Arkansas budget cuts hit state mental retardation centers
Centers across Arkansas face 12 to 40 percent budget cuts for 1978, forcing staff reductions. Deputy commissioner Bill Underwood warns several centers may be seriously hurt while competing with other agencies for federal Title XX money as state funds shift to public school programs.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Bill Underwood
Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities Services
Underwood
State Education Department
Swallows Migrate From San Juan Capistrano to Argentina
The record notes swallows depart San Juan Capistrano in late March, migrating south to Argentina. The journey spans about ten days under favorable conditions.
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San Juan Capistrano
Argentina
Joseph
New fire station on North Hazel Street to finish by Sept 1
Fire Chief Joe Dan Welcb says the North Hazel Street station should be completed around September 1 with landscaping and interior work finished afterward. The $92,000 facility on Community Development funds will house six dormitory sleeping, a kitchen, and a flag pole, plus a $68,000 fire truck to be purchased from the same program.
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Gail Cannon
North Hazel Street
Joe Dan Welcb
Joe Don Webb
Dirt from Arkansas diamond crater may hit market
Forrest City Arkansas. One pound sacks of dirt from the diamond crater may be sold to the public. Tom Seay chairman of the state Parks and Tourism Commission says a firm aims to package the dirt and offer a diamond dig for about a dollar. The firm has approached the state about buying 500000 pounds for sale worldwide. The commission will discuss the plan at a meeting August 18 19 at Petit Jean State Park.
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Forrest City
Ark
Arkansas
Tom Seay
State Parks and Tourism Commission
Seay
Commission
Petit Jean State Park
Major advance in virus fighting drug ara A approved
NIH scientists report ara A or adenine arabinoside shows promise against herpes encephalitis reducing mortality from 70 to 28 percent in 28 hospital patients. Parke Davis produces the intravenously administered drug in controlled tests, with potential for other viral infections, though still early and hospital-based.
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Washington
National Institutes of Health
Parke- Davis Pharmaceutical Company
Detroit
Charles A. Alfred Jr
University of Alabama
Richard Krause
NIH
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Alfred
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