Suburban voters face annexation vote split in Arkansas
The editor argues against HB 222 to repeal Act 65 of 1969 which required separate tallies for city and suburban annexation votes. He warns the measure returns to combined voting, disenfranchising rural property owners, and urges letters to Rep. Mack McLarty to oppose the bill as unfair and dangerous to municipal funding and services.
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General Assembly
Assembly
House Committee On City & County Affairs
de Paas
Mack McLarty
Arkansas
Little Rock
Little
Occasional Rain in Arkansas Ends Cooling Trend
The Associated Press reports occasional rain and scattered thunderstorms in Arkansas were to end today with cooler air moving in tonight through Saturday. Lows in the 20s to 30s, highs Saturday in the 40s to 50s. A low pressure system remains in control through Saturday. severe thunderstorm bulletin issued at midnight Thursday was canceled with no severe weather reported. The article also notes temperatures earlier in the week and a separate Washington note about Pat Nixon and fashion comments.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
National Weather Service
Jonesboro
Texarkana
Hoffa Urged Not to Run From Prison Action
Miami Beach AP report says Teamster leaders including Vice President Harold Gibbons will try to dissuade James R. Hoffa from seeking re election if he remains in prison. Hoffa serves an eight year sentence for jury tampering at Lewisburg PA. Gibbons and two other vice presidents withhold support from Frank Fitzsimmons if Hoffa loses parole in March.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Teamster
James R. Hoffa
Jimmy
Harold Gibbons
St. Louis
Gibbons
Hoffa
Lewisburg
Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
Liquor Issue Faces Senate Vote on Trade Law Repeal
Arkansas Governor Bumpers signals openness to higher teacher pay funded from school operating money if available but cautions no guarantee without administrators and legislature input. Senate moves to take up HB3 repealing guaranteed liquor markup amid procedural wrangling as Sen. Mutt Jones holds the bill pending potential amendments.
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Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
Bumpers
Arkansas Senate
Senate
Guy H. ‘Mutt’ Jones
Conway
Jones
Bill H. Walmsley
Batesville
Ben Allen
Personal Income Advances in January Amid GM Strike Rebound
Washington AP reports the nation's personal income rose by 8 billion in January driven by employment gains higher wages and longer hours. The surge at an annual rate of 825.5 billion reflects a rebound after the General Motors strike settlement and exceeds 1970's average monthly gain.
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Washington
Commerce Department
General Motors
Getting Teenagers Fed Properly Is a Very Big Dietary Problem
Hal Boyle humorously details life with a seventeen year old daughter Tracy and a diet-choosing cat. The piece recounts Tracy's ever shifting food fads from grapefruit to pizza, a vegetarian phase, and a failed prophecy about teeth, while the narrator laments parental dietary battles and even contemplates his own light weight loss.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Tracy
Lady Dottie
Daddy
U.S
Child Perishes in House Fire Near Huntsville Arkansas
In Huntsville area a four year old boy Gary Drain son of Mr and Mrs Alvin Drain died in a blaze that destroyed the family home five miles northeast of Huntsville A passerby Ted Van Hook saw the fire helped the mother and another child escape The interior was fully involved when he arrived He reported hearing Gary crying but could not reach him The boy wore braces on both legs.
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Huntsville
Ark
Gary Drain
Alvin Drain
Ted van Hook
van Hook
Gary
State Dinner Entertainer Anna Maria Alberghetti
Actress singer Anna Maria Alberghetti will entertain at a White House state dinner next Thursday for Italian Prime Minister Emilio Colombo. Colombo is a guest of President Nixon for talks on mutual problems on Feb 18 19. The white tie dinner will cap his arrival-day ceremonies.
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Washington
Anna Maria Alberghetti
White House
Emilio Colombo
Nixon
Colombo
UN Sweden aid Cuba institute for frozen foods
UN and Sweden jointly grant Cuba 2 million to create an institute for the manufacture and conservation of frozen foods. Cuba will add 4.5 million over five years. UN ESC council will send 16 technicians and provide 19 scholarships for Cuban students abroad.
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Miami
United Nations
Sweden
Cuba
Radio Havana
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Welfare Abuse Team Formed in Nixon Admin
The Nixon administration is assembling up to 55 specialists in the Department of Health Education and Welfare to form a Welfare Abuse Team. They will pursue misrepresentation, fraud, payment errors, and welfare abuses detected in programs.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Israel to Reject Peace Envoy Plan Reportedly
Israeli officials say Gunnar V. Jarring overstepped his mandate by proposing a peace settlement. Government sources indicate the Swedish envoy was to aid contact between Israelis and Arabs, not initiate formal proposals under UN Security Council Resolution 242.
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Marcus Eliason
Associated Press
Jerusalem
Israel
Middle East
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Seources
Security Council
Jarring
Hempstead Tops in January Traffic Deaths and Crashes
Arkansas State Police report January traffic fatalities totaled 43 in the month, eight deaths in the Hope district. Hempstead led counties with two deaths and 11 accidents, while Miller, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Clark, Pike, Sevier, and Nevada reported varying crash counts. Drinking and speed were major contributing factors. 40 fatal crashes occurred statewide in January. Troopers will renew aggressive enforcement to cut deaths.
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Arkansas State Police
Milton Mosier
Hope District
Arkansas
Hempstead
Sevier
Pike
Miller
Lafayette County
Little River
Clark
Howard
Nevada
Mosier
Miller County
Tropers
Quake Deaths and $1 Billion Loss in SoCal Disaster
Officials count 58 deaths from the Southern California quake and debris searches continue. Damage estimates rise to 1 billion dollars as 80,000 residents may return home after evacuations. A San Fernando Valley reservoir remains drained while water safety and outages affect thousands.
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Los Angeles
California
Veterans Administration Hospital
Sylmar
Frank Carbonara
Carbonara
San Fernando Valley
San Fernando
Thomas S. Kleppe
Small Business Administration
Los Angeles Area
TWA to Lay Off 50 Pilots After March 6
Kansas City AP report: Trans World Airlines will lay off 50 pilots after March 6, as confirmed by TWA and the Air Line Pilots Association on Thursday.
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TWA
Kansas City
Trans World Airlines
Airline
Air Line Pilots Association
Plane Losses Are Heavy in Indochina War
In Indochina the U S command disclosed the loss of twelve American aircraft, eleven supporting the South Vietnamese campaign in Laos and Cambodia. Fourteen Americans were killed and seven wounded in crashes across the theater. President Nixon prepared for a long holiday with a world situation briefing set for February 25. A nine mayor panel led by John V Lindsay charged the Nixon administration with reverse revenue sharing and cuts in federal aid. Apollo 14 astronauts returned to Space Center Houston for a family reunion and entered two weeks of isolation in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory.
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U.S
Indochina
Laos
Cambodia
San Francisco
John V. Lindsay
New York
Space Center, Houston
Lunar
George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Laoe
A Shan
U.S. Command
Quang Tri
Michael Putzel
Price
South Vietnam
J C Penney Dies at 99 in New York
New York AP reports J C Penney founder of a vast retail chain died at 95 in Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after a heart attack. He built a 1700-store empire and worked daily at his desk in the Penney building.
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New York
J.C. Penney
Harkness Pavillion
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Penney
Missouri
Bake sale, supper, and tournament around town this weekend
The Council of Catholic Women hosts a bake sale in Village Shopping Center in front of West Department Store Saturday February 13 from 9 30 a m to noon to fund new pews for the church The Hope Roundup Club holds a Valentine Supper Saturday February 13 at 7 p m at the WOW Hall with games and a salad or dessert bring center A booster club sponsors an independent basketball tournament March 11 13 in Plain Dealing entry fee 15 per team contact Merie Gore at 326 5999 A Millwood fishing report notes pool elevation 259 27 discharge 1950 cfs water near normal surface temp 42 degrees January lake visitation 76 100 The Yard of the Month winners named by the Hope Council of Garden Clubs Items include the Bryants Watkins Walker Leverett Cobb families A bald eagle sighting near Millwood The Arkansas Education Association holds an open meeting in Little Rock with Hope school delegates listed
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Council of Catholic Women
West Department Store
Hope Roundup Club
Wow Hall
Plain Dealing
Academy Booster Club
Merie Gore
Millwood Corps of Engineers
Poole
Pentagon Fights Change in Intelligence Oversight
Joint Chiefs of Staff resist Defense Secretary Melvin Laird plan to strip their control of the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA has reported to directly report to Laird DIA has run under JCS since 1961 to supervise military intelligence collection and processing Laird aims to tighten civilian control amid persistent criticism of military intelligence performance worldwide
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Dobkin
Washington (Ap
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Defense Intelligence Agency
JCS
DIA
Laird
Joint Chiefs
Defense Department
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