First Feminine Secretaries Change Office History
A Dallas Morning News column cites 1877 New York secretary entry, World War I shifts, and 1902 totals showing women in clerical roles, with forecasts of a four hour day and six week vacation, while male doubts and future office dynamics unfold. The Savannah Morning News indictment notes a 1965 crime rate misreport and media echo of errors.
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Minnesota Mining and Wanufacturing Co
Alexander the Great
Astory
New York
Dallas
Tex
Mornling News
Morning News
Chatham County - Savannah
Savannah
Fellas
Savane Nah
Lions to Hear From Beneficiary Goodrum at Hope Club
Alton B. Goodrum of the Arkansas Enterprises for the Blind will speak at the Hope Lions Club at noon on August 29. He will discuss his training at the Rehabilitation Center and the program serving over 1,000 trainees from 30 states, plus his career and education path from Nashville Arkansas to Henderson State Teachers College and beyond.
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Alton B. Goodrum
Arkansas Enterprises For the Blind
Hope Lions Club
Goodrum
Yter
Nashville
Arkansas
Nashville Lions Club
Arkansas Rehabilitation Service
AEB Center
Henderson State Teachers College
Arkadelphia
University of Arkansas
Southern Illnois University
New York City
AEB
Methodist Church
Park Plaza
Lions Club
Johnson urges reducing war risk amid nuclear fears
President Johnson warned the United States and the Soviet Union must seek every possible agreement to lessen the chances of nuclear war, noting a full-scale exchange could kill nearly 300 million people. He spoke at the Arctic national reactor testing station during a multi-state trip, urging restraint alongside resolve while praising peaceful atomic uses. Groundbreaking for a 140 unit housing project costing about 1.6 million followed, with local officials and bankers present.
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Earla
Bauman Arco
Idaho
Johnson
United States
Soviet Union
East
West
U.S
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Denver
Colo
Pryor
Okla
White House
Arco
Fair Park
Jack Gardner
Hope
Jerry Garrett
Jack Bracy
North Little Rock
Garland Medders
Mike Kelly
Housting Authority
Raymond Hostler
Stanley Brom
W. L. Tate
C of C
Hubert Thrash
Steve Bader
Housing Authority Board
Frank Douglas
City Board
Talbot Feild, Jr
Thomas £. Hays Sr
First National Bank
Hospitals to Increase Room Rates on Septem ber 1
Local hospitals Hempstead Memorial and Branch General announce a rate rise effective September 1 to cover Medicare startup costs, rising supplies maintenance salaries drugs and food. Other hospital service adjustments are noted to meet operating expenses.
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Hempstead Memorial
Branch General
Two Injured In Wreck Near Curtis Arkansas
A tractor-trailer loaded with ammunition struck a bridge rail on U S 67 near Curtis injuring two men. Clyde Thurman Jr. and Travis Vernon White, both of Texarkana, were hospitalized with serious injuries. White had minor injuries. The ammo truck was en route from Marshall Texas to Fort Benning Georgia with mortar shells. The incident followed by a Senate Interior Committee approval of a bill to expand an American Indian loan program.
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Arkadelphia
U. S. 67
Curtis
Earl Orr
Clyde Thurman Jr
Texarkana
Travis Vernon White
Clark County Memorial Hospital
Orr
Thurman
White
Marshall
Tex
Fort Benning
Workshop in English Here August 30
L C Leach state English Specialist meets Hope High School staff August 30 to discuss transformational grammar and teaching problems. Elementary teachers gather 9 30 to 12 00 while Junior Senior high teachers meet 1 00 to 4 00 with open attendance for other teachers.
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L. C. Leach
State Department of Education
Hope High School
Mr. Leach
De Gaulle greeted by angry mobs in Djibouti turmoil
President Charles de Gaulle faced violence in Djibouti as police used tear gas to quell pro and anti-French factions. Troops formed a line in Place Rimbeau while crowds hurled rocks and bottles. At least 14 injured, including eight police, and a youth lay dead or dying amid the chaos.
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Dennis Neeld
Djibouti
Charles de Gaulle
Red Sea
Place Rimbeau
Broadcasters to Hear Mr. Rockefeller in Arkansas ABA
The two day Arkansas Broadcasters Association convention opened in Little Rock with a plan for a panel discussion. Winthrop Rockefeller the Republican gubernatorial candidate agreed to appear while Jim Johnson the Democrat declined. Rockefeller will speak Friday morning to the broadcasters.
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Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
ABA
Jim Johnson
Johnson
House debates call up of 60000 Reservists and Guardsmen
Washington AP report says the House Armed Services Committee plans legislation to authorize the president to call about 60 000 Reservists and National Guardsmen to active duty not attached to units. The panel aims to vote early next week as a response to a Senate amendment, though the President did not request such power. The House rejected the Senate proposal tying to the defense appropriation by 878 to 3 and then approved the money bill 981 to 1, while Rivers criticizes the Senate plan as poorly conceived and cites grave repercussions.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Johnson
House
Senate
Armed Services Committee
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Johnson warns against nuclear war as Viet Nam aims loom
AP News Digest reports President Johnson pursuing nuclear war avoidance while U S objectives in Viet Nam are framed as not threatening vital South Vietnamese interests. The House rebuffs a Senate plan to call up reserves as committees weigh a new Guardsman proposal amid election-year Viet Nam debate.
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Johnson
United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Viet Nam
House
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
New Industry for Walnut Ridge
Walnut Ridge Arkansas AP A chamber of commerce official said two industries at the Walnut Ridge Airport industrial site will expand, creating 265 more jobs. Frolic Footwear Inc will add a second building and raise payroll from 210 to 400. Southern Manufacturing Co will build four new 40 000 square foot facilities and hire 75 more workers.
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Walnut Ridge, Ark
Chamber of Commerce
Walnut Ridge Airport
Jim Bland Jr
Chamber
Frolic Footwear Inc
Southern Manufacturing Co
Open housing march threats and fatal shootings in New Haven
In Cicero Illinois guards prepare to fire on demonstrators while Dr Martin Luther King Jr and other leaders meet city officials about housing discrimination. In New Haven five people were killed and two wounded when a man wounded by his girlfriend’s departure opened fire at a city housing project.
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Virgin Islands
Cicero
National Guard
New Haven
Conn
Martin Luther King Jr
Chicago
Cragin
Kane
Otto Kerner
King
Ile
Thomas Stewart
Mary Menchacha
McClease
Neil White
Dover
N.C
Richard Leathers
Caroline Sykes
Michael
Desha County Posts First Cotton Bale of Season
The season's first cotton bale from Desha County was ginned at Pugh Gin and Fertilizer Co in Tillar Arkansas. B T Holbrook of Arkansas City grew the Rex variety cotton. the bale weighed 525 pounds.
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Tillar
Ark
Desha County
Pugh Gin and Fertilizer Co
B. T. Holbrook
Arkansas City
Two Injured in Two-Vehicle Collision Near Fulton
A two vehicle crash on Highway 67 near Fulton left two people injured, neither seriously. John A. Nolen of Fulton drove a pickup and William Robey drove a car. both were taken to local hospitals by an Oakcrest ambulance. State policeman Wallace Martin investigated the scene.
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Fulton
Highway 67
John A. Nolen
William Robey
Oakcrest
Wallace Martin
DeQueen Integrates by Closing Negro School
DeQueen Arkansas reports the school board has closed an all Negro elementary school to meet Civil Rights Act requirements. Superintendent Jack Bell says the U S Office of Education urged the move to eliminate sub standard race based schools. Only 19 students wished to attend the school Southside.
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Queen, Ark
de Queen
Jack Bell
U.S. Office of Education
Southside
All Around Town News Highlights and Local Updates
Promotions and moves across communities include Capt. James Robert Fuller rising to Major at Ft. Dix effective May 16, 1966. Arkansan broadcaster Haskell Jones attends Little Rock convention. Teacher meeting moved to 8:30 a.m. at Hope High School. Lunch prices set district wide 25 cents for elementary and 30 cents for high school meals. Family relocation as Robert Trout and daughter Michele depart for Dayron Beach Florida. Robert becomes Embry Riddle flight instructor. Aubrey Goodwin reports a 123 pound watermelon display at Chamber of Commerce. Hempstead County records July deaths from 17 incidents. statewide 1,075 accidents with 75 killed.
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James Robert Fuller
Ft. Dix
N. 4
U. S. Army
Tls Fuller
Napalm Error Kills Seven Americans in Vietnam Battle
In a jungle fight north of Saigon the 1st Infantry Division clashed with 500 Viet Cong near Lai Khe on Highway 16. Two USAF Sabrejet napalm strikes killed seven U.S. soldiers and wounded more than 20. Maj. Gen. William E. De Puy defended the air strike as an unfortunate error and said Viet Cong casualties included at least 53 riflemen killed, with heavy losses on both sides as U.S. artillery and tanks aided infantry. The clash centered on the Phu Lai Battalion as Americans pressed the field into dusk and continued the hunt for enemy forces.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
William E. de Puy
de Puy
Air Force
Charlottesville
U.S
Washington Lincoln and Macedonia Schools to Open for Registration
Washington, Lincoln, and Macedonia schools plan opening with registration at 9 a.m. Friday September 2 and regular classes starting September 6. Meals begin September 6. Officials propose closing Claw School and sending high school students to Lincoln. Claw elementary pupils may choose Lincoln or Washington. First time entrants must be 6 by October. Washington Sehgal District faculty meet September 1 at Lincoln School.
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Washington
Lincoln
Macedonia
Claw
New Principal Named at Greenbrier High School
CONWAY Ark AP Roby art Graham appointed principal of Greenbrier High School to replace Jim McKim who resigned to take a college fellowship. Graham was previously elementary supervisor of the White Hall School District amid a springtime controversy.
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Conway, Ark
Roby
Art Graham
Greenbrier High School
Jim McKim
Colege
Graham
White Hall
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