Hope Ark Star Reports Deputy Killed In Arkansas Shootout
In Hope, Arkansas, an arrested man pulled a deputy sheriff’s revolver and killed Deputy Casto Robertson, 56, and critically wounded Chief Deputy Maurice Southern, 44, as officers chased the suspect who fled toward I-40. The assailant, shot three times, was captured about 50 miles south after a high speed chase with state troopers and county deputies. Charges of murder burglary and grand larceny await filing.
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Lincoln
Ark
Arkansas
Arthur Davidson
Washington County
Casto Robertson
Maurice Southern
Fayetteville
Here
Davidson
Robertson
Southern
van Buren
Alma
Ross Valentine
William Vickery
Crawford County
Arkansas #9
Vickery
Valentine
Community events and obituaries in Arkansas Negro press
Calendar items include Keystone Lodge meeting, Union Baptist Church pageant Twelve Keys to God's Resources, Arkansas Baptist College choir robes fund, Yerger High School chorus program, Green Leaf Tea by Janoke Senior choir, NAACP Hope Hempstead County chapter meeting. Obituaries note Lee Autry Walker and Taylor Scoggins with funeral details.
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The
Mission Society of Union Baptist Church
Fulton
Arkansas
Janoke
Sup
July Straughter
C.G. Carmichael
Hope Hempstead County
NAACP
Lonoke Baptist Church
Arkansas Supreme Court rules against Little Rock port land seizure
The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a ruling denying Little Rock the power of eminent domain to condemn land along the Arkansas River for a port and industrial park, finding the evidence favored private use and noting no constitutional grant of such power. The decision affirms a Pulaski Chancery Court ruling in favor of S. L. and Mary Raines. The case also covers related murder and injury awards from state cases and other appellate decisions.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
Arkansas River
Pulaski Chancery Court
S. L. Raines MI
Mary Raines
Arkansas
Murray Wells
State Penitentiary
Wells
Mao Signals Possible Olive Branch to Foes
In Tokyo, Mao Tse-tung showed signs of offering a tentative reconciliation. Shanghai's Wen Hui Pao and the official Dal ly in Peking urged cadres who confessed crimes and joined May's faction to be welcomed, portraying repentant rebels as capable of returning to party lines.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
Shanghai
Wen Hui Pao
Peking People’s Dally
May
Fort Smith propose five member city commission
A bill on page one would expand Fort Smith’s board of commissioners from three to five to end administrative deadlock after a commissioner’s death and ongoing disputes between the remaining two. Other measures include shifting funds for the Public School Fund, raising revolving loan bond interest to 5 percent, allowing certain gas stations near state lines to match interstate tax rates, permitting a city attorney appointment in large first class cities, and retirement benefits for mayors age 62 with 10 years’ service in large cities.
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Fort Smith
Board of Commissioners
ENATE
Permanent
Weather Station Report Summary for Arkansas and Louisiana
Weather experiment station report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Tuesday. Arkansas: high 45, low 24. Generally fair tonight, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. Not so cold tonight and warmer Wednesday, low tonight 26, high Wednesday in the 50s. Louisiana: partly cloudy and rather cold through Wednesday, low tonight 28 to 38 with scattered frost, high Wednesday in the 50s. Reports by The Associated Press.
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Albany
Albuquerque
Atlanta
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Boise
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Buffalo
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Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Juneau
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Louisville
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Miami
Milwaukee
Mpis
St.p
New Orleans
New York
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City
Omaha
Philadelphia
al Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Ptind
Ore
Rapid City
Richmond
St. Louis
Salt Sk
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Winnipeg
92 Dead in Floods in Brazil
The Rio de Janeiro region faced days of heavy rains and landslides leaving at least 92 killed and thousands homeless. Guanabara State reported 52 dead with several housing collapses in Rio city. Niteroi tallies reached 40, many children. Official tolls incomplete due to communication gaps.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Francisco Negrao
Guanabara
Rio
Niteroi
Walter de Almeida Castro
Paraiba
Paria
Obituary and Moonbounce update headline mix
Robert H. Henry of Little Rock dies after a long illness. His widow Rose Marie of Washington D C survives along with three brothers and two sisters. Services will be held Wednesday in Little Rock. Syl vonia Electronic Systems delivers moonbounce gear for Navy shipboard terminals, enabling moon-reflected radio signals for worldwide communications and faster ship-to-ship teletype links. The Moonbounce plan reduces atmospheric interference that now disturbs signals. The Star of the South remains noted as a famed Brazilian diamond.
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Robert H. Henry
Little Rock
Rose Marie
Washington, D. C
Lettle Collier
Hope
Myrtle Lee
Los Angeles
Cary Henry
John
el Dorado
Willie Henry
California
NAVY
Moonbounge
Buffalo
N.Y
Sylvonia Electronic Systems
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Delores McBride
Star
Franklin
Keystone Lodge No. 43
H. L. Washington
W. M
Southwest District Singing Convention
Arkansas Baptist College Choir
Yerger High School
Kenneth Paul Benefield
Will Reide
Beebe
Er White
Lee Autry Walker
Nashville Hospital
St. Luke Co. M. E. Church
Oran
St. Luke Cemetery
Hicks Funeral Home, Inc
Taylor Scoggins
St. Luke C. M. E
Ozan
Hicks Funeral Home , Inc
Jackie Hockaday
Howard County
Mattie Sanders
Pike
Naomi Hill
Sevier
Cecil Waller
Columbia
Vivian Lambert
Miller
Verner McMurtrey
Hempstead
Ernest Graham
Howard
Cecil Waleler
Lee Henslee
Everett Eason
Velda Hoge
Hot Springs
Rufe
Wayne McNew
Time Freight Inc
U.S. 65
Conway
McNew
Mao
Bill
Ford
Lake Placid
Fairlane
Mustang
Unuion
Pure Oil
Hope Auto Company, Inc
W. Second St
Arkopsas
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