Okay Dike Recreation Fund funds donated for picnic table
The Okay Dike Recreation Fund left 181.26 after fencing costs and donated the amount to the Corps of Engineers to buy a picnic table, outdoor cooker, and legs. A total of 190 was reached with interest. The double ramp is done and hard-surfacing, toilet, and fence work progress for spring opening.
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Okay Dike
Corps of Engineers
Royce Weisenberger
Millwood-Okay Recreation Fund
Carter urged to favor tax cuts for economy
President-elect Carter hears broad advice from staff and business groups to cut taxes to spur growth but House Speaker designate Thomas P. O Neill urges caution, insisting no tax cut until consumer spending after the holidays can be assessed.
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Congress
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Arkansas chinchilla show to be held in Hope January
The Arkansas Branch of Empress Chinchilla sponsors a three day chinchilla show January 14 to 16 at the Holiday Inn in Hope. Entries run 5 10 p m January 14 and 7 9 p m January 15. Judges include W E Brown Jr Gainesville Tex and Marvin Shields Oklahoma City. Cash prizes, ribbons, door prizes, and a Saturday banquet with Steve Payne and his Western band. Public shows Saturday and Sunday.
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Holiday Inn In Hope
Paul Raley
W.E. Brown Jr
Gainesville
Tex
Marvin Shields
Oklahoma City
Hope Merchants
Holiday Inn
Steve Payne
GM Hit by Strike Hits Multiple Plants Across Regions
About 28 000 members of the International Union of Electrical Workers walked off at midnight as GM bargaining failed on a three year contract. Plants in Dayton Warren Ohio Rochester N Y Brunswick N J Delco Delco Remy and Frigidaire faced the walkout with 15 000 hourly workers in Ohio. Unresolved issues cited include shorter work time better health care and equal opportunity provisions.
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International Union of Electrical Workers
General Motors Corp
Delco
Delco Remy
Frigidaire
Dayton
Warren
Ohio
Rochester
N.Y
Brunswick
N.J
TUE
IUE
Weapons found near Ontario reveal caches of explosives
Police questioned a 41 year old man after hundreds of pounds of explosives two machine guns shotguns and pistols were found hidden in the desert near Ontario California Thursday. Officials said unstable nitroglycerin would not be moved and must be detonated at the site.
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Calif
Donald G. Wiggins
Antelope Valley
Tom Vetter
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Sectionalism fading as South embraces new image says Bumpers
U S Mississippi speech notes sectionalism dying out as the South grows economically and gains a new image. Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas tells about 600 University of Southern Mississippi students that the New South idea dates to 1862 but only when slavery ended could it mature. He cites Jimmy Carter's election boosting the South's image.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
New South
Dale Bumpers
D-Ark
Bumpers
University of Southern Mississippi
South
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
OPEC rise seen lifting U S prices and inflation
A government study warns higher OPEC oil prices could raise U S gasoline and heating oil costs and push inflation higher. It projects a 0.8 cent rise per 5 percent OPEC increase in gasoline and heating oil, with broader effects on trade and GDP. The U S opposes price hikes.
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Mideast
Associated Press
Tehran
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U.S
Shah
Saudi Arabia
Washington
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Qatar
Persian Gulf
United States
Frank Zarb
Nike
State Department
OPEC
New England
Welfare cutoff looms as gifts aid dying girl Melinda
For three years the Darnell family copes with Melinda's brain tumor while strangers send gifts after news reports. Welfare officials say over 400 dollars in gifts counts as income and could cut food stamps Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits. A Sunday benefit for Melinda has been proclaimed Melinda Day by Governor Mills Godwin, but her future and Christmas plans remain uncertain as she weakens.
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Alexandria
Douglas Darnell
Melinda
Mary Darnell
Edward Amundson
Fairfax County
Ford bids fond farewell at White House Christmas party
President Ford and Betty Ford hosted a 800 guest White House Christmas gathering for Congress as the outgoing leader praised by Republicans and Democrats alike. Across the street Carter prepared to begin his incoming administration after January 20 while Mansfield and Buchan an lauded Ford's decency and openness.
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Ford
White House
Congress
Betty
Fords
Carter
Blair House
John Buchanan
R-Ala
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Americans win all Nobel Prizes as ceremony held in Stockholm
U S laureates collect every prize at Stockholm Concert Hall in a year when no Peace Prize is awarded. Physics winner Burton Richter and Samuel Ting of MIT discuss funding shortfalls, while Saul Bellow credits Europe’s exodus of talent to totalitarian regimes.
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Sweden
United States
U.S
Saul Bellow
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
Europe
America
Carl Gustaf
Bellow
Burton Richter
Stanford University
Samuel C.C. Ting
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William N. Lipscomb
Harvard
Milton Friedman
University of Chicago
Baruch S. Blumberg
University of Pennsylvania
D. Carleton Gajdusek
National Institute For Neurological Diseases
Richter
Kate Smith
Saratoga School District to hold open meeting on December 13
The Saratoga School District schedules an open meeting Monday December 13 at 3 p.m. in the counselor's classroom at Saratoga High School to discuss an Emergency School Aid Act Project. An Advisory Committee will be elected to guide the proposed program. Seven new Sigma Alpha Sigma officers at Ouachita Baptist University were announced, led by Clay O'Steen and J.E. Jeanes.
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Saratoga High School
Sigma Alpha Sigma
Ouachita Baptist University
Clay O’steen
Hope
J.E. Jeanes
Nashville
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