Rock leaders urge Arkansas campus shift and expressway debate
The El Dorado Daily News contemplates moves of university departments from Fayetteville to Little Rock amid crowding, while questioning funding for the East-West Expressway in Little Rock. The piece argues whether relocating state offices could ease traffic and reduce capital outlays.
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Fayetteville
Little Rock
Litte Rock
Lite Rock
el Dorado Daily News
Exiles Claim Forces Still Fighting in Cuba
Exiles say guerrillas remain active in eastern Cuba despite Fidel Castro's claim of crushing the invaders. Alpha 66 spokesman Andres Nazario Sargent asserts the war of liberation has started and that exiles were welcomed by Cuban supporters. Castro reported most raiders killed or captured and four survivors surrounded.
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Miami
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Alpha 66
Castro
Andres Nazario Sargent
Havana
Homemakers Plan Freezing Education in Hope
A group of homemakers and appliance dealers convened to discuss freezing needs for fresh and prepared foods the correct use and care of freezers. Dobbs McBride led planning for a four hour educational session May 13 14 at the Coliseum with Elizabeth Ellis to assist.
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Ark
Dolores McBride
Extension Home
J.B. White
County Extension Homemaker Foods
W.T
Keys
E.H
Alphonso Denham
J.A. Hill
Perry Henley
Western Auto
Carolyn Ross
P.T.A
David Still
Sears-Roebuck
Curtis Anderson
Jaycettas
Arch Wylie
County Family Living Committee
Jo Cummings
Patmos P.T.A
Helen Clark
Hope High
Ivan’ Bright
E.H. Council
Miss McBride
Coliseum
Elizabeth Ellis
Miss Ellis
Cockrill Plans State GOP Tour After Party Switch
State Rep Sterling R Cockrill Jr of Little Rock, once Democratic leader, will tour Arkansas to meet GOP groups. He says visits are to explain his reasons for joining the Republican Party and his philosophy, not a gubernatorial bid. He notes strong grassroots response to his switch and contrasts Democratic apathy with GOP energy.
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Robert Shaw
Associated Press
Little Rock
Sterling R. Cockrill Jr
Republican Party
Cockrill
Pulaski County
Ark
Arkansas House
GOP
Winthrop Rockefeller
Maurice Britt
Repubican
Rockefeller
Britt
Democratic Party
Warnings in Turkey Should Be Heeded
In Istanbul police warn tourists about narcotics with notices promising strict penalties. Possession, use, or sale is a serious crime with minimum three years in prison and a life sentence described as eternal morisonment. Security director Mugatter Caglar says a 4 250-man squad will target tourists near the Great Blue Mosque area.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Mugatter Caglar
Great Blue Mosque
To Freeze or Not to Freeze Homemaker Question
Mary Anita Laseter notes many homes own freezers and many questions remain about freezing foods. Extension Service offers May training with Elizabeth Ellis and Marjorie Phillips to teach choosing packing materials recipe suitability and freezer use. Sessions in Hope at the Coliseum May 13-14 from 1 to 4 pm.
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Mary Anita Laseter
William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Ellis
Extension
Marjorie Phillips
Coliseum
Fight Looms Over Space Agency Funds
Washington AP reports a House move to a 3.6 billion authorization bill for NASA as a funding clash looms. Rep Joseph Karth questions a 190 million shuttle allocation and argues the plan marks the start of a manned Mars program while NASA contends alternative funding paths exist within the agency.
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House
Joseph E. Karth
DeMinn
House Science and Astronautics Committee
Nixon
Earth
Space Science and Applications
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Office of Advanced Research and Technology
NASA
Non-payment of Fines Is Before Court
In Washington AP reports the Supreme Court hears challenges to jailing for failing to pay fines. Lawyers for indigents argue the practice unfairly targets the poor while wealthier defendants can pay and go free. They contend jail time adds a harsher penalty than paying the fine.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Robert G. Fisher
Baltimore
Bass
Chicago
Fisher
Hope Schools Next Week Menu Overview
Menus list daily meals for Hope Schools with a mix of hot entrees and sides. Monday features hamburger on bun with fries and milk. Tuesday offers meat loaf or hot dogs with rolls. Wednesday creamed chicken with corn and salad. Thursday steak cutlet or fish with rice and beans. Friday luncheon meat with Spanish rice and tuna sandwich option.
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U.S. weighs arms aid as Cambodia invasion debate grows
White House leaders declare the Cambodian conflict an external invasion, with Ronald Ziegler saying 46 000 Communist forces constitute a foreign invasion while Nixon mulls whether to supply arms. Congress leans toward noninvolvement as Mansfield urges staying out amidst Vietnam withdrawal plans and Nixon’s Asian doctrine.
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White House
Cambodia
Nixon
United States
Presidenti Tial
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
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Vietnam
National Security Council
Congress
Weg Yamumu
NBC
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Guam
Turn Your Clocks Back Tonight
The Associated Press reports forty seven states switch from standard time to daylight saving time this Sunday morning with clocks set forward one hour at 2 a.m. Some states exempt themselves under the Uniform Time Act including Michigan Arizona and Hawaii. Indiana theater owners seek central time for all or part of the state while 12 counties stay on central time and the rest remain in eastern.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Arizona
Hawaii
Indiana
Murton book about Arkansas prisons to be filmed
Hollywood producer buys rights to Murton and Hyams coauthored book Accomplices to the Crime about Arkansas prison conditions. Murton led Arkansas prisons from 1967 to 1968 and Tucker Prison Farm in 1967. Ron Silverman of Ted Mann productions seeks a writer to adapt the work.
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Hollywood
Arkansas Prise
Thomas Murton
Arkansas
Murton
Tucker Prison Farm
Ron Silverman
Ted Mann Productions
Joe Hyams
Reed Seeks Reelection in Arkansas Chancery Bench
Chancellor Murray O. Reed of North Little Rock a Democrat filed Thursday for reelection in the 1st Division of the 1st Chancery Circuit covering Pulaski Prairie Lonoke and White counties in central Arkansas.
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Associated Press
Little
Tomato Like Slow Walk to Yesterday
Blytheville Courier News profile recalls Tomato Ark a river hamlet famed for its old store porch conversations and three origin legends. A. J. Mitchusson’s market anchors town life with pot-bellied chairs while locals share tales from 1841 when Canadian Beach near the Mississippi hosted salves and steamboat lore before the river kept drawing Tomato away.
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Jim Branum
Blytheville Courier News
Tomato, Ark
Tomato
Ark
A. J. Mitchus+ soft
Canadian Beach
Coleman
Lettie Cole
Lettie
Mississippi River
A. J
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Ming
Lil' Me
Judy
Jim
Tennessee
Cascadian Beach
Osceola
Gaiety
China Launches Satellite Into Orbit and Broadcasts Music
Tokyo AP reports Communist China launched a 381 pound satellite that completes a revolution around the Earth every 97 minutes. It broadcasts music at 20,009 megacycles, with an orbit from 273 to 1,480 miles altitude and a 64.5 degree inclination. The launch is hailed as a victory for Maoist thought and the cultural revolution.
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Tokyo
China
New China
Mao ‘Tse-tung
Negro Youth Hangs Himself With Lightcord
Charles Ray Chambers, 17, hanged himself at his home on 903 North Greening Street after a summons to appear in court. Son of Eddis Chambers, the incident followed an earlier report of him placing rocks on a railway. Corner J. T. Honeycutt ruled death by his own action after investigation.
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Charles Ray Chambers
North Greening Street
Eddis Chambers
J. T. Honeycutt
Haiti Coast Guard Mutiny Brings Port au Prince Under Siege
Haitian mutineers seized three coast guard vessels and shelled Port au Prince injuring a person and damaging homes. Airports and trains were shut except for officials, a curfew ordered, and US air cover sought but not offered. Duvalier’s rule faces renewed unrest after 13 years in power.
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Haiti
Coast Guard
Port Au Prince
Francois Duvalier
Duyalist
Arthur Bonhomime
United States
Washington
Duyaelier
U.S. State Department
Duvalier
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