestling in 4.6 seconds. Left On Feet Jim Miller of Sulphur Louisiana led brahma bull riding with 172 points. Mildred Farris Iowa Park won girls barrel racing in 14.6 seconds, edging Jane Mayo Okemah. Parade opened rodeo in downtown Lubbock with 1,000 riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Murray
Bandera
Ella Beutler Corral
Jim Miller
Sulphur
Buddy Peak
Tucson
Ariz
Earnest Beakley
Cedar Point
Ivory
Clyde Fisher
Brahma
Midland
Carol Rider
Durhamville
N.Y
Lubbock
Hale County Sheriff's Posse
Abernathy Riding Club
Fisher County Sheriff's Posse
Sam C. Arnett
South Plains
Actress Jill St John to Wed Lance Reventlow in San Francisco
Actress Jill St John and Lance Reventlow, son of Barbara Hutton, plan a San Francisco wedding after taking a license in Riverside. Reventlow is 24 and St John 19. they have been friends for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jill St. John
Lance Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
San Francisco
Reventlow
Riverside
Sat
UPI
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Travis
Bufkin
City Playground Dist
Atty
Texas Panhandle
Potter County
John Peterson
Potter
Randall
David Witts
Witts
Buddy Chamberland
Tol Dycus
A. F. Madison
William Boyce
Jack Seale
N. V. Moss
Lubbock Club
Caprock
Madison
Lubbock Commission
Canadian River Municipal Water Authority
Lennis Baker
Eldon G. Harris
Robert Welch
H. H. Brady
Gene Gordon Jr
Bennett Auto Supply Co
Jerry R. Milburn
46Th St
St. Mary's Hospital
Frito Co
Hampshire
Marchetta Wood
Kent Wood
O'Donnell 4-H
Champion Berkshire
Victor ‘Kubica
Monterey Ffa
Champion Duroc
American State Bank
Rose Ann Duffey
Lovington
N.M
E. K. Hufstedler & Son Farm Equipment Co
Jerry Terrell
Plainview Ffa
Chester White
Keeton Cattle & Commission Co
Larry Griffin
Lamesa 4-H
Duroc
Furr Food Stores
Purina Mills
Bobby Cohorn
Lamesa 4H
Howell Simmons
Seminole 4-H
Adair Music Co
Hale County
Hale Center
Abernathy
Lubbock County
Jerry Willis
A ‘Bates
West Texas Hospital
Texas Tech
Danny Karol Martin
Tom Gene Neal
Wendell W. Graham
Floydada
Eldon Harris
Mel Joist Hospital
Dixie Distributors, Inc
Bangor
United States
Gip Lovejoy
Andrews
Reynolds
Dean Armstrong
Sentinel Butte
S.D
Tater Decker
Clayton
H. W. Fowler
Irving
Rex Beck
Talpa
Bert France
Las Vegas
Goldie Carlton
Wayne Cornish
Beeswax
Memphis Commercial Appeal
William Street
Helen Shearon
Buford Ellington
Florida
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