Emmet Public Schools Set To Open August 27
Gene M. Ross announces Emmet Public Schools begin August 27 with registration at 8 30 a m. First graders must be six by October 1. Birth certificates and immunization records including smallpox and polio vaccines required. Regular classes start August 30. buses run on schedule. 11 00 a.m. dismissal. Teacher workshop August 25 and 26. Faculty names listed for elementary and high schools.
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Gene M. Ross
Emmet Public Schools
General Assembly
Emmet
Edward Cooper
Dora Mae Fee
Floyd Pollock
Corring Gilbert
Velma Rowe
Emmet High School
Charles Haynie, Jr
Frank Faulkner
W.M. Thompson
Dale Booker
Fred Ridling, Jr
Don Mitchell
Doug Brantley
Paul Smithpeters
Club Sees Film About Highways Assembly
The Hope Rotary Club met Friday August 6 to view Arkansas State Highway film. District Engineer John Tallant led the program with Bill Mooney from Little Rock. The color footage covered statewide highway progress, including Southwest Arkansas, Lester Kent, and champ watermelons. Donna Connelly and Margie Royston, 1970 Miss Arkansas and Miss Hospitality, appeared.
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Hope Rotary Club
John Tallant
Bill Mooney
Highway Department
Little Rock
Hope
Violence Rocked Belfast as Troops Pursue Terrorists
Widespread riots in Belfast and Londonderry escalated as youths pelted streets with nails and gasoline and rioters blocked roads with burning vehicles. Snipers fired from rooftops while security forces hunted for terrorists and seized equipment and documents. A British private from the Green Howards was among the dead, the 29th this year in the sectarian clashes tied to the Apprentice Boys parade.
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Belfast
Londonderry
Green Howards Regiment
Northern Ireland
Ith
Northen
Ieland
Harry Thornton
Thoonton
Thornton
Ardoyne
Arkansas Weather Summary 24 Hours to Monday Morning
Report covers 24 hours ending 7 am Monday with high 90 and low 68. State forecast: partly cloudy warm and humid through Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms mainly in eastern and southern portions, occurring mainly in the afternoon and evening. Tonight’s low mid 60s to low 70s and Tuesday’s high in the upper 80s to low 90s.
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Arkansas
Blevins Schools Schedule Sets 1971 72 Year Details
Curtis H Pharr announces the 1971 72 schedule for Blevins Schools. Faculty meeting at 9 am August 20 in Home Economics Building. Registration for grades 4 5 6 10 11 12 August 23 1971 30 minutes 10:30 am. Grades 1 2 3 7 8 9 August 24 8:30 10 am. Buses run both days lunches not served these days. First day August 25 lunch served. Short period schedule August 25 September 10 8:25 am 2 pm. Regular day starts September 13. Labor Day Sept 6 dismissal. Elementary faculty details enrollments 250. High School enrollment 240. District approved new gym science library improvements. Gym 90 percent complete. 11 bus routes. Two lunchrooms. Lunch prices 30 cents grades 1 6 35 cents grades 7 12.
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Curtis H. Pharr
Blevins
Two Die as Park Shootout Leaves 3 Wounded in Fort Worth
AP reports a fatal knife and shotgun shootout at a Fort Worth park after a horse dispute. Robert Lacy, 35, and another man were killed. Willie McCunin, 25, died from a head wound. John Lacy, Willie Lacy, Oscar McCunin and a third man were hospitalized with injuries. Police pursued two brothers linked to the incident.
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Fort Worth
Tex
John White
Robert Lacy
White
Lacy
John
John Lacy
Willie McCunin
Willie Lacy
Oscar McCunin
McCunin
New Head of Bar Assoc. James Cobb Named President
James Cobb a Washington lawyer became president of the National Bar Association succeeding Judge Ed Bell at the close of the 48th annual convention in Atlanta. The predominantly black organization has about 5,000 members.
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Atlanta, Ga
James Cobb
Washington, D.C
Ed Bell
Detroit
National Bar Association
Cobb
Soldier killed in frontline clash amid stone throwing protests
A confrontation between the army and stone throwing demonstrators left a soldier dead after a sniper opened fire. Two other soldiers were lightly wounded by the same incident, escalating the volatile clash in the area.
Nader urges Stans to resign over pro-business stance
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader told CBS Face the Nation that Secretary Maurice Stans should quit the Nixon administration for siding with big business over the public. He charged Stans and Peter Flanigan hinder environmental policy and delay air quality guidelines, arguing citizens must have a way to sanction officials who fail to enforce laws.
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Washington
Maurice Stans
Ralph Nader
Stans
Nader
CBS
White House
Peter Flanigan
Nixon
Apollo 15 astronauts begin debriefings after moon mission
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 15 crews reunite with families after a month apart and start extensive debriefings. The rock samples will undergo thorough analysis to study lunar materials and their effects on microbes and plant growth.
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Space Center, Houston
Policemen Acquitted in Shooting Case in LA
Four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted of civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of two unarmed Mexican citizens during a mistaken raid. A district court jury returned the verdict after three days of deliberation. The officers said the killings were tragic missteps in a failed attempt to capture a murder suspect from San Leandro.
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Los Angeles
San Leandro
San Francisco
Chief Not Notified of Shooting In Marianna
In Marianna Arkansas police chief J K Caughley said he had not been notified of a reported Sunday evening shooting at the door of Mrs Mamie Nelson a Black resident. Mrs Nelson said a white car fired at her house with no injuries. The Arkansas State Police said they had no report. A curfew from 8 30 p m to 5 30 a m remained in place amid racial tensions and boycotts of white merchants by Blacks.
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Marianna
Ark
J. K. Caughley
Mamie Nelson
Nelson
Caughley
Arkansas State Police
Marianna Police Department
Chisholm Seeks White House Run Faces Funding Hurdles
New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm says nationwide support greets her possible presidential bid. She notes hundreds of dollars in contributions without solicitation, while acknowledging money could limit candidacy and calling for reform-minded voters across demographics to back a new approach.
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New York
Shirley Chisholm
D-N.y
Congress
Munich policefire on bank robbers sparks controversy
In Bonn Associated Press reports that Munich police shot at two bank robbers holding 13 hostages after negotiations. One hostage Ingried Reppel, 20, was killed, gunman Rammelmayr, 31, and another suspect Todorov, 24, involved. Authorities defend action. legal and public backlash grow.
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Peter Rehak
Associated Press
Bonn
Germany
Munich
Ingried Reppel
George Rammemayr
Rammelmayr
Dimitri Todorov
Erich Sechser
Manfred Schreiber
Interior Ministry
Brunk Merk
Miss Reppel
Todorov
Frank Niepel
Bavarian State Criminal Investigation Office
Policemen’s Union
Lawmakers seek to give Little Rock back to Little Rock
Fayetteville lawmakers urge undoing current UA system funding to aid the University of Arkansas Medical Center. They say returning Little Rock University to Little Rock could free funds for the medical school while the center seeks a $2.6 million supplemental appropriation. Center employees warn of contract expirations and salary demands if finances remain tight.
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Fayetteville, Ark
Fayetteville
University of Arkansas Medical Center
University of Arkansas At
Morriss Henry
Obituaries for Mrs. Steve Carrigan and five others
Funeral services for Mrs. Steve Carrigan were held at 2 30 p m at First Methodist Church with Rev Norris Steele officiating burial followed at Rose Hill Cemetery by Herndon Funeral Home in Hammond Indiana Henry D Haynes 51 of Homer and Jethro fame died Saturday of a heart attack country music duo had performed for over four decades Edward Morris 76 concert pianist died Saturday night near his Schenectady New York home he performed with the New York Philharmonic Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra Robert P Tibolt 72 board chairman of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates died Friday at his Cohasset Massachusetts home He was elected chairman in 1962 Retired Navy Vice Admiral George L Weyler 85 who directed a World War II Pacific turning point victory died Friday Weyler retired from the Navy in 1946
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Steve Carrigan
First Methodist Church
Norris Steele
Rose Hill Cemetery
Herndon Funeral Home
Hammond
Ind
Henry D. Haynes
Homer
Homer and
Jethro
Schenectady, N.Y
Edward Morris
Schenectady
Morris
New York Philharmonic
Boston Symphony
Philadelphia Orchestra
Cohasset, Mass
Robert P. Tibolt
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Cohasset
Tibolt
Coronado
Calif
George L. Weyler
Pacific
Weyler
Navy
Fire Threat to Last of the Condors
A 200 acre brush fire on a cliff crest near the Sespe Condor Sanctuary in Fillmore California drew 500 firefighters heavy equipment and 12 air tankers to halt the blaze. No structures or injuries reported. About 60 condors inhabit the 54000 acre sanctuary 45 miles north of Los Angeles amid ongoing extinction concerns.
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Fillmore
Calif
California
U.S. Forest Service
Los Padres National Forest
Los Angeles
Nixon Returns From New England Trip
President Nixon resumed work duties after a Maine escape to a 22 acre private island in Penobscot Bay. He planned meetings with Ellsworth Bunker and William J. Porter this week, while Rogers and Sisco traveled to New York for humanitarian talks on Pakistan. Large crowds greeted him in Manchester Nashua and Rapgor Maine during his New Hampshire swing ahead of the 1972 primary.
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Frances Lewine
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
New England
White House
Ellsworth Bunker
Saigon
Vietnam
William J. Porter
Paris
William P. Rogers
Joseph Sisco
New York
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Pakistan
Penobscot Bay
Maine
Manchester
Nashua
N,h
Rapgor
Minot Island
Jack J. Dreyfus Jr
The
Dreyfus Fund
George McGovern
South Dakota
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Henry M. Jackson
New Hampshire
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