Star Visitors Observe Modern Printing Plant Upgrades
The Star hosts Benton Courier and Malvern Daily Record visitors inspecting rotary offset presses fitting a national trend. Benton and Malvern aim to convert to offset. Star began in 1965 and plans further testing of computer typesetters this spring while continuing equipment modernization. John Bruce Cox visits, recounting a 40 year link to former editor days and travel plans to Australia with his wife in March.
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Ance
American Press
Star
Benton Courier
Ron Meyer
Caroll Powell
Malvern Daily Record
Fordyce News+ Advocate
Bill) Whitehead
Fordyce Weekly
Malvern Daily
Paul H. Jones
Bastrop
Daily Enterprise
Friden
Billy Dan Jones
John Bruce Cox
el Dorado Daily News
Mr. Cox
Nan
Plough
Memphis
Mrs. Cox
San Francisco
Mariposa
Hansen Lines
Australia
Receiver Has Collected 1.1 Million in Bankrupt Arkansas Case
Fort Smith Arkansas AP Jem C Bryan court appointed receiver for bankrupt Arkansas AL&T and Thrift Corp has collected 1 128 472 toward 2 000 depositors and organizations. Total deposits in the firm exceeded 34 3 million. Funds stem from collection of debts force closures and cash assets of AL T and Savings Guaranty Corp. Lawsuits against debtors will be paid as collected and no money will go to officials or firms with AL T or director interests.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Jem C. Bryan
Fort Smith
Arkansas
An & Thrift Corp
Ne US District Court At
Bryan
Ala&t
Savings Guaranty Corp
Al&t
Nixon in Paris for talks with De Gaulle in Western peace push
President Nixon arrived in Paris amid a warm reception to seek French support for a new Western purpose and a just lasting peace. He met with President Charles de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace after wreath laying at France’s Unknown Soldier memorial. The crowds were friendly though not massive, with some fearing demonstrations by the Communist party.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
PARIS
Nixon
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
U.S
City of Light
Communist Party
Orly
The
United States
Broad Champs Elysees
Elysees
Camden Man Shoots Wife and Kills Himself
In Camden Arkansas 31 year old Joseph Lowe shot his wife Evelyn 27 at their Lowann home then killed himself with a 9mm pistol after dialing authorities. He had briefly wounded her as she returned from Smackover hospital where she had spent the night with two of their three children.
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Camden
Ark
Ap- Ouneshua County
Grover Linebaker
Joseph Lowe
Jack Graves
Lowe
Evelyn
Graves
Czech Hall Road name misspelled backward
Oklahoma City residents note Czech Hall Road name once honored their Czech Osborn descent. city crews repainted signs after a complaint that it read Check Hall Road. Now all the Cs in Czech appeared backward, prompting further concern from Mrs. Rubes.
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Oklahoma City
Czech Hall Road
Don Rubes
City Street High
Check Hall Road
James H. Robinson
Peace talks hinge on Vietnam offensive and tacit deal
American and South Vietnamese negotiators say the current offensive has not violated the tacit understanding that halted bombing last November. Chief negotiator Lodge to present a report to President Nixon as Ky attends part of the talks. Delegates review the stalemate and Viet Cong attacks with focus on civilian casualties versus military targets.
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Michael Goldsmith
Associated Press
PARIS
Vietnam
United States
North Vietnam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nixon
Nguyen Cao Ky
Lodge
Nguyen Thien Dan
Harold Kaplan
Kaplan
Hanoi
Nguyen Thanh le
Washington
House
All Women Think They Are Entitled to Get Alimony
HAL BOYLE argues that women seek alimony while many men earn little sympathy in divorce. The column mixes satirical observations about alimony, tipping, banking, taxes, and social status with quips on balloons, rifles, and two fur coats reflecting midcentury attitudes.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Equal Rights
Eisenhower Develops Pneumonia
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, former president, has developed pneumonia, the Army announced. A Walther Reed Army Hospital bulletin said he is weaker yet cooperative and determined to overcome this complication after abdominal surgery. The pneumonia affects the right lung base and it is too early to judge response to treatment. The Pentagon relayed the bulletin, a departure from the usual hospital-only notices.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Pentagon
Eisenhower
Lawyers to Start Defense for Sirhan
In Los Angeles AP reports Sirhan Bishara Sirhan will begin defense efforts to show the Kennedy shooting was unplanned and impulsive. Attorneys seek diminished responsibility arguing the mind did not permit planned murder. Prosecutors called 56 witnesses in nine days to prove premeditation for first degree murder.
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Los Angeles
Robert F. Kennedy
Sirtan Bishara Sirhan
California
Sirhan
New York
Kennedy
Suit Filed to Halt Payment on Airplane
Rep Sterling R Cockrill Jr of Little Rock fled a taxpayer suit in Chancery Court challenging the state Aeronautics Commission contract to buy a $34000 used airplane. A hearing was set to decide if a temporary injunction blocking payments will be granted and a final trial held. Arkansas Aircraft Inc of Benton said it repriced the plane after $1000 in January and February payments were not made, and Cockrill argued bids were required by the state purchasing act per an attorney general opinion.
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Little Rock
Sterling R. Cockrill Jr
Chancery Court
State Aeronautics Commission
Murray
Reed
Arkansas Aircraft, Inc
Benton
Cockrill
Commission
Made Progress Very Quickly DETROIT AP
Bobby J. Ward a 20 year old from West Virginia found work through a Chamber of Commerce referral office in Detroit. He joined Movement Unlimited as a truck driver, rose to general manager earning about 20000 dollars a year in seven months, and now seeks drivers for planned expansion.
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Detroit
Bobby J. Ward
Chamber of Commerce
Ward
Movement Unlimited
Girl Wins Trip to Tahiti
Cathy Beck from Mount Dora Florida won a Tahiti trip in a shoe company contest that drew 400000 entrants but chose to take the money instead. Sponsors created an $8000 educational trust fund for the student at the Christian Home and Bible School. Cathy said she would love to go but chose practicality.
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Mount Dora
Fla
Cathy Beck
Tahiti
Christian Home
Bible School
Cathy
Shaw Case May Reach Jury Today
In New Orleans criminal district court judge Edward A. Haggerty said the Clay Shaw conspiracy trial could reach the jury late today the 14th day as prosecution witnesses were reported snowbound in the East. Shaw testified denying plotting with Lee Harvey Oswald and others to kill President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
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Bill Crider
Associated Press
Wrier
NEW Orleans (Ap
Criminal District Court
Edward A. Haggerty
Clay Shaw
Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
David W. Ferrie
Kennedy
Dallas
Ossissald
New Orleans
Oswald
Warren Commission
Students in Rome Angry at Everyone
Italian student protests have grown militant since last spring with frequent police clashes. The University of Rome, home to 65,000 students, closed after occupations, as rioters challenged Nixon's visit with widespread demonstrations.
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Dennis Redmont
Associated Press
ROME
Nixon
Italy
Europe
University of Rome
Heart transplant rejection worse than thought study says
Dr Den ton A Cooley team reports from 18 transplants in 17 patients that strong tissue mismatch leads to inexorable rejection, urging better matching and regional donor pools for heart transplantation to become common. The findings were presented to the American College of Cardiology meeting in Houston.
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Brian Sullivan
Setience
NEW York (Ap
Denton A. Cooley
Houston
Tex
James J. Nora
Cooley
American College of Cardiology
Apollo 9 flight postponed over crew illness cost 500000
NASA postponed the Apollo 9 launch by three days due to colds among astronauts James McDivitt David Scott and Russell Schwetnickart and civilian crews. Dr Charles Berry space agency medical chief cited overwork and lack of rest as factors in postflight illnesses noting prior Apollo 7 and 8 problems. The delay incurred a 500000 cost to the agency.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Charles A. Berry
Air Force
James A. McDivitt
David R. Scott
Russell L. Schwetckart
Berry
Space Agency
Frank Borman
Earth
Actress Seeks Divorce in Mexico
HOLLYWOOD AP Actress JM St John is traveling to Mexico to divorce singer Jack Jones, a St John spokesman said Thursday night. The report also notes Nixon's Paris talks and other political items from that era.
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Hollywood
JM St. John
Mexico
Jack Jones
Miss St. John
Night Classes Offered by Tech School in Conn
Red River Vocational Technical School begins night courses on March 4 offering bookkeeping shorthand typing office machines welding machine shop and diesel mechanics. Details available from the business office in HADLYME Conn. Dr. Alice Hamilton, longtime safety advocate and peace activist, turned 100. She won the 1947 Lasker Award and was the first woman on the Harvard medical faculty.
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Red River Vocational Technical School
Hadlyme
Conn
Alice Hamilton
Hamilton
Lasker
U.S. Public Health Service
Harvard Medical
Margaret
All Around Town Events and Local Notices
Lois Glasgow of Patmos in Room 315 at Arkansas Baptist Center Lit tle Rock. Henderson State College to stage The Admirable Crichton March 25 with two from Hope Rae Batson and Carol Williams. Royal Hunt of the Sun March 26 29 at Southern State College Theater featuring Paul McCormack of Hope and Margaret Waddle of Emmet. Elizabeth Lawrence of Hope named finalist in Texas Woman's University Redbud Pageant with campus dance March 28. Millwood Corps reports pool at 260.4 feet discharge 21 700 cfs. bass crappie fishing good. Dr Emmett Thompson attends Arkansas Optometric Society meeting in Camden. Sewing classes begin March 3 for five weeks at home economics cottage. Future Homemakers to volunteer as baby sitters. no charge.
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Crichton
Henderson State College
Hope
Rae Batson
Carol Williams
Southern State College Theater
Paul McCormack
Margaret Waddle
Emmet
Elizabeth Lawrence
L. T. Lawrence
Hope, Ark
Texas Woman’s University
Miss Lawrence
Millwood Corps of Engineers
Joe Harmon
30 Towns Bases Ripped by Shells Near Saigon
Viet Tang shells over 30 towns and bases in South Vietnam during the night. A 100 pound rocket struck a U S Navy dock at Da Nang, sinking two small craft and damaging a third. At least one American was killed, 51 sailors and eight Marines wounded, 300 tons of ammunition destroyed. Civilians evacuated from near the dock. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces were repelled near Saigon with ongoing fighting as U S infantry swept rice paddies and swamps.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
South Vietnam
da Nang
U.S
Edwin Q. White
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Rea
Three Die in Jonesboro Auto Crash
Three persons were killed early today in Jonesboro when a car ran out of control and hit a brick building. State Police identified victims as Danny Watson 23 Corning Floyd A Rodery 19 Greenway and Larry G Davison 20 Marvell. Rodery and Davison were thrown from the car. police cited a wet street and could not determine the driver.
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Jonesboro, Ark
Jonesboro City
Lmits
Danny Watson
Corning
Floyd A. Rodery
Greenway
Larry G. Davison
Marvell
Rodery
Davison
Pair Involved in Robbery Captured In Hindsville Ark
A man and a woman in a bullet marked car were arrested after a robbery at Valley Bank of Hindsville. Identified as Virgie Humphrey and Elzie Clark, they tried to flee a roadblock on Arkansas 68, leaving four bullet holes and a ruined tire. About 2600 dollars in cash and several five thousand dollar bonds were recovered. They faced a preliminary hearing in Springdale Municipal Court and were remanded to county custody.
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Hindsville
Ark
APA
Valley Bank
Springdale
Virgie Jewell Humphrey
Brady
Tex
Elzie Dee Clark
McCool
Miss
Arkansas 68
Springdale Municipal Court
James E. Evans
Oliver Adams
Rogers
Pach
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Arkansas Baptist Center
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Arkansas Optometric Society
Chris
Arkadelphia
Magnolia
el Dorado
Crossett
Pine Bluff
Fordyce
Lake Village
Jonesboro
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