Land Claim Upheld Over Highway Department Seizure
Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling awarding Sheriff Martin Hawkins and others over $55,000 for 11.01 acres taken by the Highway Department. Debates centered on land values before and after the taking with expert witnesses for Hawkins and the department. Dissenting opinions noted differing valuations and a request for remand.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
Martin Hawkins
Morriston
State Highway Department
The
Highway Commission
Circuit Court
Conway County
George Rose Smith
Lyle Brown
W. E. Hyses
Robert E. Hamilton
Hawkins
Highway Department
Hayes and
Hamton
Graf SR 22
Hayes
Hamilton
C. V. Barnes
Loyd Pearce
Smith
Brown
J. Fred Jones
Service Chiefs named for Nixon era
SERVICE CHIEFS in the Nixon administration are, top to bottom, John Chafee, secretary of the Navy, Stanley R. Resor, secretary of the Army, and Robert C. Seamans Jr., secretary of the Air Force. Resor is a holdover from the Johnson administration. Chafee is the former governor of Rhode Island and Seamans is former deputy administrator of NASA.
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Nixon
John Chafee
Navy
Stanley R. Resor
Army
Robert C. Seamans Jr
Air Force
Resor
Chafee
Rhode Island
Seamans
NASA
Hope Mixed BrinkS Appointment Consideration Note
The passage notes a Senate first consideration of numerous appointments. St Gathright advises senators to limit initial submissions to about half of their district’s appointees due to impracticality of handling all 279 or 277 percent of appointments at once. Senator John F. is mentioned in connection with the discussion.
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Senate
St. Gathright
Sen
John F, Atte
Plan to reform prison system proposed by Offcut Dermott
Printed plan sent to the Senate outlines a revised prison setup including a maximum security unit at Cummins and conversion of Tucker Prison to an intermediate reformatory. It proposes about 1.7 million dollars for the biennium funded by expected prison crop income of 1.8 million annually.
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Dermott
Senate
Cummins
Stun
Tucker
Army airlift debate reflects Cold War strain in West Germany
The article discusses U S and Allied plans for a dual base airlift system and inmate labor under military control, alongside German resistance to heavy troop deployment. It notes German critics say policy is too late and too costly, amid the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and fears of Red Army threat to Western Europe.
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AP News Digest
Middle East
Nixon
United Nations
Great Powers
Egypt
Nasser
Israel
Red
United States
South Vietnam
Saigon
Washington
U.S
Humphrey
Johnson
Soviet Union
Senate
Mansfield
Flona
Europe
West Germany
Clai Startifter
Foorg
Sothe
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslosvakia
Red Army
Western Europe
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Piedmont Margarine
Patty Styre
Ree
Wi.c
Brownie
Betty Crocker
Lux Soap
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Arer
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