Public payrolls and college costs loom in 1960s era brief
A set of clipped editorial notes discuss public employee pay gaps, the rising costs of higher education, and the quickening pace of fitness program expansion. The pieces cite Tax Foundation data on wage growth, the burden of college expenses for South Carolina, and a push for physical fitness across schools led by presidents Eisenhower Kennedy and Johnson. Sherrie Murphy, 17, Stratford, named Miss Wheatheart of the Nation representing the wheat industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americcans
Johnson
Council On Physical Fitness
LBJ
Eisenhower
President’s Council On Youth Fitness
Kennedy
Bud Wilkinson
Oklahoma
Stan Musial
Wilkinson
Tulsa
Okla, Tribune
Perryton
Tex
Sherrie Murphy
Stratford
Bill to Penalize Antiwar Activities Cleared by House Panel
Washington AP The House Committee on Un-American Activities approved a bill to impose stiff penalties on anti Viet Nam war groups. The measure aims at groups that solicit aid for the Viet Cong or block U S troops and trains, with penalties up to 20 years in prison and $20 000 fines for aiding enemies. The panel trimmed provisions to protect constitutional rights, while urging quick House action despite Senate doubt. Justice Dept official pledged enforcement if law passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
Atty
Ramsey Clark
Joe R. Pool
D-Tex
Viet Nam
United States
U.S
Clark
Justice Department
John H. Buchanan
ReAla
Congress
Army Plans to Train Poorly Educated and Deficient
Pentagon announces October start for a supplementary training program to raise the education and fitness levels of recruits deemed poorly educated or physically deficient. McNamara aims to enroll about 40,000 this year and 100,000 annually, with up to 85 percent retention after the training. Bases across the Army Navy Marines and air force will host the effort, forming a larger pool of qualified manpower without altering draft standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Horton Washington
Pentagon
Robert S. McNamara
Defense
McNamara
New York
Armed Services
Army
Dix
Nal
Fh Jackson
Knox
Kt. Gordon
Ft. Polk
Ft. Leonard Wood
Ft. Ord
Calif
Ft. Benning
Ft. Bass
Tex
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Bragg
City Directors Approve Paving Washington Street Project
City directors last night approved paving Washington Street between 7th and Mack Streets after property owners funded the project. Oak Street property owners are also raising money for paving. The Street Department will pave when funds are deposited. The board also urged a trap shooting program at Fair Park with a supervising person and ordered repairs to a tennis court at Fair Park.
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City
Washington Street
7Th
Mack Streets
Oak St
Fair Park
More Rain Is Predicted for Arkansas
The Associated Press reports a battered rainfall record in Arkansas with increasing cloudiness and temperatures by August standards. The Weather Bureau forecast rain ending from the west Thursday with highs in the 70s and overnight lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Tuesday night lows ranged from 54 at Memphis to 64 in Little Rock with trace rainfall reported at Fort Smith Fayetteville and Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Arkansas
U.S. Weather Bureau
Memphis
Little Rock
Fort South
Fayetteville
Harrison
Groundbreaking at Housing Site Thursday
Mike Kelly and City officials announce a 3 30 p m groundbreaking ceremony at Site A of the Low Rent Housing Project north of Fair Park on Mockingbird Lane. Commissioners and contractor Jack Bracy of North Little Rock attend. citizens invited.
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Mike Kelly
Housing Authority
City of Hope
Arkansas
Fair Park
Mockingbird Lane
Jack Bracy
North Little Rock
Bearden Man Dies in Wreck
Alonzo Martin age 44 of Bearden was killed when his car collided with another driven by Thomas Moore 20 of El Dorado forty two miles east of Camden Arkansas. Moore's car skidded 256 feet before impact. Passengers included Martin's brother James Martin Lloyd Greer and Carroll Lanuis all taken to Ouachita Hospital with nonlife threatening injuries.
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Camden
Ark
Alonzo Martin
Bearden
Arkansas
Martin
James Martin
Thomas Moore
el Dorado
John Strickland
Moore
Strickland
Lloyd Greer
Caroll Lanuis
Greer
Lanuis
Ouachita Hospital
Violence, War Powers Dominate Nation in Briefs and Crises
AP News Digest surveys the period with reports on Vietnam missing or captured servicemen labeled nonpersons, Navy attacks on torpedo boats in Tonkin Gulf, and plans to keep poorly educated or physically deficient in service. Nixon proposes a campaign program amid peace critique while civil rights marchers confront hostility.
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Vik Nam
Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
Tonkin Gulf
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Man Trapped in Plane Succumbs
Joan T. Emmanuel 39 of Hartford died in Hartford Hospital after six days trapped in the wreckage of a small plane on Mt. Higby Middletown. The Aug. 15 single engine Cessna crash killed pilot Richard C. Grimaldi 32 of Newington as the craft failed to reach Hartford after departing Block Island.
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Hartford, Conn
Joan T. Emmanuel
Hartford Hospital
Emmanuel
Mt. Higby
Middletown
Meriden Hospital
Eugene Silliman
Hartford
Richard C. Grimaldi
Newington
Block Island
Civil Air Patrol
Jury Indicts Four From This Section
A Fort Smith federal jury filed indictments in Arkansas naming Robert Lynn Baker Willie Cavewell McAteer of Emmet charged with possessing a still running a distillery and untaxed liquor Leonard Richard Patton of Washington Ark charged with possessing a still taxed liquor and mash James Willis of Hope charged with making false statements in applying for Social Security benefits In Moscow AP the Soviet Union launched a 3615 pound unmanned space laboratory toward the moon aiming to photograph Earths closest space neighbor from a near polar orbit.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas
Robert Lynn Baker
Willie Cavewell McAteer
Emmet
Leonard Richard Patton
Washington, Ark
James Willis
Hope
Bulletin Moscow
Soviet Union
America
Earth
Whites Rock Marchers in Chicago. King Is Still Going to Cicero Plane Crash Fatal to Family of 6
A small rented Piper Comanche carrying Air Force Captain Robert T. Shaw his wife Joan and four children Deborah Christine Jeff and James crashed near the Long Island Expressway after a lightning flash witnessed by a bystander. The family had visited Shaw's mother in Freeport and were returning to Little Rock Ark. Investigators from the FAA and CAB were called in while Suffolk County police reported Shaw sent a Mayday before the crash.
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Chicago
King
Cicero
Sonkonkoma
N.Y
Air Force
Robert T. Shaw
Long Island
Joan
Deborah
Christine
Jeff
James
Lillian Shaw
Freeport
Little Rock
Ark
Air Force Base
Shaw
Suffolk County
McCarthur
Federal Aviation Agency
Civil Aeronautics Board
King plans Cicero march as South Deering clash erupts
In Chicago a 200-strong civil rights march faced bricks and bottles in South Deering while 1,500 onlookers jeered. Dr King reiterated plans to march to Cicero, joining an upcoming West Elsdon action. Police held 450 officers on duty. 16 arrested, one officer hospitalized after a brick strike. Two dozen youths admitted church thefts during inquiry.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Cicero
UAW
Francis X. Bushman
Pete the Collie
New York City
International
South Dearing
King
Chicago Freedom Movement
West Elsdon
Gage Park
South Deering
Jesse Jackson
Southwest Side
Christy S. Berkes
Otto Kerner
Albert A. Raby
Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
Man Arrested Here Linked to Robbery
Albert Jackson Ray 43 tested late July for forging a $40 check at TelE-Tex Co and charged with bank robbery by the FBI in Dallas. Accomplice John Wesley Page of Nashville, Tenn., tied to the Buckner State Bank heist on June 2, 1966, with a $20,000 bond. Ray faces forgery and uttering charges locally and was turned over to federal authorities. City Officers Long and Brown made the arrest.
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Albert Jackson Ray
Tele-Tex Co
FBI
Dallas
Alvin Willis
Buckner State Bank of
John Weseley Page
Nashville
Tenn
Willis
Page
Ray
Long
Brown
All Around Town Highlights From Hope Area
Local notes report Edward Bode leading a Canadian delegation at Michigan State University events. He graduated Hope High in 1966 and has a 3.45 GPA in electronic engineering summer studies. Bloodmobile at Meyers Bakery collected 70 pints. Joe Wilson fished five bass in a stock pond last Tuesday. Arkansas teachers attend an English workshop Aug 8–10 in Little Rock. The Millwood Dam gates opened due to heavy rains as lake levels rise. 107 football prospects attended Nashville workouts. box seats announced for Hope High season. Season books cost 6 dollars for five games listed at local outlets.
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Michigan State University
East Lansing
Little United Nations
Edward Bode
Ernest Bode
Edward
Hope High
Marines Execute Assault on Camp Southwest of Da Nang
U S Marines pressed into a Communist training camp 20 miles southwest of Da Nang with heavy fire from North Vietnamese forces. Twenty one enemy killed, 41 Communist dead counted, and a large cave complex uncovered as Marines destroyed buildings and rice stores.
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Peter Arnett
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
4Th Marine Regiment
Cam Lo River
Dong Ha
Demilitarized Zone
173Rd Airborne
Phuoc Tuy
North
Viet Nam
Air Force
Navy
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Sex. H. Washburn
Tax Foundation
Foundation
Wheeling
W. Va
Curnage
South Carolina
Columbia
S.C
Miss Wheatheart
Henry Haynes
J. W. Rowe
Red River
AP News Digest
West Germany
U.S. Supreme Court
First Assembly
Oak and
Bell Streets
Milam
Curtis Johnson
Junction City
Kan
James Turner
Lope
The
Star
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Meyers Bakery
Joe Wilson
Donald Brown
Mary Walker
W. A. Williams
Hotel Laefayette
State Department of Education
4Kshop
W. H. Fincher
Hp, Spencer of
Rosston, Ark
Millwood Dam
Hope High School
Roy Anderson Agency
Lana Cleaners
J. C. Penshey Co
Red
South China Sea
Baton Rouge
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