Crow’s Testimony on Arkansas Voter Registration Amendment
Former Sen. F. C. Crow of Hope argues Amendment 39 creates a tax free voter registration system and supersedes prior provisions including Amendment 8. He predicts courts will deem old qualifications obsolete, urging the legislature to enact a simple registration law.
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Coast Guard Crew Finds Missing Seaman After Rescue
In New York a Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center crew learned of Colin Leslie Fox after a long search. Fox sailed from New York on December 5 bound for Bermuda, went missing December 26, and reappeared January 10 in the Bahamas after drifting off course.
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Missile Grant to State University
The Army Missile Command at Red stone Alabama has awarded a $14,948 grant to finance studies at State University.
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Little Rock
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Redstone, Ala
Weather Forecast Continues Across Regions
The weather section shows a cool pattern with snow in parts of Missouri and Arkansas. Today highs reach near 40 to 64 with nights around 25 to 35. Snow totals range 2 to 4 inches southeast and 1 to 3 inches northeast and central Missouri. Tuesday brings partly cloudy skies, cooler temperatures, and a warming trend into the upper 40s to low 50s in Arkansas regions, with varying Tonight lows from the teens to mid 20s.
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Arkansan Named to U.S. Mint Assay Commission in Philadelphia
Mrs Lucy W Freeman of Newport Arkansas has been named by President Johnson to the 24 member annual Assay Commission to test weight and metal content of silver coins at the U S Mint in Philadelphia. The commission serves without pay but receives a medal. Dr Maurice Testerman of GIT will be principal investigator for the project.
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Newport
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Philadelphia
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Moonport work stoppage hits Kennedy space program
About 213 million tied to 2,740 workers at Cane Kennedy Moonport as 30 to 40 percent of 7,000 industrial union men stay off the job. No missile launches scheduled yet but injunctions sought via the NLRB. Over 30 projects affected on Merritt Island including Saturn 4 vertical assembly, Titan 3 launch complex, Saturn 5 pad, and admin buildings.
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National Labor Relations Board
ALC Study of Registration About Over
In Little Rock state lawmakers opened hearings on voter registration. Rep Hardy Croxton urged permanent personal registration as core to a voter rights system, while Mrs E B Elkins of the League of Women Voters backed the general approach. Debate centers on permanent versus annual registration and party loyalty requirements with a special session possible by Feb 26.
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Fort Smith
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Panamanian rally decries U S aggression amid protests
In Panama City a rally by the Panamanian Students Federation drew over 2,000 demonstrators outside the Presidential Palace. Max Arosemena pledged to press UN and OAS action while protesters later marched downtown, stoning a Cuban exile headquarters as speakers labeled exiles as worms aiding North American imperialism.
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Organization of American States
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Panamanian Students Federation
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Group OKs mile rate cuts sent to President before March first
The group urges rapid action with a lower withholding tax, proposing immediate 14 percent for individuals and 14 to 70 percent ranges, one third of cuts this year and two thirds next year, while corporate rates drop from 52 to 50 percent this year and to 48 next year. The plan includes two weeks for bookkeeping setup and notes new retail and wage implications.
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Senate
Guantanamo Civilian Workers to Be Reduced
Washington AP reports the Defense Department will terminate a number of civilian workers at Guantanamo Naval Base and accelerate installation of a desalination plant to ensure a permanent on base water source. Affected Cuban nationals total about 3,000. figures on job losses and timing were not yet released.
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Seventeen Die in Formosa Coal Mine Blast
In Formosa near Keelung, all 17 workers trapped by a Sunday explosion at the Shui Kang Coal Mine were killed. Chinese Nationalist police said the bodies were recovered. The disaster occurred while the men were at work in the mine.
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Keelung
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Boa Constrictor Back in Cage in Alquippa Pet Shop
Alquippa Pa AP report says six foot boa constrictor returned to its basement cage at the pet shop after escaping Thursday. Owner Clarence Minard noted the snake posed little danger due to its youth and lack of crushing strength. Boas are not poisonous.
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Alliquippa
Clarence Mineard
Mincard
Train Derails at Paragould Arkansas
Paragould Arkansas AP reports a northbound Cotton Belt freight derailed sixteen cars beside the railroad station near the city's main street. Three cars carried dangerous chemicals but no spills or fire danger were reported. Ten cars carried 400 tons of crushed rock. Cause unknown though a wheel on the first car broke.
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Ark
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