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...grandson Patrick Lyndon in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church near the ranch, the President watched the boy being passed from one relative to another during a picture-taking session, quipped: "This is unconstitutional. It's cruel and inhuman treatment." Afterward, the President and Lady Bird flew to Texarkana for the funeral of Representative Wright Patman's wife, then made a sentimental journey to Lady Bird's birthplace at Karnack, 50 miles to the south...
...Whitman began assembling his equipment on the deck, six sightseers arrived, led by Mark and Mike Gabour, the 16-and 19-year-old sons of M. J. Gabour, a service-station owner in Texarkana, Texas. "Mark opened the door to the observation deck and a gun went off," said Gabour. "Mike screamed." Then his sons, his wife and his sister, Mrs. Marguerite Lamport, "came rolling down the stairs. Whoever did the shooting slammed the door." Gabour turned his younger son over, saw he had been shot in the head. He was dead. So was Gabour's sister. Critically injured...
...women left the state capitol cafeteria after eating. Fifteen Negroes were arrested in Slidell, La., when they sought service at a restaurant. At a variety-store lunch counter in Bessemer, Ala., a steel town near Birmingham, six Negro youths were beaten by whites wielding 24-in. baseball bats. Near Texarkana, Texas, a white man and three Negroes were wounded when another white man opened fire with a shotgun during a Negro wade-in at Lake Texarkana...
WALTER E. WILLIS Division of Humanities The Texarkana College Texarkana,Texas...
...wages to get one man. Each year the Times hires a brace of undergraduates from the University of Georgia in Athens, 35 miles southeast, lets one stay in school while the other works at the paper fulltime. When a semester ends, the two novitiates trade places. In Arkansas, the Texarkana morning Gazette and evening News have tried another tack: hiring women. Today, every other editorial staffer on these jointly owned papers wears a skirt. The Portsmouth, N.H., Herald once body-snatched on a transatlantic scale by placing help-wanted ads in the British press. From 140 replies, the Herald...