County approves 450000 bond for Standard Generator plant
Hempstead county voters back a 450000 bond to expand Standard Generator Co plant and add 150 jobs. The measure passed overwhelmingly 1674 to 92, carrying all 32 precincts and absentees, with prior notes showing nine dissenting precincts from 1962 voting yes in 1970.
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Hempstead
Standard Generator Co
Delight Egg Co
Teday
Saratoga
Piney Grove
Columbus
Cross Roads
Washington
Sardis
Fulton
Bingen
Ae DeAnn
Warmer Air Rain for Arkansas Weather Update
The Associated Press reports warmer weather and rain returning to Arkansas. Temperatures will stay above freezing for several days with light precipitation ending in the northern state tonight. A trough over Arizona may bring light rain to southern sections Saturday. Highs ranged 42 to 59, with overnight lows from 33 to 43 across cities including Jonesboro Fayetteville Harrison Little Rock Fort Smith Pine Bluff El Dorado. Precipitation in the last 24 hours totaled .06 of an inch at Jonesboro and traces at Harrison and Memphis.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Arizona
Jonesboro
Fort Smith
Fayetteville
Harrison
Little Rock
Memphis
Three Indicted in Texarkana Kidnapping Case
A U S Grand Jury in Hot Springs indicted five men from Texas and Arkansas on charges of conspiracy to kidnap kidnaping and using interstate communications to collect ransom. The defendants Joshua Tasby Hugh M Smith Paul Lawrence Bryant Joe Willie Feggett and Booker T Burkhalter allegedly abducted 16 year old Karen Vickers of Texarkana held her 26 hours for 46600 ransom the payment was not made and she was released unharmed.
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Hot Springs
Ark
U.S
Karen Witheers
Texarkana
Jotuaile Tasby
Lafayette County
Hugh M. Smith
Paul Lawrence Bryant
Tax plan to boost personnel for revenue department
Arkansas State Revenue Commissioner Bob Scott announced that if Guy Winthrop Rockefeller's proposed tax program passes, 4.4 additional workers would join the Revenue Department to handle increased tax collection duties.
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Little Rock
API
Bob Scott
Guy Winthrop
Rockefeller
Wne
Ambulance Service Takes Over Spyin Calls
A new firm, Stead County Ambulance Service, led by Perry Campbell James Vess and Larry Moses, took over all ambulance calls in Spyin after local funeral homes ceased non death calls. The Hempstead firm won the franchise from a joint City County Hospital committee. City/County subsidies will cover monthly costs, with new rates 20 to 25 dollars plus mileage for out of city calls. Initial fleet lacks jump ambulances. a third may be added. Telephone listed TT7-33D4.
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Empstead County Ambulance Service
Spyin
Perry Campbell
James Vess
Larry Moses
Hospita
City of Hope
Hempsted
County
Campbell
Rockefeller Plans March 2 Special Session for 35 Million Tax Hike
Gov Gow Winthrop Rockefeller announced a March 2 special legislative session to raise 35 million over two years, adding to about 25 million from 1969 to total 60 million for the four year package. He described the move as a realistic compromise and hinted at eliminating some use tax exemptions to gain public and legislative support.
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John R. Starr
Associated Press
Little Rock
Gow
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Actress Explains Business Is Work Not Glamour
New York AP report on actress Katie Adal who chose show business over fashion design. She values constant work, notes the demanding schedule, and discusses a CBS special about famous movie queens. ad hints at personal life and ongoing career pressures while emphasizing performance as labor.
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New York
Katie Adal
Cuba
Tate
Thas Borans ii
Ake
van Ot
Ami
Glen Vision
Smd
Tion Adams
Don Ricks
Hesray Bo
Hollywood
Fayetteville FAA to study Northwest Arkansas airport site
Officials said the FAA may study a Mount Comfort area northwest of Fayetteville for a regional airport. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission asked the FAA to study the site, hoping to learn if it could warrant FAA participation. The study assumes the Tonitown airport project might be abandoned.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Federal Aviation Administration
Washington County
Northwest Arkansas
FAA
Mount Comfort
William C. Morton
Fayeeville
Northwest
Tonitown
Nixon to meet mayors in Midwest urban affairs push
President Nixon takes the Urban Affairs Council into the Midwest for a rare public session with nine mayors including Republicans. The visit prioritizes mid sized cities and aims to highlight concern for urban areas amid rising criticism of federal urban policy. Nixon then heads to Chicago for talks with four Midwestern governors on environmental issues.
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Nixon
Ken Hartnett
Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
White House
Chicago
Urban Affairs Council
Washington
U.S. Conference of Mayors
School Tax Voting Sites Announced for Hope 1A Election
Hempstead County Board of Election Commissioners set precincts and ballot boxes for the Hope School District 1A vote on March 10, 1970. Sites include Hope Fire Station, James Motor Company, Rocky Mound, Shower Springs, Jones Field House, Mompstead County Courthouse, Hope Youth Center, Hope City Hall, Fulton Library, and Fulton. Voters are urged to clip and keep the notice to avoid confusion on election day.
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Hempstead
Fulton
Hope
College Plans An Extension Course Here
Henderson State College will hold an organizational meeting in Hope on Tuesday February 10 at 7 p.m. in the Hope Public School Administration Building to discuss offering extension courses for teachers in Hope and surrounding areas open to all who want elementary or secondary education hours.
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Arkadelphia
Ark
Hope
Henderson State College
Stephen B. Williates
Hope Publi
Burglars Take $4,677 From Jonesboro Scout Shed
Police report burglars used walls torn from a Girl Scout storage shed behind the Citizens Federal Savings and Loan office in Jonesboro to enter Wednesday night and steal $4,677. Investigators identified the shed’s location behind the bank building.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Citizens Federal Savings and Loau Association
Jonesburo
Senate to Delay Vote on Carswell Nomination
Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland said he will force at least a week delay in Senate Judiciary Committee voting on Judge G Harrold Carswell's Supreme Court nomination. Charles E. Goodell of New York urged a conference as opposition questions the nominee.
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Washington
Joseph D. Tydings
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
G. Harrold Carswell
Charles E. Goodell
Convention Drops Voting Age to 18 in Arkansas
Arkansas delegates vote 58 to 30 to allow the legislature to lower the voting age to 18 if desired. Debate centers on whether 18-year-olds can handle ballot responsibilities amid concerns about youth influence and media effects. The current 21-year limit can be changed only by constitutional amendment.
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Harry King
Associated Press
Little Rock
Arkansas
Cime
Hank Haines
Blytheville
Norman Warnock
Camden
America
Dorothy Stuck
Marked Tree
Robert Harvey
Swifton
Jonesboro Loses Air Service
Jonesboro officials were informed that Texas International Airlines canceled its stop at Jonesboro on the night flight from Little Rock to Memphis, removing air service for the city.
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Jonesboro, Ark
Jonesboro
Texas International Airlines
Little Rock
Memphis
All Around Town and Local Highlights from Texarkana and Hope
Mrs. Ralph Routon is hospitalized in St Michael Hospital Texarkana with a broken hip. Wanda Joe Martin of Lincoln High Washington is the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow and grand daughter of Mrs. Lora Langston and daughter of Mrs. Darling Dixon, set to contend for the state title. Hazel Abram and Mrs. Jack Fountain of Hazel Virginia's Beauty Stay travel to Nassau for a four day beauticians trip, among 100 from the region. Attendees at the Hot Springs Catfish Farmers of America meeting February 5 7 include Paul Grier Arthur Streeh Ken drix Spraggins and others from Wetts Hype and Blevins US Air Force Captain Kay G Tutor of Jonesboro Louisiana is at Air University School Muswell APB Alabama for 14 weeks of training. he holds a B S from LSU and is Lambda Chi Alpha, married to Carolyn daughter of Ages Gilbert of Fulton Arkansas. Six Hope area students earned a perfect 4 00 grade point and Dean’s List at Henderson State College: Nel ds ft Branstine Alan Clark David F Morris Joal O Noesser Joe Elles M Houser Patricia A McLarty.
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Betty Crocker
Linscoln High
Washington
Wanda Joe Martin
Lora Langston
Darling Dixon
W.G. Tudor
Hope Area
Henderson State College
Nelds Ft
Branstine
Alan Clark
David F. Morris
All of
Hope
Bleving
Joal O. Noesser
Joe Elles
Bombing Halt With North Vietnam Followed by Retaliation Notices
The report notes continued reconnaissance over North Vietnam after a November 1968 bombing halt, with U.S. planes conducting selective retaliatory strikes only when significant. Since the pause, more than 50 U.S. air attacks occurred, nine American aircraft have been shot down, and large bombers intensified raids on supply depots near the A Shau Valley in Laos.
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North Vietnam
Ban Karat m
North
South Vietnam
Quing Binh
U.S
DNS
United States
U.S. Command
Lyndon B. Johnson
Laos
A Shau
Blast at mental patient in Shaker Heights kills man
Cleveland AP Shaker Heights police report that Martin Berns, a 41 year old former patient, apparently triggered an explosion carrying an explosive device. The blast demolished most of an 11 year old two story building injuring witnesses and fatally wounding himself after shooting psychiatrist Dr Irving Rogen.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Shaker Heights
Carl Longstreet
Martin Berns
Mar Mridge
Shipers Solhe
Minutes Bes
Berns
Irving Rogen
Venaire 1 Te Aac
My Ing Pal
Shaote
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Associated. Press
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Middle East
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Pentagon
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The
Star
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St Michael Hospital
Hazel Abram
Jack Fountain
Hazel Virginia
Nassau
Our States
Catfish Farmers of America
Paul Grier
Arthur Streeh
Kendrix Spraggins
Wetts
Hype
Paul Cheats
Blevins
Air Force
Kay G. Tutor
Longstreet
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