Panel backs study on water exports from Arkansas
In a 188 page state water plan the Soil and Water Resources Division urges a study to determine if excess flood waters could be exported to other states. Possible recipients include arid West Texas Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico. The plan also proposes legislative steps to permit basin transfers and to create conservation districts, a computerized water information system costing about 50000 annually, and mandatory annual water use reporting for all entities.
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Little Rock
State Soil and Water Resources Division
Arkansas
David Pryor
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
University of Arkansas
Arkansas Truck Load-Limit Bill Fails to Find Compromise
Proponents and opponents of a proposed Arkansas bill to raise the interstate load limit from 73 280 to 80 000 pounds failed to reach a compromise at a Monday public hearing. The House and Senate deadlock delays until 1977 session, with officials urging more time and information.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Senate
House
State Highway Department
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
Legislative Joint Interim Committee On Public Transportation
Highway Department
Farm Bureau
B. K. Cooper
Milton Scott
Ode L. Maddox
Oden
Maddox
John W. Ramsey
Prairie Grove
New trial granted for Inez Garcia in rape case
The California Court of Appeals reversed Inez Garcia's second degree murder conviction, saying a supplemental instruction on reasonable doubt misled the jury. Garcia testified she was raped by Miguel Jimenez and Louis Castillo before she shot Jimenez, after which supporters filled the courtroom.
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San Francisco
Inez Garcia
U.s. Supreme Court
Jiminez
Smut dealers fined and sentenced in Memphis obscenity case
MEMPHIS Tenn AP A Memphis film distributor Carl R Carter was sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined 10000 for interstate shipment of obscene movies The co defendant Donald A Davis a Los Angeles film producer received 24 years and a 10000 fine The sentences were the heaviest in Shelby County obscenity cases with Chicago distributors also pleading guilty prior to trial and fined 5000 each The judge and Carter argued over obscenity while Davis and Klein Dagel faced related charges
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
Carl R. Carter
U.S. District Court
Bailey Brown
Carter
Donald A. Davis
Los Angeles
Brown
Davis
Chicago
Donnelly Klein
Harlan Dagel
Pryor to Attend Cotton Bowl in Dallas
Gov. David Pryor will travel from Little Rock with his three sons to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl between Arkansas and Georgia. He and Gov. George Busbee will have 50 yard line seats, attend a New Year’s reception co hosted with UA president Dr. Charles Bishop, and join Busbee for the parade reviewing stand.
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Little Rock
David Pryor
Dallas
University of Arkansas
Georgia
George D. Busbee
Pryor
David
Mark
Scott
Arkansans
Charles Bishop
Sheraton- Dallas
Cotton Bowl Committee
Busbee
Government airline costs irk ailing taxpayers
Washington AP reports Sen. William Proxmire cites the Air Force executive airline, 23 planes at 966.7 million cost, 275 flights in 1975 first ten months, serving top officials including Treasury Secretary William Simon. He urges use of commercial flights to save money and aid the airline industry.
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Washington
U.S. Air Force
Starpayers
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
Air Force
8Th Military Airlift Wing
Andrews Air Force Base
Senate
House
Treasury Department
State Department
William Simon
Department of the’ “Treasury
Simon
Defense
William Clements
Army
Howard Callaway
Frank G. Zarb
Henry A. Kissinger
Navy
William Middendorf
Springdale Couple Killed in Interstate 40 Crash
MORRISTON Ark AP Charles Fantinel 65 and Louise Fantinel 63 both of Springdale were killed Monday in a two vehicle crash on Interstate 40 near here State Police said Trooper A D Straener said the Fantinels car crossed the median and struck a pickup truck in the path of the other vehicle
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Morriston, Ark
Charles Fantinel
Louise Fantinel
Springdale
Interstate 40
Here
A. D. ‘Straener
Nat uralist Euell Gibbons dies at 64 in Sunbury
Euell Gibbons author and naturalist famed for Stalking the Wild series dies at 64 after a heart attack. He rose to fame via books and TV appearances and faced FTC actions over cereal ads. He lived on an 11 acre Beavertown farm and taught survival courses. He is survived by his widow two sons and five grandchildren. Cremation planned with private memorial.
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Sunbury
Euell Gibbons
Freda Gibbons
Gibbons
General Foods
Federal Trade Commission
Hawaii
Texas
University of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Freda Fryer
Philadelphia
Beavertown
Outward Bound
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