Alcohol Viewed as Nation's Costly Health Problem
A government report calls alcohol the nation’s top abused drug, noting about 9.6 million Americans are alcoholics or abusers and the economy bears $15 billion yearly. It urges a unified federal effort for treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation and warns alcohol is linked to a large share of homicides and traffic deaths.
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John Stowell
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
National Institute On Alcohol and Alcoholism
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Rural Development Bill Sparks House Fight Next Week
Multibillion-dollar rural development bill aims to curb urban migration by expanding Farmers Home Administration credit and pollution control financing, with emphasis on community development. Opponents call it too costly, proposing new and unbudgeted federal aid amidst a $39-billion deficit.
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Carl C. Craft
Associated Press
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Congress
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House Agriculture Committee
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Page Belcher
Oklahoma
Farmers Home Administration
Agriculture Department
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Poage
Nixon
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Warnock Proposes Petition to Halt AM&N Merger
Camden lawyer John Norman Warnock, a segregationist spokesman, volunteered to help Arkansas AM&N College in Pine Bluff remain racially identified. He sent a letter to AM&N president Lawrence A. Davis proposing blacks circulate petitions to repeal merger legislation and offered free to prepare a referendum petition to place the matter on the ballot with sufficient signatures.
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John Norman Warnock
Camden
Arkansas Am&n College
Pine Bluff
Warnock
Lawrence A. Davis
Arkansas Am&n
Am&n
University of Arkansas
Arkansas 24 Hour Weather and Forecast Update
Experiment Station report covers 24 hours ending 7 am Friday with highs near the upper 40s to upper 50s and a low around 20s to 30s. State forecast for Arkansas calls for fair and cooler conditions today and tonight, partly cloudy Saturday with warmer readings in the west, highs in the lower 50s to upper 60s and lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
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Arkansas
Cool Weather for Weekend In Arkansas
The Associated Press reports cooler temperatures and no precipitation for Arkansas this weekend. A high pressure ridge of cool dry air dominates, with overnight lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s and Saturday highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s. Oil Fayetteville 32 and other city lows listed. rainfall totals in various cities include Harrison 0.06 inches and El Dorado 0.32 inches.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Great Lakes
Tennessee
Alabama
Texas
Canada
Fayetteville
Harrison
Jonesboro
Pine Bluff
Texarkana
el Dorado
Memphis
Little Rock
Fort Smith
Suit Filed to Void Pine Bluff Parade Ordinance
A federal suit filed in Little Rock seeks to void Pine Bluff parade ordinances and prevent harassment of Arkansas AM&N Student Government Association officers. The action, led by John W. Walker, targets a July 1 merger plan with the University of Arkansas amid peaceful student demonstrations.
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U.S. District Court
Pine Bluff
John W. Walker
Arkansas Am&n Student Government Association
Am&n Sga
Pine Bluff College
University of Arkansas
California Supreme Court Bans Death Penalty
The California Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional, affecting 100 inmates on death rows including Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson. The decision states juries may not impose death for murder, aligning with prior stay of executions since 1967.
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California Supreme Court
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Robert F. Kennedy
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
State Supreme Court
California
High Court
Memphis busing furor marked by planned funeral protest
Memphis faces a nationwide weekend of mourning over school desegregation busing. A staged funeral procession led by a hearse will travel from the school board to the federal building, with wreathing and a eulogy as anti busing groups protest new desegregation orders.
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
Sam Saed
Charles Black
Obituary notices for Gourney Eley Powell deaths
Three obituary notices from Prescott McCaskill and Longview report the deaths of Elba Mortow Gourney Walter D. Eley and Jesse L. Powell with surviving family details and funeral arrangements. Services were held in Pleasant Hill Belton and Providence churches with burials in Pleasant Hill Belton Anderson cemeteries.
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Home, Ark
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Pete Glass
Hope
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Thurman Lewis
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
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Nashville
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DeQueen
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Modesto
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South Carolina
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Hot Springs
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Benton
Burn Cooley
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Belton Cemetery
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Longview
Texas
Patmos
Unity Baptist Church of
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Earline Clark
Flora Hogg
Mary Ann Emmons
Johnny Powell
Louisiana
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O’dell Powell
Indiana
Lou Powell
Fort Worth
Ora Bobo
Josephine Curtis
Bennie Jean Purtle
Laneburg
Dora Burns
Nora Weise
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Owens
Benny Tines
Anderson Cemetery
Herndon Funeral Home
Equalization Board Discussed At Public Meeting In Hempstead County
The public relations sub committee of the Citizens Committee For Better Quality Schools met at the Parker home with attendees including Vice-Chairman Tom Buchholzer and several local residents. They reviewed County Equilization Board origins under Act 84-702 and its three member makeup in Hempstead County, noting appointers, terms, August meetings, and per diem. They also cited assessor procedures from the Assessor's Handbook No 84-707 and announced the next sub committee meeting for February 23 at the Arringtons' Oakhaven home.
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Citizens Committee For Better Quality Schools
Donal Parker
Tom Buchholzer
Troy Bass
Jim Rowland
Carl Lee Arrington
Donald Worthy
Myrtle Primus
Rose Marie Shirey
Nancy Morrison
Hempstead
Lester Kent
H.E. Sutton
Charles Jones
Kent
Pat House
Jones
Sutton
Odom
Assessment Coordination Department
The
Arkansas Public Service Commission
Oakhaven
Nobody Knows Where Rates of Interest Are Headed
AP analysis notes uncertainty in interest rate direction amid big deficits and inflation worry. Forecasts vary from higher long-term bonds to potential stock market weakness, with economists split on how quickly rates rise. Even Fed Chair Burns notes some doubt as deficit spending absorbs idle capacity before inflation or rate changes occur. The piece also mentions a local church message by Rev. Gerald Schleiff and missionary context.
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John Cunniff
New York
Eastman Dillon
Securities House
Ital
Federal Reserve Board
Arthur F. Burns
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Gusty Midwest Storm Closes Roads and Schools
A fierce winter storm swept through Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa with winds to 90 mph and blowing snow. The Iowa patrol closed northern highways and turned away motorists while Minnesota warned drivers to stay off the roads. Schools closed and bus lines halted in affected areas.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Midwest
Iowa Highway Patrol
Fugitive Armstrong Captured by Canadian Police
Karleton Lewis Armstrong, 24, one of four suspects in the August 24 1970 Sterling Hall bombing at the University of Wisconsin, was arrested without a struggle in a Toronto rooming house. He is held for immigration inquiry. the blast killed graduate student Robert Fassnacht. The capture reduces the FBI list of top fugitives to 12, with seven political activists remaining. A note on Ontario deer population follows.
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Sterling Hall
University of Wisconsin
Army Mathematics Research Center
Robert Fassnacht
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