Berkey 8x10 color printing boosts Arkansas papers
Readers of the Hope Star celebrate a first test of the Berkey automated color machine. Letters from publishers and editors across Arkansas praise the four color photo on page one and the impact of modern printing on state journalism. The piece notes Berkey’s role, the Norwegian development, and the machine’s American introduction amid broader coverage of legislative actions in Arkansas.
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Hope Star
Arkansas
the Star
Berkey
T. C. Sanders
Springdale News
Arkansas Press Association
Youth Killed in Collision In Jennie and Tallulah
Jimmy Williams a 19 year old resident of Jennie was killed Thursday night in a collision with a semi truck on a city street. The truck driver George Sanders Sr 37 of Tallulah La was not injured.
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Cuumna, Org
Jimmy Williams
Jennie
George Sanders Sr
Tallulah
Arkansas House-Senate approve Capitol Building cornice fund
A 12500 dollar appropriation for inspecting the state Capitol Building cornice was approved by the Arkansas House Senate Joint Budget Committee. A survey is underway by Secretary of State Kelly Bryant after a fragment of marble fell from the cornice two weeks earlier.
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Little Rock
State Capitol
Arkansas House-Senate Joint Budget Committee
Kelly ‘Bryant
Wage Guideline Abandonment Sparks Hill Debate
Washington AP reports a joint congressional committee sharply critiques plans to drop federal wage price guidelines. Rep Reuss urges the panel to consider setting labor and management wage and price standards as Ackley defends no numerical wage standard amid rising living costs. GOP leaders demand a broader policy shift and rejection of Johnson budget. House Ways and Means backs a debt ceiling boost, trimmed by 1B to 937B. party line votes defeat amendments.
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Henry S. Reuss
R-Wis
Reuss
Johnson
Congress
House
Gereald R. Ford
Senate
GOP
Everett M. Dirksen
William Proxmire
D.wis
Joint Committee
Ackley
Ways and Means
Roson
Port of Little Rock construction moves toward September completion
The $1.4 million Port of Little Rock project, on a 151 acre site five miles downstream from Little Rock on the Arkansas River, is slated for completion in September 1968. Fred I. Brown Jr. of the Little Rock Port Authority says the authority has asked the Army Corps of Engineers for authority to begin work, with a target completion aligned to river navigation readiness.
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Little Rock
Fred I. Brown Jr
Griffin attacks governor over teacher bonus veto in Arkansas Senate
In Little Rock the Arkansas Senate debated Gov. Rockefeller's veto of a 2.7 million teacher bonus bill. Richard Earl Griffin charged the veto was cheap politics aimed at campaign gains, citing about 500 teachers in his district who urged override. Senate members supported free expression of positions as Griffin and Melvin Chambers defended their remarks.
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Ar the Rock
Arkansas House
Winthrop Rockefeller
Senate
Rockefeller
House
G. W. Turner Jr
Pine Bluff
James Sheets
Siloam Springs
GOP
Sheets
Sherman Williams
Little Rock
Williams
Turner
Sen
Ben Allen
Country Boys
Jack S. Oakes
Augusta
Richard Earl Griffin
Crowsett
Arkansas Senate
Griffin
J. Ed Lightle
Searcy
Melvin T. Chambers
Magnalia
Chambers
Johnson Says Any Step Halts Bombs in Vietnam
President Johnson offered to halt American bombing of North Vietnam if Hanoi accepts almost any step toward peace. He stressed that no observed Hanoi move shows serious intent to enter peace talks or end the war, while expressing openness to discussions among combatants to find a basis for negotiations.
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Frank Cormier
Washington
Johnson
North Vietnam
Has Noi
White House
Hanoi
Vietnam
Crow
Senate
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
United States
U.S
Nguyen Cao Ky
Saigon
South Vietnam
Red China-Soviet Union
Moscow
Peking
Mao Tse-5Sung
China
Apollo Space Tragedy Briefing Delayed Moon Mission Postponed
NASA officials and top engineers meet in Houston for a private briefing on the Apollo tragedy while Cape Kennedy postpones the Lunar Orbiter 3 launch 24 hours due to an electrical power system issue between ground and payload. The Atlas Agena voyage is now set for 8 16 p.m. EST Saturday as NASA maintains resolve after the Apollo 1 deaths.
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Ronald Thompson
Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Unity in Education in Jeopardy Warns Fort Worth Official
Loyd L. Turner, president of the Fort Worth Board of Education, warned delegates at the South Central Region Department of Classroom Teachers Conference that unity in public education is more at risk than ever. He urged inclusive leadership across educators, school boards, superintendents, and teachers as federal government and big business threaten cohesion. The Arkansas Louisiana Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri and Nebraska gathering continues through Saturday.
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Little Rock
Loyd L. Turner
Fort Worth
Tex
Board of Education
South
Classroom Teachers Conference
Turner
Arkansas
Louisv Fang
Texas
Oklahoma
Kan
Missouri
Nebraska
Break between Moscow and Peking seen likely
The AP report notes a possible rupture in Soviet Chinese ties if Mao and Lin Piao prevail in China’s power struggle. Moscow shows scant enthusiasm for either side, while anti-Mrex demonstrations near the Soviet embassy in Beijing spark tensions and fuel speculation of a lasting split affecting Asia’s political future.
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William L. Ryan
Moscow-Peking
Mao Tse-tung
Lin Piao
China
Moscow
Kremlin
Peking
Belgrade
Kosygin
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Asia
Congress Code of Ethics
Ex County Man Killed in Wreck Near Clarksville Ark
David Wayne Gilbert, 54, formerly of Hope and Booneville, died Thursday when his car plunged 80 feet down an embankment near Clarksville Arkansas and struck a tree. He was alone. Survivors include a son Billy Wayne Gilbert in Vietnam, four sisters and three brothers. Herndon Funeral Home will announce arrangements.
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David Wayne Gilbert
Booneville
Hope
Clarksville
Ark
Billy Wayne Gilbert
U.S
Vietnam
Alman Darwin
Santa Ana
Calif
Sam White
Texarkana
H. B. Ames
Fulton
Opal Swann
Pine Bluff
Lee
Dennison
Texas
Gilbert Gilbert
Danville
Ind
Orie Gilbert
Herndon
Castro Offers to Buy Silver at 1.25 Pesos per Ounce
The Cuban government announced via Havana radio it will purchase silver from the public at 1.25 pesos an ounce, a rate lower than the 1.37 dollars per ounce seen on U.S. markets. The peso is officially pegged to the dollar but has reduced value on free markets.
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Miami, Fla
Havana
U.S
Local men ordered for Armed Forces exams and inductions
Hempstead County Draft Board directs several men to report for Armed Forces physical examinations on February 23 and to be inducted the same day. Names include Richard Hays, Bernice Lynn Montgomery, Edward Howell Byers, Charles Dana Carver, and Richard Wayne Nimmer. Also listed are Jimmy Harold Hartsfield, Bill Terrell Aldridge, Dwight Simpson Chism, and Alta Wayne Ruple for induction.
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Hempstead
New Drive on Border of Cambodia
AP reports U S B52 bombers pounded war zone C near the Cambodian frontier in three raids as a possible prelude to a new push to clear Viet Cong from the area. An American ground force of at least 8000 began Operation Big Spring northeast of Saigon, meeting light resistance and claiming 14 Viet Cong killed so far.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Big Spring
173Rd Airborne
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Ben Hai
North
Heart Fund Benefit Games and Karate Show Planned
The Hope Kiwanis and Lions Clubs stage an annual Heart Fund benefit Monday at Jones Field House starting 6:45 with a Kiwanis versus Lions basketball game followed by a karate exhibition by Hope Black Belt Joe Hooten. Junior and senior girls teams close the night at 8:15. admission is 25 cents for students and 50 cents for adults.
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Hope Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
The
Heart Fund
Jones Field House
Hope
Joe Hooten
Texarkana
Johnny Turner
Kiwanis
Johnny
Half Truth
Johnny Graves
al Graves
Bob Moers
Lynn Harris
Rufus Hernedon Ul
Dean Murphy
E. P. Young, Jr
Jon Leim
Mitch Lay Grone
Guy Grigg
Lion
Jack Gathright
Jack McClendon
Charlie Key
Ralph Harrison
Wes Huddleston
Don Johnson
Jim Gunter
Tom Waters
Davd Brown
Lowell Harris
Adeission
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March of Progress
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Carteret County News-Times
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N.C
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Louise Bowker
Wallace
Harold Berkey
Berkey Technical Corp
50Th St
Woodside
Nyc
New York
Mr. Berkey
Qui Nhon
South Viet Nam
Capitol
Little Rock Port
Russia
Boston
Massachusetts Council of Churches
Anson P. Stokes Jr
Episcopal
Massachusetts
AP News Digest
Mike Mansfield
Congressional
National Space Agency
Castro
Star Staff
Arkansas College At
Batesville
Lance Jones
Haskell Jones
Rt. 4
Hope, Ark
Circle ES Ranches, Inc
Ozan
Aberdegny
R. W. Bize Zell
Lockesburg
Nat Harrison
Carl Hicks
Washington, Ark
American Angus Association
Douglas Robinson
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Robinson
Laurence Robinson
Pi Tau Sigma
ALAA
U. S. Saveings
Howard County
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Nevada
Cambodia
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