Local mischief and small-town gossip in brief
A lighthearted column notes a telephone prank awakening a man from a nap and a typographical error in a Garland School report that causes trouble for a sixth grader. It also mentions the Sprout Garden Club and a humorous misattribution to Mrs Alan Foster, plus a vignette of two boys watching fire trucks and joking about the fire plug.
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Garland
The
Sprout Garden Club
Alan Foster
Alan
Star
Scuffle Ends in a Fatal Shooting In St Louis County
Police said a Sunday scuffle near a Meramec River clubhouse led to the fatal shooting of three Roosevelt High School pupils aged 16 to 17. A fourth pupil was critically wounded. Richard Otis, 21, faces three counts of second degree murder. Two younger brothers are in juvenile custody.
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St, Louis
Maj
I. J. Vasal
Richard Otis
Eureka
Vasel
Michael Tinsley
Joseph Michaels
Gary Ratliff
Steve Schroeder
Roosevelt High School
St. Louis
Meramec River
St. Louis County
Youth’s severed leg sewn back after crash in St Louis
In North St Louis a car struck a pole injuring two youths. Edward Cissell, 17, lost his left leg below the knee but surgeons at Homer G Phillips Hospital sewed it back on and reported him in satisfactory condition. Driver Theodore Adams, 17, suffered multiple injuries and remained in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, Louis
Edward Cissell
North St. Louis
Theodore Adams
Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Cissel
Rotary Hosts El Dorado Members at Friday Luncheon
Three Rotarians with 111 years total Rotary service from El Dorado attended the Town and Country luncheon. Col Claude Haswell spoke on the Rotary Hospital for Crippled Adults in Memphis and noted Hope Rotarians had donated 4492.65 over the past decade. Others visiting included Harold Thurston and Lew Stephan with guests from Nashville Emmet and Belleville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.N. Holt
R. H. Thurston
Claud E. Haswell
Lew Stephen
el Dorado
Rotary
Col
Claude Haswell
Harold Thurston
Rotary Hospital
Memphis
Hope Rotarians
Campbell
L. T. Lawrence
Byron Thompson
Nashville
Ben Ilarding
Emmet
Arch Wyski
Belleville
Paul Klipsch
Faubus Names Judge in Pulaski and Other County Selections
Governor Faubus announced the appointment of Robert , Justice of North Little Rock, to a two year term as Pulaski County Judge after Arch Campbell said he would serve until a successor is elected. Campbell plans to contest the appointment, citing constitutional authority. Faubus also named O. E. Spence as Lonoke County judge and Thelma Bohannon as Carroll County treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Orval Faubus
Robert
North Little Rock
Pulaski County
Arch Campbell
Faubus
Tom Gulley
White River
Campbell
Sumer
Justice
Gulley
C.C
Connie) White
State of
Arkansas
O. E. Spence
Austin
Lonoke County
Thelma Bohannon
Berryville
Carroll County
Governors Demand Role in 1968 Campaign Strategy
Democratic governors at the National Governors Conference urged President Johnson to share decision making on the 1968 campaign. They pressed for a reorganized party machinery and warned of internal strife if National Chairman John Bailey is not replaced. Governors expected Romney to be Johnson’s main GOP rival, viewing him as a stronger threat than Nixon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell Washington
Johnson
Mths
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Democratic National Committee
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
John B. Connally
Texas
Otto Kerner
Ilinois
John M. Bailey
Bailey
Richard J Hughes
New Jersey
Kerner
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
Richard M. Nixon
12 Drowned and 19 Missing in Brazilian Flood
A sudden weekend flood in the Viscande de Maua vacation area 118 miles west of Rio de Janeiro left 12 people dead and 19 missing after the Preto River surged from a Friday night cloudburst. Local rescue teams searched the area as rains continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Viscande de Maua
Preto
Holiday Blues a Morbid Aversion to Christmas Gaiety
Hal Boyle notes holiday quirks and folklore from 18th to 20th century, citing Jefferson’s 75 cent Christmas turkey and Roosevelt’s White House tree stance. He catalogs quirks about cherophobia and cermaphobia, rising guitar sales, golden wedding odds, quotes, and odd cures while offering a wry holiday lens on American life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Thomas Jefferson
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
Lin Yutang
Tractor accident kills Arkansas man in Melbourne
Delbert Harville, 38, of Mount Pleasant died when a tractor overturned and fell on him Sunday in Melbourne city limits while he was working on sewer and water lines. Authorities said the incident occurred within Melbourne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne, Ark
Delbert Harville
Mount Pleasant
Melbourne
Harville
Johnson plan for new East West trade push in Congress
The Johnson administration aims to reintroduce legislation after January to ease East West trade barriers with the Soviet Union and Communist nations. Four congressmen quoted Soviet officials showing interest in expanded trade, arguing tariffs are artificial and could drop under most favored nation logic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Endre Marton Washington
Johnson
Congress
Soviet Union
Europe
United States
Thomas Ashley
D-Ohio
Moscow
Ashley
89Th Congress
House
Ways and Means
90Th Congress
Poland
Yugoslavia
Vlew
Dean Rusk
Little Change in Moderate Weather Across Arkansas
The Associated Press reports Arkansas will see clear to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s expected, with overnight lows from 28 in Fayetteville to 43 in Harrison and El Dorado. No rainfall reported in the 24 hours ending at a cut-off.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
U.S. Weather Bureau
Fayetteville
Harrison
el Dorado
Arkansas social workers chair denies Moss welfare vote claim
James W. Rawlins, head of the Arkansas chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, denies a reported vote by the chapter to urge Governor elect Winthrop Rockefeller to rethink A. J. Moss’s welfare commissioner tenure. Rawlins says the meeting addressed whether the chapter should take a position on Moss.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
National Association of Social Workers
Winthrop Rockesfeller
A. J. Moss
James W. Rawlins
Moss
Employment rise in Hempstead 9 percent in a year
Hempstead County saw a 9 percent rise in employment from March 1964 to March 1965 as per County Business Patterns 1965. Total employees in covered businesses reached 2699 with first quarter payrolls at $2.2 million, led by manufacturing and retail trade. Arkansas overall posted a 5 percent rise, with state payrolls $307.4 million for Q1 1965.
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Hempstead
Arkansas
U. S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of the Census
Social Security Administration
Johnson weighs space and ag budgets at Texas ranch
President Johnson works on the space and agriculture budgets at his Texas ranch near Johnson City. Key aides Budget Director Schultze and astronaut Webb attend as McNamara may join to finalize a nearly 70 billion defense budget, with total package around 135 billion. He also drafts the State of the Union and weighs tax changes amid inflation and recession concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Cokwuck
Austin
Tex
Johnson
Texas Ranch
Johnson City
Here
Charles L. Schultze
Orville L. Freeman
James E. Webb
National Aeronautcs and Space Administration
NASA
Congress
Defense
Robert 5S
McNamara
Burns Fatal to Man, 22 in Ark House Fire
Lee Walker Clark aged 22 died in a Little Rock hospital from burns suffered when a frame house burned five miles east of Norfolk on Arkansas 5. He was the third victim of the fire. his wife Melba, 21, and their six month old daughter Ronda also perished in the blaze.
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Mountain Nome Ark
Lee Walker Clark
Little Rock
Norfolk
Arkansas
Clark
Melba
Ronda
Insurance Rate Hearing Delayed in Arkansas
Insurance Commissioner Harvey Combs postponed the rate hearing to January 11 due to scheduling conflicts. The session concerns a request by insurers to raise automobile liability and collision rates. Rockefeller is to be sworn in January 10, with Combs denying any burden on the Governor-elect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Harvey Combs
Winthrop Rockefeller
Combs
Commission
Rockefeller
Downtown Shops Stay Open Late For Holiday Weekend
Local merchants plan extended hours through Friday with many stores staying open until 8 pm. Garden clubs announce Prettiest Decorated Door winners across wards. Masonic Lodge, bridge club events, school holiday schedule, and VFW meeting set for December 20 with attendance urged.
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The
Hope Council of Garden Clubs
Dorsey McRae
Hansford Long
John J. Estes
Wilson Drive
Emmett Frazier
W. Ave
Homer Beverley
Warplanes Return to Hanoi Area
U S warplanes hit the Ha Gia fuel storage area 14.5 miles north of Hanoi as clearing weather returned to the Red River Valley. Ground fighting in South Vietnam eased to small skirmishes while a guerrilla trained brigade of the 9th Infantry Division arrived to bolster U S forces. Initial pilot reports claimed all ordnance hit targets though no exchanges with MIG jets were confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Red River Valley
Ha Gia
North Vietnam
Panhandle
United States
9Th Infantry Division
William C. West Moreland
Ten Killed in Four Arkansas Highway Crashes
An Associated Press tally shows ten people died in four weekend highway accidents across Arkansas. Victims include Brenda Darden of West Monroe Louisiana. Willie Carl Mannings and Juanita Fields of Haynesville. Gerald Ray Bailey of Wooster. David Ray Inman of Wooster. Harry Dreher of Greenwaldier. Eddie Lee Stovall and Leon Blackburn near Norman Montgomery. Louis C. Brown of Memphis. and J W Briggins of West Memphis.
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Associated Press
Emerson
U.S
Arkansas
Brenda Darden
West Monroe
Willie
Carl Mannings
Juanita Fields
Haynesville
Greenw Drier
Dreher
Mount Ida
Normann Montgomery County
Eddie Lee
Stovall
Leon Blackburn
Louis C. Brown
Memphis
J. W. Briggins
West Memphis
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Alex. H. Washburn
L. Carter Johnson
Earth
Samuel
Robert Preston
New Orleans
South Pacific
Mark Twain
Burns
Whitfield Masonic Lodge No. 239
Masonic Hall
Hope Duplicate Bridge Club
E. #. Young
All Hope Public School
James H. Jones
Hempstead County
Nevada County
Southern States College
Marsha Garner
Howard L. Garner
Hope
Nelda F. Hoover
Imon Hoover
McCaskill
Brenda K. Rateliff
Ben Rateliff
Jenny L. Waters
Douglas B. Waters
Brenda K. White
Cecil B. White
Barbara Almand
Robert E. Almand
Carolyn Carlton
C. R. Carlton
Patsy Gurls
Everett Gurls
Janice Wicker
A. L. Wicker
VFW
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