Controversy Over Free Running Dogs in Arkansas Wildlife Policy
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission debates freerunning dogs amid efforts to protect deer and rabbits. Officials cite wildlife preservation, noting a ban from April to July to safeguard fawns and young deer, while illustrating rabbit production stats. A tornado watch for 22 Arkansas counties is issued by the Weather Bureau, predicting severe storms.
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Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
Commission
Commission Bulletin
Little Rock
U.S. Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Benton
Boone
Carroll
Madison
Newton
Washington
Baxter
Marion
Searcy
Logan
Polk
Scott
Sebastian
Yell
Garland
Perry
Hempstead
Howard
Little River
Montgomery
Pike and Sevier
Legislative Candidates Committee Formed by GOP
LITTLE ROCK AP Tru Mann Altenbaumer executive director of the state Republican Party said Tuesday the GOP formed a Legislative Candidates Committee to find good competent legislative contenders. The panel will hold candidate seminars after the May 1 filing deadline to aid fund raising research speeches and issue development. It is chaired by Dr Omar Bradsher of Paragould and includes eight or nine members.
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Little Rock
Trumann Altenbaumer
Republican Party
GOP
Winthrop Rockefeller
Allenbaumer
Omar Bradsher
Bennett to Tell Plans for Gov Nomination
LITTLE ROCK AP Attorney General Bruce Bennett said Tuesday he would announce his decision on seeking the Democratic nomination for governor on either April 13 or April 20.
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Little Rock
Bruce Bennett
Senate Votes for Increase in Taxes
The Senate backed a tax hike and spending cut package by 57 to 31, combining a 10 percent income tax surcharge, a $6 billion spending reduction, and extension of excise taxes. Re-election concerns loom as 19 of 28 up for re-election opposed the plan. House conferees met to craft a compromise with limited support for Senate provisions.
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Associated Press
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Johnson
Ways and Means
Congress
Arkansas
John L. McClellan
J. William Fulbright
Wallace Acceptable as Candidate for President
Gov John Belt Williams said Wallace is acceptable candidate if he seeks the Democratic nomination for president. Williams called him probably the best qualified man in either major party and said the convention would be wide open with several possible presidential candidates to support including Connally Ellington Stennis Eastland and McClellan.
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Jackson
Miss
John Belt Williams
George Wallace
Alabama
Willaams
Williams
John Connally
Texas
Obscene Pictures Case Set To Court In Malvern
Municipal Judge W. C. Gilliam has ordered briefs due April 15 from attorneys in the case of a Malvern newsstand part-owner and manager charged with possession for sale of magazines containing obscene pictures.
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Associated Press
Malvern, Ark
W. C. Gilliam
Malvern
Whitbeck and Crank Declare Gubernatorial Candidacies
Arkansas Democratic field expands as veteran state rep Marion Crank and Little Rock insurance executive Frank Whitbeck announce runs for governor. Crank confirms candidacy at a news conference while Whitbeck signals entry in a letter to stockholders, both among the first major contenders. Rockefeller already seeks Republican nomination.
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Marion Crank
Frank Whitbeck
Crank
Whitbeck
Winthrop Rockefeller
House
State Printing Contracts to Be Let
LITTLE ROCK AP secretary of State Kelly Bryant says he expects the state to order printing materials within 24 hours if the state Printing Committee approves today five printing contracts. Bids were opened Tuesday with Parking Printing Co. of Little Rock submitting the low bid for stationery and office supplies. Bryant estimates the contract worth over $200,000 a year. Democrat Printing & Lithographing Co. bid low for data processing cards and warrant cards, International Graphics for blank and miscellaneous forms, Royal Typewriter Inc. for coated copy paper and Columbia Ribbon for carbon paper and ribbons.
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Little Rock
Kelly Bryant
State Printing Committee
Parking Printing Co
Bryant
Democrat Printing & Lithographing Co
International Graphics of
Royal Typewriter, Inc
Columbia Ribbon and Carbon Co
Typewriter
No President Born In A Trailer Says Hal Boyle
AP columnist Hal Boyle muses about presidential birth places noting presidents born in log cabins and joking a future leader might be born in a trailer. The piece blends social quips with observations on professors, taxi drivers, and everyday manners.
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Hal Boyle
New York
White House
McCarthy Wins Wisconsin Primary in Victory Rally
Democrat Eugene J. McCarthy swept Wisconsin with 7 percent of the vote as he contends he can win the White House. Nixon added a GOP nomination trophy, while opposition to Johnson's Vietnam policy loomed. In Madison, a ceasefire withdrawal referendum failed 58 to 42 as McCarthy praised his volunteers.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee, Wis
Eugene J. McCarthy
Wisconsin
White House
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Vietnam
McCarthy
Madison
University City
MccCarthy
U. S
Johnson peace bid sparks duel over credibility
AP reporting on Johnson's Vietnam peace push facing criticism over its declared bombing pause. Fulbright questions misled signficance while McCarthy and Kennedy challenge the policy. Mansfield blames State Department for secrecy as Saigon dispatches note intensified raids beyond the DMZ.
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Washington
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
Senate
Mike Mansfield
State Department
North Vietnam
Mansfield
Demilitarized Zone
Firm Realigns Stock Structure in Blytheville Water Co.
Blytheville Water Co. won permission from the Public Service Commission to realign its capital structure by cancelling outstanding no-par common stock and issuing 2,000 shares of nonvoting common stock, 2,000 shares of voting common stock, and 12,000 shares of non cumulative preferred stock.
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Little Rock
Blytheville Water Co
State Public Service Commission
Cotton export goal urged to save industry
Dallas AP Roy Davis, president of the National Cotton Council, said five million bales must be exported to keep domestic cotton viable. He praised USDA trade missions to Europe and Asia and urged greater producer promotion, insisting cotton remains a superior product despite synthetic competition.
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Bank Card Plan Led by Sharpe at First National Bank
Charles E Sharpe Jr is named head of the BankAmericard department at First National Bank as it launches the nationwide credit card in Southwest Arkansas. About 6000 residents will receive BankAmericard usable at 100 local merchants and nationwide where cards are honored.
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Push Starts to Relieve Khe Sanh Siege
U S and South Vietnamese troops opened a drive to lift the North Vietnamese siege of the Marine base at Khe Sanh with 8,000 troops engaged. The relief force moved west from Ca Lu toward Khe Sanh along Highway 9, aiming to open a road and defeat enemy forces as a Cambodian ship fired on a U S patrol plane in the Gulf of Siam.
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Associated Press
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North Vietnam Signals Readiness for Peace Talks
In Washington, Hanoi announced readiness to send representatives for talks on an unconditional bombing halt and the cessation of all war acts, signaling a possible shift after President Johnson's offer. U.S. strategists cautioned that no immediate breakthrough was promised, pending further assessment.
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Five Slayers Commuted From Life Sentences by Governor
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller commuted life terms for five men convicted of first-degree murder, making them parole eligible after serving a third of their sentences. Standridge, Tippett, Tubbs, and Robinson received 60 and 45 year terms, while Coach Payne's sentence was cut to 21 years.
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Winthrop Rockefeller
Ernest Standridge
Jefferson County
Leroy Tippett
Phillips County
Lemon Tubbs
Union County
Hosea Robinson
Jefferson Couny
Standridge
Tippett
Tubbs and Robinson
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Mississippi
Spring Holiday White Elephant Sale Set by Hempstead Woman’s Club
The Hempstead County Republican Women’s Club hosts a Spring Season White Elephant Sale on Saturday April 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the former West’s Department Store location at 2nd and Main with a bake sale.
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Hempstead County Republican Women's Clubs
West's Department Store
2Nd and Main
Man Charged With Murder in Arkansas Strangulation
Clyde Richard Tuberville, 26, of Strong, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder over the strangling of Randall Bozeman, 49, also of Strong. Bozeman's body was found earlier in the day in a trailer 18 miles east of El Dorado.
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EL Dorado, Ark
Clyde Richard Tuberville
Strong
Randall Bozeman
Traiter
Talks to End Strike in Malvern Labor Talks
Negotiations begin Thursday between National Lead Co officials and Local 4535 United Steel Workers Union to end a 19 day strike. The local plans to meet Saturday night to back up any agreements.
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Malvern, Ark
National Lead Co
United Steel Workers Union
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