Precipitation expected to continue in Arkansas this week
The National Weather Service says Arkansas will stay mostly cloudy with drizzle this morning and scattered showers or thunderstorms this afternoon mainly in the east. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in some east counties. Rain totals include Little Rock .01 and Pine Bluff .03, with Dorado reporting .67 and Texarkana .11. cooler air moves in tonight, and Thursday brings partly cloudy skies with more showers.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
National Weather Service
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Fe] Dorado
Texarkana
Harrison
Memphis
Jonesboro
Hope Star 1975 Hope weather and notices page
The Hope Star reports a 24 hour period ending 7 a m with high 64 and low 53 inches of rain. The issue lists staff, affiliations, and advertising rates, plus obituaries and brief notices including Mattie Grinnell at 108 and Fer nand Petiot obituary notes, and Debbie Reynolds urges support for cancer research.
Special Education program explained by Ken Reich
Ken Reich, director of the Miller County Arkansas Special Education Co op, spoke to the Kiwanis Club at Town and Country Restaurant. He outlined the program covering five to twenty one year olds with physical or mental handicaps and noted Arkansas 77.2 percent of handicapped students lack services. He cited only 152 districts offering classes in 1974 and said hopes for full operation come in 1979 1980 as funding increases. James Griffin and Key Clubbers Curtis East and Richard Price attended.
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Ken Reich
Miller County
Arkansas Special Education Co-op
Kiwanis Club
Charles Walker
Reich
Arkansas
Hope
James Griffin
Curtis East
Richard Price
Royal Arch Chapter Forming in Hope Arkansas
A dispensation from the Grand High Priest will form DeRoan Chapter as an appendant to Whitfield Lodge No. 239. It will meet the second Tuesday each month in the lodge building. Initial organizers include Billy Lauterbach Hobart Shirley Fred Fuller A J Mhoon Robert Parham R M Jones Olin Purtell Doyle Gathright Joe Mason James McLarty Paul Klipsch Isadore Kleiner Lester Cook and Don Ellis.
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Royal Arch Masons
Hope
Grand Royal Arch Chapter
Arkansas
DeRoan
Whitfield Lodge
Billy
Royal Arch
Arkansas study fraud tied to 1973 federal grant
CIDI former president told a federal court he and North Carolina men arranged a $15,000 Office of Economic Opportunity grant to pay for a study on eastern Arkansas community involvement. Wallace was hired but did no work. Mays and vice president Ronald Palmer split the money. Palmer and Mays have already served jail terms.
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Little Rock
Community Investment and Development Inc
North Carolina
George B. Mays
William L. Riddick
Raleigh
N.C
Thomas B. Wallace
Durham
Office of Economic Opportunity
Mays
Riddick
OEO
Arkansas
Wallace
Ronald Palmer
Palmer
Constable Charged in Arkansas Bribery Case
Dick Pfeiffer of White Hall, elected constable of Washington township, faces bribery and marijuana possession charges in Pine Bluff Arkansas. Bond set at $20 000. state police Lt. Jim Beach said the probe has continued about two months and expects more arrests. Details on the bribery charge were not released. Bolivia’s republic system notes included.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Dick Pfeiffer
White Hall
Washington Township
Jim Beach
Beach
Bethel Elects Delegates for A M E Conference
The West Arkansas Annual Conference selects delegates for the 40th A M E Church General Conference to be held in Atlanta in June 1976. Bethel elects Esther Lee Hicks as official delegate and Ammie Johnson as alternate. Hicks is Bethel organist and church leader. Johnson serves as Sunday School instructor and district youth official. Dr. W G Wynn is Bethel's pastor.
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Bethel
International Conference
African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference
Atlanta
Georgia
A. M. E. Church
United States
Canada
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
Gold Coast
Africa
West Africa
Northern
Southern
Rhodesia
Central and
East Africa
South America
Central America
West Arkansas
Ward Chapel
Prescott
Esther Lee Hicks
Ammie Johnson
Shorter College and Conference
Johnson
Missionary Society
Youth Missionary
Gorden
W. G. Wynn
Designer of carbine dies at 74 in North Carolina
RALEIGH AP Da vid M Carbine Williams designer of the light semi automatic rifle used by the U S Army in World War II died early today at 74 bronchial pneumonia listed as cause. He had been a patient at Dorothea Dix Hospital since Aug 1 1972 after serving a prison term for a liquor still raid killing a police officer.
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Raleigh
N.C
David M
Williams
Dorothea Dix Hospital
Port Arthur plants struck despite talks on contract ends
In Denver AP report, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union president Grospiron did not call a strike as 430 local units and oil companies saw contracts expire at midnight. Port Arthur Gulf and Texaco refineries faced picket fines though negotiations continued. About 7,500 workers affected. wage demands cut to 1.20 per hour yearly, with a 0.50 per hour immediate raise to combat inflation.
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Denver
Oil Workers Union
Gulf
Texaco
Port Arthur
Tex
A. F. Grospiron
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
Grospiron
Texas
98 Lawsuits Brought Against Fuel Dealers
Washington AP Justice Department lawyers say they quelled schemes by gasoline dealers violating federal price rules but fear a fresh wave if another shortage hits. 98 civil suits were filed for overcharging or coercing purchases. about 40 remain pending. Fines up to 5,000 were imposed in 34 cases with restitution to customers. The rules allow prices no higher than May 15, 1973 plus three cents per gallon and expense adjustments.
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Washington
Justice Department
Stanley Rose
Department
Rose
Allen Hausman
Hausman
Ford Energy Plan Aims at Higher Gasoline Prices
Ford plans an energy policy to curb oil demand with higher gasoline prices and no direct fuel restrictions. It includes a $3 per barrel import tax, a $3 excise tax on domestic oil, tax rebates, removal of old oil price controls, ending interstate natural gas price regulation, and a voluntary auto makers mileage boost of 40 percent by 1979.
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Washington
Ford
U.S
State of the Union
Obituaries for Butler Simmons Brezhnev Kin noted
Obituaries report Denver E. Doc Butler aged 61 died at work. services set at Oakcrest Funeral Home with burial in Union Cemetery Bodcaw. Edna Elizabeth Simmons age 92 of Patmos died in Lafayette County hospital. services at Patmos Baptist Church with burial Patmos Cemetery. Natalia Brezhnev mother of Leonid Brezhnev died. Tass reported no age or details.
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Denver E
Doc) Butler
Randy Butler
Reseda
Calif
Alfred Bearden
Hope
William E. Butler
Oakcrest Funeral Home
Jim Sayers
Union Cemetery
Bodcaw
Edna Elizabeth Simmons
Patmos
Lafayette County
Sarah Haynes
Mary Rogers
Lewisville
Ark
Goldin McKinley
Shreveport
LaFrance Reasons
Bremerton
Wash
Josephine Welch
Patmos Baptist Church
Wayne Turner
Frankie Burke
Patmos Cemetery
Herndon Funeral Home
Moscow
Natalia Denisovna Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev
Tass
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S. Walnut St
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Ame
Star Publishing CO
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Dorothy W
Moitar
Inchel
Millie Shotts
Dortha Faye Huckabee
JoAnn Cooper
Lois Rivers
Rita Gore
Audit Bureau of Circulations
AP News
Ass’n
Arkansas Press Ass'n
Arkansas Dailies, Inc
Poplar Ave
Tenn
Hartford
Dallas
Michigan Ave
Chicago
42Nd St
New York
N.Y
Penobscot
Detroit
Mich
Classen Terrace
Classen Blvd
Oklahoma City
Okla
Hempstead
Nevada
Lafayette
Howard
Pike
Miller and
Clark Counties
Mattie Grinnell
Twin Buttes
N.D
Fernand Petiot
Canton
Ohio
Paris
Debbie Reynolds
American Cancer Society
HILO
PRC
Otlk Albany
Edy Albuque
Cir
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
Rm Atlanta
Birmingham
Bismarck
Edy Boise
Boston
Edy
Brownsville
Buffalo
Rm Charleston
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Edy Cleveland
Wary Wayenwue Des Moines
Annette Rogers
Duluth
Fairbanks
Billy Burton
Fort Worth
Green Bay
Esther Hicks
Helena
Honolulu
Sibyl Parsons
Houston
Indi Apolis
Orn
Jacksville
Virginia
Hiscott -2
Juneau
Wanda McJunkins
Kansas City
Las Vepas
C.M. Rogers, Jr
Los Angeles
Alice Kate Baker
Louisville
Marquette M
Phala Roberts
Miami
Milwaukee
Teddy Thurman
Pressman
Philad'phia
Phoenix
Edy George Smith, Jr
Pittsburgh
Composing Room
P'tland
Ore
Judy Gray
P’tland
C Rapid City
Edy Foreman
Richmond
St. Louis
Edy Salt Lake
San Diego
Edy San Fran
Seattle
Orn Spokane
Sn Tampa
Henry Haynes
Star
Royal Arch Chapter
CIDI
Bolivia
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Cotillion Federated Club
Willie K. Mitchell
E. S. Conway
Anna P. Strong Federated Club
W. W. Rutherford
Estelles Spearman
Sinead de Valera
Dublin
Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Wilson Kettle
Grand Bay
Port Aux Basques
Newfoundland
Denver E. Butler
Edna E. Simmons
Natalia Brezhnev
Greening-Ellis Co
Hope, Arkansas
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