Pay Up Today for Industrial Foundation Stock
The Star reports a request to honor an original stock-purchase pledge by the Hempstead County Industrial Foundation Inc and buy another 10 percent interest. Thomas E. Hays Jr. notes seven local enterprises aided by the Foundation and Chamber of Commerce, totaling 520 new jobs. The piece urges stock subscriptions and reflects on thrift during good times as a safeguard for future expansion. It also blends a personal diary about guests visiting Hot Springs and Narrows Lake, including a visit to Vic Ames' Vapors Club show.
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Hempstead County Industrial Foundation, Inc
Star
Thomas E. Hays, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Foundation
Hope
The
Arkansas
Georgia
Florida
F.M. Gibson
Sarasota
Fla
M.W. Gibson
Baby Patt
Fort Benning
Hot Springs
Narrows Lake
Hotel Arington
Vic Ames
Vapors Club
Ames
Rockefeller to meet leaders in Forrest City Ark
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller arrives from Los Angeles to discuss racial problems with Negro and White leaders. He will hold a 1 p.m. session with department heads and state employees then a 3 p.m. meeting with local industrialists and business owners at the civic center.
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Forrest City
Ark
Winthrop Rockefeller
Los Angeles
Arkansas
Nixon
British Troops Move Into Belfast Amid Civil Disorder
British forces arrive in Belfast after days of sectarian clashes as 15 000 Roman Catholics barricade roads and 600 troops land at Aldergrove airport. Prime Minister Churchill urged both Catholics and Protestants to stay home while Dublin announces reserves for a peacekeeping operation. Five killed and 192 wounded in the violence.
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Ireland
Colin
Associated Press
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Aldergrover
London
Ulster
Britain
James Chichester-Clark
Irish Republican Army
Irish Republic
Dublin
LRU to Offer Negro History Readings Course
Little Rock University will offer a junior senior level course this fall titled Readings in Negro History and Literature. The course will be taught by Dr Bedford K Hadley and Dr Johnye Matthews and follows demands by Negro students for history courses at the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Little Rock University
University of Arkansas At Little Rock
LRU
Bedford K. Hadley
Johnye Matthews
Gas Loaded Train Blocked by Canadian Customs Ban
A Chesapeake and Ohio train carrying World War I poison gas canisters was barred from entering southern Ontario at Windsor by district customs collector Hartley Purvis under the Customs Tariff Act. The Lockport bound train faced routes through St Thomas Welland and Niagara Falls as it neared the U S border. Purvis said officials were notified after a call from Robert Elley, in charge of the rail division.
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Associated Press
Canada
Colorado
Louisiana
Lockport
N.Y
Windsor
Ont
Hartley Purvis
Lake Erie
St. Thomas
Welland
U.S. Territory
Niagara Falls
Purvis
Robert Elley
Army Denies Release for Green Beret in Viet Nam Case
U S Army denies pretrial release for Maj. Thomas C Middleton Jr among eight Green Berets accused of murder of a Vietnamese man who may be a double agent. Official says the offense seriousness justifies detention. Col Robert B Rheault led all Special Forces in Vietnam at the time.
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Army
Richard File
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
Thomas C. Middleton Jr
Jefferson, S.C
Middleton
Chu Yen Thai Khac
South China Sea
Nha Trang
Robert B. Rheault
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Vietnam
Memphis Murders Resemble LA Slayings
A disabled Memphis accountant Roy Kenneth Dumas 58 and his wife Vernalyn Kelly Dumas 46 were found murdered in their Midtown Memphis apartment. Police said the scene resembled the Sharon Tate killings in Hollywood but offered no connection. Vernalyn appeared to have been raped. bodies found in separate bedrooms.
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Memphb
Tenn
Memphis
Hollywood
Sharon Tate
Roy Kenneth Dumas
Vernalyn Kelly Dumas
Frank Holloman
Holloman
Mills Sees Concern Over Nixon Proposal
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas expressed serious concern about the Presidents plan to grant states a share of federal funds with discretion to spend. He urged that guidelines be set to specify allowable uses for the money.
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Little Rock
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Incomes Up in July and Prices Rise Too
July brought higher personal income to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 752.3 billion, boosted by a 2.5 billion federal pay raise. Prices climbed as consumer inflation surged, with the CPI up 64 percent for the first half. The Commerce Department also revised GDP higher by 16 billion, highlighting rising spending but shrinking inventories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Pearce
Associated Press
Washington
Commerce Department
U.S
Secretary of the Treasury
David M. Kennedy
Kennedy
Philadelphia
John
Woman killed in I-40 crash near Brinkley Arkansas
AP reports Sarah J. Heard 21 of Little Rock died in a car truck collision eight miles west of Brinkley on Interstate 40. Passenger in Nola Halstead's car, Heard was killed when Halstead's car parked on the shoulder was rear ended by a truck driven by Joe Deaton 27 of Millington Tennessee. Deaton not injured. truck owner W. W. Fasd Service of Arlington Tennessee.
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Brinkley
Ark
Sarah J. Heard
Little Rock
Here
Miss Heard
Nola Halystead
Halstead
Joe Deaton
Millington
Tenn
W. W. Fasd Service
Arlington, Tenn
Deaton
Third Night of Violence in Seattle
AP reports in Seattle University District on Thursday night clashes between police using tear gas and nightsticks and longhaired beard ed street people. About 2000 people mobbed eight blocks as 181 riot officers faced rocks and pellets. twenty six arrests, two for burglary, with no injuries.
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Seattle
University District
Pentagon reviews Poseidon missile guidance upgrade
A money crunch forces the Pentagon to review the guidance system plan for the Poseidon multiple warhead missile. The submarine launcher with 10 warheads has been flight tested nine times and 18 tests are planned after 1969 as defense budgets tighten.
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Robert A. Hunt
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Pentagon
Melvin Storm
Ben Funk
Miami
Casmille
Cuba
Florida
Florida Keys
Robert H. Simpson
National Hurricane Center
Keys
Simpson
Camille
Isle of Pines
Man's body recovered from Lake Catherine in Arkansas
The body of Carol Green, 25, of Little Rock, was recovered Thursday night from about 40 feet of water near where her boat was found. Hot Spring County authorities reported the recovery and noted the location near Lake Catherine.
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Malvern, Ark
Carol Green
Little Rock
Lake Catherine
Hot Spring
Green
MOL Scrapped Arkansan Reassigned
The Defense Department said 14 MOL pilots including Maj. James M. Taylor of Lewisville Arkansas were reassigned after the Manned Orbiting Laboratory project was canceled in an economy move. Taylor was among five pilots receiving new research or operational flight duties.
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Washington
Defense Department
Arkansan
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Pentagon
Department
James M. Taylor
Lewisville
Ark
All Around Town Highlights From The Star Staff
Local notes list Mayo Bros hospital stay in Rochester Minnesota with room 4279 for a patient. Officials say water reservoirs fill but residents should avoid yard watering for several days. guidance on watering shrubs but not grass. Congratulations to Margaret Harris for Arkansas Republican Woman of the Year. Patsy Burroughs earns an LSU MA in Speech and plans to teach in Trenton New Jersey. Call for young artists for a Coliseum Art Show during the Third District Livestock Show in September. contact Jack Spates for details. Lee Garland, now in Cransfordville Indiana, underwent surgery and will be hospitalized. Hope High School council to hold summer workshop August 16 at 11 a.m. Youth Day at Winrock Farms August 3 with Bob Hope as guest. Hempstead county youths invited to Rockefeller home day trip with car caravan August 23. other guests include Up With People and Rock Creek Reunion. Rockefeller connections and snacks provided.
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Jack Spates
Winrock Farms
Bob Hope
Hempstead County
Rockefeler
Clarence Geist
Hope
Rock Creek
Guy
Rockefeller
Vietnam War Talks Narrow Down to 25,000-Plus Troop Withdrawals
In Thursday meetings Gen Creighton Abrams and advisers discussed a planned pullout around 25,000 troops with Washington awaiting a precise recommendation. President Nixon asked the Pentagon to plan for up to 100,000 more Americans to return by Christmas, though officials caution this is speculative. Pentagon says allied reaction to recent enemy activity is encouraging and that brief flare-ups may signal a new pattern of intermittent engagements rather than full offensives.
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Jonal
Cowicil Chementé
Calit
Bre
Dip Ae
Taffy
Creighton
W.’ Abrams
Nixon
Te House
Préss Secretiré
L. Ziegler
Pentagon
Kopechne family seeks autopsy halt in exhumation bid
Luzerne County officials hear a petition to exhume Mary Jo Kopechne so an autopsy can be performed. District Attorney Edmund Dinis travels from Boston to press the request while a private session with Judge Brominski sets the stage for a formal hearing within about ten days. The parents oppose the autopsy and seek to prevent it.
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Pat Leisner
Associated Press
Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Atty
Edmund Dinis
Luzerne County Courts
Mary Jo Kopechne
Bernard C. Brominski
Luzerne County
Sen
Edeward Mi “Ee
Ed Noebridge
Brominski
Nhat
Ehne
Dinis
A . Dinls
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Washburn
Industrial Foundation
Nau Boy
New York
Veterans of Five Wars
Korea
Veterans Administration
Mills
Gladys
Cone
Dr. Sohn
S.foster
Pussia
MIRV
Bopbidon
Donald
Fraser
Laird
Foster
Poseidon
Mayo Bros
St. Mary’s Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Margaret Harris
Lynn
Patsy Burroughs
Fd. Burroughs
Desgree
LSU
Baton Rouge
Trenton
Lee Garland
Cransfordville
Ind
Hope High School
Kopechne
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