Razorback pitcher Charley Tompkins honored in 1910 game tale
In a column recalling early 1900s Arkansas baseball, Charley Tompkins of Prescott pitched against Honus Wagner in 1910 as part of a University of Arkansas exhibition. Letters from Tompkins recount Reds tryouts in 1912, a two month stay with Cincinnati, and a advise on refining control to reach the big leagues.
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Dempsey Cook
Hempstead Memorial
University of Arkansas
Pittsburgh Pirates
Honus Wagner
Cook
Amity
Charles Keith
Roy Anderson
Hope
Charley Tompkins
Prescott
Wagner
Tompkins
Lewisville
Nashville
Thompkins
Hans Wagner
Alex
Gazette
Cincinnati Reds
Philadelphia
Hank O'Day
Chicago Cubs
Mordecai
Three Fingered Brown
Cubs
Reds
O'Day
Matthewson
Brown
Cincinnati
Larry McLean
Oday
Mass Transit Bill Goes to Congress
President Nixon proposed a ten billion dollar twelve year plan to improve and expand local bus rail and subway transportation. The package would fund public and private efforts, with three point one billion for the first five years and annual one billion after 1975, plus five hundred million for research and development and the rest for capital investments.
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Washington
Nixon
Cohngress
House
Ani Senate
Congress
Stay at Sea Until Fight Ends In Vietnam Protest
Floyd B. Nelson sailed an 18 foot sloop off Long Beach with Peace Action Council wreaths to protest the Vietnam War. He vows to cruise the Southern California coast until war ends, receiving food deliveries by rowboat as he continues the voyage on the anniversary of Hiroshima.
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Long Beach
Calif
Floyd B. Nelson
Vietnam
Peace Action Council
Hiroshima
Nelson
California
Feild to Speak at Red River Vocational Graduation
Representative Talbot Feild Jr will be principal speaker at the third graduation exercise for Red River Vocational Technical School. He will address 128 candidates at 2 p.m. Sunday August 10 in the Commons Room. Enrollment for 1968 69 has been high and prospects for 1969 71 are strong. Public invited to attend and tour facilities after graduation per J W Rowe director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talbot Feild, Jr
Red River Vocational Technical School
Feild
J.W. Rowe
Release Was Too Soon for Parolee in Birch Case
Billy Frank Gross, 32, detained at request of the state Pardons and Paroles Board while it reviews whether he was freed too early after being sentenced to 21 years for second degree murder in the Sept. 29, 1964 death of Frank Birch in Conway County. He was paroled July 5 as board studies his credit for time served and good behavior amid disputed calculations.
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Little Rock
Billy Frank Gross
State Pardons and Paroles Board
Gross
Frank Birch
Conway County
Henry B. Means
Bob Scott
Winthrop Rockefeller
Means
Scott
Birch
State Supreme Court
Nome Plans to Sue for Taxes
Nome Alaska. The city says it will sue the state over unpaid real property taxes. City Manager Ed Glotfelty cites $8,800 in overdue taxes on the North Star Hotel, which had been foreclosed after a loan from the Alaska Development Corp. The hotel has an assessed value of $402,000.
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Nome
Alaska
State of Alaska
Ed Glotfelty
North Star
Alaska Development Corp
ADC
Figures a Home Should Be a Home and Not a Two-Bathroom Zoo
New York AP columnist HAL Boyle recounts domestic chaos with a two bathroom household menagerie. Lady Dottie the cat shares a front bathroom with Aphrodite the giant white rabbit, causing humorous frictions as the author juggles care and custody while family life unfolds.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Frances
Lady Dottie
Tracy
Aphrodite
Nixon Faces Pressure Over Desegregation Stand
Liberal Republican senators push the administration to oppose a House rider restricting federal desegregation efforts. They cite Attorney General Mitchell’s hands-off stance as pivotal. The Whitten amendment could curb federal aid and permit freedom of choice in desegregation. HEW Chief Finch planned a strong public stand, but Mitchell urged a closed-mouthed approach.
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G. C. Thelen Jr
Washington
Capitol Hill
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
Jamie Whitten
D-Miss
Robert H. Finch
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Whitten
House
Mitchell
Justice Department
HEW
Finch
Allied Buys Oklahoma Phone Firms
Allied Telephone Co of Little Rock said it would acquire the capital stock of Holt Telephone Co of Poteau Vian Telephone Co Stilwell Telephone Corp Milan Telephone Co and the J W Holt Investment Co adding about 10 000 stations to its 50 000 station system. The Holt family owns two community antenna television systems and the land buildings and equipment of the four telephone firms.
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Little Rock
Alled Telephone Co
Allied
H. R. Wilbourn Jr
Alled
Holt Telephone Co, Inc
Poteau, Okla
Vian Telephone Co
Vian, Okla
Stilewell Telephone Corp
Stilwell, Okla
Milan
Identity of Man Sought in Little Rock Fire Death
Authorities seek the victim's identity after a Wednesday house fire in Little Rock. Coroner Dr L Gordon Holt said fingerprints would be checked with the police and the FBI. the fire cause remains undetermined.
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Little Rock
L. Gordon Holt
Ski County
FBI
Massive Tax Reform Bill Clears House Vote Preview
AP News Digest reports that sponsors of a sweeping tax reform bill accelerate toward House passage amid debate over oil depletion changes and a 5 percent tax cut promise. Key figures include Rep. Sam Gibbons and Rep. George Bush, with Ways and Means shaping last minute amendments before a Senate review.
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AP News Digest
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Sam Gibbons
de Fla
Ways and Means
Senate
Wenesday
Ami Means
George Bush
Rtex
Bush
George H. Mahon
Dtex
Boulder City to Allow Liquor Sales for First Time
Boulder City sets September 8 as the first day bars and stores may sell liquor, a move approved in May by a narrow 63 vote. The town, home to 5,000 residents, faces this milestone after a long local debate.
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Boulder City
New
Senators Split Over Safeguard Missile System Vote
Ark senators Fulbright and McClellan voted opposite ways on the Safeguard Missile system amendment. The 51-50 defeat preserved the proposal, seen as a Nixon administration victory.
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Washington
Arkansas
Senate
J. W. Fulbright
John L. McClellan
Nixon
Hope teen to star in South Pacific at Port Players
All Around Town notes Colleen Coffee daughter of Mrs Trula Coffee of Hope was chosen to play Ensign Nellie Forbush in Shreveport Port Players summer production of South Pacific. She has appeared in Shreveport Little Theatre productions and worked on several shows in various roles. Also featured are updates on a Patmos country music jamboree August 9, Explorers from post 91 at Philmont training for a 12 day high adventure, Becky Waller serving in Thailand, Hope Cheerleaders winning Spirit Stick, and Hempstead County FHA committee seating William Schooley replacing Garland Kidd as supervisors review rural loan applications totaling 491 152 for the fiscal year.
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Colleen Coffee
Trula Coffee of
Hope
Ensign Nellie Forbush
Shreveport
Port Players
Miss Coffee
Shreveport Little Theatre
Mary Sunshine
Jane
First United Methodist Church In
Philmont Scout Ranch
Boy Scouts
Dick Overturf
Mark Gunter
University of the Great Outdoors
Philsmont
Becky Waller
Wilf Ed Waller
Thailand
SE Asia
Los Angeles
US Army
William J. Schooley
Rt. 1
Hempstead County Farmers Home Administration Committee
FHA
Garland Kidd
Joseph Whitmore
Ozan and
Eldredge Formby
Patmos Rt
Viet Cong Attack Puts Cam Ranh Bay Base in Jeopardy
Viet Cong attackers breached the Cam Ranh Bay U S base, bombing the patient wards at the convalescent hospital and setting a 600 pound bomb in front of a Saigon language school. At Cam Ranh Bay and Saigon, casualties mounted with 8 dead and 67 wounded at the hospital, and 8 killed 62 wounded at the school. Authorities noted Cam Ranh Bay as highly secure, yet the assaults marked a bold, unexpected strike by Viet Cong terrorists.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
Cam Ranh Bay
Augeteane
U.S. Air Force
Associated, Press
Rick Merron
Can: Ranh
Dewere
Vietnam
High School Book Store Opens August Twenty Fifth
The Hope High School Books Store opens Monday August 25 at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily in the science building. No new books for grade 10. Grade 11 gets Earth Science, Fundamental Math and Intermediate Algebra. Grade 12 receives General Business only. Buy from others to save money. Used books bought if in good condition. No responsibility for students who delay beyond 3 p.m. Friday August 29, 1969.
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Hope High School
Rockefeller to aid Forrest City in racial tensions
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller planned a trip to Forrest City to help address racial problems, urging reason and logic. A proposed poor people's march was set to begin August 20 in West Memphis and August 24 in Little Rock, described as cheap and dangerous.
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Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
Forrest City
West Memphis
Cato Brooks
Rocksfell
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