Press faces end to special press rates says editor
Washington dispatch reports the FCC ordered ending preferential telegraph and telephone rates for the press. The editor argues the move betrays a longstanding unwritten contract between government and the press, once justified by the press’s burden and news gathering costs. He likens the change to higher taxes and extra accounting, warning it signals government intrusion into private business.
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Washington Dispatch
Federal Communications Commission
Free and Independent Press of America
FCC
Republic
Quick Approval of Blackmun Expected
A friendly Senate Judiciary Committee called Judge Harry A Blackmun before a one day hearing on his nomination to the Supreme Court. Senator Eastland said a meeting would be held Thursday to act on the nomination with no opposition witnesses expected.
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John Chadwick
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Harry A. Blackmun
Minnesota
Supreme Court
James O. Eastland
de Miss
Blackmun
8Th
U.S. Court of Appeals
American Bar Association
Federal Judiciary Committee
ABA
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Nixon
Abe Fortas
Senate
Clement F. Haynsworth
Greenville
D.C
G. Harrold Carswell
Tall
Vagy
Kleindienst
U.S. Treasury
Haynsworth
Bayh
Carswell
Bachelor Lines on Love and Money in Old Talk
A columnist quotes banter about bachelor life and marriage themes featuring Alvin as the focus. The passages bounce from television habits to dating woes, taxes, and aging, with wry social observations and jokes about gender roles and life choices.
Big Drive in Cambodia by South Vietnam
Thousands of South Vietnamese troops, backed by U S combat support, launched a new incursion into Cambodia. A Defense Ministry communique said the operation aims to neutralize North Vietnamese bases, with the effort centered near the Parrot's Beak area west and northwest of Saigon.
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Saigon
Cambodia
U.S
South Vietnamese Defense Ministry
Army of the Republic of Vietiows
Defense Ministry
Republic of Vietnam
Pine Bluff Commercial backs Cossatot River preservation bid
The Pine Bluff Commercial praises saving Arkansas rivers and notes its April 28 support for Shreveport lawyer Wellborn Jack Jr to stop the Cossatot River dam. It argues the Gilbert Dam was halted in time but warns the Cossatot project is already under construction with millions spent and too late for controversy.
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Pine Bluff
Arkansas
Gilbert
Buffalo
Star
Jack, Jr
Shreveport
Cossatot
Belgie Il Peswich
Goodson seeks 8th Judicial District judge seat
John W. Goodson of Texarkana filed as a Democratic candidate for circuit judge in Arkansas 8th Judicial Circuit covering Miller Hempstead Nevada and Clark counties. The post is held by Judge ill Arnold who has not stated re election plans.
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Little Rock
John W. Goodson
Texarkana
8Th Judicial Circuit
Miller, Hempstead
Nevada
Clark Counties
Judgeill Arnold
Weather Outlook Arkansas Sees Possible Showers
A high pressure ridge spanning the Gulf Coast into Texas and Oklahoma was forecast to dominate Arkansas weather for the next few days. The Weather Bureau warned a stationary front could drift into the state from Oklahoma by late Thursday, triggering afternoon thundershowers.
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Gulf Coast
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Higginbotham Reassigned to Enison Reservoir Post
Otis K. Higginbotham of Ashdown Arkansas will become resident engineer for Army Engineers at Enison Reservoir on May 4 Col Vernon W Pinkey announced. Higginbotham has served as resident engineer of the Millwood Dam and Reservoir project since 1965 and will succeed Allie J Majors who transferred to Fort Worth Texas.
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Tulsa
Okla
Otis K. Higginbotham
Ashdown
Ark
Army Engineers
Enison Reservoir
Vernon W. Pinkey
Millwood
Arkansas
Allie J. Majors
Fort Worth
Tex
Nixon faces Cambodia aid decision amid revived Vietnam issue
President Nixon's pending Cambodia military aid decision arrives as Vietnam reemerges as a national political issue. Washington leaders say Vietnamization has reduced war impact, yet a five state tour shows the war still haunts the Republican party and key swing states.
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Carl P. Leabsdorf
Washington
Nixon
Cambodia
Vietnam
Republican Party
Vieam
New York
California
Women Seek End to Sex Bias in Higher Education
Bernice Sandler leads a national effort to force colleges and universities to end sex discrimination by tying government contracts to equal treatment. She cites pay gaps, hiring, tenure, and promotion disparities across faculty staff and students at colleges nationwide.
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Carl C. Craft
Associated Press
Washington
Women’s Equal Education Rights Group
Bernice Sandler
Silver Spring
Mrs. Sandler
Sandler
University of Maryland
Women's Equity Action League
League
Labor and Health, Education and Welfare Departments
Martha W. Griffiths
D-Mich
HEW
Robert H. Finch
Rep
Griffiths
Hempstead Blood Drive Aims To Meet Six Year Quota
Hempstead County prepares to donate 125 pints as the Bloodmobile visits Unity Baptist Church on Monday May 4th from 12 noon to 6 pm in the Educational Building. Kell Jones, Bloodmobile Chairman, says the drive seeks to restore a county blood supply used in six years to cover emergencies and upcoming needs.
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Hempstead County
Unity Baptist Church
Haskell Jones
Bloodmobile
The
Constitution Distribution Board Named in Arkansas
Secretary of State Kelly Bryant announced in Little Rock that about 800000 copies of the proposed new Constitution will be printed and distributed through about 180 legal newspapers across the state. The document will run as a legal notice in all legal newspapers, with a select committee set to distinguish legal from trade or professional publications and plan distribution ahead of the November 3 election.
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Little Rock
Kelly Bryant
Bryant
Ourhals
Nixon optimistic on economy as stock slump persists
President Nixon voiced confidence the U.S. economy will gain steam this summer amid a market slide. Dow fell to 724.33, inflation concerns linger. Steel profits slumped over 30 percent in Q1, automakers followed suit as analysts warned of broader slowdown.
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Bill Neikirk
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
Dallas
Wall Street
Kennedy
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic Steel
Delaughter Named to LPG Board in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK AP The office of Gov Winthrop Rockefeller said Tuesday that George Delaughter of Sparkman was appointed to fill an unexpired term on the Arkansas Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board Delaughter succeeds James Cross of Pine Bluff who has been appointed to the Workmen's Compensation Commission
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Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
George Delaughter
Sparkman
Arkansas Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board
Delaughter
James Cross
Pine Bluff
Workmen’s Compensation Commission
Inquest into Kennedy car crash opens in Boston
AP reports the January inquiry into July 18 car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne begins today. The transcript release is delayed by court actions, as officials weigh details of the Sen Edward Kennedy incident.
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Associated Press Boston
Mary Jo Kopecitte
Edward M. Kennedy
Big Industry Discusses Airport Site
The Hempstead County Industrial Foundation representatives attended a city meeting Tuesday night as two zoning ordinances were approved. One set classifications for about 1100 acres annexed in 1969, the other rezoned parts of Highway 4 near the Frisco Railroad and South Main for commercial use. The board considered granting an option to an industry for airport property on Highway 4 near the airport. The city manager was authorized to have the property appraised and surveyed.
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City Board of Directors
Highway 4
Frisco
South Main
Hempstead County Industrial Foundation
Community notes and honors from Hope area
Community members collect for Macedonia Cemetery donations and attend state PEC convention at Mt Sequoyah. Local resident Bob Walker, long-time Hope native in St. Vincent Infirmary ICU for five weeks, wife Ruby Nell Parsons. Arkansas Opportunity Fund Merit Scholar named, acknowledging Rockefellers 1983 program. Air Force Captain Ray G Tudor graduates from Squadron Officer School at Magwell AFB with Space Force recognition. Captain Tudor is son of W G and Mrs W G Tudor with wife Carolyn, daughter of Agee Gilbert of Fulton.
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Bob Walker
Little Rock
Hope
St. Vincent Infirmary
Ruby Nell Parsons
Jimmy Dale Alford
Hope Rt. 3
Arkansas Opportunity Fund
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansans Na
Arkansas
Air Force
Ray G. Tudor
W. G. Tudor
Jonesboro
Air University
Magwell Afb
Alabama
Tudor
Geror Space Force
Lackland Afb
Texas
Carolyn
Agee Gilbert
Fulton
Agnew Calls Yale Head Replacement Over Campus Violence
Vice President Agnew blamed Yale faculty for failing to guide students and urged replacing President Kingman Brewster after Yale faculty backed a support group linked to violence. He outlined a nine point plan to curb campus leftism including stricter conduct rules and banning organizations that violate campus policy.
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Dennis Friel
Associated Plays
Hollywood
Fig
Salts ‘Ty’ Agnew
Yale Uiversity
Agnew
Yale University
Yate
United States of America
Black Panthers
New Haven
United States
Kingman I
Kingman Brewster
Brewster
Car Plunges Into Lake Drowning Woman Near Little Rock
Mrs. Shirley Ann Bobbitt, 30, of Booneville drowned when her car plunged into Maumelle Lake near Little Rock. Her children, Paula Ann and Rachel, were rescued by two motorists. Divers recovered Bobbitt about four hours after the accident occurred.
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Little Rock
Shirley Ann Bobbitt
Booneville
Take Maumelle
Bobbitt
Paula Ann
Rachel
Bill Stillman
Doug Sitman
Ste Tle Rock
Injuries Fate Names Raansan In County Incident
A partially readable item notes injuries and a death on Tuesday in a unit linked to lag Perea and a person named Pele op Arkansas. Other legible mentions include PARI ATK VY and individuals D Richey. The fragmentary text references a fatal outcome and a phone contact.
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Aithelig D
Richey
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