Missing Banker Found Dead in Searcy Arkansas
In Searcy Ark a body identified as Roy J Wright 43 of Texarkana bank vice president was found in a car with a carbon monoxide hood attachment The car was rented at O Hare Airport Chicago The FBI said Wright disappeared after being summoned to discuss a 243786 bank discrepancy He had worked 25 years for the State National Bank of Texarkana He was married with four children and his wife teaches at Texarkana College Continued on Page Two.
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O'Hare National
Chicago
Searcy
FBI
Bill Spurlock
Searc
State of Arkansas
Weather Sketch: Arkansas Regional Forecast Summary
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Monday notes central Arkansas partly cloudy and warm through Tuesday with isolated afternoon thundershowers south. Highs 80s to low 90s, lows 60s to 70s. Northwest and northeast regions show partial day with isolated showers Tuesday. highs 85 to 93, lows 64 to 74. Extreme south mainly clear to partly cloudy with high 85 to 95 and lows 62 to 74.
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Arkansas
Associated Press
Northwest
Women Injured in One Car Wreck near DeAnn Blevins road
Glenadona Pauley of Lockesburg was injured in a one car crash yesterday on the DeAnn Blevins road and transported to Prescott hospital by Herndon Cornelius ambulance. State Policeman Guy Downing said the driver appeared to lose control on a curve about a mile north of DeAnn and the investigation is ongoing with possible charges.
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DeAnn-Blevins
Glenadona Pauley
Lockesburg
Prescott
Herndon-Cornelius
Guy Downin
DeAnn
Downing
Texarkana Boy Noted With Encephalitis Case
A Texarkana boy, reported as a young child, is diagnosed with encephalitis or sleeping sickness. Bowie County authorities say his condition is not serious. The note adds Houston area reports exceeding 100 suspected encephalitis cases.
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Texarkana, Tex
Texarkana
Bowie County
Tex
Houston
Temperatures to Be Mild Across Arkansas Through Tuesday
The Weather Bureau said Arkansas will see generally mild temperatures through Tuesday with highs from 82 to 93 degrees across cities including Harrison and Fort Smith. Overnight lows will range from 57 to 72 with no rain in the 24 hours ending today. A shower activity outbreak in South Arkansas today is expected to spread statewide on Tuesday as a slight warming trend continues.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
U.S
Weather Bureau
South Arkansas
Harrison
Fort Smith
Fayetteville
el Dorado
Texarkana College Names Downs Drama Head
Joe M. Downs Jr., 25, son of Joe M. Downs of Hope, will lead the Speech and Drama work at Texarkana College for the coming year, per President J. W. Cady. Downs studied in Hope, Arkansas High in Texarkana, Ouachita Baptist College, taught at Lakeside High School in Hot Springs, and pursued a master's in Speech and Drama at the University of Arkansas where he was a graduate assistant.
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Joe M. Downs, Jr
Joe M. Downs
Lewisville Road
Hope
Texarkana College
J. W. Cady
Downs
Arkansas High
Texarkana
Ouachita Baptist College
Lakeside High
Hot Springs
U of A
Fof
Appointment Bill Is Backed In Arkansas
The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation backed a House bill to remove state legislative apportionment cases from Supreme Court jurisdiction. Senators Fulbright and McClellan are expected to support, as all four Arkansas representatives voted for the measure. The House previously passed a bill allowing states to reapportion their legislatures in line with the Constitution after the Supreme Court ruling on population-based apportionment.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Farm ‘Burea Federation
House
U.S. Supreme Court
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
John L’ McClellan
Senate
Bureau
Supreme Court
Arkansas
Burglars Steal Furs From Connecticut Avenue Store
Report from Washington AP says burglars bypassed a large alarm system and a steel back door to loot the French Poodle store owned by Mrs. Alvin Epstein. They accessed an upstairs office, descended into the shop through a ceiling hole, and carried away furs valued at nearly $50,000 early Sunday.
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Washington (Ap
Connecticut Avenue
Alvin Epstein
Profile of AP columnist Hal Boyle 52 years in breadbasket
Richard Huttner profiles Hal Boyle, AP columnist, based on a class assignment. The interview notes Boyle as a tough, deadline driven writer with a sturdy frame, a blunt style, and a habit of drafting ahead yet burning to meet the next column deadline.
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Hal Boyle
Richard Huttner
Horace Mann High School
N.Y
Overseas Press Club Bulletin
NEW York
Associated Press
Boyle
Extremism Hit Rights Plank Loft Amid Platform Talks
Atlantic City AP report on a Democratic platform nearing final polish. It endorses fair enfor cement of the Civil Rights Act but avoids additional legislation. Draft notes condemn extremism and name groups such as the John Birch Society the Communist party and the Ku Klux Klan. The committee also omits reapportionment and school prayer from the platform.
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EDMND
Lebreton
Atlantic City
Nid
John Birchl Society
Communist Party
Ku Klux Klan
Platform Committee
Arkansas Death Toll Reaches Ten
Associated Press records showing ten fatalities in Arkansas from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday across traffic crashes, a fatal shock, a train strike, and an accidental shooting. Names include Homer Crooki near Manila, Noble Stillwell near Kais er, Curtis Lee Ricks of Ashdown, Anne Barton near Batesville, Gurnell Burks near Benton, Juanita Middleton near Wynne, Florence Langley of Camden, and Randy Bowers of Nail community.
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Associated Press
Jerry Austin
Leachville
Arkansas
Manila
Noble Stillwell
Joiner
Kaiser
Arlie Bonham
Wilson
Billy Linddell
Curtis Lee Ricks
Ashdown
Anne Barton
Batesville
U.S. 167
Barton
Missouri Pacific
Florece Langley
Camden
Randy Bowers
Nail
Jasper
Guy Bennett
Randy
Richard
Teir
Democrats Open National Convention Amid Deck Deep Tensions
The Democratic National Convention opens as Johnson’s nomination looms with Mississippi and Alabama delegates clashing over credentials and loyalty pledges. Goldwater addresses business leaders while Vietnamese students stage protests. Hurricane Cleo causes 14 deaths and $50 million damage in Guadaloupe. Virginia Rakocin, 24, trains with Chicago police, as Arkansas delegates discuss Mississippi seating controversy.
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Rank
United States
Cleo
Guadaloupe
Goldwater to Give Views on Issues
Sen Barry Goldwater outlines campaign ideas to business leaders in New York and says price supports should be voluntary for specific commodities to widen markets and aid farm families. He denounces the wheat program as mismanaged and a tax on consumers while promising to repeal it. The event includes reception hosted by Otis Elevator Co president Percy Douglas and dinner hosts from Chase Manhattan Bank and General Electric. A separate note covers the American Scientific Affiliation convention in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
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Walter R. Mears
Washington
Sena Pry
Goldwater
Percy Douglas
Otis Elevator Co
George Champion
Chase Manhattan Bank
Ralph Cordiner
General Electric Co
Republican Party
Farmers’ Party
Secretary of Agriculture
LBJ Roundup Opens Tonight with Running Mate Uncertain
At the Democratic convention in Atlantic City Mississippi and Alabama confrontations threaten a floor dispute. The credentials committee wrestles with seating the Mississippi Freedom Democratic delegation versus the all white regulars. Dr. Aaron Henry and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. back the Freedom group amid possible walkouts and Southern-Northern tensions. Henry says they have the votes to push the issue onto the floor. King leads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference allied with CORE and SNCC in support outside Convention Hall.
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Irwin Frank
Atlantic City
Alabama
Mississippi
Freedom Democratic
Aaron Henry
Freedom Group
Clarksdale
Miss
Henry
Martin Luther King
Freedom Party
King
Southern Jaw
Fate Sa
Freedom Delegation
Congress of Racial Equality
Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Lepanto Station To Be Closed Ten Months A Year
The Arkansas Commerce Commission approved the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. plan to close Lepanto agency station ten months annually, operating from September 20 to November 20 each year. No opposition was raised.
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Little Rock
State Commerce Commission
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co
Lepanto
Johnson envoy sails to Germany to drum up support
Bonn, Germany AP Henry Cabot Lodge special envoy of President Johnson arrived in Bonn today to seek further West German support for U S policy in South Vietnam He is on a tour of allied capitals to explain U S policy in Southeast Asia
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Bonn
Germany
Henry Cabot Lodge
Johnson
U.S
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Eleven Children Among Weekend Auto Fatalities Across States
A weekend of crashes across four states left 43 dead, including 11 children. In Minnesota a family from White Plains, New York perished en route to a funeral. in North Carolina a family of five died when their car hit a tree. Ohio saw a father and his four kids die on a highway. New Hampshire and Indiana also reported multiple fatalities in separate crashes.
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Aurora
Minn
New York State
Max Kochevar Jr
Robert
Judith
White Plains
N.Y
Jacqueline
Tony Kochevar
Gilbert
Minneapolis
Scotland
Ronald Pandy
Lorain
Ohio
Debbie
Danny
David
Dennis
Pandy
Gorham
N.H
Sanford
N.C
U.S
Bandits Take Over Sardinia Night Club Heist
Eight masked gunmen seized a west coast Sardinia night club near Alghero, holding over 70 patrons at gunpoint for four hours and escaping with about $11,500 in cash and jewelry Sunday night.
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Alghero
Sardinia
Community notes stream across Hope area events
All Around Town highlights Mack McLarty as a guest speaker opening Youth Activities Week at St. Luke's Texarkana. Other items note Whitfield Lodge Masters degree, counselor meeting in Magnolia, Junior Counselors’ watermelon at Hope meeting, Youth Week August 23 30, Jerry Wilson at MIT, Hempstead County Young Democrats contact, Mrs Raley at Fashion Market Dallas, and Hope High Book Store opening August 27.
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Mack McLarty
Frank McLarty
Hope High School
St. Luke’s Methodist Church
Texarkana
Whitfield Masonic Lodge No. 239
Earl Downs
Slope High
Arkansas Counselors Assn
Southern State
Magnolia
HHS
Humphrey Leads in Democratic Convention Speculation
Atlantic City AP reports Democrats open their 1964 convention with Civil Rights Act pledges and efforts to resolve seating disputes for Mississippi delegates. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota dominates VP speculation as Johnson shapes the platform from Washington amid North South tensions.
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Atlantic City
Platform Committee
Mississippi
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Johnson
Washington
Freedom Democratic Party
Joseph Rauh ,Jr
Rauh
John F. Kennedy
South
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
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Hempstead County
Soil Conservion Service
Eee Hope Rotary Club
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Ozan Creek
Oran Creek
Charles Warren
Hope B High School
Arkansas Tech
Russellville
Hempstead County Board of Bupeevieprs
The
Coleman
Mr. Brown
Bud Stewart
Nashville
Emily Dickson
Ture
AP News Digest
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Susperiser
Barry Goldwater
Virginia Rakocinski
Virginia
Akansas
Johnson- Freeman
Orville L. Freeman
Siloam Springs, Ark
American Scientific Affiliation, Inc
LBJ
Alexandria
First Baptist Church
Jerry Wilson
Autrey Wilson
Massachusetts Institute of ‘Technology
Boston
Army Corps of Engineers
Camp Belvoir
Young Democrats
Tena Pilkinton
Paul Raley
Raley
Dallas
Jack Beaty
Humphrey
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