Nixon to Congress with broad environmental plan
President Nixon sent a multi item environmental package to Congress including a sulfur emissions tax, creation of a UN environment fund, and state led controls on highways, airports, toxic waste disposal, and soil runoff. He also seeks federal penalties for harming endangered species and an official ban on poisons for predators on federal lands.
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Nixon
Congress
United Nations
Special Environment Fund
United States
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Meals for Elderly Passes in House
The House approved a bill to create a pilot program giving free or low cost meals to needy persons aged 60 or older. It allocates 100 million dollars for 1973 and 150 million for 1974, to states with approved HEW programs, based on population. Meals must include at least one hot meal daily and meet dietary guidelines, with profits from contracts favoring low income individuals.
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House
Senate
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Hope Rotary Club Viewers Learn How Steel Is Made
At Town and Country luncheon on Friday February 4 Rotarian Harold Eakley of Hope Wire Products presented a Disney Studios film titled What is Steel narrated by human speakers with Donald Duck answering. The program covered iron formation, conversion to steel, historical iron works, safety of steelworkers, and future steel industry growth. Dr Sam W Strong president chaired the meeting and called a brief board session after the program.
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Hope Rotary Club
Harold Eakley
Hope Wire Products
Disney Studios
Donald Duck
Valley Forge
Sam W. Strong
East Half of Nation in Freezer
The eastern half of the nation stayed frigid as a cold air mass from the Great Lakes lowered temps to near or below freezing from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast. North Dakota and Minnesota saw zero or below all day, while the West enjoyed mild conditions with 60s and 70s in the Southwest and 40s elsewhere. Precipitation was light, with flurries in the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes. Morning temps ranged from 16 below zero in Marquette County Michigan to 71 in Key West Florida.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
Western
Gulf Coast
Middle Atlantic States
North Dakota
Minnesota
Pacific Northwest
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Marquette County
Mich
Key West
Fla
Governor Bumpers Defers AM&N Merger in Session Call
Gov. Dale Bumpers said he did not include the plan to merge Arkansas AM&N College into the University of Arkansas in the special session call because the issue is controversial. He urged start of talks between AM&N and the university to weigh advantages and dangers while preserving AM&N’s mission and safeguards for its faculty and programs. Black leaders urged repeal of the merger, calling AM&N’s mission to educate the poor a priority.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas Amen College
University of Arkansas
Bumpers
Capitol
General Assembly
John C. Collins
Pine Bluff
Spe
Cial
Am&n
Arkansas House OKs Bumpers primaries bill in special session
The Arkansas House approved Gov. Dale Bumpers plan to shift primary election dates and let parties pick methods for selecting national convention delegates. The 88 1 vote included Rep. George Davis as the lone dissenter. A challenge to reconsideration by Rep. Nowathy was ruled unnecessary as the speaker demanded immediate action in the special session.
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Ray S. Smith Jr
Hot Springs
House
Nowathy
Smith
National
Democratic Party
Bumpers
Roger Mears
Little Rock
Pulaski County
Democratic Committee
ABA Approves Abortion Legislation at Meeting
The American Bar Association backed proposed legislation to legalize abortion up to 20 weeks but did not endorse liberalized no fault divorce, with critics warning of weakened family life. The divorce proposal was defeated 170 to 72 while the abortion measure passed, though some delegates filed dissenting votes. Philadelphia Bar urged revocation of federal wiretap guidelines, referred for study for August, in San Francisco.
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Mike Duffy
Associated Press
New Orleans
American Bar Association
National Conference of Commissioners On Uniform
ABA
House of Delegates
Ralph J. Bodell
Milwaukee
Wis
Philadelphia Bar Association
San Francisco
Temperatures on Upswing in Arkansas Weather
Arkansas warms after a cold Monday as clear skies yield high sunshine. Monday highs ranged from 34 at Jonesboro to 44 at Texarkana, with mid 40s to mid 50s forecast later this week. Clouds rise Wednesday with continued warming and a low pressure area may bring instability within 36 to 48 hours.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Jonesboro
Texarkana
Weather outlook for state's late week shows dry period
The forecast calls for no precipitation through Wednesday with lows tonight in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Overnight lows across selected cities range from 18 in Fayetteville to 25 in Texarkana, with a trace of snow reported in Harrison during the prior 24 hours.
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Texarkana
el Dorado
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Rites Held for Loraine Burnside in El Dorado
Mrs Loraine Moses Burnside died Saturday of a heart attack. Services were held at Young Funeral Home El Dorado with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. Survived by husband J Curtis Burnside son James R Burnside five sisters and one brother. Edna Vickers 93 dies in Prescott Nursing Home native of Hempstead County. Neices and nephews survive. Services set for Wednesday at Herndon Funeral Chapel with burial in DeAnn Cemetery.
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Loraine Burnside
Loraine Moses Burnside
el Dorado
Young Funeral Home
Woodlawn
J. Curtis Burnside
James R. Burnside
Camden
Harley Moses
Corinth
Marion Monroe
Luther Garner
Hope
D.A. Jacks
W.T. Caldwell
Marshall
Texas
Chad L. Archie
Edna Vickers
Hempstead County
Prescott
Herndon Funeral Chapel
Filbert O’steen
DeAnn Cemetery
Herndon
Arkansas forecast warms through mid week
24 hours ending 7 am Tuesday. High 43, low 19. Sunny and a little warmer today. Fair and not so cold tonight. Partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday. Highs today mid 40s to mid 50s. Low tonight mid 20s to mid 30s. Highs Wednesday mostly in the 50s.
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Arkansas
Tax Reform Tied to Debt Ceiling Fight in House
In Washington the House opens a multistage push by liberal Democrats to link debt-ceiling approval to tax reform. The Rules Committee considers raising the Treasury borrowing limit from 430 to 450 billion, with Rep. Henry Reuss urging a May 1 tax plan submission and amendments to force a vote on reform.
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Washington
Nixon
House
House Rules Committee
Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Rules Committee
Reuss
New Trial Ordered in Prison Baby Custody Case
The Arkansas Supreme Court ordered a new trial in the guardianship action over a baby born to Amy Shappy at Cummins Prison Farm in 1968. Shappy lacked legal counsel at the original hearing, where a guardian was appointed and the child placed with Janet Knight of the Child Welfare Division. The court noted she deserved a day in court on guardianship even if result might be the same.
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Murray O. Reed
Little Rock
Shappy
Janet Knight
Child Welfare Division
State Welfare Department
Missing School Chief May Be In Mexico
Le Flore County clerk Perry G. Babb says former county School Superintendent John Kitchens, missing since December 6, might have fled to Mexico after a county funds shortage of more than $4,000. Gasoline receipts from Temple, Wichita Falls, and Austin on Kitchens’s account support the theory, and he previously served near the Mexican border.
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Mexico
Kitchens
Babb
Kitchen
Temple
Wichita Falls
Austin
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