Arkansas House debates 300 Million highway bond bill
The Arkansas House Roads and Highways Committee introduced a 300 million bond proposal to fund highways. Rep. Preston Bynum said 70 percent would go to the state, 15 percent to counties, 15 percent to cities, with gasoline tax revenue pledged for a 30 year repayment. Bonds could be issued in stages if bids fall within specified rates.
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Arkansas House
House Roads and HighWays Committee
Preston Bynum
Siloath Springs
Bynum
Highway Commission
State Highway Department
Hal Johnson
Highway Department
Bennie Ryburn Jr
Monticello
Dale Bumpers
Oscar Alagood
Alagood
Charles Brown
Politicians and Pests Echo in Arkansas Redistricting Debate
The Arkansas scene features satirical notes on Congress and public life followed by a draft of a bill to permit closed sessions on pending litigation and social function exemptions. Senators Walmsley Womack and Caldwell unveiled a redistricting plan with a 1200 person variance, reflecting closer district populations and a proposed shift of Independence County between the 1st and 2nd districts.
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Little Rock
Bill H. Walmsley
Batesville
J. A. Womack
Camden
Jim Caldwell
Rogers
Walmsley
Bumpers
Independence
Hempstead County Names Easter Seal Chairman
Mrs. Joe Jones of Hope, 417 East Thirteenth Street, appointed 1971 Easter Seal chairman for Hempstead County by state chairman Chet Lauck. Campaign runs March 1 to April 11 to fund the Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock and local handicapped needs. Hempstead previously raised 1386 dollars. Mrs. Jones, co owner of Joe's City Bakery, active in American Legion Auxiliary and local church groups, emphasizes ten cent percent stays in state and the society’s aid to Arkansans.
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Joe Jones
Thirteenth Street
Hope
Hempstead County
Chet Lauck
Little Rock
Arkansas
Easter Seal Society For
Crippled Children and Adults of
Moster Seal Society
Jones
Joe’s City Bakery
American Legion
Leslie Huddleston
Jett B. Graves
First Methodist Church of
1970 Traffic Deaths Lowest in Years
CHICAGO AP The nation’s traffic death rate per mile in 1970 was the lowest on record, with 55,300 fatalities and a rate of 5.0 per 100 million vehicle miles. The declines came despite more drivers and vehicles, credited to safer cars, better highways, and stricter state laws.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Council
John DL. Lawlor
Lawlor
Abel
Military spy safeguards discredited by Illinois congressman
Illinois Rep. Abner Mikva condemns Pentagon's plan for domestic intelligence oversight as insufficient and vows to push legislation making military home spying a felony. He cites his own file and questions assurances from Sec. Laird and Sec. Resor while Senate testimony looms.
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Associated Press
Washington
Illinois
Pentagon
Abner J. Mikva
Army
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Pentagon Review Council
United States
Laird
Mikva
Stanley Resor
Sen
Adlai Stevenson TI
Mikya
Senate
Navy
Air Force
Defense Intelligence Agency
Asst
Robert F. Froehlke
DIA
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Froehlke
Council
Ogden Reid
Arkansas Weather Summary and Forecast Brief
Experiment Station reports 24 hour period ending 7 a.m. Friday with high 69 and low 48 and precipitation of 0.93 inch. Forecast calls for clear conditions in the north and mostly cloudy skies in the south tonight and Saturday. Mild conditions continue tonight and Saturday with lows in the upper 40s to low 50s and Saturday highs mostly in the 60s.
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Arkansas
Harvard paleontologist finds 5 million year old jaw fragment
Cambridge Massachusetts AP Harvard paleontologist Dr Bryan Patterson reports discovery of a 5 million year old fragment of the jaw of an early member of the human family. The find from the Lake Rudolf region of Kenya, announced Thursday, is described as the oldest Australopithecus specimen yet found, potentially linking to later forms leading to Homo sapiens.
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Harvard
Bryan Patterson
Lake Rudolf
Kenya
Nonstudent Arrested on U of A Campus
Lonnie Ferguson of Springdale, a nonstudent, was arrested on the University of Arkansas campus for selling copies of the Ozark Mountain Times after earlier warnings against campus vending. He faces a fine of 25 to 100 dollars or up to six months in jail under a 1967 state property trespass law. Joe Saunders of the Ozark Mountain Times Collective was arrested recently for similar activity. Dr. Otto H. Zinke of U A and the state ACLU plan to challenge the law as a right to assembly violation.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Lonnie Ferguson
Springdale
Ozark Mountain Times
University of Arkansas
Ferguson
Joe Saunders
Otto H. Zinke
State American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
Saunders
Eight Appointments Confirmed and One Rejected in Arkansas
In Little Rock the Arkansas state Senate rejected Robert Nabholz of Conway for a six year Waterways Commission term and confirmed Dave Ward of Conway. Gov. Bumpers' eight other appointments were approved to various state posts including Texarkana, Paragould, Fort Smith, Prescott, Camden, El Dorado, Harrison, and Brinkley. Trudeau accused of obscenities by opposition lawmakers in Ottawa.
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Arkansas State University Board of Trustees
James D. Roebuck
Fort Smith
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
Roland Culp
Prescott
Savings and Loan Association Board
James D. Reynolds
Camden
Richard L. Chitwood
el Dorado
Advisory Council For
Vocational-Technical Education
Ralph Bowers
Harrison
Arkansas Tech Board of Trustees
Dorothy McDonald
Brinkley
Brewer
Russell Owen
Marked Tree
ASU
Owen
Bumpers
Rockefeller
Elijah Coleman
Little Rock
Obituaries List From Friday February 19 1971
J T Oller 70 of Spring Hill died Thursday native of Fulton body lies in state at Herndon Funeral Home Friday 4 p m until 10 a m Saturday service at Southside Baptist Church Rev C Byers survivors include wife Nobie two sons Paul and David daughter Aradeen two stepdaughters Ann Everly and Ruth Ross Also Stevie Jackson 11 son of Mrs Lucy Winemiller Barratiere funeral Saturday at Killeen Texas Adol f A Berle Jr 76 diplomat and lawyer died Wednesday Jaime Cardinal de Barros Câmara 76 archbishop of Rio de Janeiro died Thursday David M Potter 60 Stanford historian died Thursday cancer funeral notes included
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J. T. Oller
Spring Hill
Fulton
Herndon Funeral Home
Southside Baptist Church
C. Byers
Nobie Oller
Irma Foster
Ruston
O. D. Oller
Hope
Paul Oller
David Oller
Texarkana
Aradeen Huckabee
Little Rock
Ann Everly
Ruth Ross
Augusta
Stevie Jackson
Lucy Winemiller Barratiere
Killeen
Texas
Mink wins bid to open postal inspector jobs to women
Rep Patsy Mink of Hawaii announced a victory over the Post Office Department as a male only job standard for postal inspector positions was lifted. She had condemned the September rule as a direct discrimination in federal employment and pushed for equal opportunity.
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Post Office Washington
Patsy T. Mink
Hawaii
Post Office Department
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