Armed Guerrillas Hunted as Ecuador Declares State of Emergency
Ecuador declares a state of emergency in central regions as army reinforcements strike at Castro aligned rebels near Quito. Reported casualties include at least one soldier dead and several wounded. authorities say 30 insurgents captured amid unconfirmed reports of uprisings in Quevedo. Rebels linked to the Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth trained in Cuba and armed with Czech weapons. Informants say Czech embassy financed communist activity. Castro denounced Arosemena after diplomatic breaks with Havana, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
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Quito
Ecuador
Jui Carlos
Arosemena
Quevedo
Revoutionary Union of
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Havana
Castro
Poland
Czechoslovakia
South America
Construction Workers to Vote on Union Affiliation in Arkansas
The National Labor Relations Board scheduled an April 12 election for construction workers on two Fayetteville projects to decide union affiliation. The Northwest Arkansas Building and Trades Council seeks representation, while a charge of unfair labor practices against Sweetser Construction Co. was disclosed. The case notes temporary injunctions against picketing, a denial of continuance by the Arkansas Supreme Court, and ongoing investigation by the NLRB regional office in Memphis.
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Fayetteville, Ark
National Labor Relations Board
Northwest Arkansas Building and Trades Council
Afl-Cio
Medan
B. Sweetser Construction Co
Arkansas Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Building Trades Council
University of Arkansas
Nick Centers
Sweetser Company
Memphis
Weather report shows March precipitation totals and weekend forecast
Total precipitation in March reached 2.72 inches with a year to date 14.89 inches by March 14, compared to 12.94 inches at the same point last year. Arkansas forecast calls for generally fair Saturday with a high near 58, then Sunday mostly cloudy with widely scattered showers mainly in the western portion.
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Arkansas
Bids Lower on State Printing Contracts in Arkansas
Carnahan Printing Co. of Eudora submitted the apparent low bid on two state printing contracts re advertised by Secretary of State Nancy Hall after a Supreme Court ruling. White County Printing Co. of Judsonia led on a third contract. The three contracts, valued around 15000, were previously let last July but invalidated by the attorney general.
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Little Rock
Carnahan Printing Co
Eudora
Nancy Hall
Supreme Court
White County Printing Co
Judsonia
Adsonia ‘Firma
Smember
Ithe
Negro
Ining
Parkin Printing Co
Parkin
F. N. Carnahan
Boys Training School Board
Wanl Meter
Carnaban
White County
State Pardons and Paroles Board
Arkansas Ama&n College
Faubus Attacks Old Enemies In Sweethome Speech
Gov. Orval Faubus blasted the press and foreign aid while defending segregation in a Fuller High Booster Club talk at Sweethome. He claimed some publishers distort reports, named his Arkansas Statesman and Madison County Record papers, and recalled the 1957 Little Rock integration crisis.
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Little Rock
Orvald
Faubus
Sweethome
United States
Fuller High School
Fourth Estate
Arkansas Statesman
Madison County Record
Wurh America
Baylor Votes Integration at Baptist School
Baylor University's Student Congress approved a resolution by a 20 to 6 vote urging administrators to remove racial barriers and integrate classes at the Baptist school with more than 4,000 students. Proponents cited a campus straw poll favoring admitting qualified Negro students and allowing them in Southwest Conference athletics. Opponents argued desegregation would have happened already if Baptists wanted it.
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Waco
Tex
APV
Baylor University
Baptist School
Texican Baptists
Former Defense Chief Sells Fallout Shelters amid Debate
Ex defense chief Leo Hoegh defends civil defense guidance while Sen Stephen Young accuses former officials of profiting from fallout shelter sales. Young cites a 207.6 million budget to study shelters as wasteful, pointing to aggressive marketing by shelter builders and casual firms. Hoegh reiterates that the President and military advisers are best informed.
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Washington
Stephen M. Young
D-Ghio
Eisenhower Administration
Leo A. Hoegh
Office of
Civillan
Defense Mobilization
Eisenhower
Young
Jong
Senate
Llough
Wonder Building Corp
Chicago
Ile
Hoegh
Mental Test for Woman Kidnapper
Little Rock judge ordered psychiatric examination for Patricia Vivian Cash on Thursday. Cash, 24, is charged with abducting four year old Gary Miles from a Lonoke motel on February 25. Attorneys waived a grand jury hearing on the kidnapping charge but refused to waive one on the auto theft across state line charge. Cash has been jailed since her Texarkana arrest on February 27. The exam will take place at a federal facility in Springfield, Missouri.
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Little Rock
API
U.S
Gordon Young
Patricia Vivian Cash
Cash
Texarkana
Young
Springfield
Funeral services for Mrs Snezlfgree Kreuter
Funeral services for Mrs Snezlfgree Kreuter 58 of Atlanta will be at First Methodist Church Sunday at 2 40 p m with Rev Rufus Servents officiating. Burial at Snell Cemetery Emmet. Body arrives Saturday and is at Herndon Cornelius Funeral Home. More details incomplete.
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Snezlfgree Kreuter
Atlanta
First Methodist Church
Rufus’ Servents
Snell Cemetery
Emmet
Herndon
Cornelius Funeral Home
Swingmore
Many Mills of
Hope
Perry Purtle
Morrilton
Unity Baptist Church
Bro. Purtle
Ted Purtle
Hope High School
Ouachita Baptist College
Calvary Baptist Church
Morriston
Unity Church
Jobless Decline in March Reported by Goldberg
Washington officials say unemployment fell by 181,000 in March to 4,382,000 while total employment rose to a March record of 66,316,000. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate slipped to 5.5 percent as editors and reporters debated the labor outlook at a two day conference. Republican congressmen plan a counterbriefing on the same topic.
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Washington
Secretary of
Eeader Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
State College Tuition Ranges From Fifty to One Hundred
An Arkansas legislative council report compares resident tuition at state colleges from $50 to $100 per semester while out-of-state rates run $50 to $235. Beebe and four other institutions charge $50 for residents but will raise Beebe to $60 in September. The University of Arkansas charges $100 for residents and $225 for nonresidents, with other nearby states showing varied rates.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Legislative Council
Louisiana
Mississippi
Kentucky
Council
L. H. Audrey
Mississippi County
Tales
Arkansas State
Henderson
Southern State
Beebe
Arkansas State College
No Talks About Program Swap
The White House said no renewed discussions on a taped Kennedy Khrushchev television exchange. Pi er e Salinger confirmed his Russia trip remains on the docket with details undetermined. A joint Kennedy Khrushchev TV program had been contemplated but was not finalized or scheduled.
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Washington Jap
White Mouse
Kremlin
Kennedy
Khrushchev
White House
Pieire Salinger
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
Netinas
No Jury for Trial Dismissed in Cross County Slaying Case
In Sneedville Tennessee Circuit Court Judge Wayne Oliver dismissed murder charges against Carl Myers and James Horton after five days without a seated jury. The defendants refused to move the trial, 27 jurors were fined for failing to answer summons, and the case remains tied to earlier mistrials and retrials over the deputy deaths in April.
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Sneedville
Circuit’ Court
Wayne Oliver
Sawyer's
Carl Myers
James Horton
Oliver
Myers
Horton
Lon Tyler
Alex Morris
State Supreme Court
New Rials
Tlorton
Two Hot Springs Officers Fired After Robbery Probe
Hot Springs Arkansas two police officers Sgt Vernon Brewster and Patrolman Bobby Digby were dismissed by the Civil Service Commission amid an investigation into a March robbery that allegedly included Brewster and Fowler. Digby had been on probation for a Liquor Store robbery last October. Both may appeal within ten days.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Civil Service Commission
Vernon Brewster
Bobby Digby
Carl Johnson
Commission
Brewster
Digby
Johnson
Joe. Fowler
Curlath, Miss
Milton Sanders
P. EB. Dodbs
Rigby
David B. Whittington
Fowler
Circuit Court
Digsby
Big Belt Toledo coal converter handles 6000 tons per hour
A compact facility at Toledo Ohio features a system that converts coal from railroad cars at a rate of up to 6000 tons per hour, enabling rapid handling and transfer of coal for processing and shipping.
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Toledo
Ohio
SW Bell Telephone Co Is Big Business in Hope
The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company of Hope employs 57 people and carries a payroll over $100,000 annually. The piece highlights long distance growth, the 501 area code, dial system benefits, and the roles of local staff like Dale Goodner and Woodrow Parsons. It notes planned upgrades to central office equipment to improve service and reduce lines congestion, and mentions telephone’s role in TV and radio networks.
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SW Bell Telephone Co
Hope
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company of Hope
Owt Lown
Carrick
Bermuda
Arkansas
Adler
Dale Goodner
Jim Simpkins
Billy Don Lloyd
Wilson Britt Splieds
Alen
Cit
KXAR
Goch
Increase in Arkansas college enrollment eyed for 1965
Little Rock reports Dr. Carh Reng president of Arkansas State College predicts next year’s enrollment will exceed the 1965 projection. current totals reach 20,400 with 1965 estimated at 23,500. he cites budget strains from student growth and underfunding per student despite higher overall appropriations. he notes Arkansas spends 1.5 percent of per capita income on higher education, the nation’s high percentage but low total funds.
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Little Rock
API
Carh Reng
Arkansas State College
Arkansas
Reng
Colege
Arkansas Stite
University of Arkansas
Reny
Eercheel Construction
Will Try to Amend the Constitution and Desegregation Fight
Rep Hale Boggs, the Democratic Party’s No.3 in the House, says he will push for a constitutional amendment to give states control over school problems as a solution to public school integration in New Orleans. His statement followed a judge’s order speeding desegregation, directing Orleans Parish to fully desegregate the first six grades next fall. Another note: Mrs. B J Guillot, a segregationist, awaits a Roman Catholic archbishop’s date for her pacemaker on the racial issue amid threats of excommunication over her protest of parochial school desegregation.
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New Orleans
Hale Boggs
Democratic Party
U.S
House of Representatives
Boggs
J. Skelly Wright
District of Columbia
Orleans Parish
John McCormack
Musssachusetts
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
House
Wright
District Court
B. J. Guillut
Joseph Fratieis Rumme
Guillut
Rummel
Brothers Cited on Tax Charges
Two Stuttgart brothers were cited in federal court for failing to file income tax returns. Judge Gordon dismissed fines of $2,000 for Harrison Watkins and $2,400 for Ralph Watkins, plus one year suspended sentences and two years of probation. The IRS found long-overdue returns spanning 18 years for Harrison and seven years for Ralph, tied to the probe of Alfred L. Hildebrand who also faced a $10,000 fine and two-year suspended sentence.
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Little Rook
Stuttgart
Federal District Court
Gordon Ds
Young
Harrison Watkins
Ralph Watkins
Internal Revenue Service
Halp Watkins
IRS
Alfred L. Hildebrand
Hildebirand
the Watkins
Release of 7 Skin Divers Sought by U.S.
The State Department says it is working through Switzerland to gain the release of seven U.S. skindivers arrested off Cuba. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said the men, described by Havana radio as frogmen, were innocent adventurers en route to Jamaica to look for sunken treasure. Coast Guard had searched for the boat believed to carry them, which departed Portmano Beach, Florida, and was due in Jamaica Tuesday. The seven were identified in Miami as Gordon S. Patton, Fred Dickson Jr., Mike Freeman, John Sterry, John E. Johnson, Ine Campbell, and Bernie Nistad.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Cuba
Dean
Tusk
U.S. Coast Guard
Rusk
Jamaica
Havana Radio
Oriente
Marana
Marion Kitchilan
Seven
Coast Guard
Pormpano Beach
Switzerland
United States
Miami
Gordon S$. Patton
Ocean City
Wharler Boat and Maritime Museum
Fred Dickson Jr
Mike Freeman
Washington, D.C
John Sterry
Brewster
N.Y
John E. Johnson
Ine Campbell
Bernie Nistad
Brooklyn, Ney
Harassment Flights Halt for a Week in Berlin
BERLIN AP reports no Soviet harassment flights in the West Berlin air corridors for a week, with eight transports canceled after March 40 and no flights since. Western crews note MiG sightings remain common, while officials doubt a permanent end to tactics. Speculation grows as U.S.-Soviet talks loom.
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Berlin
West Berslin
Moscow
West Berlin
Germany
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