Arkansas House Starts Debate on School Aid Reform and Teacher Pay Hike
The Arkansas House debated controversial bills while the Senate approved a mild blue law. Major action focused on three bills to adjust school aid distribution and raise the minimum teacher salary from 2700 to 3600 dollars annually. House also defeated measures on county purchasing, voter registration fee, and wine sales, and passed seed sales tax exemption and four year terms for city attorneys in small cities.
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Little Rock
Arkansas House
Senate
House
Russell Elrod
Siloam Springs
Crossett Researcher to Speak at Southern State Seminar
Crossett Ex periment Station project manager R. Reynolds will be featured speaker at a Woodland Re seminar in the Agriculture Building on the Southern State College campus at 7 00 p m Thursday Feb 11. He will discuss selective breeding soil moisture relation vegetative propagation farm woodlots and insect and disease control. Attendance is open to area residents seeking better tree farming methods as the fifth of six sessions by the college agriculture department on Thursday evenings.
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Magnolia
R. R. Reynolds
Crossett Experiment Station
Southern State College
Reynolds
Jack Harrington
Agriculture Department
Southern State
Weather Summary From ARKANSAS Station Showers and Cooler Night
Weather Experiment Station report for 2 hours ending 7 a.m. Tuesday shows high 59 and low 50 with 1.93 inches of precipitation, totaling 3.88 inches for 48 hours ending 7 a.m. Tuesday. Arkansas forecast cloudy with showers and a few thundershowers tonight, cooler tonight.
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Hope Star
North Elm Street
Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station
Arkansas
Stark Disaster Over Long Island Airliner Explosion
At Jones Beach near New York a major airliner stormed into tragedy killing 84 people. Rescue craft dredged wreckage and clothing from the sea as coast guard crews and fishing boats worked through the night. Survivors and bodies were found amid flight debris and charred remains.
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Long Island
Coast Guard
Houston Invites Hope Girl Scouts
The Conifer Council of Girl Scouts is invited by the San Jacinto Senior Planning Board to send three senior scouts to the annual conference in Houston. Carolyn Millican, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jeff Millican of Hope, is selected as a delegate. The event runs February 19 and 29 at the Sheraton Lincoln Hotel. A general session, buzz sessions, a luncheon, a style show, and social activities are planned. Carolyn travels by bus from Texarkana with other delegates and will stay with a San Jacinto Council host.
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Conifer Council of Girl Scouts
San Jacinto
Houston
Carolyn
Texarkana
Utah State Star Wayne Estes Killed in Campus Accident
Wayne Estes the 2000 point scorer for Utah State University died after a car crash on campus led to a high voltage wire being knocked loose. He scored 48 points in a 91 62 win over Denver University earlier that night and died at the scene after attempts to revive him. Three other students were injured in the crash.
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Wayne Estes
Utah
Logan
Utah State University
Estes
Denver University
Utah State
Tim Smith
Aggie
Denver Uni
Ladel Anderson
Eli Drakulich
Drakulich
Los Angeles Lakers
Eastern Air Crash Takes Lives of 84
A DC7B of Eastern Air Lines crashed into the Atlantic off Jones Beach near Long Island minutes after takeoff from Kennedy. About 84 aboard were believed killed. Weather was clear and no distress was heard as observers from other flights reported an explosion. Flight 663 was en route to Richmond Charlotte Greenville Spartanburg and Atlanta.
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John Morganthaler
NEW York
Eastern Air Lines
Atlantic Ocean
Kennedy International Airport
Richmond
Charlotte
Air Canada
Pan American
Hempstead County Law Library Offers Complete U S Code and Statutes
The Hempstead County Law Library in the courthouse Fourth floor, Chamber of Judge Royce Weisenberger, provides a full legal encyclopedia and Arkansas Supreme Court decisions. Access is via County Clerk Dick Turnage or courthouse staff, with judges and local attorneys holding keys. The facility includes United States Code Annotated, Congressional and Administrative news, and historic proclamations. May 1 1863 Law Day proclamation noted.
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Hempstead Law Library
U. S
Congress
Johnson
Hempstead
Weisenberger
Sixth Chancery Circuit
Dick Turnage
Congress Weighs New War Reports Ahead of Inquiry
President Johnson convened Democratic leaders for a morning briefing on Viet Nam developments. A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee scheduled a closed briefing with William P. Bundy, with McGeorge Bundy’s information likely shared. White House receptions were set for 50 lawmakers and spouses, with Johnson addressing them.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Congress
Johnson
Senate
House
William P. Bundy
Bundy
McGeorge Bundy
National Security Council
South Viet Nam
White House
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
George W. Ball
Kermit
Fiery Atlantic airliner crash mystifies aviation experts
The loss of 84 aboard the airliner off Jones Beach prompts oceanside search by boats and planes while the public watches. President Johnson moves toward stronger Vietnam involvement as allied forces face rising tension. Congress awaits new Viet Nam reports and the House debates surplus food sales amid budget concerns.
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Atlantic Ocean
Jones Beach
U.s.viet Nam
Long Island Bank May Lend World’s Fair Funds
Franklin National Bank of Mineola president Arthur T. Roth said his bank and possibly others would loan the World’s Fair $3.5 million in short term notes to reopen on April 21 as proposed by President Robert Moses.
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New York
Long Island
Robert Moses
Arthur T. Roth
Franklin National Bank of
Mineola
China Threatens Retaliation as U S Presses Vietnam War
The AP reports President Johnson tightens U S policy in Vietnam amid rising fighting and possible escalation with North Vietnam and China. Analysts question the president’s authority to extend the war and the aims guiding decisions as air strikes increase.
Two East Germans Escape Wall Under Fire
Two East Germans leaped over the Berlin Wall early today escaping to West Berlin despite Communist gunfire, authorities reported. West Berlin police described the incident as an unhurt border breakout with no immediate injuries.
Key Issue Is View of Viet Nam People
Washington observers question how much stake Vietnamese civilians still have in the war against the Viet Cong after two decades. The piece traces U S policy from French colonial era to Ngo Dinh Diem and the successive South Vietnamese governments, ending amid ongoing turmoil and shifting leadership.
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Viet Nam
Washington
South
Red
Viet Cong
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Viet Nam
Absentee ballots filed for Hughes in Hempstead County
Hempstead County Clerk Dick Turnage says Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hughes of Arkadelphia came to his Hope office last Thursday February 4 to have affidavits applications for absentee ballots processed. The records were provided without a court order per notification from GOP headquarters in Little Rock.
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Dick Turnage
Hempstead
Star Today
Harold Hughes
Arkadelphia
Hughes
Otto Smith
GOP
Little Rock
Hope
Hanoi Allies With Aid Pledge Threats Emerge
Tokyo AP reports China first Hanoi ally pledges retaliation for U S and South Vietnam strikes on North Viet Nam in a Peking Peoples Daily editorial. China warns creditors debts will be repaid with interest and warns Washington.
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Johnson
U.S
Viet Nam
da Nang
China
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Congress
Tokyo
Peking Peoples
New China News Agency
Peking
United States
North
Radio
Soviet Union
Washington
Pravda
Communist Party
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
Red China
Russian Tug Near Frisco
The Soviet ocean-going tug Ar han drifted 65 miles north of San Francisco Bay and within 10 miles of shore as the Navy continued surveillance. Officers aboard American warships speculated the tug may be on a routine oceanographic mission, with the vessel previously spotted near Vancouver Island.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Vancouver Island
Canada
Artmobile Slide Show Thursday at First National Bank
The Hope Junior Auxiliary hosts a slide show and narrated rogram about Artmobile exhibits on Thursday February 11 at 10 am in the Community Room of First National Bank. The event previews upcoming Artmobile paintings woodcarvings and weather vanes with invites for more information.
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Hope
First National Bank
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