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Page 2 — Courier News, Blytheville, (Ark.)—'Wednesday, April 27,1988gvUSAF Turns Aside Critfflrr •“We re talking ablt; l|l the destruction of the Ginger McEntire of representing theJACKSONVILLE. Ark. lt;AP‘Opponents of MX missiles say locating the rail-based nuclear garrison at Little Rock Air Force Base would make Arkansas a target for Soviet attack.About 500 people turned out Monday night to hear Air Force Lt. Col. Peter Walsh discuss LRAFB as a possible site for the nuclear missiles. More than 40 spoke at the hearing.LRAFB and the Blytheville Air Force Base are among 11 being considered nationwide for theToday InArkansasOldtimer PilotReturns To SkiesSEARCY, Ark. (AP) ~ James Turner, a seven-year resident of Leisure Lodge Nursing Home, recently flew an airplane for thefirst time in nearly 20 years.*• ^David Ridings, chief pilot lor Harding University, took Turnerto the Searcy Municipal Airport. Turner expressed amazement at the change in airplanes since he last flew. He described the floor controls used then as opposed to the switch and button controls used now.Ridings then took Turner for a brief ride, landed, then gave the controls to Turner. After flying over the countryside. Turnerlanded the nlane He was smilinemissile garrsion.* ’ I think were inviting disaster. Susan Griffin of Sherwood said.mI, .In Crittenden Countyifs iirWXISpecial ElectionIlILITTLE ROCK (AP) - A panel of federal judges has thrown outf L a ♦••npi 11L* s'* f A ^ n o TY a ^ ♦ L»U*v A \J1 *1 iui Cii o 11 i k Utltprimary elections for two state legislative posts from Crittenden County, saying the dual-member district keeps blacks from being elected.The judges on Tuesday ordered a special election to be conducted before the November general election to pick Democratic nominees for the two legislative seats. The ruling only affects Districts 48 and 49, seats currentlyheld by Lloyd McCuiston Jr., I)-West Memphis, and Jim Stoekley.D-MarionBoth McCuiston and Stoekleywere renominated in March,Stoekley having beaten a blackcandidate, Ben McGee of Marion.McCuiston said he would runagain in the special election.Stocklev said he had not decided ►whether to run again. McGee said he would run again.Under the plaintiffs' proposal. Stoekley would be running in a district with a black majority.Representatives of the state Democratic Party and the state attorney general's office did not know if they would appeal.The iudces said the sneeial elee-trict, with all voters s lawmakers.iimai iic ruling aiises li tbrought by blacks in who contend that at-Iai (he two districts di 9voting strength. The tiJacksa1IIIMu1INEWPORT, Ark. prosecutor says a mi dant’s slight mental probably influenced which convicted him c charge of second-degrcThe Jackson County deliberated two houi before convicting Ge Solida, 22, recommend prison sentence for sonville man. Solida charged with first-degipleaded innocent by r sanity.Solida was convicted to death Billy Pierce worker at a north PuliI* i\EM./t■ ‘isms Of MX Hail Garrisonbably Women Voters. “If you were a Soviet Union doesn't have suffi-’said Russian, wouldn't you want lo cion! lorces to attack our entireRock take those things out? triad.” Walsh said, referring toe of Hn a dav-to-dav basis, the I he combination of bombers.Legislative Posts OrderedI twoiVSUHmntytig intheirriotscover the same geographical area.The riding was issued by milU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard S. Arnold of Little Rock on behalf of a three-judge panel which included U.S. districtjudges Oren Harris of El Dorado and Henry Woods of Little Rock.i he judges denied a defense motion to strike, as unreliable, figures presented by defense witness on the racial breakdown of registered voters in the county.ville Man ConvictedlerSecond-degree- A efen-ation jury ucedler.'hichsdayiistinyear!ack-was*der, if in-Pleasant Plains in Independence County on land belonging toSolida’s family. The body wadiscovered July 29.FarmAid Concerts DelayedtingcountvNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Entertainer Willie Nelson says no more FarmAid concerts are planned to raise money for financially strapped farmers.“We’re waiting to see if Washington does its share, the country music singer-actor said Tuesday night at The Nashville Network Viewers’ Choice Awards show.which he co-hosted.Three FarmAid concerts by country and rock *n’ roll stars have raised $10 million, Nelson said.It keeps trickling in, he said about contributions to the cause.The last FarmAid concert was in Lincoln, Neb., last September.land-based intercontinentalballistic missiles and sub-inarine-based ballistic missiles.“So you’re going to put these missiles on a slow train through Arkansas,” Ms. McEntire said.Walsh said the project would mean 450 permanent jobs, an expenditure of $82 million to $95 million and 200 temporary jobs during three years of construction.The only problems he listed were the need to cut 85 acres of timber on the air base and potential soil erosion associated withr»f fUr* railV-UI iOU Uk-UUik UA * v'*‘yard.On the plus side, he said, there is adequate land, housing, utilities, labor and access to the nationalrail system.Rep. Tommy Robinson, D-Ark., a strong advocate of the proposed program, was the first speaker. He was followed by other state and local politicians who expressed support for the project.“If you come here, you’ll be more than welcome, said Dub Meyer, president of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce,said.Bob Bland of Little Rock, representing the Arkansas Alliance, said the meeting turned out to be a “rah-rah rally for jobs in Jacksonville.Walsh said Congress has appropriated $350 million to study the rail garrison plan, which would deploy 50 missiles with 10 warheads each on 25 six-car trains. Each train would carry twomissiles.Walsh said the maneuverability of the missiles on the rail system would mean they are less likely to be damaged during an attack.
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