Birthday Trips and Small Town Tales From Hope
Our Daily Bread column recalls a weekend trip from Malvern to Little Rock with the Bosleys for a lake cruise on Dardanelle and a theater outing. Birthday cards arrive from Citizens National and First National, plus a note from Judge Royce Weisenberger, as staff near vacation end. Minor wrecks are reported in Hope with no injuries, while a Texas man pays off debts of his late parents to an Omaha clothing firm.
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Tfme
Malvern
L. Carter Johnson
Litetle Rock
Garland Bosley
Jungkind Photographic
Bosley
Gary
Little Rock
Dardanelle State Park
Dardanelle
Russellville
Saratoga Landing
Millwood Lake
Johnson
Hope
Citizens National
First
Roy Anderson
Royce Weisenberger
Alex
Star
George
Boots) Smith, Jr
George W. Ware
Fruit & Branch
Omaha, Neb
Omaha
Texas
Girl Slayer Seeks Police Fate of Victims at Airport
Police hunted a man who telephoned to confess murder and begged to be caught. They found 11-year-old Marilyn Clark dead near Hollywood and her mother Dor othy Clark critically wounded at the Fort Lauderdale airport. A third victim was said to be missing as divers searched waterways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Friel
Associated Press
Fort. Lauderdale
Fla
Dorothy A. Clark
Clarkston
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Marilyn
Hollywood
Coast Guard Auxiliary, partners host Millwood boating safety program
A two day program begins at 2 00 p m Saturday August 1 at Beards Bluff Landing and runs through Sunday August 18. The event promotes public education on boating safety, outlines causes of loss of life and damage, and discusses forming a Millwood Lake flotilla with demonstrations films and lectures. Coast Guard Auxiliary members from Little Rock will attend to answer questions and discuss safety measures. Free prizes donated for attendees. See Millwood
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U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
Millwood Lake
Boatnance Ling
U. S. Coast Guard
Arkansas
Little Rock
Russellville
Millwood
Coast Guard
Milwood
Crime and civil disorders top Nixon campaign issues
A top Nixon adviser says crime and civil disorders will top Nixon campaign priorities, stressing law and order without alienating slum communities. Spiro Agnew says violence is not the civil rights core problem. A Baltimore group accuses Agnew of antipathy to Black progress. Rhyne announces a $5 million Nixon Agnew effort to win Democratic and independent votes. McCarthy urges nondelegate supporters to stay away from the convention.
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Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Charles S. Rhyne
United Citizens For Nixons
Marysland
Spiro T. Agnew
San Francisco
Agnew
Baltimore
Vocational Education Seen as Key to Arkansas Growth
In Little Rock AP dispatch, State Education Director J C Ruppert says vocational training spurs industry in Arkansas. With 60 percent federal funds, over 4 million dollars has funded 17 schools in three years and plans call for seven to nine new campuses to close geographic gaps.
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Ruth Ann Vaughan
Associated Press
Little Rock
Arkansas
J. C. Ruppert
State Department of Education
Ruppert
Pulaski County
Rupert
Dunols Tool
Pine Bluff
Stromberg-Carlson
Camden
Pines
Westark Junior College Technical Division
Fort Smith
Petit Jean
Morriston
Arkansas Valley
Ore Zark
Cotton Bell
Burdette
Foothills
Searcy
Delta
Marked Tree
el Dorado
Red River
Hope
Twin Lakes
Harerison
Crowley's Ridge
Forrest City
Phillips County Community College
Helena
Southwest Institute
Benefit concert at Blevins gym raises funds for local teams
A gospel concert featuring Gerald Williams and the Blackstone Singers of Little Rock and the Messengers quartet of Nashville will be held at 8 p.m. Friday August 16 in the Blevins School Gym. Admission is one dollar for adults and free for children under 12. Proceeds benefit the Little and Pony League baseball teams of Blevins.
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Gerald Wiliams
Blackstone Singers
Little Rock
Messengers Quartet
Nashville
Blevins School
Little and Pony League
Cemetery Memorial Dedicated at Rose Hill Cemetery
A dedicatory service was held at the main entrance of Rose Hill Cemetery on Monday August 12 at 3 pm. Two new brick and wrought iron gateways were unveiled. Roy Anderson spoke in memory of his late wife Vera Murphy Andere Son noting his long tenure as chairman of the Cemetery Association. Their daughter Mrs Thompson Evans Jy also presided as chair of the map committee for several years.
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Rose Hill Cemetery
City of Hope
Rose Hill Cemetery Association
Roy Anderson
Vera Murphy Andere
Anderson
Cemetery Association
Thompson Evans Jy
Jury Probing Racial Disorders In Little Rock
In Harrison Arkansas AP dispatch the Pulaski County Grand Jury probes racial disorders that began Friday in Little Rock. Judge J Staith Henley declined a restraining order but set September 4 for a hearing on a suit by 14 Negroes alleging underrepresentation. Campbell questioned by the panel for about 40 minutes as jurors continued the two hour session amid ongoing inquiries.
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Henley
Little Rock
Pulaski County
Arch Campbell
Grand Jury
Campbell
A. Howard Sebbins
Shots Fired at Guards in Little Rock
Police and National Guardsmen patrolled Little Rock and Pulaski County after three nights of racial disturbances. A sniper fired at a cruiser but no injuries were reported. Curfew remained in effect as police arrested four for curfew violations and kept stores and beer outlets closed.
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Little Rock
National
Pulaski County
Winthrop Rockefeller
North Little Rock
The
Rock
R. E. Brians
Rockefeller
Final Rites Held for Victim of Texarkana Car Crash
Funeral services for Rev. William Calvin Creamer 24 of Texarkana, killed in a McNab area collision along with James Staggers and Janet Conway, were conducted today in Texarkana. Survivors include his wife Linda, his parents, two sisters, and in the crash victims, other passengers were treated. notably Dorothy Hall with a serious head injury.
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William Calvin Creamer
Texarkana
McNab
Linda
Claude W. Creamer
Marilyn Waggoner
Cherry Mauk
Houston
James Staggers
Janet Conway
Fulton
Creamer
Staggers
Hope Hospital
Dorothy Hall
Donald
Myra Hall
Raymond Staggers
All Around Town and Local Military News in Hope
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Hope on August 19 at the First Methodist Church aiming to collect about 150 pints. Aubrey Goodwin of Rosston notes a watermelon weigh in at 112 pounds and another 100 pounds. Hope club members meet August 16 at Hammons Stadium for permissions and a decorating class led by Mrs. Bobby Steed on August 19. James Yarebrough Jr. is now in the 4th Infantry near Pleiku, Viet Nam. Marine Sergeant John Samuels, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Samuels of Hope, earned two Purple Hearts while serving in South Vietnam and is on leave after serving with the First Marine Division.
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George Esper
Associated
Saigon
Saipor
Mekong
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
9Th Division
U.S
Red Cross
First Methodist Church
Hempestead
James T. Yarebrough Jr
Pleiku
Viet Nam
Electer Hopeson
Rosston
John D. Sameyels
Horace D. Samuels
Hope
Ark
South Vietnam
Samuels
Arkansas voting extends tight turnout in governor race
Arkansas voters faced a light turnout with about 350000 expected as Virgini Johnson and Marion Crank vie for the Democratic nomination for governor. Johnson, 40, mother of three, campaigns against Crank, 53, in the first political race for her. Polls close at 7:30 am with results likely shaping the November contest against Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller.
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ED Shearer
Associated Press
Little Rock
Arkansans
Virgini Johnson
Marion JH. Crank
Winthrop Rockefeller
Hown
Johnson
Conway
Crank
Foreman
Arkansas
Mt Olive Township
Izard County
Jim
Arkansas House
Jim Johnson
J. W. Fulbright
Fulbright
Rockefeller
Charles Bernard
Earle
Bil Alexander
Osceola
Jack D. Files
Brinkley
Ted Boswell
Cain
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West Third Street
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Highway 67
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James F. Shawn
Calif
Pat Jesse Brown
Richard WE
Cake Ag
Charlie Wilson
Millwood Association
Talbot Feild, Jr
Finis Odom
Association
Girl Slayer
Blevins
AP News Digest
Watts
Florida
Long Island
Vietnam
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Rosston Rt. 3
Tom Wate
Hope Bobe Newu
Hammons
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Pat Simmons
Sherwine Williams
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