Religious Week at Mississippi Faces Cancellation After Withdrawals
Mississippi University today weighed the future of Religious Emphasis Week after clergy from three faiths canceled speaking engagements in protest of revoking an invitation extended to Rev. Alvin Kershaw of Oxford. Protests followed the Kershaw incident as two Protestant ministers and a rabbi joined a Catholic priest in pulling out, leaving the slate wiped of out-of-state speakers.
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Joseph Fichter
S. J
Loyola University of the South of
University of Mississippi
Rabbi Milton Gralman
Temple Emanuel
Birmingham
Ala
Rioting Looms As Mollet Appointed Premier In Algeria
Robert Lacoste arrived to become premier amid violence in Algiers. Nationalists and colonialists planned a large rally despite a government ban. War veterans and locals formed a Public Safety Committee backing a five hour strike and march in the divided capital.
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Preston Grover
Algiers If
Robert Lacoste
Guy Mollets
Algeria
France
Camsmittce
Lacoste
Algiers
Foreign Legionnaires
Mollet
Jean Baptiste Biaggi
Paris
Public Safety Committee
Bing- Bi
Suspect Undergoes Lie Test in Forrest City Case
In Little Rock a young Kenyan man held for questioning in the fatal beating of a 61 year old man in Forrest City underwent a lie detector test at state police headquarters. Sheriff Carl Campbell said results had not yet been released. James Phillips Jr. 22 was returned to Forrest City from Little Rock for the test yesterday.
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Little Rock, ii
Kenya
Forrest City
Stae Police
Carl Campbell
El Dorado Voters Approve Auditorium Bond Issue
El Dorado voters approved a 545000 bond to finance a municipal auditorium and were promised a city library financed by an unidentified donor if the bond was approved. City Council members cited the pledge as the library measure's incentive and expressed plans to proceed with construction.
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EL Dunave
Hope Junior Band Hosts District Clinic Here in February
Hope Junior Band plans a district clinic February 17 18 with students Aly Patterson Betty McCulley Mary Fincher Mike Morris Sylvia Yocom Ann Sutton Jo Carolyn Lewis Penny Roberts Betty Beard Mary Alice Mosley and others. The event features a large group from Hope area schools and instructors including Barry Spraggins Mary Leu Park Shirley White Barbara Tullis Oddie Wood and Roy Tullis with a long participation list across four rows of students and staff.
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Aly Patterson
Betty McCulley
Mary Fincher
Mike Morris
Sylvia Yocom
Ann Sutton
Jo Carolyn Lewis
Penny Roberts
Betty Beard
Mary Alice Mosley
Margaret Ann Lauterbach
Barry Spraggins
Mary Leu Park
Shirley White
Barbara Tullis
Oddie Wood
Jo Ann Lee
Roy Tullis
Linda Collier
Doyett Collins
Teddy Jones
Linda Vans
Ronald Seanard
Lana Thompson
Jimmy Anderson
Rosemary Basinger
Norma Jean Gannon
Linda Jo Pettit
Hugh Barwick
Sammy Stewart
Stanley Laughlin
Charles Butterfield
Carroll McKee
William Walden
Emmett Barrett
Charles Clark
Charles Flowers
Harold Weems
Larry Bowning
Larry Gaines
Ford Ward
James Willis
Henry Norvell
Jimmy McLarty
Edwina Whitman
Fred Smith
Bobby Foster
Bruce Folger
David Lewis
Ronnie Formby
Papers on Royal Love Affair Removed from Public Records
London reports that two taped bundles about King George IV and Queen Caroline have been removed from the Public Records Office. Scholars note the papers were accessible for over a century and speculate a royal private archive may hold them now.
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London
George IV
Caroline
Britain
George V
Elizabeth II
George 111
Caroline Emillia
Brunswick Wolfenbuttel
Charlotta August
George
Europe
Bradury
Italia
Avoree
Garoliee
Wemmer Abbey
Minser
Aueen
Parliamen
Stavernmen
Fire destroys Brown Packing Co slaughter plant near Little Rock
A major fire destroyed a large meat packing plant and slaughter house west of Little Rock early today. Manager Herb Astlenewarth estimated losses at more than 250000, with the blaze likely starting from defective wiring in the attic of the concrete building. One fire truck answered the alarm as flames overwhelmed the site.
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Little Rock
Herb Astlenewarth
Wood
Brown Packing Co
Hollensworth
Liniis
White youths lunge to enroll at Dunbar High School
Four white youths attempted to enroll at Dunbar High School in Little Rock amid a protest over earlier failed attempts by 38 Black students to enroll white schools. Principal J M Christophe referred them to Superintendent Virgil Blossom, who said the youths did not appear and did not represent an organized group. NAACP officials distanced themselves from the act, while a separate NAACP suit in U S District Court seeks immediate racial integration of Little Rock public schools for Black students denied in white schools last month.
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Little Rock
Dunbar High School
J. M. Christophe
Virgil T. Blossom
Blossom
L. C. Bates
National Associaion For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Christophe
Jimmie Emmett
Phillip Cate
Gerald Gordy
Jim Bowen
Emmett
Caté
Little Rock Central High School
Bowen
Gordy
NAACF
U. S District Court
Big Three Plan to Halt Fights in Palestine Tension
The United States Britain and France pursue a deterrent plan before a March deadline to curb renewed fighting in Palestine. Focus lies on a demilitarized zone along the Jordan River near Jisr Ben Yacov where Israel seeks to complete excavation and tap Jordan waters for a canal. Israel worries over potential clashes if entry is blocked.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Britain
France
Palestine
Syria
Israel
Jordan River
Jisr Bnal Yacov
Demilitarized Zone
Jordan
Lying
Iseaetia
Texarkana Church Woman Succumbs
Texarkana Mrs. Fred Gantt Sr wife of an Arkansas Methodist church official is dead. She died last night at a local hospital. Her husband is treasurer of the Little Rock Methodist Conference, governing body of all Arkansas churches south of the Arkansas River. Surviving are a son and three sisters.
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Texarkana
Fred Gantt Sr
Arkansas Methodist Church
Little Rock
Four State Airports Receive Civil Aeronautics Grants
Washington reports four municipal airports in Arkansas will share a $314,600 CAA appropriation for field improvements. Adams Field receives $120,000 while Harrell Wield and Carden get $20,000, Conway Municipal $26,000, and Harrison Municipal $14,800.
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Washington
Arkansas
Civil Aeronautics
Maddog Irvin Captured on West Coast
Mass murderer Leslie Mad Dog Irvin, said to have killed six, was captured in a San Francisco pawnshop while seeking a loan on stolen Los Angeles rings. The pawnbroker alerted police after Irvin revealed his identity in a tense exchange. Irvin, who claimed he escaped a would be captor, had reportedly fled Princeton Indiana 21 days earlier and hitchhiked across multiple states.
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Donald Thackrey
San Francisco
Leslie
Irvin
Tyvis
Prof
Princeton
Ind
Stites
Faulkner Families Eligible for Loans
Twelve Faulkner County families who lost their homes when a storm struck on January 28 are eligible for low interest government loans to rebuild. The state SBA office declared Faulkner County a disaster area, enabling assistance. Eligible victims can repay over 26 years at 3 percent interest.
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Little Rock II
Faulkner County
Svea
State Office
Federal
Smell Business Administration
Merchandise Showing Here Feb 12 13 At Hotel Henry Arkansas
Tael Joplin a general sale for Higginbotham Bailey Co will present new Spring merchandise at Hotel Henry for merchants in this section of Arkansas. Various lines will be displayed over Sunday and Monday February 1 and 14 and merchants are invited to view the collection.
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Tael Joplin
Higginbotham-Bailey Co
Hotel Henry
Arkansas
Sweetheart Banquet at First Baptist Church
Intermediates and Young People of First Baptist Church plan their annual semiformal Sweetheart Banquet Monday at 7 PM. Tickets are 39 cents.
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Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
McClellan to Back Oklahoma Dam
Sen John L McClellan pledged Arkansas backing for Oklahoma Eu Faula Dam funds saying both states congressmen face a real battle to secure money but remain united to get the job done any possible way Tulsa Oklahoma dispatch three sentence item notes ongoing fight and cross state cooperation with federal funds at stake
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Tulsa
Okla
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Eufaula
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
West to Build Dam for Egypt in US led aid plan
Egypt accepts a 200 million dollar World Bank loan to help fund the upper Nile high dam three miles wide and 300 feet high. Western powers plan another 200 million in grants, totaling about 1.3 billion dollars, while the Soviet union and Egypt consider neutrality amid East West influence. Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser and World Bank president Eugene Black released the joint communique.
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Cairo
Egypt
Soviet Union
Upper
Nile River
World Bank
United States
Britain
Middle East
Aswan
Nile
Premist
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Eugene Black
Soviet Claim of Big Balloon Catch Sparks War Talk
Soviet papers led with Moscow charges that American weather balloons captured in the USSR were used for reconnaissance. Pravda and Izvestia highlighted a Spiridonovka Palace news conference showing envelopes and equipment and warned of a brink of war policy, while offering no steps to curb balloon flights.
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Richard K. O'Malley
Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Fevestia
Spiridonovka Palace
Soviet Union
Hope High School Honor Roll Winners Listed
Hope High School announces students on both semester and second nine weeks honor rolls. Senior 19 names, junior 22, sophomores 24, freshmen 14. multiple grades include Evelyn Adams, Alice Anthony, James A Lewis, Pansy Adams, Judy Watkins, Yoni Thompson, Velora Bright, Marion McQueen. Junior High also lists four dozen students on A and merit rolls with multiple grades represented.
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Hope High School
Mary Lewis
Pat McGill
Janet McKenzie
Linda Moore
Dale Zinm
Charles Tittle
Delmer Weliver
Royce Weisenberger
Ann Cole
John Graves
Sandra Hobbs
Elaine Thomason
Marion McQueen
Sheila Foster
Max Miller
Marilyn Reese
Evelyn Adams
Alice Anthony
Margaret Ann Archer
Billie Dawn Franks
Bobbie Horn
Pat Huckabee
Mary Jo Kinsey
Carolyn Lewallen
James A Lewis
Joe Polk
Kay Ray
Jo Beth Rettig
Bertha Richardson
Mary Ann Rogers
Lattra Rowe
Joseph Rowe
Carol Stewart
Irene Thornstom
Judy Watkins
Sua Bright
Anita Burson
Sue Cook
Betty Cox
Cherry Etter
James Gilbert
Glenda Hawley
Charlene Horton
Mary Ann Jones
Sara Key
Vivian Light
John Nix
Wells Nutt
Vannzelle Powell
Rowena Rowe
Jack Ruggles
Bill Tooley
Bennis Tullis
Janete Warren
Ernest Whitten
Vonda Worthey
Oiiver Adams
Judy Arnold
Della Barwick
Barbara Bright
Steve
Jimmy Lauterbach
Dawanna O'Sheen
Judy Rateliff
Reba Russell
Jimmy Tate
Steve Walden
Judith Weaver
Betty Williams
Bill Bridgers
Lanora Messer
William Perkins
Yoni Thompson
Pansy Adams
Winston Duke
Bill Freeman
Kay Gresham
Gladys Mattles
Natcy May
Polly Ruth Me. Corkle
Judith Anne Percell
David Watkins
Uth
Velora Bright
Hart Dudley
Pat Dupuy
Hogge Gibson
Edgar Henderson
Wanda Stanley
James Bowen
June Evans
BU Schooley
Carolyn Brooks
Sandra Juingen
Mary Jean Sparks
Marilyn Reece
Billie Sue Brown
Betty Wheelington
Frank Mason
Shirley Faye Allen
Carole Coop
Sherrie Hawkins
Cynthia Harrison
Caryl Joy Myers
Nancy Reece
Marilyn Shields
Sue Ann Smith
Edwina Whitman
Barbara Caston
Charles Brown
Curtis Churchwell
Judy Easter Jing
Sharon Fielding
Mary Lou Paris
Soldiers Charged With Staging Brawl in Japan
Four American soldiers face charges in a Japanese court for a September 4 brawl in a pinball parlor. Cpl. Walter R. McKenzie Detroit Kenneth J. Reynolds McGehee Ark Alan May Chicago Jesse Nortyke Minneapolis are named. defense argues mistaken identity and that another man was responsible. The case tests foreign court jurisdiction over U.S. personnel and follows a February federal ruling upholding the U.S.–Japan administrative agreement.
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Japan
Arkansas
U.S
Walter R. McKenzie
Detroit
Pfc
Kenneth J. Reynolds
McGehee, Ark
Pfe
Alan May
Chicago
Jesse Nortyke
Minneapolis
Nothr Man
Polio Drive Total Reaches 4249 67 In Campaign Drive
Additional contributions push the annual polio campaign total to 4249 67 announced today by Chairman E P Young Jr. Names and amounts cover numerous individuals and groups including schools and clubs across the community, highlighting broad local support.
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E. P. Young Jr
A. C. Erwin
Lon Coats
Irena Eason
Henry Seaman
C. P. Jones
A. N. Rider
Guy Martin
Gary Formby
Barney Rider
J. E. Mc Wiliams
Glen
P. A. Lewis
Webb Laseter Jr
Ida Carlton
J. C. Broyles
Centerville HD Club
N. B. Coleman
Two Killed in Gun Battle in Chinatown
In Boston Chinatown last night two men died and a third was wounded in a burst of gunfire. Fum Lee, 50, former owner of a Chinese restaurant, killed Jim Chin Kai, 50, assistant secretary of the Chinese Merchants Association, and wounded Wong Jayne, 59, Chinatown mayor Kee, who was killed by police. The shootings occurred on a balcony of the Chinese Mercantile Building and in a conference room as hundreds watched from the street.
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Boston
Fum Lee
Jim Chin Kai
The
Chinese Merchants Association
Wong Jayne
Chinatown
Kee
Chinese Mercantile
Plastic Balloons Are Harmless
The Crusade for Freedom claims its plastic balloons launched from Western Germany spread truth behind the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia reports observing Crusade balloons over airline routes and investigates a recent plane crash that killed 22 people. The Crusade says payloads carry newspapers up to eight pounds and that US civil aviation rules deem loads of 10 pounds or less safe.
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New York
Crusade For Freedom
Germany
Czechoslovakia
United Nations
Crusade
U. S
Lot of Trouble for Minor Surgery in DARK Alabama
Tiny Conway weighs 41 pounds and faces repeated hospital problems after an appendectomy last October. A ruptured incision led to a rushed ambulance transfer and bed shortages hindered care. The circus performer discusses ongoing medical difficulties and delays in receiving proper treatment.
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Tiny) Conway
Senate Inquiry Expands in Case Gas Bill Probe
Sen. Francis Case faces questions as a broader probe into campaign contributions and backers emerges. A grand jury summons involving M. Neff ties Lexington to possible strings attached and raises questions about improper influence on the natural gas bill. Case says he will cooperate and may request a broader hearing next week if needed.
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Washington
A. Bipaeti
Senate
Wight
Bes
Francis Case
R-Sd
Bridges
Secretary of Man
Ingu
Bridgers
George
M. Neff
Lexington
Neff
Thi
Jor
Tybiere
Griffin Land
Griff Griffin
Griffin
Denver Airliner Attack Suspect Charged in Death Shuffle
By Frank Pitman Denver bureau reports a 24 year old John ham accused of injuring a passenger and causing a mother and 43 others to be dragged in an airliner incident. The injured Graham I was rushed to a hospital in a deathly attack debate.
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Frank
Pitman
Denver
John Ham
Bing
Graham I
Harrison Me U S Appointee Named To National Board
A Little Rock businessman named Harrison Me U S Appointee to a national advisory body, with responsibilities across regional areas, was announced by Jackson Dry Goods. The appointment marks a shift in local business influence toward national governance.
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Little Rock
Jackson
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