British Party Split Over Racial Issue
Britain’s Conservative party faces a split after Edward Heath ousted right winger Enoch Powell from the shadow Cabinet amid a racially charged speech. Powell’s firing prompts praise and condemnation within the party as Labor seizes political advantage in the debate over a race relations bill outlawing discrimination.
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Arkansan Elected American Party Arkansas Chairman
Walter Carruth of Lexa Phillips County was elected chairman of the American Party of Arkansas at a state convention seen by about 350 delegates from all 75 counties. The meeting aims to qualify George Wallace as a presidential candidate in Arkansas this November and allows candidates to file under the American Party banner. Jim Johnson could seek the Democratic nomination and run as an American Party candidate. Officers elected include Mrs. H. L. Thompson Holly Grove vice chairman E. L. Luttrell Malvern secretary Mrs. W. D. Todd North Little Rock treasurer and W. R. Bob Currie Little Rock sergeant at arms. Luttrell left the Democratic State Committee at its last meeting.
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Arkansas
Alabama
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The Negro Community and Daily Life Snippets
A compact page fragment notes Ester Hicks featured content The manliness quote from A Maclaren is cited and Mrs Ejlen McCollum returns from Chicago and Peoria with her son The AP dispatch from Toledo reports on ungraded classes and a Rolland Turnow school board president in Oregon comments on education in 1945 He questions the value of ungraded schooling and individual progress in problems
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Toledo, Ohio
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Oregon
Financing of Public TV Corp Studied By Hunt
Government and private officials debate long range funding for the Public Broadcasting Corp as it nears full operation. Interim financing of 9 million is approved. permanent funding may come from taxes on sets, gross revenues, or general revenues. A Ford Foundation satellite plan could aid.
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Arkansas private clubs push mixed drink bill
The Arkansas Private Club Association plans to present Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller with a bill to legalize sale or dispensing of mixed drinks in private clubs. Atty. Gen. Joe Purcell will rule on legality of ABC permits, while Emmett Miller warns of raids by Little Rock police on clubs serving mixed drinks without proper permits.
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Winthrop Rockefeller
Emmett Miller
State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Joe Purcell
ABC
Miller
Missouri
R. E. Brians
Car Plunges Into River Fatal for Kansas Couple
A Kansas couple visiting friends in Cherokee Village Ark drowned when their car left a bridge and fell into the South Fork River. Eyewitnesses said Mrs Harlan Deavers drove off the bridge into five feet of water and was swept downstream. Her body was found about 250 yards from the bridge and her husband’s body the next morning about a half mile away. The car was located Sunday morning 50 yards from Mrs Deavers' body. Both were about 76 years old.
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