Laos Aid Fails to Bolster Regime Despite $350 Million
Senate report finds massive U S aid and CIA backing did not strengthen Laos government under Lang. fiscal 1971 totals show 284.2 million in military and economic aid plus CIA support, with 65.8 million extra for Thai troop backing. North Vietnamese strength rose to 100,000 as Pathet Lao fell to 39,000. Charles D Bogan named director of Juvenile Services in Arkansas Fort Smith appointment.
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Associated Press
Washington ( AP
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Central Intelligence Agency
Lang
Laos
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Executive Branch
CIA
Congressional
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Richard M. Moose
Weather Station Report for Arkansas Forecast
Weather experiment notes 24 hours to 7 am Tuesday show high 84 and low 66 with 1.73 inches of precipitation. Forecast calls for considerable cloudiness with showers and scattered thunderstorms through Wednesday. Temperatures little changed with nights in the upper 80s and highs Wednesday in the low to mid 80s.
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Weather Experiment Station
Ami
Arkansas
Youth Drowns in Motel Pool in Harrison
In Harrison Arkansas a 14 year old Pine Bluff boy Ronald Smith drowned Monday after jumping from a motel diving board. Boone County Sheriff Lou Green said the body was recovered from 82 feet of water while the youth was on a vacation trip with his sister a brother and friends.
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Harrison, Ark
Ronald Smith
Pine Bluff
Harrison
Boone County
Lou Green
Mary Alice Smith
Green
New Postal Service Is in Trouble
The United States Postal Service, barely a month old, faces about 430 million dollars in expected costs above available funds for fiscal 1972. A $1 billion two year union contract and a smaller Congress appropriation drive deficits higher, pushing the agency to seek more money from taxpayers or higher mail rates. Officials warn deficits must be made up, with rate increases or congressional support as the likely options.
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Mark Brown
Associated Press
Washington
U.S. Postal Service
Congress
Post Office Department
Postal Service
Postal Rate Commission
James W. Hargrove
Hargrove
Career Assignment Guaranteed Navy enlistment offered with guaranteed field
Young high school graduates with no prior military service may enlist in the U S Navy for four years with guaranteed career field assignment based on aptitude tests and interviews. Desired fields include aviation electronics nuclear power construction and engineering plus training in medicine communications radar and sonar. Contact Louie E McGuffie Texarkana recruiter at 774 6301 or Room 202 Post Office Building.
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U.S. Navy
Navy
Louie E. McGuffie
Texarkana
Post Office
Eagles Slaughter Feared as Ranchers Hire Gunmen
A Wyoming pilot told Senate investigators that sheep ranchers hired gunmen to kill eagles to protect newborn lambs. He described crews killing hundreds of birds, with payments of up to 80 dollars a day later. Interior officials pledged prosecution and study of the matter. The Audubon Society noted eagles face habitat and weather threats and that bald eagles remain legally protected.
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Simpson
Associated Press
Washington
Wyoming
Senate
James
Vogan
Senate Environmental Appropriations Subcommittee
Subcommittee
Gale McGee
D-Wye
Interior
Roger C.B. Morton
Justice Department
America
McGee
Interior Department
Doyle Vaughn
Buffalo Flying Service
Buffalo
Wyo
Vaughn
Audubon Society
The
Jackson Hole
United States
Obituaries Measure to Extend the Draft Snagged
The House balked at a draft extension bill amid a parliamentary tangle blocking open challenges to the House Senate compromise. With Congress on vacation until Sept 8 antiwar senators vow to filibuster. Draft officials prepare for a lottery to assign priority to men turning 19 this year, hoping Congress will extend the draft two more years.
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Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Congress
House
House-Senate
Rules Committee
William M. Colmer
D-Miss
Senate Vote Narrowly Backs Lockheed Aid
August 3, 1971 Senate vote on a Lockheed rescue package shifted with late backing from Sen. Lee Metcalf and Rep. Cook. The outcome, 49 to 48, followed White House lobbying and bank/union pressure as Lockheed faced possible bankruptcy without a $250 million loan package. The story links to historical transport routes and Mormon migration to Utah.
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Senate
Lee Metcalf
Cook
Metcalf
Nixon
Lockheed
Airbus
Aerospace Company
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Louisville
Obituary notices list several deaths in Texarkana area
Mrs. Kare R. Davis age 85 of Texarkana died Monday. Services Wednesday at 2 pm in East Memorial Chapel with burial Fouke Cemetery. Survived by husband three daughters Lecia Powell Houston Rachel Ellis Foreman Bonnie Young Texarkana a son W.G. Herring Houston two brothers J.T. Butler Hope A.J. Butler Abilene Tex three sisters Eva Miller Tommy Stuart Hope Lula Reese Broken Bow OK. Infant Lisa Ray Messer died Monday. graveside 10 am Memory Gardens by Merlin Cox. Herndon Funeral Home in charge. Maternal grandparents E.H. Collins Spring Hill paternal grandparents Clifton Messer Hope. Woodard Eugene Breed 64 of Texarkana former Hope resident died Monday night in Texarkana hospital. Funeral Wednesday 2 pm Oakcrest Chapel burial Holly Grove Cemetery by Oakcrest Funeral Home. Survived by wife Mary Helen Breed Texarkana one son Terrell Breed US Air Force one sister Vona Reed Dallas two grandchildren. Edward L. Ryerson 8 former Inland Steel Co. chairman died Monday in Chicago. Mme Rose Palmar-Tenser founder Mobile Opera Build in 1946 died Sunday in London hospital. Palm ar-Tenser also helped organize Birmingham and Shreveport opera companies.
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Earl R. Davis
Texarkana
East Memorial Chapel
Fouke Cemetery
Lecia Powell
Houston
Rachel Ellis
Foreman
Bonnie Young
W.G. Herring
J.T. Butler
Hope
A.J. Butler
Abilene
Tex
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Tommy Stuart
Lula Reese
Broken Bow
Okla
Lisa Ray Messer
Carroll W. Messer
Merlin Cox
Herndon Funeral Home
E.H. Collins
Spring Hill
Clfford Messer
Woodard Eugene Breed
Oakcrest Chapel
Holly Grove Cemetery
Oakcrest Funeral Home
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Terrell Breed
United States Air Force
Vona Reed
Dallas
Mobile
Ala
Mme
Rose Palmar-Tenser
Mobile Opera Build
London
Mme. Palmar-Tenser
Birmingham
Shreveport
Broyles urges stake life on God at FCA conference
Mount Pleasant Michigan AP Frank Broyles University of Arkansas football coach told 380 coaches and athletes at the third annual Michigan Fellowship of Christian Athletes summer conference that life and football share a line between God and the un-God. He urged believers to bet their life on God and seek faith to face impossible odds. Broyles sits on the FCA board and is a former Team Football Coaches Association president. Attendees came from Wisconsin Indiana Ohio Winds Michigan.
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Team Football Coaches Association
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Michigan
Dozen Blacks Picket Oak Grove School
About a dozen Black United Youth members picketed Oak Grove High School in North Little Rock to protest principal Schrader's appearance in municipal court. They cited alleged black exclusion from school organizations and unfair grading, demanding action after administrators agreed to review grievances.
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North Little Rock
Black United Youth
Oak Grove High School
Here
Jack Schrader
Schrader
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