Offset Troubles Highlight New Fairchild Press Test
News staff notes mixed results in the December 29 offset test using the Fairchild 475 rotary color press. The chief issue is photo reproduction quality, especially full page aerials, due to halftone screening and rephotography. A revised method reduces screening but the outcome remains to be seen once the edition is published. The report also mentions Arkansas receiving 76 million dollars for aging programs and community services.
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Thiere
Star
Hope
Clyde Davis
Shipley
Bert Rettig
O. K
Gene Allen
Linotype
Deck Operators Seek Rent Reductions at Busl Shoals Dock
In Little Rock Col. Frank P. Bane of the Army Engineers asked Busl Shoals Reservoir dock operators to provide financial statements showing declining business. Operators met Bane to push for rent relief, noting they pay about 45 percent of gross income in annual rent. Leases renegotiate every five years. latest terms were set in 1962 and 1963. If filings show decline, Bane said he would seek authority to renegotiate leases in 1965.
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Little Rock
Frank P. Bane
The
Army Engineers
Busl Shoals Reservoir
Bane
Secretary of the Army
Finanvial
Rowe to Lead Hempstead County Farm Bureau Board
Moss Rowe was named membership committee chair at the Hempstead County Farm Bureau Board meeting. A January 10 committee meeting at 9:30 am will name other members at the Farm Bureau office. Gordon Prescott was named Legislative Committee chairman with Howard Reece Billy Schooley Mrs Troy Burson Jim Rowland Moss Rowe Mrs Mary Spates and Autrey Wilson as additional members. The large group enjoyed a mulligan prepared by President and Mrs Ester Kent.
Cold Front Fails to Dampen Arkansas Temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau says the cold front did not drop Arkansas temperatures into the teens as predicted. Instead readings stayed near normal with overnights in the mid 20s to mid 30s and a 20 degree low reported at Calico Rock and Gilbert. Thursday highs were mostly in the 40s and 50s. Texarkana hit 65.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
U.S. Weather Bureau
Texas
Calico Rock
Gilbert
Texarkana
Transit Strike Talks Stall As Wirtz Returns To Washington
In New York City, Secretary of Labor Wirtz and Mayor Lindsay pressed for a settlement as bus and subway workers’ walkout enters its seventh day. Talks with mediators continued at the Americana Hotel after a late night session, with no federal funds pledged and calls for the release of jailed union leaders, including Michael J. Quill, who is hospitalized.
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Jerry Buck
NEW York
W. Willard Wirtz
Washington
John V. Lindsay
Wirtz
Lindsay
Johnson
City Hall
Transit Authority
Americana
Theodore Kheel
Harry van Arsdale Jr
Afl-Cio City Labor Council
Striking
Transport Workers Union
Amalgamated Transit Union
Afl-Cio
Quill
Bellevue Hospital
Whit Mew
Arkansas seeks ten counties added to job training program
Arkansas applied to Washington to include ten more counties in the job training program for welfare clients and low income families. State Welfare Commissioner Jim Phillips said the counties are adjacent to those already in the program but declined to name them. About 25 projects with 2,000 participants are currently under way in Arkansas.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Arkansas
Washington
Jim Phillips
Dominican army seals off Santo Domingo amid unrest
Military uprisings shake the country as Interior forces report a new wave of Communist terrorism. Police vow to halt plans to blow up an American fleet of barges as U.S. relief shipments head toward South Vietnam ports. Senate figures urge restraint on bombing. Johnson shifts antipoverty aims to housing department. International notes: USSR eyeing Malaysia base, India and Pakistan discuss prospects, transit crisis in New York sparks joint officials push. Civil rights leader Lewis advocates legal draft avoidance for workers.
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United States
South Viet Nam
George D. Aiken
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Washington
Johnson
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Arkla Building Damaged by Fire in Nashville
The Arkla Gas Co building in Nashville Ark. suffered 10 000 to 12 000 dollars in damage from a Thursday fire. Appliances and office records were damaged or destroyed. Firemen battled the blaze about seven and a half minutes. Across the street a hotel and cafe were destroyed on Christmas Day.
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Nashville, Ark
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co
Arkla
B. Li. Caarley
Cearley
Plot to Blow Up Saigon Billet Discovered by Police
Viet Cong plot to blow up a U S billet in downtown Saigon with a 65 pound plastic bomb was foiled by national police. Six terrorists were seized while transporting the device in a water tank. Two suspects carried 45 caliber pistols as authorities warned of further terrorism ahead of Tet. Police linked the raids to a broader operation near Bao Trai as U S Vietnamese Australian and New Zealand forces pressed a major push in the Plain of Reeds.
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John T. Wheeler Gon
South Vet Nam
U.S
Saigon
Natonal
Ahing Rule Sing
da Nang
173Rd Airborne
Reeds
Mekong
Bao Trai
Metropole
Hempstead County GOP Women elect new officers
All Around Town notes Hempstead County Republican Women elected officers led by president Verlaine Jones and secretary Marian Holder at a Tuesday meeting at Citizens Bank. Webb Laseter of the Credit Bureau of Hempstead County was elected secretary of Arkansas state board of collection agencies in Little Rock.
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Citizens Bank
Hempstead County
Republican
Verlaine Jones
Emily Prescott
Marian Holder
Mildred Rogers
Webb Laseter
Credit Bureau
Hempstead
Little Rock
State Board of Collection Agencies
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India
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