Sliced Thin By The Ed Alex H. Washburn Hospital report
A Dallas Doctors Hospital recovery message thanks readers for get well cards sent during October and November. The writer recounts a nearoperational scare from an X-ray suggesting liver trouble, then confirms it was a gallstone. He praises hospital care, notes past rescue from a perforated ulcer, discusses medicine limits, and urges a national medical program funded with personal insurance. The piece highlights Hospital excellence, patient tests, and the value of employer group coverage with Aetna.
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Hope and Hempstead County
Doctors Hospital
Dallas
Pod Rogers
Houston
C.E. Palmer
Social Security
Medicare
Star Publishing Co
Aetna Life & Casualty
Farmers protest continues as LR warehouses picketed
LR area farmers maintain picket lines at Kroger and IGA warehouses in North Little Rock and Little Rock. About 120 farmers from Scott England and Pine Bluff areas joined the action, with 100 to 200 more at local sites. Police Chief Bill Younts visited the Kroger site as strike leaders esitimated wider actions statewide. The protest spreads to grain terminals in northeast Arkansas with some farmers delaying December deliveries to avoid straining relations with grain handlers. Teamsters may or may not honor the strike, with comments unavailable.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Scott
England
Pine Bluff
Kroger
IGA
North Little Rock
Bill Younts
Spe
Cific
Harold Wells
American Agriculture Movement
McGehee
Benton Taylor
Sparignan
Teamsters Union
AH. Pickering
Teamsters Local 878
Teamsters
Pickering
Wells
C.H. Overbay
Paragould
Overbay
Bunge Corp
Huffman
Mississippi County
Blytheville
Jim Nance
Hope police hunt news stand robber
Hope police continue searching for a lone gunman who robbed Jack's News Stand in downtown Hope Sunday night. The black male demanded money from clerk James Moore, bound him to a store pole, and fled with undisclosed cash. Moore described a 6'1" slender man in a blue denim jacket and blue toboggan hat, last seen near Main and Division Streets.
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Hope
Jack
James Moore
Moore
Gene Wright
The
Star
Main
Division Streets
Six die after Nashville crash with truck on Clarksville Hwy
Six people from Nashville died after a wreck on Clarksville Highway when a car ran a stop sign and slammed into a southbound tractor trailer. The car became lodged under the trailer and was dragged about 100 yards. Driver Richard Floyd was not injured. Victims named include Eva Rogers 46 Reginald Jackson 16 Roberta Stone 17 Edward Roper 15 Saunder Jackson 14 and Regina Jackson 16 who died of injuries. Patricia Cole witnessed the crash. Weather in Arkansas: sunny and warm today then partly cloudy windy and colder tonight and Tuesday.
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Nashville, Tenn
Clarksville Highway
Richard E. Floyd
Floyd
Glister Mary Lee Corp
Chester
Eva P. Rogers
Reginald Jackson
Roberta Louise Stone
Edward L. Roper
Saunder L. Jackson
General Hospital
Regina Jackson
Nashville
Patricia Cole
Chapmansboro
Tenn
Clarksville High
Rezina
Arkansas
Insulation shortages strain Arkansas homeowners and builders
Arkansas homeowners face delays as insulation materials remain scarce nationwide. Hammerschmidt Lumber in Harrison reports a month without supply while Capitol Drywall notes out-of-state demand. Owens-Corning expects years before supply catches up, with new capacity in progress and demand driven mainly by home owners adding insulation.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Les Hall
Hammerschmidt Lumber Co
Harrison
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp
Toledo
Ohio
Stan Collins
Collins
Wreck Reported At Hope Intersection Saturday
Hope police reported a single minor accident over the wet weekend at West Pond and North Hervey Streets. Drivers were Robert W. Helmick, 18, Hope, and Paul Matthew Colohan, 21, Rockville Maryland. Helmick was charged with driving on a suspended license.
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Hope Police Department
Bill Martin
Kenny Rowe
West Pond
North Hervey Streets
Robert W. Helmick
Hope
Paul Matthew Colohan
Rockville
Helmut
Peace proposals clash with Arab stance amid Cairo talks
Syria and Saudi Arabia rejected Menahem Begin's peace plan as preserving Israeli occupation of the West Bank Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Egypt and Israel’s talks in Cairo progressed, while threats against the Egyptian Embassy in Beirut alarmed security forces. Egypt awaits Carter's report as Sadat gears for a pivotal meeting with Begin. meanwhile U.S. officials describe progress toward peace. Urban flooding and power outages hit the East with flash flood watches across Washington area and nearby states.
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Associated Press
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Menahem Begin
Cairo
Begin
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Israel
Jerusalem
West Bank
Jordan
Gaza Strip
Beirut
Lebanon
Sadat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Gaza
Carter
Washington
U.S
Snd
Mideast
Washington, D.C
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New York
Three teens held over Georgia church fires
Three white teen-agers are being held in connection with fires that gutted four black churches in rural east Georgia, the violence prompting religious and community leaders to call for calm amid the weekend attacks. The incidents followed by a string of arsons in the area.
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Georgia
Index Obituaries Women’s News Dear Abby Note
An index page compiles obituary notices and women’s features including Dear Abby guidance and social columns. The layout lists entertainment notes and movie features alongside civic trivia and community notices.
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Women’s News
Dear Abby
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Alex H. Washburn
Nance
Bunge
Jack Stockett
Osceola
Missouri
Hope Police
Ward
Hempstead County Memorial Hospital
Don Abbott
Ark
Billy Burton
Annie Sue Andres
Lucille Moore
Eunice Garrett
Roxie Lawrence
Wilma Ronker
Janra Sanders
Ruby Fincher
Berlie Fincher
Lula Smith
Jetsie Butler
Pansey Plumley
James
Hospital
Hall
Judy Mack
Capitol Drywall
L. K. Rogers
Fayetteville
J. J. Banks
Springdale
Banks
CEEY
Freedom Square
Nicosia
Spyros Kyprianou
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