Acheson on negotiating with Communists outlined
The editor cites Dean Acheson saying talks with the Viet Cong and other Communist powers failed in Berlin Korea and China. He argues students and professors ignore history while Acheson, a veteran diplomat, notes negotiations yielded no gains and warns against trusting theory over experience.
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Acheson
History
Commmunists
New York
Berli
Korea
Vietnam
Berlin
North Keres
Ge Sane Enengy
Adil
Aml
Dean Acheson
Folksinger Rodgers Bound By Mystery Injuries
Glendale police report a 33 year old folk singer found unconscious after an early Friday assault. He suffered a skull fracture. hospital says he is in serious condition but hopes to make telephone calls from his bed. Authorities describe a rubbery attempt with a blunt instrument as the likely cause.
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Glendale
Rodgers
Filetide
Seymour Helter
Canditon
ACLU Asks Salem High to Reconsider Peace Button Ban
In Salem Oregon the ACLU asks South Salem High School to reverse a rule prohibiting peace button wear. The principal Carte Aschenbrener says the peace symbol also connotes free love, justifying the ban on student attire.
Johnson to skip New Hampshire primary popularity ballot
AP reports President Johnson will not have his name on New Hampshire’s popular vote ballot on March 12 but will be represented by a slate of delegates. Sen. Thomas McIntyre notes Johnson wishes official intentions kept private. Wisconsin entry may follow. Kennedy supporters could push write-ins to challenge Vietnam policy.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Johnson
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Balla
Sen
Thomas J. McIntyre J. N.H
State
McIntyre
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Truman
Robert F. Wennedy
D-Nly
Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
McCarthy
Francis Cardinal Spellman
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Increasing Longevity Gap Between Women and Men
A sprawling feature notes the widening life expectancy gap with women living longer than men, from about 73.5 years to 66.4 in a comparative frame. It surveys why men shed hair with age, discusses broader social trends, and cites statistics on U.S. population aging, doctorates, and the curious fact about cousin marriages and offspring health. The piece blends commentary, trivia, and quotations from experts and contemporaries.
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Ual Boyle
New York
Cenhtes
Anertea
Ian Ickine
Crete
Wits Grae
Wells Aie
British Railroad Slowdown Threatens Economy Again
London faces a new strike as 36500 locomotive drivers follow a 241 page rule book causing up to a quarter of passenger services to halt. 20000 gallons of milk are stranded as trains stop. Prime Minister Wilson convenes Cabinet and mobilizes transport, with Army trucks and RAF support considered.
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Michael Codel
Associated Press
London
Britain
Ray Gunter
Harold Wilson
Royal Air Force
National Union of Railwaymen
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Cable Car Runs Wild In San Francisco Crash
AP report from San Francisco details a Hyde Street cable car sliding out of control on a wet hill. It rammed a car, sparked a large fire, and collided with nine others. Twenty seven people were hospitalized with burns and bruises, including critically burned 30 year old Jane Van Baalen.
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Jack Schreibman
Associated Press
SAN Francisco (Ap
San Francisco
Janes van Baalen
Hyde Street
Powell and
Market Streets
Vateslick
Dowa Hyde
Bay Street
Jim Kosek
Clarendon Hills
Kosek
Vietnam
Lorena Matson
Sanus
North Point Street
Frank Coons
Arthur Coats
Sun Uudtul
Lou Avels
McCarthy Gains Support From Concerned Democrats
In Chicago the Conference of Concerned Democrats endorsed Senator Eugene McCarthy for the 1968 Democratic nomination, 450 to 500 members from 42 states closing a two day meeting with a unanimous resolution praising his leadership. McCarthy announced plans to run in four or more state primaries including Wisconsin Nebraska Oregon and California while denouncing Johnson's Vietnam policy. He clarified no conspiracy with Robert F Kennedy and asserted he would press forward with the test he has set.
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Chicago
Eugene J. McCarthy
Johnson
McCarthy
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Oregon
California
Maccarthy
Vietnam
Robert F. Kennedy
D-Nny
Gerald Hill
California Democratic Council
Hill
Karl Anfersson
Eau Claire, Wis
Leonard Robins
St. Louis Park, Minn
Theodore Wise
New York City
Southerners Fear School Aid Measure
Washington AP reports Southern fear over a 14.2 billion education aid bill tied to desegregation. Senate sponsors seek assurances from HEW to ease fears of funding cuts while avoiding amendments that could weaken the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Senator Morse says consultations are ongoing with HEW officials. Senator Russell proposes an amendment to bar HEW from cutting aid in districts under way.
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UB Hall
Associated Press
Washington
Wayne Morse
Dore
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Morse
Mike Mansefield
Richard B. Russell
Heart Transplant a World First in South Africa
A South African man, Louis Washkansky, 55, survived the first successful human heart transplant in Cape Town. Denome Darvall donated the heart of a 25 year old woman killed in a car crash. Surgeons led by Dr Jan Louw and Prof Chris Barnard performed a five hour operation, with Washkansky in guarded condition and the new heart kept alive by a mechanical pump. Doctors said the patient might still face later rejection, but the procedure marks a potential medical breakthrough. The story notes global interest and quotes experts from Stanford and the US, while detailing the immediate post operative steps and hopeful prognosis. The report also references political world events in brief.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Denise Ann Darvall
Jacobbus G. Burger
Berger
Jan, H. Louw
Chris Barnard
Miss Darvall
Wasiliansky
Dr. Louw
United States
Norman E. Shumway
Stanford Medical Center
Stanford
Hope Girls Win Junior Miss Title at Arkadelphia Pageant
Hope High School seniors Twila Hunt and Jeanne Pruden led a field of 20 in the Achievement District Junior Miss Pageant in Arkadelphia on December 2. Hunt won District Junior Miss and Miss Personality, advancing with runners up to the state pageant in Little Rock. Pruden earned Miss Personality honors. both performed talents, Hunt with a Bill's Wife routine and Pruden with a reading from O Yo, digs and tulips. The district pageant aids entrants not in their district to reach state competition scheduled December 27-29 at Robinson Auditorium.
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Hope
Arkadelphia
Jeanne Pruden
Twila Hunt
Amd
Chester Hunt
Hope High School
Miss Hunt
Little Rock
Robinson Auditorium
Twila
Bill
Jim Prodan
Miss Proden
HHS
Rosemary Dunnaway
Atlanta
December meetings and local events in Hope area
The Chamber of Commerce board meets Tuesday December 3 at 8 pm in the conference room. University of Arkansas Concert Band to perform Friday January 12 with Tony Smith of Hope and Phil Me Larty among those listed. Archie Lantz to visit Hoge December 6 to hear residents. Whitfield Mason No 239 meets December 5 at 7 30 pm in Masonite Hall. A fish fry at Roof A Experiment Station 6 35 pm Tuesday features Arkansas and Game and Fish hatchery officials. about 100 expected.
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Chamber of Conactee Board of Directors
Ing
Ume
University of Ackansag
Tony Smith
Hope
Phil
Janis A. Me
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
Philslip
Music Educators National Conservice 2d
Phi Mu Alpha
Sig
Fonerary Scholastic Fraternty
Bappa Kappa Pod
PY Kappa Landa
LSU Yad
Baton Rowe Symphony
Whitfield Mason’e Large No. 239
Masonite Hall
Pin' Oller
University of Arkansas and Game & Fish Commission Hatchery
Ojler
Viet Cong battle in Mekong Delta shocks Saigon area
American infantrymen and Vietnamese Marines boxed in a Viet Cong battalion in the Mekong Delta. Initial reports say four dead and 38 wounded for the Americans, 15 killed and 60 wounded for the South Vietnamese. The delta fight coincides with artillery and rocket salvos as Communist troops strike U.S. installations nearby.
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Ulv Dorn
Associated Press
Saigon
Americ
Mekong Delta
U.S
Delta
U.S. Sth
Election Ruling Upheld On Arkansas County Library Tax
Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a circuit ruling invalidating the one mill real and personal property tax for Stuttgart library maintenance. Faulty ballots and uneven distribution of proer ballots tainted the November 1966 vote, with 3,970 governor votes and low tax support. The decision, alongside other reversals, involved Coleman workers’ comp and Opynants habeas petition outcomes.
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ED Shearer
Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
Arkansas
Stuttgart
High Court
Circuit Court
Arkansas County
Court Gordon
Gregory
County Election Commission
Supreme Courts
Circuit
Jefferson Counsty
Hugo E. Coleman
Coleman
Asphalt Materials Co., Inc
Pulaski
Willam Opynants
Afer
Opman
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