Looney speaks at Hope Rotary on Arkansas Highways
Bill Looney of Little Rock presented the Arkansas Highway Department film Arkansas Highways Which Way Do We Go at the Hope Rotary Club luncheon at Town and Country. The program covered state road construction, bridge demolitions, new bridges, and Southwest Arkansas projects. District engineer John Tallant praised South Main Street residents for patience during long builds and noted Highway 29 South start in about 20 days amid I-30 opening plans targeting Thanksgiving. Five miles of Patmos road project soon, with district HQ building timing tied to I 30 completion.
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Arkansas
Arkansas Highway Department
AHD
Bill Looney
Little Rock
Hope Rotary Club
John Tallant
South Main Street
Patmos
Political policy contrasts on amnesty and desegregation
The document presents Democratic and Republican stances on amnesty for conscientious objectors, desegregation via transportation and busing, wage and price controls, tax reform, welfare, Equal Rights Amendment, and labor management. It contrasts calls for amnesty with opposition, preserves court-backed desegregation tools, and outlines differing visions for welfare, equal rights, daycare, and labor disputes.
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Supreme Court
America
United States
Royalty Ends as Princess Ubokatana Marries MIT Student
Princess Ubokatana of Thailand resigns royal claims 24 days before marrying Peter L. Jensen at All Souls Episcopal Church in San Diego. Both newlyweds are 21 and MIT classmates. She is daughter of King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. her brother Prince Vajiralonkhorn is heir. Meanwhile in Indianapolis Louis B. Russell Jr. at 47 hosts an open house to celebrate four extra years from a heart transplant. He says he is not a celebrity, just glad to meet supporters. Guests include long surviving heart recipients from Milwaukee.
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San Diego
Calif
Ubokatana
Thailand
Peter L. Jensen
Indianapolis
Louis B. Russell Jr
Russell
John Annick
Milwaukee
Edward Rigden
Annick
Defenders vow wall of bodies to save pecan tree
In Dallas an old giant pecan tree stands sole survivor on a lot where a house was razed for new construction. Defenders announce plans to form a living wall to halt a bulldozer and keep the tree from being knocked down.
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Dallas
Red River navigation project eyed for early start in Louisiana
Construction could begin early next year on the first Red River section to make the river navigable from the Mississippi to Shreveport Louisiana. The Corps seeks a 1.2 million appropriation to start from the Mississippi river to Shreveport while environmental studies and hearings frame the project.
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Senate
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Jefferson
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Alexandria
Louisiana Wildlife Federation
J. B. Reynolds
Missouri Pacific Railroad Co
Daingerfield
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Alexandria-Pineville
Dan Cresap
Hunt
Oxboy Lakes
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