Inonu Arrives for Crucial Talks With Johnson on Cyprus
Turkish Prime Minister Ismet Inonu lands in Washington for talks with President Johnson aimed at defusing a Cyprus crisis that could fracture NATO. The visit includes a White House luncheon and a Turkish Embassy reception as Greece and Turkey face off over Cyprus.
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Johnson
Washington
Ismet Inonu
Turkey
Cyprus
Williamsburg
Inonu
Androu
White House
Papandreou
Southern Forces Try to Delay Final Rights Bill Approval
AP report notes Southern opponents aim to delay the final House vote on the civil rights bill for another week while the Senate debates related funding measures. Speaker McCormack promised to have the bill before the White House by July 4, as partylines and House Rules Committee actions shape scheduling.
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Rights
John Beckler
Washington
House
John W. McCormack
Johnson
White House
Senate
Interior, Treasury
Post Office
House Rules Committee
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Burglary At Yocum and Norris Construction Co
Approximately $2.50 in change was taken from a vending machine at Yocum and Norris Construction Co on Marable Hill during the weekend. Two locks were damaged and a jack handle was used to gain entry. Lt. Monroe Taylor of the El Dorado Police Department is investigating the case.
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Yocum and Norris Construction Co
Marable Hill
Monroe Taylor
el Dorado
Two Teenagers Help Break Up Gambling Game At Carnival
In Calumet City Illinois two youths who lost money at a carnival game tried to borrow $32 from a friend. The game known as touchdown bingo was shut down after the attorney friend alerted Mayor Joseph W. Nowak. Police secured a search warrant and with marked bills the boys helped authorities seize 2033 dollars and arrest three operators from Miami New Orleans and Arkansas for running the gambling game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet City
Ill
Joseph W. Nowak
Casimir Linkiewicz
Linkiewicz
Peter R. Catalano
Miami
Fla
Nello Pacini
New Orleans
Herbert Nelson
Hot Springs
Ark
Weather Update Arkansas Louisiana Forecast
Arkansas remains clear to partly cloudy and hot through Tuesday with a chance of thunderstorms in the western portion. Louisiana sees partly cloudy skies with isolated afternoon thunder and showers. Lows range from 66 to 75 in Arkansas and 70 to 75 in Louisiana, highs in the 90s across both states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Louisiana
Income Taxes Hike Studied By GOP Group
The Republican Platform Committee will consider raising income taxes to fund health care for the aged instead of expanding Social Security taxes. Chairman Melvin R. Laird defends progressive taxes and argues Social Security tax would hurt lower earners. He notes Rockefeller favors Social Security funding while Goldwater and Scranton back general revenue methods. An unidentified economics professor proposed the idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geoffrey Gould Washington
Republican Platform Committee
Melvin R. Laird
R-Wis
San Francisco
Laird
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Platform Committee
Summer Arrives With 100 Degree Forecast Across Arkansas
The Associated Press reports hot weather in Arkansas as temperatures climb toward 100 degrees in many cities including Fort Smith Pine Bluff and Marked Tree while nights stay in the 70s. A stationary front along the Ohio River Valley keeps violent weather away and no rain is expected soon.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Fort Smith
Pine Bluff
Tree
Ohio River Valley
Missouri
Kansas
Court Strikes Down Passport Ban on Communist Members
Supreme Court rules section of the Subversive Activities Control Act invalid 6 to 3 for denying passports to members of officially designated Communist groups. Justice Goldberg writes for the majority, saying the travel ban infringes First Amendment liberty and freedom of association. Flynn and Aptheker challenged the restriction after passport revocations in 1962 following a 1960 tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Arthur J. Goldberg
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Communist Party of the United States
Herbert Aptheker
Tom C. Clark
John M. Harlan
Bryron R. White
Goldberg
Flynn
Aptheker
Congress
Soviet Opposes Pan American Berlin Flight Link
Moscow says the nonstop U S to Berlin service by Pan American is unlawful because East Germany did not consent. Tass and the Soviet note warn that flight security cannot be guaranteed and the move lacks official authorization from East German bodies. The U S Embassy confirmed prior correspondence but would not disclose details as the note was sent to Washington.
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Moscow
Pan American World Airways
United States
Berlin
U.S
Tass
East Germany
Pan American
Britain
Soviet Union
Foreign Ministry
Washington
Raoul Wallenberg
Hungary
Wallenberg
Russia
Lubianka
Vladimir
Negro Shot At Calion Leaves One Critically Wounded
State Police report a shooting at the McCoy residence in Calion early Sunday left Lester Bailey severely wounded in the chest and upper stomach. Nathaniel Galbert, 52, is jailed on an open charge. the men argued over Ethel McCoy. Galbert fired a .22 rifle, hitting Bailey as he neared the house.
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Union County
Calion
Lester Bailey
N. Cargile St
Warner Brown Hospital
Nathaniel Galbert
Bailey
Thornton
Ethel McCoy
A. Pieroni
Bill Crowell
James Peppers
McCoy
Nathaniel
Lester
Beach Clash Repeats As Whites And Negroes Are Drove Away
In St. Augustine Florida integrationists seeking a federal court order clashed with about 20 white protesters on a public beach. Police arrested six whites as officers routed both sides after about 45 minutes on the sand. Attorneys for the Negroes asked Jacksonville court to lift the night demonstration ban, following Sunday protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Wills
ST. Augustine
Fla
U.S. District Court
Jacksonville
Farris Bryant
James Kynes
Vietnamese Battalions Suffer Heavily In Viet Nam Fight
Two Vietnamese para troop battalions sustained their heaviest casualties while advancing on Viet Cong positions in swampy Plain of Reeds area 45 miles southwest of Saigon. The clash followed a Viet Cong human wave attack near Saigon and involved American advisers noting a government initiated victory. Helicopters evacuated wounded Vietnamese though some mercy flights were fired upon. two U.S. helicopters were forced down by bullet damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viet Nam
Plain of Reeds
Saigon
U.S
Khrushchev Arrives in Sweden for Talks on Neutrality
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev docked in Stockholm with a declared mission of friendship and neighborliness. Sweden stressed neutrality amid heavy security as papers pressed for news on Raoul Wallenberg’s fate. Khrushchev requested a postponement of planned political talks.
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Ronald Thomson
Stockholm
Sweden
Khrushchev
Three Escape Serious Injury In Road Crash
A Union County woman and her twin daughters escaped serious injury when their car was hit by a loaded transport truck at the Norphlet cut off on Highway 7. The crash involved James H. Nealy of Springhill driving the truck and Earl Gibbons of Shreveport owning it. Mrs Margaret I. Griffith of El Dorado was turning off near Williams Super Market. Nealy was charged with unsafe driving.
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Union County
Norphlet
Highway 7
A. Pieroni
James H. Nealy
Springhill
Earl Gibbons
Shreveport
Margaret I. Griffith
Rt. 4
el Dorado
Williams Super Market
Cuba Expands Order for British Buses with Leyland
Cuba signed a contract in London for 50 more Leyland buses, bringing total to 500. The 450-bus initial deal, worth 11.2 million dollars, included an option for 1,000 more. The United States criticized the original contract, while Britain declined to ban bus shipments.
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London
Cuba
Leyland Motors Ltd
Fidel Castro
U.S. State Department
Guerrilla Attack Shrugs Off Malaysian Summit Collapse
Indonesian guerrillas launched a six hour assault near Kuching in Sarawak killing five Gurkhas and wounding five others. The frontier fight follows the Tokyo summit breakdown and signals a likely escalation in the insurgency as security forces brace for more incursions.
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Tony Escoda
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Sarawak
Kuching
Tokyo
Radio Indonesia
State Security Council
Malaysian Borneo
Stephen Kalong Ningkan
Ningkan
Indonesia
Sukarno
Antara
North Kalimantan
G P Buys Paper Plant Buildings in Crossett
Georgia Pacific purchases the buildings and some equipment of the Simplex Paper Corp. plant in Crossett Arkansas. The deal becomes effective October 1 and includes only Simplex's polyethylene coating machinery, with other equipment to be moved elsewhere. Simplex will remain in the plant until October 1.
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Crossett
Ark
Simplex Paper Corp
Georgia Pace Corp
W. C. Norman
Georgia Pacific
Crossett Division
Simplex
Howie Hustles Classified Cash Offer
Howie Hustles promotes quick cash by listing unwanted household items for sale through a contact line. The ad urges readers to list usable items and dial UN 26611 to connect with urgent cash buyers.
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Howie Hustles
News-Times
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Greece
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Tury
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GOP Group
Reds
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Southampton
Mass
Peter Arnett Bang Lang
South Viet Nam
Tage Erlander
Nina
Baltic Sea
Denmark
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el Borado
G-P
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