Arkansas posts record year for industrial outlay in 1964
Arkansas reporting agencies show 1964 as the largest outlay for industrial growth since 1952 with 60 new plants and 169 expansions. Total outlay reached 205.9 million dollars, creating 8 865 jobs, as a new and expanded plant investment totaled 134.4 million and expansions 49.5 million.
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Arkansas
Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce
State Chamber
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
AIDC
Frank Cantrell
Associated Industries of Arkansas
Hinkle
United States
Cantrell
Hinkie
Jade for a Lady Mystery in Hong Kong unfolds with jade theft and covert offers.
Milo March hires Jimmy Shaw to recover a stolen jade necklace as tensions rise in Hong Kong. A tense interview, nightlife in Hong Kong, hotel danger, and a knife threat surge the suspense.
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Jimmy Shaw
Hong Kong
Milo March
Johnson hints of shakeup in personnel
President Johnson plans a broad reshuffle of the federal front office. A talent hunt aims to fill undersecretary and assistant secretary posts from within government ranks. Possible targets include Charles Murphy, Franklin Roosevelt Jr., and W. Averell Harriman amid a wave of resignations and new appointments.
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Raymond J. Crowley
Washington
Johnson
William J. Driver
Veterans Administration
Sheldon S. Cohen
Internal Revenue
Driver
John S. Gleason Jr
Cohen
IRS
Bertrand Harding
Mortimer Caplin
Charles S. Murphy
Agriculture
Murphy
Commerce
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
LBJ
W. Averell Harriman
Faubus backs public kindergarten plan in Arkansas
Gov. Orval Faubus announced support for adding kindergarten to Arkansas public schools. State Education Commissioner A. W. Ford urged a 1965 constitutional amendment to lower the minimum school age from six to five to enable kindergarten establishment. Faubus said the state should play a larger, but not dictatorial, educational role.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Ar E. Faubus
A. W. Ford
Faubus
Hasn't Given Up on TV for Education in North Little Rock
The North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce will press for Arkansas first educational television station. City council blocked Burns Park as a site on Monday night. Vice president John Russell says no definite site yet but all possibilities will be explored. President Earl Few leads the effort.
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Hong Kong
New York
Linda
Milo
North Little Rock
Frightful confrontation ends with attacker dropping weapon
A first person account describes a violent struggle where the narrator twists free from a lunge, wrenches the assailant’s wrist and elbow, delivers a knee strike, and hears a crack as the knife falls. The attacker’s right arm collapses as the scene ends with a taunted promise to continue.
Arkansas Governor Campaigns In 1964 Political Saga
The 1964 Arkansas governor race pitted Orval Faubus against Winthrop Rockefeller in a drawn out campaign that inspired a movie like narrative. Rockefeller claimed a historic vote total while Faubus vowed not to run again as Democrats united to back Johnson in a presidential year.
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Orval E. Faubus
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Faubus
Petit Jean Mountain
Arkansas
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Jerry Hinshaw
J. W. Trimble
Hinshaw
Odell Dorsey
Joe Hubbard
R. D. Burrow
Walnut Ridge
Oren Harris
Dean Murphy
Hope
Harris
Murphy
City Council Eyes Land Offer With Educational Television Commission
At a Monday council meeting Rudy Garrett chief engineer for Television Station KATV described the Dark Hollow area as low and unsuitable for a microwave tower yet said the problems were not insurmountable as the chamber discussed a potential land offer with the Educational Television Commission.
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Ell
Dark Hollow
Educational Television Commission
Rudy Garrett
KATV
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Alvin Schay
Treasury
U.S. Census Bureau
Defense Department
Jade
M. £. Chaber
Kendell Foster Crossen
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Jimmy
Miss McKay
Mr. March
Congress
U.S
Linda McKay
Jeland
George Walden
Midwest Dairy
Midwest
Memphis
Daddy
By John R. Starr
Owen's
Owen
Draag
Men’s & Children’s
Ladies’ & Children’s
Coats
Owen’s
West Second Street
Hope, Arkansas
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