Hope community center plans and park underpass ideas
A Hope Arkansas editorials highlight growing funds for a Hope Community Center Building Fund led by Kiwanis and Mary Nell Turner. They urge a bond issue to support youth facilities Fair Park expansion and Missouri Pacific underpasses to ease grade crossing traffic, citing Hope’s booming growth.
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the Star
Henry Haynes
Hope Kiwanis Club
Haynes
Hope
Mary Nell Turner
Hope High School
Fair Park
W.1th Street
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Hervey Street
Hope Board hears protest over loose dogs nuisance
Residents from 23rd 24th Streets area voiced concern about roaming dogs harming chickens cats and children. Mayor said leash law needed but only via referendum. petition drive urged. Board approved alley closures for Central Urban Renewal Addition and authorized building permit fee increase. Street projects praised. questionnaire idea floated to gauge taxpayer views. Directors Douglas and Thrash absent. meeting adjourned 9 15 p.m.
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23Rd-24th Streets
Hope City Board of Directors
Sam Strong
2Rd Street
Housing Authority of Hope
6Th Streets
James Pilkinton
Strong
Hope
Leonard Ellis
Hope Star
Frank Douglas
Melvin Thrash
Lonoke church to host regional Sunday School training
The Lonoke Baptist Church hosts the Southwest District Sunday School Baptist Training Union and Usher Board Congress, August 6 to 10, led by Rev Bennie Beard Jr. About 500 delegates from Benton Hot Springs Hope Texarkana are expected with a housing committee arranging homestays in Hope.
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Lonoke
Patmos School Sets Opening Date for August 20
Patmos Elementary School will open at 8 30 a m on August 20 with registration and classes to begin. Gene Jester, superintendent, announced the schedule and urged parents of first graders to bring birth certificates and immunization records.
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Gene Jester
Patmos Elementary
Leavenworth hostages freed after inmate talks end standoff
In Leavenworth Kansas violence at the U S penitentiary left guard Wayne Selle dead after a noon disturbance in the dining room. Four hostages corrections officers Kenneth Holcomb Marvin Berry and John Mitchell and laundry employee Richard Williams were released unharmed following a conference between Warden Loren Daggett supporters and inmates William Hurst and Armando Miramon with observers from The Kansas City Star and Leavenworth Times.
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Leavenworth
Kan
U.S
Kenneth Holcomb
Marvin Berry
John S. Mitchell
Richard M. Williams
William Hurst
Hollywood
Calif
Aramando L. Miramon
Los Angeles
Loren E. Daggett
Hurst
Miramon
Harry Jones Jr
The
Kansas City Star
Donald E. Black
Leavenworth Times
Jones
Black
Walter Ulbricht Dies East German Leader 1973
Berlin reports Walter Ulbricht, spade-bearded East German Communist leader and titular head of state, died at 12:55 p.m. after a stroke. Once hard line Stalinist, he steered party and state roles through Khrushchev Brezhnev eras, remaining on Central Committee and Politburo. East German radio mourned immediately.
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Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
Berlin Wall
ADN
Ulbricht
Erich Honecker
State Council
Social Unity Party of Germany
German Democratic Republic
People’s Chamber
National Council of
The
National Front
Roger Bonvin
Switzerland
Europe
Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kremlin
Road projects okayed by state Highway Department
The Arkansas Highway Department approved 19 road betterment projects costing about 2.1 million dollars. Projects span Baxter to St Francis Lee Crittenden, detailing resurfacing and widening on routes including Arkansas 5, US 62, AR 220, AR 4, AR 186, AR 53, AR 160, US 270, AR 24, AR 19, AR 88, AR 11, AR 252 and AR 78 with costs from 9,900 to 176,300 dollars and lengths from under 1 mile to over 13 miles.
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Little Rock
State Highway Department
Baxter
Arkansas
Mountain Home
U.S. 62
Norfolk Lake
Crawford
Oklahoma
Desha
McGehee
Franklin
Alix
U.S
Jackson
Lafayette
Louisiana
Columbia County
Montgomery
Pencil Bluff
Nevada
Prescott
Pike
Narrows Dam
Polk
Mena
Wilhelmina State Park
Prairie
Arkansas County
Sebastian
Arkanas
Lavaca
Sevier
DeQueen
Scott
St.francis
Lee
Crittenden
Beef industry acts to lift price ceilings in Washington
Representatives of the beef industry meet in Washington with Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz at 2 p.m. EDT to press for removing price ceilings. Officials say the ceiling remains until Sept. 12 as a probe into meat industry profits is announced. Wholesalers in New York plan a one day shutdown amid shortages. food prices expected to stay high.
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Associated Press
Washington
New York City
American Meat Institute
Repre
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Cost of Living Council
Virginia Knauer
Nixon
New York
Fred Fillinger
Internal Revenue Service
Cleveland
Ohio
Dave Doherty
A&p
New Orleans
Houston
Tex
Claude Keen
Arkansas cattle and hog slaughter drop in latest report
The Arkansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service shows cattle slaughter down 12 percent from June and 8 percent from last year, while hog slaughter declines 18 percent year over year. Red meat production for the past month totalled 9.5 million pounds, 20 percent below June 1972, with July 1 cattle and calf figures of 2,307,000 and a calf crop of 1,030,000, about 2 percent above last year.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Arkansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Haldeman defends memo remarks before Senate Watergate committee
Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman testified he wrote the words great and good in a 1971 memo about anticipated violent Charlotte demonstrations at President Nixon and Billy Graham events. Sen. Weicker pressed on why underlining obscene signs and penciled good appeared. Haldeman said the memo warned such activity could be harmful and not well organized. He also described the so called enemies list used to deny courtesies to opponents, noting invitations and honorary board spots were at stake.
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Star
Fair Park
Negro City
Washington
White House
H. R. Haldeman
Charlotte
N.C
Nixon
Billy Graham
Haldeman
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
R-Conn
Senate Watergate Committee
Weicker
Ronald H. Walker
Secret Service
Graham
Joseph M. Montoya
John W. Dean III
Escapee Nail Receives 12 Year Prison Term
Bentonville Ark AP Judge William Enfield sentenced John Wallace Nail 35 of Waggoner Okla to 12 years in prison after a jury convicted him of assault with intent to kill Nail was one of three who escaped a Muskogee jail in April The case arose from a high speed chase with State Police Trooper Keith Ferguson and gunfire exchanged with Ferguson’s car taking four bullets
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Bentonville, Ark
William Enfield
Benton County
John Wallace Nail
Waggoner
Okla
Nail
Muskogee
Keith Ferguson
Ferguson
South Main Paving Plans and City Swim Programs
Highway Department and Arkansas Rock and Gravel representatives briefed City board members on finishing the South Main paving project with priority to the area from 16th Street south to the YY near schools. If good weather holds, completion is projected by end of October. The city also notes ongoing swimming lessons at two pools with 300 plus enrollments this year and a plan for one-on-one tone lessons in August. Federal and state agencies are involved in future training, pollution control reviews, and potential new sewage plants finance, with a meeting in Little Rock to address allocations and permits.
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Highway Department
Arkansas Rock and Gravel
South Main
16Th Street
Hope
University of Arkansas Medical Center
FBI
Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy
Red River
Ouachita River
Little Rock
Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology Commission
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Alex H. Washburn
Youth Center Fair Park
Hope, Ark
Jim Gunter
Gunter
Kiwanis Club of Hope
Kiwanis Club
First National Bank
Henry Haynes Chan
Dorothy Winchel
Lonoke Church
Beard
Garrets Chapel
Dorris Brown
Robbie Moore
Risen Star
Jessie McClellan
Bethel Ame
Rosie Davis
Bulah Glenn
Ethel Tyus
Gartha Williamson
Ella Robinson
Patmos
Wayne G. Selle
Daggett
Selle
Michael Quinlan
Sail
Memo
Helen Hayes
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