Howard Hempstead counties face voting shift in redistricting
Editor Graves argues Howard and Hempstead counties will be short-changed in upcoming congressional redistricting as they move from the Fourth to the Third district. He notes Howard and Hempstead would be in the Third by January 1967, while a successor to Oren Harris represents the current Fourth. The piece laments taxation without representation and urges preserving local voting voice in national matters.
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Ous Graves
Nashville News
Howard County
Louis
Hempstead County
Oth
Howard and Empstead
Oren Harris
Howard and Hempstead
Louis Graves Bird
Podnah
GOP
National Congress
Washington
Harris
Johnson
Justice Dept Moves to End 2 District School Split
The Justice Department filed desegregation suits targeting five Arkansas districts including Childress Howard County Training School Nashville Mineral Springs and Junction City plus two in Louisiana and one in Alabama. The suits seek desegregation of pupils and faculty by fall term and challenge dual districts funded by separate white and Black tax sources with unequal per pupil expenditures.
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Washington
Justice Department
Arkansas
Monay
Louisiana
South Carolina
Alabama
Childress
Howard County Training School
Nashville
Mineral Springs
Junction City
Fort Smith
Howard County
Mabville Childress
Office of Education
Watchtower Supervisor to Visit Local Jehovahs Witnesses
Gerald D. Girgle, a Watchtower Circuit Supervisor for Jehovahs Witnesses, will visit the local congregation for one week per the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. Activities start Tuesday at 7 25 pm with a ministry school and service meeting, then a Bible lecture by Mr Grizzle, concluding Sunday at 3 pm with a talk on lasting happiness. All meetings take place at Kingdom Hall, 1712 So Elm Street.
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Gerald D. Girgle
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society
Brooklyn
New York
Eugene Shuster
Grizzle
Watchtower
Kingdom Hall of
Jehovah's Witnesses
Elm Street
War Policy Talks With Vietnam Leaders In Honolulu
President Johnson plans an extra session with South Viet Nam leaders in Honolulu after a three hour meeting with Saigon delegates including Premier Nguyen Can Ky. Talks focused on military strategy and possible troop increases. no specific targets or measures were disclosed.
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Honolulu
Johnson
South Viet Nam
Bill D. Moyers
Nguyen Can Ky
Saigon
Moyers
William €. Westmoreland
U.S
Viet Nam
Mayers
North Viet Nam
Haiphong
Amended Integration Plan Allows West Memphis High School Entry
U S District Judge Cordon Young approved an amended desegregation plan for West MemphisArkansas permitting seven Negroes to transfer from Wonder High School to West Memphis High School for the remainder of the school year. The seven 10th to 12th graders joined Negro students in elementary schools under the district’s freedom of choice plan.
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West’ Memphis
Ark
U.S
Cordon Young
West Memphis
Lettin
West Memphis High School
0. M. Shultz
Uder
Supreme Court reverses Ouachita land sale option ruling
The state Supreme Court reversed a Ouachita County Chancery Court decision requiring J L Holt to honor an option contract to sell land for 35 dollars. The court found the contract not definite enough to bind, noting the property was described only as 642 Lincoln, with no city or state mention or purchase price terms.
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Little Rock
State Supreme Court
Ouachita County Chancery Court
J. L. Holt
Holt
Lincoln
Robert C. Ames
Vote on union shop filibuster expected today
Washington AP report details Senate plan to invoke cloture on union shop repeal and the 14B Taft-Hartley Act dispute. Mansfield, ill, to attend vote at 11 am est while Dirksen foes delay debate. Supporters claim about 54 votes, 19 states ban union shop, and federal courts uphold dues as sufficient.
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Joe Hall Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Afl-Cio
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Everett M. Dirksen
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Arkansas approves 274 Title I projects totaling 14.5 million
The state education department said 274 Arkansas projects were approved under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Project funding totals 14,450,052 dollars, part of 21.8 million dollars allotted by the federal government to the state.
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Little Rock
State Education Department
Arkansas
Tokyo Bay Boeing 727 Crash Leaves 133 Dead
Strong gales delay recovery in Tokyo Bay as crews extract 43 bodies from the All Nippon Airways jet that plunged into the water killing 133 aboard. Three large wreckage segments found at 60 feet. weather hampers salvage. cause under investigation.
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Tokyo
Tokyo Bay
Frogmen
all-Nippon Airways
Chitose
Clinic for Crippled Children Diagnostic Clinic Feb 10 at Health Unit
The Crippled Children's Division of the Department of Public Welfare holds a diagnostic and check up clinic on February 10 at the Health Unit. Invited children may register 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. in the Armory with Dr. Charles G. Smith and Dr. Lowell Harris as examining clinicians. The Orthopedic Nursing consultant is Mrs. Irene Smith. Volunteers include Max Kitchen, Delphine Lester, Mrs. Bell Turner, Mrs. Jim James, Mrs. Edith Murph, and others from Arkansas communities.
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Department of Public Welfare
Armory
Charles G. Smith
Texarkana
Lowell Harris
Hope
Irene Smith
Little Rock
Arkansas
Max G. Kitchen
PHN
Prescott
Delphine Lester
Lewisville
Bell Turner
Jim James
Edith Murph
Miriam O'Neal
M. Foster
Arcth Wylie
Syd McMath
Bryan Camp
Elizabeth Rogers
Leon Davis
Alma Knox
Brinkley Vote on Bonds For City Improvements
Voters in Brinkley Arkansas decide on a $190000 capital improvements bond issue with a three mill tax increase. The bonds would fund a new city administration building remodeling of the current building into a fire station construction of a public works building and park improvements.
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Associated Press
Brinkley, Ark
Scout Week Celebration in This Area
Scout Week activities unfold in Hope with Cub Pack 62 displaying at Herbert Burns Store. Pack 62 and 92 host Blue and Gold Banquet February 10 at Brookwood and Garland School. Troops 62 91 161 162 and Posts 62 93 162 partake in church in uniform. A Hobby Show February 12 at 2 p m marks events. Scouting is funded by the United Fund in Hempstead County.
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Hope
Herbert Burns Store
Brookwood
Garland School
Jerry Johnson
Ann Price
Marge Johnson
Pearl Malardier
den Mathers
Bill O'Neal
Doyle Yoccum
Curtis Atkins
Pete Shields
Charles Downs
Thurman Wright
Jess Cornelius
Bobby Lee
Lester Godwin
Hershel Johnson
Jerry O'Neal
Olen Overturf
Roger Case
Cleodis Howell
Henry B
Clifford Franks
Caddo Area Council
C. Crow
Bob Lewis
Post 62
Order of the Arrow
The
United Fund
Hempstead County
County Manager Training Planned
AP reports Arkansas will train the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service for a county office manager. Troy K. Butler of Almyra will run in the DeWitt office. ASCS executive Mowery Jr says no start date has been set. Butler is a graduate of Arkansas AMGN at Pine Bluff.
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Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Arkansas
Troy K. Butler
Almyra
DeWitt
AC Mowery Jr
Staty Ascs
Mowery
Butler
Arkitnians Amgn
Pine Bluff
Unprecedented Federal Court Ruling on Juries in Alabama
A federal panel orders Alabama to begin including women on state court juries and finds Lowndes County repeatedly struck Black jurors. A separate ruling may jail out of state drivers for traffic offenses. the court also limits a justice of the peace’s authority over fines. The decision hints at legislative time to decide on mandatory versus voluntary jury service for women.
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Rex Thomas Montgomer
Ala
Alabama
Lowndes
Alabamia
Justice of the Peace
Richard T. Rives
St. U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Clarence Algood
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Mississippi
South Carolina
U. S
National
Candace Messler
Melvin Lane Powers
John Vu
Lindsay
New York
Heavy Fog Shrouds Midwest News Digest
Midwest fog slows travel and triggers crashes across Illinois Wisconsin Michigan Indiana and Ohio. Ten killed in Illinois chain crashes near Libertyville with zero visibility on Calumet Expressway. War and political stories dominate unrelated briefs about Vietnam US space photos jury service and November races.
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All Around Town region IV band members named
Region IV Band honors go to Tony Smith and Gayle Williams who placed first chair at Henderson State Teachers College competition. Other Hope members named include Ruth Ann Wylie Gary Rogers Gary Russell Jim James Jr Kathy Lewis Danny Lauterbach Herb Townsend Eva Foster. Safeway promotes Robert Foster to store produce manager after 50 years.
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Henderson State Teachers College
Tony Smith
Gayle Williams
Tony
Gayle
Hope
Ruth Ann Wylie
Gary Rogers
Gary Russell
Jim James
Kathy Lewis
Danny Lauterbach
Herb Townsend
Eva Foster
Safeway
Paratroopers Kill 63 Cong. Seize Supplies Near Saigon
U S paratroopers report at least 63 Viet Cong killed in hand to hand fighting near Tu Hoa 240 miles northeast of Saigon while Australians uncover a large Communist supply depot 30 miles east of Saigon. South Vietnamese forces strike back with planes tanks and artillery. North Vietnamese leaflets resume air attacks. A Navy Skyhawk from the carrier Ticonderoga is shot down. pilot captured. A Spotter plane crash near Cao Lanh. observer slightly hurt. U S 101st Airborne and paratroopers engage Viet Cong near Tuy and in the An Lao Valley as combat continues across the region.
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Saigon
South
Wista Warn
U.S
Tu Hoa
Saifon
Mekong
Saiegon
Viet Nam
Navy
Ticonderoga
Vinh
Plahe
U.S. Air Force
Cao Lanh
U.S. 1St Cavalry
De Gaulle and Erhard Discuss Europe Unity Talks
West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard arrived for a semi annual meeting with President Charles de Gaulle to discuss the Common Market and Western Europe unity. Erhard likely presses De Gaulle on Moscow visit plans while Paris hopes to avoid concessions on East German borders and German reunification.
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Paris
Ludwig Erhard
Charles de Gaulle
Europe
Erhard
de Gaulle
Moscow
Germany
Oder-Neisse
East Germany
Poland
Kremlin
Accident at Third and Hervey Streets Causes Heavy Damage
James Johnson and Lester L. Short were involved in a collision at Third and Hervey Streets yesterday amid heavy rain. Short, a resident of Mid City, was charged by Officers Burke and Neal with failure to yield the right of way.
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Neal
Scoote Hu
Jones
Third
Hervey
James Johnson
Negru
Lester L. Short
Mi Id City
Burke and Neal
Short
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