Low Income Housing Gets Top Billing
Peggy Simpson reports that housing policy favors low and moderate income families in federal urban renewal funds. Romney notes HUD rejects withholding funds from noncompliant communities and cites screening to balance opportunities while fighting discrimination. He outlines steps to expand affordable housing, including site choices, federal enforcement against exclusion, and fair housing proof for urban renewal. Senator Spong warns desegregation efforts may worsen education chaos.
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Associated Press
Washington (Ap
George W. Romney
Romney
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Senate Equal Educational Opportunity Committee
Senate
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
HUD
Ing
William B. Spong Jr
D-Va
Senate Education Subcommittee
Nixon summons cabinet members for Los Angeles event
President Nixon calls in key Cabinet and budget officials for Domestic Council meeting and invites them and spouses to a black tie dinner and concert at the Los Angeles Music Center. George Shultz notes inflation controls showing a drop in the wholesale price index while fiscal 1971 budget talks continue.
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Associated Press
San Clemente
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Nixon
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George Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shultz
White House
Los Angeles Music Center
Los Angeles Civic Light Opera
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Performing Arts Council
Southern California
Southern California Music and Cultural Groups, County Supervisors
Hollywood
Offenbach
Lerner and
Lowe
Arkansas Weather Forecast for Thursday and Friday
Weather Experiment Station report for 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Thursday notes high 89 and low 49. Forecast in Arkansas calls for sunny today and Friday with little temperature change through Friday. High Friday expected in the upper 40s to the upper 90s, low tonight in the low 60s to the low 70s.
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Arkansas
Boycott at Texarkana a Failure
E D Trice superintendent of schools said planned boycott of schools by Negroes had apparently failed with heavy attendance for registration across Texarkana Arkansas schools. Disagreement with desegregation was noted but turnout remained strong.
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Texarkana, Ark
E. D. Trice
Trice
Foil liquor packets test for airliners sparks mixed reaction
AP Aerospace writer reports aluminum foil liquor packets proposed to replace glass miniatures on planes. Airlines like Pan Am resist, American tests but delays, Braniff sees good reception, Overseas National and others test. Packets save weight and space and include multilingual instructions, with potential broader liquor ranges.
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Vern Haugland
AP Aerospace
Washington
Martin Little
American Airlines
Pan American World Airways
Pan AM
Braniff International Airways
Overseas National
Trans International
Wien Consolidated Airlines
Alaska
Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc
Judge orders burial of black soldier at white cemetery
In Miami, a federal judge ordered Hillcrest Memorial Gardens to bury Spec. 4 Pondexteur E. Williams in Fort Pierce with full military honors, ending a claim that the cemetery prohibited Black interment. The temporary injunction was made final, allowing the burial after a prior funeral in Fort Pierce. The suit, joined by NAACP and ACLU, challenged the race based contract clause.
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Miami
Vietnam
Pondexteur
E. Williams
Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
Fort Pierce
U.S. Dist
William C. Mehrtens
Williams
National Guard
Here
U.S. Justice Department
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
The
American Civil Liberties Union
District plan linked to black students at white schools
Trice said the plan aimed to integrate without disturbance and reported no protests or picketing. The statement referenced a plan for district schools affecting black pupils and attendance at formerly all white institutions.
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Tion
Trice
Oil Co Fine Landmark for Public
Interior Secretary Hickel calls the $1 million fine on Chevron Oil Co for the Gulf spill a landmark for the public as the firm faced 900 counts, pled no contest to 500, with 400 dismissed. The ruling followed a major spill after a February platform blast and fire, the worst offshore spill on record.
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Gene Ormsby
Associated Press
NEW Orleans
Walter J. Hickel
Chevron Oil Co
Gulf of Mexico
U.S. District Court
Hickel
Washington
Alvin B. Rubin
Chevron
U.S. Atty
Gerald Gallinghouse
Richard Olsen
Gulf
Interior Department
California
Santa Barbara
Obituaries and Oblique Notices From Crossett and Hope
Funeral services for Kay Camp 48 of Crossett formerly of Hope will be at Crossett United Methodist Church at 10 a.m. Friday with burial at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope. She died Wednesday in Union Memorial Hospital El Dorado. Survivors include her mother and sister, both in Crossett and Oxford. Eula Coon died Wednesday in a Gurdon hospital. Services will be Friday at 0 a.m. by Gurdon Funeral Home. Clifton C. East 49 of Shover Springs died Wednesday in Little Rock Veterans Hospital. Surviving are wife, children, parents, two brothers, six sisters and others. Services Saturday at 2 p.m. at Shover Springs Baptist Church. burial in Shover Springs Cemetery.
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Hope
Crossett United
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Bob Truax
Oxford
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Gurdon
Gurdon Funeral Home
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Clifton C. East
Shover Springs
Little Rock Veterans Hospital
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Curtis Craig East
Nancy Lee
Patricia Ann East
Amzie East
Clint
Shower Springs
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Rosston
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Betty Powell
Lera Dillard
Casa Grande
Ann
Dorothy Butler
Tyler
Texas
Qobera Warren
Camden
Linnie May Holliday
Dallas
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Arlis Downs
Herndon Funeral Home
Riley Harrell in Runoff for Lt Governor
In Arkansas Dr. Bob Riley of Arkadelphia and state Rep. James H. Harrell of Russellville clinched runoff spots to vie for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Republican nomination winner Sterling Cockrill Jr. of Little Rock defeated radio announcer Gerald Williams of North Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Bob Riley
Arkadelphia
James H. Harrell
Russellville
Sterling Cockrill Jr
Gerald Williams
North Little Rock
Reading
Interstate Speed Limits Up 5 mph
The Arkansas Highway Commission voted to raise interstate and controlled access highway speeds by five mph. Highway Director Ward Goodman said the change would take effect once new signs are erected, likely by mid next month, with maximum speeds at 75 mph and minimum at 50 mph on controlled access routes. The change does not affect other state highways.
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Little Rock
State Highway Commission
Ward Goodman
Goodman
Campus Unrest to Continue in Some Areas
New York AP report states campus unrest will persist next academic year, contingent on domestic politics and U.S. foreign involvement. Ten college presidents foresee protests shaping the school routine with responses from Notre Dame, CUNY, UNC Chapel Hill, Berkeley, San Francisco State, and Fordham.
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New York
U.S
The
Ladies Home Journal
University of Notre Dame
City University of New York
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
University of California At Berkeley
San Francisco State
Fordham University
Complaints Over Arkansas Guard Dropped
The U S Labor Department regional office dismissed complaints by the National Federation of Federal Employees against the Arkansas National Guard. One claim lacked merit. another failed to follow proper filing procedures. The case involved a promotion dispute and an employee fired after protesting. Officials cited temperate alcohol use as a factor. The state continues to work with the union and guard officials, but the matter appears resolved.
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Kansas City
U.S. Labor Department
Arkansas National Guard
National Federation of Federal Employes
C.f. Utterback
Utterback
NFFE
Winthrop Rockefeller
Charles H. Wilson
Adjutant General
the Guard
Wilson
Robert Faulkner
Rockefeller
State Labor Department
Guard
Madison Elects All Negro Administration
In Madison Arkansas the all Negro administration was elected in the Tuesday primary. Black contractor Willard Whitaker led with 229 votes to 108 for white incumbent Mayor Tom E Hollowell. The 900 resident town is about 60 percent Black and was incorporated last year.
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Madison, Ark
St. Francis County
Madison
Willard Whitaker
Tommy E. Hollowell
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