Two Oklahoma Officers Shot to Death
An Oklahoma incident near Fountainhead State Park left Highway Patrolman Bill J. Walker and Park Superintendent Leo Newton dead. Ranger W. L. Pickens was wounded as two armed youths fled in a blue Plymouth Valiant with Texas plates. Authorities sought the gunmen, while a federal training event at the lodge raised security.
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Eufaula
Newton
Ken
Pickens
Walker
Arkansas
Texas
Watson Chapel Group Protests Desegregation Ruling
About 300 people gathered for a goat roust at a Sulphur Springs farm protesting the Watson Chapel school desegregation order. A spokesman said the goat symbolized U.S. District Judge Oren E. Harris of El Dorado, who ordered the district to desegregate or risk contempt penalties.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Sulphur Springs
Watson Chapel
U.S
Arkansas Senator pushes circuit realignment bill
LITTLE ROCK AP Senator Guy H. Jones won Senate approval to redraw the Fifth Judicial Circuit, creating a new 21st circuit with Streett as prosecutor and a shrunken Fifth with Roberts as judge. The measure shifts Pope, Yell, and Johnson to the new 21st, Conway, Faulkner, and Perry to the new Fifth, with potential House passage and gubernatorial action.
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House
John Plegge
Little Rock
Secretary of State
Senate
Milt Earnhart
Fort Smith
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Virgil T. Fletcher
Benton
John F. Gibson
Dermott
Gibson
Sen
Darrell Johnson
van Buren
Clarence E. Bell
Parkin
Commission On Higher Educational Finance
State Board of Higher Education
Bell
Dorothy Allen
Brinkley
Ben Bynum
Siloam Springs
Ivan Rose
Rogers
Guy H. ‘Mutt
Jones
Conway
5Th Judicial Circuit
Russell C. Roberts
Alex G. Streett
Streett
Perry County
Roberts
Pulaski County
State Supreme Court
Attorney General’s
5Th Circuit
Pope
Johnson
Yell
Faulkner
Perry
Faulkner County
Russellville
Pope County
Dale Bumpers
Bumpers
21St Circuit
Marlin Hawkins
Conway County
Senate Chamber
Jeunes
Bill
Oscar Alaguud
Ben Allen
Joe T. Ford
Max Howell
Hubert Harvey
Swifton
Sick Walsett
Pocahontas
J. A
Arkansas Lawmaker Addresses Education and Tax Debates
Worack of Curiden summarizes his stance on education funding in Arkansas, urging growth tied to the state's economy. He supports teacher pay increases and a 26 million revenue rise while noting resistance to a sales tax hike amid inflation and fiscal pressures.
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Washington
Arkansas
Econoim
Arkla Penalty Clause Filing Question Faces PSC Hearing
Arkla failed to file a proposed 8 cent per 1000 cubic feet penalty clause in a 1964 natural gas sale contract with Continental Oil Co. The omission could bolster Arkla’s position to void many industrial customer contracts as PSC considers rate reforms and pipeline financing for Arkla’s Arkansas supply.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co
Continental Oil Co
State Public Service Commission
Arkla
Conoco
PSC
Vietnamese Crackdown Expands as Saigon Units Press South
Reported actions show 2,500 Saigon troops in central highlands near Cambodia and 23,000 more operating 200 miles farther south on a 100 mile front, blocking highways from eastern Cambodia into southern Vietnam. North Vietnamese resist, U.S. helicopters sustain drives. three helicopters and an F4 downed in Laos with crews' fates uncertain. South Vietnamese scouts move toward Sepone as operations continue since Feb 8.
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Cambodia
North Vietnam
Indochina
Nixon
Congress
Gunnar V. Jarring
Middle East
Israel
United Arab Republic
Laos
Sepone
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Dmz
U.S
China
South
Vietnam
Saigon
Highlands
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Wen Net
Yer Analaska
Turkey
Pacific Basin
Los Angeles
Ner Bey
Peru
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Italy
Pacific Ocean
Mediterranean
Himalayas
Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Iceland
Oklahoma
McClemens Texaco Service
Highway
J. W. McClemens
Dewler
Worack of
Curiden
Goodyear
Tae
Fez
Price Tach Blackwe
Sala Price Tach
Blackwall
Ubsles
Sita
Goodyear Service
Goodoyear Service Store
West
Hope, Ark
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