Penn Central Memo Praises Bookkeeper Hid Disaster
A 1969 Penn Central memo commends bookkeeper C S Hill for “imaginative” work aiding concealment of the railroad’s looming financial disaster. The ICC seeks a 1500-page report detailing the carrier’s collapse after 1970 bankruptcy filing and shows executives withholding facts while paying large dividends.
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HL. Ounwodttzth
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Penn Central Railroad
C.S. Hill
Penn Central
Hill
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nonrailroad
Weather Station Report For 24 Hours Ending Tuesday Morning
Report shows high 84 and low 61 with considerable cloudiness and showers. Severe thunderstorms possible in eastern areas tonight. Lows tonight in 50s to 60s. Wednesday highs mainly in the 70s across Arkansas.
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Experiment Station
Arkansas
Chances Good to Rescue Lockheed Jet
Government loan guarantees and progress reports from airlines and bankers lift prospects of saving Lockheed's jumbo passenger jet project. Financiers say talks continue on development after the engine maker’s collapse. The Treasury plans to propose, with Nixon’s approval, a multimillion dollar loan bill in Congress.
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John Stowell
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Lockheed
Treasury Department
Nixon
Congress
Lawn Care Promises and Odd Finance Message
A fragmented note mocks lawn cutting routines and hints at paleontology work next year. It claims widespread business failure with 22 firms failing over two years and urges readers to fund college education through donations to their chosen college.
Officer's critique of Vietnamization wounds career
Lt Col Frank Miller, a veteran of two wars, pressed his views on Vietnamization before being relieved of command at Fire Base 6. He filmed napalm drops for TV, questioned Laotian invasion results, and was reassigned to Camp Frenzell Jones as he heads home. Miller, 43, plans retirement in Florida within a year.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Frank Miller
United States
Fire Base
Army
Miller
52Nd
Camp
Frenzell-Jones
Vietnam
Korea
Nixon
Army Eases Rules to Allow Mothers in Uniform
The Army will permit married women who are WACs or Army nurses to stay in the service during pregnancy or after birth with conditions. A leave of absence from the seventh month to six weeks after birth will be granted. Unmarried pregnant women still face discharge, but exceptions exist for adoptions or terminated pregnancies. Each case is handled on its merits.
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Washington
Army
Wacs
Armed Services
Air Force
Navy
WAC
Larry Keel Sings for Hope Lions Club Luncheon
Larry Keel of Washington Arkansas performed country western and sacred numbers at a Monday luncheon in Hope. Organized by Lion Hubert Thrash, the program featured a big voiced performer who recently returned from Texas and began singing at age eight in a family act. Keel has made records and appeared at a Kiwanis Variety Show.
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Lion Hubert Thrash
Hope Lions
Larry Keel
Washington
Arkansas
Mr. Keel
Texas
Larry
Kiwanis
Engineers File Suit in Gillham Case
The U S Army Corps of Engineers filed notice in U S District Court that Judge G Thomas Eisele s Feb 19 order halting Gillham Dam construction on the Cossatot River would be appealed to the U S 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. The move tests NEPA requirements for ongoing federal projects and follows a suit by conservation groups challenging the dam site northeast of DeQueen.
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Little Rock, Ark
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. District Court
G. Thomas Eisele
Gillham
Cossatot River
U.S. 8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
U.S. Atty
W. H. Dillahunty
Little Rock
Eisele
Corps
President's Council On Environmental Quality
Army Engineers
Gillham Dam
DeQueen
Vets Occupy Capitol Offices in Antiwar Protest
About 2,000 uniformed Vietnam veterans entered Congress offices in Washington to press antiwar aims, asking lawmakers for meetings and recounting their disillusionment with the war. Reactions among legislators varied with some liberal members receptive while hawks largely avoided engagement.
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Don McLeod
Associated Press
Wester Washington
National Capital
Congress
House
Senate
Nam
Washington
Capitol
Vietnam
Special Young People Service at Calvary Baptist Church
Bowie Baptist Church youths from Texarkana join Calvary Baptist Church for a program of singing and services led by Mrs. Dale McDaniel. The event ties to a week of Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstrations with veterans touring government offices seeking aid, jobs, and health care, and a planned march to Arlington and the Capitol.
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Bowie Baptist Church of
Texarkana
Calvary Baptist Church
West Avenue B
Dale McDaniel
Vietnam Veterans Against
Veterans Administration
Labor Department
National Institutes of Health
Arlington National Cemetery
Capitol
A.J. Rhodes
Hope Church of Christ
Carl Maples
Kingston
Jamacia
Castro Sees Reconciliation With U S
Premier Fidel Castro asserted Cuba would reconcile with the United States or the OAS and vowed to back Latin American revolutionary movements. He derided Nixon in a Havana speech marking the Bay of Pigs victory anniversary, broadcast across Cuba and monitored in Miami.
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Isaac M. Flores
Associated Press
Miami
Fidel Castro
United States
Organization of American States
Latin America
Nixon
Havana
Cuba
Castro
Bay of Pigs
Obituary: Pianist Mills Dies at 73 in Cumberland
Cumberland AP reports pianist Lloyd L. Peck Mills, 73, famed for the 1947 hit Heart aches, died Monday after 20 years with the Ted Weems Orchestra. In Greenbrae, Ross Hodges, 60, longtime radio and TV voice for the Giants, died Monday of a heart condition after 21 years with the team broadcasts.
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Greenbrae
Calif
Ross Hodges
New York
San Francisco Giants
Author Finishes in Marathon
Boston AP Erich Segal author of Love Story finished 489th in the Boston Marathon and said running the 2b mile 85 yard race was harder than writing the novel. He noted smiling at spectators helped and praised the friendly crowd after finishing in 24 minutes 4 seconds. The winning time was 2 18 45. There were 88 starters in the Cary.
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Boston
Erich Segal
Yale
Segal
Cary
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