Congress Pushes Ahead Amid Dock Settlement Uncertainty
Congress acts despite a tentative late strike deal for West Coast longshoremen. The Senate passed a strike ending bill 79 to 3, ordering binding arbitration on unresolved issues and an 18 month no strike window, while the House set a vote as the shipper union ratification process continues. President Nixon pressures Congress to act, aiming for prompt passage and direct submission to the President.
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John Beckler
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
San Francisco
Nixon
Rules Committee
House Education and Labor Committee
Education and Labor Committee
Frank Thompson Jr
Dn.j
Food prices seen up about 4 percent in 1972
Government predicts supermarket prices will rise close to 4 percent in 1972, a sharp jump from 1971. Overall food costs including meals away from home expected to average around 4.5 percent higher than 1971. Rising meat prices expected to drive much of the increase. Farmers’ net income projected to rise to 1.5 to 2 billion dollars. 1971 income stood at 15.7 billion with no gain from the year before.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Mafia Figure Faces Terms in San Antonio Case
Jack Harold Halfen 58 of Houston and Collegeport Texas received two consecutive five year sentences for interstate transportation of forged bank money orders totaling 1321 dollars. Convicted January 14 he was linked to a Louisiana Mafia figure and later faced a separate federal perjury case in Los Angeles.
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San Antonio
Tex
Jack Harold Halfen
Louisiana
Halfen
Houston
Collegeport
U. S. District Court
D. W. Suttle
Hubb City
Lafayette
New Orleans
Carlos Marcello
U. S. Senate
William Gallinaro
Special County
Los Angeles
Tax Loopholes Must Be Closed Says Tax Loopholes Must Be Closed
The House nears a four month extension of borrowing authority for Nixon while warning of trouble if tax loopholes are not closed. The bill would raise the debt limit from 430 to 450 billion dollars through June 30, with liberal Democrats pushing for a comprehensive tax reform plan by March 15. A letter from Wilbur Mills urged Nixon to propose ideas to close loopholes in income, estate, and gift taxes to raise revenues.
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Edmond Lebreton
Associated Press
Washington
House
Nixon
Senate
Ways and Means
Treasury
Wilbur D. Mills
Mills
S. J. Reese 98 Center Point post master and elder dies
Sloman J. Reese, 98, of Center Point, died Tuesday in a Nashville hospital. A native of Howard County, he was a retired post master and longtime elder of the Center Point Church of Christ. Surviving: wife Nancy Payne Reese. sons Olan of Center Point and Hugh of Hope. Services Thursday 10 a.m. at Center Point Church of Christ. burial Center Point Cemetery. Latimer Funeral Home, Nashville.
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Sloman J. Reese
Center Point
Nashville
Howard County
Church of Christ
Nancy Payne Reese
Olan Reese
Hugh Reese
Hope
Center Point Church
Hope Water Approved For Clean 1971 Supply
Frank Ramsey, Hope Water Superintendent, reports state health officials found Hope and Oakhaven water supplies met U S Public Health Service bacteriological standards for 1971. Ramsey collects eight Hope and four Oakhaven samples monthly from varied sites, sterilizes taps with a propane torch, mails bottles to Little Rock for testing within 30 hours to ensure certification for food plants shipping to other states.
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Frank Ramsey
City of
Hope
G. T. Kellogg
Bureau of Environmental Engineering
Arkansas State Department of Health
Oakhaven
U.S. Public Health Service
Ramsey
Little Rock
Curriculum Group for Better Schools Meets
Eleven members of the Curriculum Sub committee of the Citizens Committee For Better Quality Schools in Hope School District 1-A met Monday night in Hope City Hall courtroom. Four personnel of the Hope School system representing all levels Elementary Junior and Senior High met with the group and reviewed the courses now available to students. The four were Mrs Muriel Dickinson Mrs Muriel McLarty Dale
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Citizens Committee For Better Quality
Hope School District
Hope City Hall
Hope School
Muriel Dickinson
Muriel McLarty
Dale
Dorothy Hewitt
Suella Tye
Judy Graves
Calvin Smith
William Muldrew
Charles Cooper
School Group Chooses Officers in District 1 A Meeting
The Auxiliary Committee of District 1 A met Monday night at Chairman Bill Gunter's home. Doyle Shields was nominated vice chairman and Mrs J D Felder was appointed secretary. Other members present included Mrs. Tom Duncan Mrs Tom Buchholzer Mrs Charles Burtch Don Gilbert and Wesley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Committee For Better Quality
Hope District 1
Bill Gunter
Doyle Shields
J.D. Felder
Tom Duncan
Tom Buchholzer
Charles Burtch
Don Gilbert
Wesley
Weather and local committee notes plus fishfolk on houseboats
Experiment Station report covers 64 hours ending Wednesday with Arkansas forecast from sunny warmth to cooler north and likelihood of rain or snow north. North highs near 40 south mid to upper 50s. tonight mid 20s to near 40. Committee discusses cafeterias athletics band and busing with plans to meet Sunday. Names listed include Lynn Norton Floyd Nelson from various Tex and Ark locations. Also notes curriculum crowding and a City Hall meeting set for February 14. Redding police add machine case ties to burglary 22 months ago. About 1600 Bajau sea folk still live on Philippines houseboats.
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Arkansas
Huddleston
Citizens Advisory Committee of
Benton
Arkansas moves to ease handicapped funding with SRS transfers
The measure would authorize the SRS Department to shift funds between agency accounts to match federal dollars. Lawmakers debate whether boards at four social service agencies may enter agreements with SRS to obtain federal funds, while administration aims to handle the transfers. The bill also seeks authority to hire about 120 staff if expanded programs proceed, with Sen. Knox Nelson asking how it would fare without the transfer clause. A separate note explains fog density depends on droplet count, with billions needed to fill a teaspoon.
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Arkansas
SRS Department
Guy H. ‘Mutt’ Jones
Conway
Boet
Jones
SRS
Charles Honey
Prescott
Kenneth Ray Camp
Brookland
Knox Nelson
Pine Bluff
Bost
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Joe T. Roginson
Kenny Brasher
Dallas Hillcrest
Mike Bogenshutz
Dallas Jesuit
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Ronny Wren
Euless
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Lancaster
Larry Brown
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Eudora
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Whitmore
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Brink
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