July cost of living up four tenths amid food surge
Washington AP reports July prices rose four tenths of one per cent driven mainly by a full one per cent jump in food costs. Average weekly earnings of rank and file production workers rose eight tenths of one per cent, twice the consumer price increase, lifting buying power by four tenths. CPI reached 125.5, with a $12.55 cost for a $10.00 1967 basket.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Klan and John Birch Split Over Indiana Ballot Talk
Indiana figures clash as the American party campaign director accuses the Ku Klux Klan of trying to marry the party while the Indiana grand dragon counters that the John Birch Society seeks dominance. Both IAIP and American Party of Indiana push petitions to place Schmitz and Anderson on the November ballot.
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Indianapolis
American Party
Ku Klux Klan
Indiana
John Birch Society
James M. Toews
National
John Schmitz
Tom Anderson
Indiana American Independent Party
American Party of
Schmitz
Anderson
Toews
IAIP
National American Party
South
William M. Chaney
Grand Dragon of the Klan
American Independent Party
George Wallace
America
Burke Family Reunion Draws 200 Attendees at Fair Park Coliseum
The Burke reunion gathered 200 attendees across seven states on August 12 and 13 at Fair Park Coliseum. Eldest members honored included Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Burke and Mrs. L.H. Parris with corsages and boutonnieres. Willie Burke received an 86 pound watermelon marking his age. Out-of-town guests spanned Hot Springs Little Rock Dallas Casa Grande and more, with elaborate memory and dining table decorations described.
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Burke
Fair Park Coliseum
W.H. Burke
L.H. Parris
O.F. Lloyd
Willie Burke
Jimmy Carver
Allen
Angela
Hot Springs
A.B. Ellis
Steven
Pearl Deaton
P.J. Ellis
Doyle Ellis
Mike
Steve Holloway
Scott
Bill Bussey
Phillip Ellis
Little Rock
Eugene Gray
C.M. Burke
Pine Bluff
Bryan Burke
Bubba
Fordyce
Connie Burke
Bernard to Speak at GOP Dinner Meeting Aug 31
Charles Bernard state chairman will be principal speaker at a Dutch Treat dinner for Southwest Regional Committees at Perry's Restaurant at 7 15 p m on August 31 Clarence Geist regional chairman announced Supporters and committee members from Sevier Pike Hempstead Miller Howard Little River Nevada and Lafayette counties will attend William D Feathers county chairman will head the county delegation Len Blaylock gubernatorial candidate is slated to appear
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Charles Bernard
Perry’s
Clarence Geist
Hope
Sevier
Pike, Hempstead
Miller
Howard
Little River
Nevada
Lafayette
William D. Feathers
Len Blaylock
South Vietnam offers release of 600 POWs
South Vietnam proposed to return 600 disabled North Vietnamese POWs unconditionally and grant amnesty to 496 South Vietnamese convicts. The move, announced on Buddhist All Souls Day, aims at possible reciprocal releases and follows prior failed exchanges, with about 35,000 prisoners held by Saigon including 8,000 North Vietnamese.
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South Vietnam
Saigon
Foreign Ministry
Hanoi
Republic of Vietnam
John C. Sexton Jr
Warren
Mich
United States
Washington
U.S
Nguyen van Thieu
Indochina
Emergency declared in Chile by Allende
President Salvador Allende declared a state of emergency in Santiago Province during a night of protests over food shortages and socialist policy. Riot squads clashed with anti Marxist demonstrators as 150,000 shopkeepers joined a one day protest, housewives rang alarm bells, and barricades burned along Providencia Avenue.
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Santiago
Chile
Salvador Allende
Swank Providencia Avenue
Adoption applications accepted with priority for hard to place children
Marie Jackson, area adoption worker, will take applications at Hempstead County Social Services to explain changes. Arkansas Social Services Commissioner Dalton Jennings urged maximum effort to place hard-to-place children, including black children, for six months with preferential handling. Backlog grows for white infant adoptions. 150 couples approved, about 90 percent seek white infants and young children. Call 777-2675 to start adoption process.
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Marie Jackson
Hempstead County
Social Services Office
Kahane vows kidnap bids if USSR push on emigrant fees
In Jerusalem Rabbi Meir Kahane says the militant Jewish Defense League will kidnap Soviet diplomats in the United States unless the Soviet Union stops special emigrant fees. He urged Secretary of State Rogers to act. Washington officials denied receipt of any letter.
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Jerusalem
Meir Kahane
Jewish Defense League
United States
Soviet Union
Kahane
William P. Rogers
Jets wreck bridges and depots along North Vietnam coast
U S Navy jets attacked from Vinh to Hai Phong wrecking 10 bridges and large depots including the Son Duong supply depot. A Kitty Hawk A6 raid set the installation aflame. In Saigon area heavy shelling continued and a Marine was killed with 13 wounded after a Phantom dropped 500 pounds accidentally near Quang Tri.
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Saigon
U.S. Navy
North Vietnam
Vinh
Haiphong
U.S. Command
U.S
Navy
Kitty Hawk
Son Duong
Tho Vuc
Thanh Hoa
South Vietnam
Quang Tri
McGovern meets LBJ in Texas campaign push
Sen George McGovern and running mate Sargent Shriver flew to the LBJ Ranch for a strategy meeting with Lyndon B Johnson to woo unity in the Democratic Party for the November race. The halt to media access at the session drew questions about the Texas visit.
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Johnson City
Tex
George McGovern
Lyndon B. Johnson
McGovern
Sargent Shriver
LBJ Ranch
Austin
Johnson
Texas
Appeals court rejects Little Rock desegregation plan
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a plan allowing first three grades to attend neighborhood schools while affirming the fourth and fifth grade integration in central and eastern sections. It remanded the pre-K through third grade issue and ordered detailed plans for desegregating those grades by next year. The decision will increase bused students to about 7,500 with 78 buses and an estimated $141,000 extra in leasing costs.
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ST. Louis
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Little Rock
U.S. District Court
Oren Harris
Appeals Court
Paul R. Fair
Explosion at Newry customs post kills six in border town
An explosion at a Newry customs post on the Belfast Dublin highway killed six people, with two believed guerrillas among the dead. A man outside fled as the blast occurred. two others were seriously injured. The toll raises Northern Ireland’s three year violence death count to 524. Security sources suggest nitro benzene was used, following earlier gelignite seizures.
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Belfast
Newry
Northern Ireland
Claudy
Londonderry
Belfast-Dublin
Irish Republican Army
Registration at Saratoga Set for August Twenty Eighth
Registration at the Saratoga School will be held Monday August 28 from 9 to 11 a.m. for grades 1 through 12. Regular classes start Tuesday August 29 at 8:30 a.m. Dismissal at noon. First week includes half days through September 1. No school Monday September 4. Full days begin September 5 with lunch room in operation.
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Saratoga
Weather roundup from Associated Press for several cities
The bulletin lists daily weather across numerous U S. and Alaska cities with conditions temperatures and precipitation. Included are Albany Amarillo Anchorage Ashville Atlanta Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Charleston Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Denver Fort Worth Green Bay Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Portland and Marquette with temperatures and notes on precipitation or visibility where available.
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Associated Press
Lew Pr
Albany
Amarillo
Anchorage
Ashville
Atlanta
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago
Cincinnati
Denver
Des Moines
Fort Worth
Green Bay
Helena
Honolulu
Houston
Ind’apolis
Jacka’ville
Juneau
Kansas City
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Marquette
Ore
Arkansas Weather Summary for Tuesday and Wednesday
Experiment station report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Tuesday notes high 100 and low 70. Forecasts for Arkansas call for partly to mostly cloudy conditions with scattered showers and thundershowers especially in the northwest. Cooler by Wednesday with highs in the 80s to low 90s and lows upper 60s to mid 70s.
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Arkansas
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