Row Over Job He Rejected
JOHN S. LANG reports on Budge rejecting an $80,000 post with six mutual funds. Senators debate whether he should be prosecuted while a constitutional convention in Arkansas attaches annual audit requirements to an appropriation proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John S. Lang
Associated
Harrison A. Willams
D-N.j
Banking and Currency
Budge
Justice Department
Harrison
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Murtual Funds
Little Rock
Charles KK. Garner
Fort Smith
Arkansas Moon Dust Exposure Touches Arkansas Woman in Houston
Heather Owens, 24, an Arkansas Lab technician on the Apollo 11 mice project, was exposed to moon rock particles in Houston's lunar receiving lab. Her father, Clarence Owens of El Dorado, said he is not worried and expects her to be fine. Heather recently transferred to a private room and bathroom, and plans to marry in Ruston, Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crobsett
Ark
Houston
Heather Owens
Lunar
Miss Owens
Owens
Crossett
Georgia-Pacific
NASA
Mr. and
Paul Gardner
Gardner
Firemen in Gary Ind Picket During Lumberyard Blaze
Gary Indiana firemen kept the city on strike as a 300000 dollar lumberyard fire raged. Picket lines formed while neighboring departments aided, and East Chicago fire trucks were turned away by jeering crowds. No arrests were reported as blaze was controlled after three hours. Mayor Hatcher ordered an inquiry into the fire’s cause. Contempt hearings for union leaders were scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary
Ind
Chicago
Richard G. Hatcher
Straley Thorpe
Judge Denies Inquest Into Kennedy Car Crash
Edgartown District Court Judge James A Boyle tentatively refused Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis request for an inquest into Senator Edward M Kennedy s July 18 auto accident but Dinis said he would proceed under the state inquest law. The crash killed Mary Jo Kopechne, a young secretary from Washington DC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Mass
Edgartown
James A. Boyle
Edmund Dinis
Dinis
Washington, D.C
Mary Jo Kopechne
Mississippi County votes against junior college proposal
Osceola Arkansas voters rejected the plan to create a county junior college linked to a five mill tax. The unofficial tally, excluding absentee boxes, ran 1,504 in favor and 2,234 against, in a county of 22,106 registered voters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola
Ark
Mississippi County
Missile Issue Stirs Senate as ABM Vote Unfolds
The Senate faces a dramatic vote on the Nixon administration ABM deployment proposal after weeks of testimony. Senators drift from offices to the floor as a tense roll call unfolds with about half supporting and half opposing. Observers recall the 1956 Social Security change as a benchmark for such suspense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Joseph E. Mohbat
Associated Press
Washington
Chamber of the
U.S. Senate
Darrell St. Claire
Edward §. Mansur Jr
Mister Aiken
Nixon
United States
Capitol
Lyndon B. Johnson
City Purchases More Radio Equipment
The Hope Police Department gains a grant of 2824 dollars covering 60 percent of the cost to buy a new 100 watt base station and four frequency capable radios. Two remote control units and two mobile radios will modernize police and sheriff operations, delivered in 60 days. The aging base station will be replaced to improve efficiency and range into adjacent counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Police Department
Sheriff's Department
Texas Man Victim of Hit-and-Run
A man in Wake Village, Texas was struck on the left door of a parked car owned by Carl Ralph Daily yesterday at 3:50 p.m. by an unknown vehicle. Officers Rowe and Atterbury investigated the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Ralph Daily
Wake Village
Tex
Rowe and
Atterbury
Mariner 7 Pictures Surprise Mars South Pole Flyby
AP reports Mariner 7 entered solar orbit after a close pass to Mars 2000 miles away revealing dune like frost in the southern cap and two large craters with dark saturated desert terrain. Scientists call the features surprising and discuss possible dry ice and craterless regions as mysteries for further study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Robert Sharp
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robert Leighton
Cal Tech
Mars
Leighton
Polar Cap
Hellas
Sharp
Mariner 7
Mariner 6
Pasadena
Calif
Martian
South Pole
Blevins Opens School Year With Workshop
The Blevins Public School announces the 1969 70 year opening with a teachers workshop on August 25 1969 at 8 30 a m in the Home Economics Cottage. Student registration starts 8 30 a m August 26 with dismissal at 11 30 a m. Bus routes mirror prior year and August 27 is a full day. First graders need a birth certificate by law. the school will record and return it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blevins
Nixon to Propose Welfare and Manpower Reforms
President Nixon plans a nationally broadcast address detailing a federal minimum welfare standard, a $30 monthly floor for 6.5 million dependent children recipients, a $1500 yearly family guarantee, state control of manpower programs, and automatic shares of federal tax revenue. He will urge Congress to enact these reforms, with a $1 billion revenue shift in year one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Thelen Jr
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Nixon
Camp David
Executive Branch
Capitol Hill
Congress
Mississippi
Massachusetts
New York
Washington
Million for Blytheville Air Base construction
AP dispatch reports Rep. Bill Alexander said the House authorizes 3.1 million dollars for military construction at Blytheville Air Force Base. Funds cover training facilities maintenance hospital facilities and troop halls as part of base expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
Bill Alexander
D-Ark
House
Blytheville Air Force Base
Prisoners Happy to Be Back from Hanoi Release
Three American POWs freed by North Vietnam arrived in Bangkok as the second leg of their journey from Hanoi. Lt. Robert F. Frishman said it felt great to be back, while Capt. Wesley Rumble and Seaman Douglas B. Hegdahl declined to speak to reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok
Thailand
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Robert F. Frishman
Wesley Rumble
Douglas B. Hegdahl
All Around Town items mix through Hempstead Highlights
The town calendar lists a Men's Golf Association scramble at the Country Club with a 5 p.m. start and a post-event feed. Judge Weisenberger and Mrs. Weisenberger depart August 6 for a National Conference in Dallas, returning August 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Men's Golf Association
Royce Weisenberger
National Conference of State Trial Judges
American Bar Association
Dallas
Group Charged With Murder In Vietnam Case
Eight Green Berets and officers face murder and conspiracy charges for the June 20 shooting of four Vietnamese near Nha Trang. The accused include Majors, captains, a chief warrant officer, and a staff sergeant, with three intelligence officers among them. The case prompts Army court-martial review as Col. Alexander Lemberes assumes command of the Green Berets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Esper
Pease
Vietnam
Staffan
Nha
Trang
Ecie
Sta
Saigon
U.S
Robert’ B. Rheault
Vineyard’Haven
Mass
5Th Special Forces
Ele Associated
Rick Merron
Nha, Trang
Thomas CV
Middleton Jr
Jefferson
S.C
David E. Crew
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
CWO2
Edward M. Boyle
New York City
Leland J. Brumley
Green Beret
Special ‘ Forces
Lemberes
Special Forces
Oneieutenant
Hammerschmidt to Assist in 3-Well Project
City of Hope seeks extra water after 18 days over 100 degrees. City Manager Garland Medders announced to the Hope Rotary Club that Congressman Hammerschmidt pledged federal aid. Options include three new wells in the Cak Haven area yielding about one million gallons daily, with Milkwood water considered costly unless industry shares the cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Hope
Garland Medders
Hope Rotary Club
Washington, D.C
Medders
John Paul Hammersschmidt
Qake Haven
Benny Coleman Provase
John
Robartee
Ware Baley
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Alen
W. Washburn
Johnson
Thomas Jefferson
Arkansas
South Vietnam
Okinawa
Gary, Ind
Kennedy
City
Texas
Mariner
Ralph Dighton
AP News Digest
Ascent Press
Green’ Beret
Ann Arbor, Mich
John N. Collins
Ann Arbor
Detroit
The
Star
Southern State College
Hempstead
Douglas Cross
Brenda G. Rosenbaum
Fulton
Wanda L. Williams
Patmos
Buck Williams
State College of Arkansas
Sara E. Gordon
Jerome H
Clear Lake
Anderson-Frazier
P,f.c. Grady
Paul Johnson
Cashie Johnson
Route 2
FLSG
Bravo M. Co
Dong-Ha
Hempstead County Farm Bureau
Troy Burson
Farm Bureau
Joe David Key
Harding College
Calvin Caldwell
Hammerschmidt
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