Third Term Question for Faubus in Arkansas Politics
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, who once resisted desegregation, hints at a possible sixth term with a decision to be announced next month. He uses private polls to gauge opinion as foes wonder where a strong contender could emerge.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
National Guard
Central High School
Hardy Croxton
Rogers
Sid McMath
U.S
Dale Alford
Arkansas Weather Summary for 24 Hours
Weather report from the Weather Experiment Station shows a 53 high and 4 low with .6 inch precipitation. Cloudy and colder with light snow flurries in the north, clearing to partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Highs in the 30s north to 40s south, lows 15 to 22 north and in the 20s south, continued cold Friday.
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Arkansas
Arkansas Boys Hitchhike 700 Miles to Visit Sick Mother
A 16 year old with a leg cast and his cousin, 15, arrived in Chicago after a four day hitchhiking trip from Fulton Arkansas. They traveled over 700 miles to see Leslie mother hospitalized with tuberculosis. Police and Arkansas authorities aided them, giving meals, lodging, and bus tickets for the final leg to reach their grandfather’s home and a municipal sanitarium visit.
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Chicago
Arkansas
Sheriff's Police
Springfield
James Jerry Leslie
Hubert Thompson
Fulton, Ark
Leslie
Jack Leslie
Poplar Bluff
St. Louis
Frank Pickett
Sangamon County Sheriff's Police
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Hope
Thompson
Fulton
Elm Hazel Signals Restored at Third Street Intersections
The City of Hope reinstalled traffic signals at Elm and Hazel on Third Street after removal two years ago amid city state disputes. New signals meet National Uniform Traffic Code standards with two red faces for safety. timing will be adjusted to fit updated equipment, and the Electrical Department will modify the old signals to conform.
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City of Hope
Third Street
Elm and
Hazel
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Arkansas
Union
Hope
3Rd Street
Elm
Electric
Wheel Cap Theft Arrest In City
Charles McGill a 17 year old Black youth was arrested by city police Wednesday night as he left a parked car at the McCorkle service station on West Third Street. He was charged with petty larceny for stealing two spinner type front wheel caps. Officers Martin and Milam made the arrest.
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McCorkle
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McGill
Martin and
Milam
Airman Lester Bennett reassigned to Homestead AFB Florida
AMARILLO ATB Tex Air man Third Class Lester R Bennett of Hope Ark is being reassigned to Homestead AFB Fla following graduation from the technical training course for United States Air Force jet aircraft mechanics here. Airman Bennett was trained to maintain and service multi engine jet aircraft and aircraft systems. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Marvine L Bennett of Rt 4 Hope and a Hope High School graduate who attended Texarkana College.
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Tex
Lester R. Bennett
Hope, Ark
Homestead Afb
Fla
United States Air Force
Marvine L. Bennett
Rt. 4
Hope
Hope High School
Vexarkans (Tex.) College
Recorder Outdoes the Barking Dogs
John Yolton used a tape recorder to play back the neighbor’s dogs barking at 3 am for weeks. Magri filed a police complaint to “set the record straight” after the nuisance music from Yolton’s window.
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Hayward
Calif
John Tolyon
Yolton
Dominic Magri
Magri
Hope Fades for Airmen in Pacific
In Honolulu AP reports hope fades for nine airmen missing since a C124 transport disappeared over the Pacific. A vast search by Air Force and Navy covered 600,000 square miles between Hawaii and Wake Island with 69 aircraft and three ships before narrowing to 11 planes and three ships. The missing plane was en route from Japan to Hawaii via Wake Island.
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Air Force
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Pacific
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Japan
Barry Goldwater Urges Real Stand in New Hampshire
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater urged voters in Nashua to back his GOP presidential bid, framing the March 10 New Hampshire primary as a choice for real Republican representation. He campaigned across southern New Hampshire, criticizing Democratic liberal and conservative factions and referencing surplus wheat sales to the Soviet Union.
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Walter R. Mears
Nashua
N.H
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
New Hampshire
Concord
Nash
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Soviet Union
Letters on Star's P.O. Position
Readers criticize the Hope post office project and federal aid, urging thrift and retrenchment. A January 6, 1964 letter from J Hartwell Marable laments devalued currency and government waste while praising thrift. Another letter from Trashwood, Arkansas endorses opposition and requests Washington Dossier material for distribution.
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Associated Press of the Star
New Post Office Project For Hope
Inspection of Cars May Return Here
LITTLE ROCK AP The Roads and Highways Committee of the Legislative Council will study next Thursday the feasibility of requiring periodic motor vehicle inspection in Arkansas The committee will hear any person or group interested in periodic inspection It will also review proposals on driver registration and a plan to finance State Police from general revenues The State Police Department now relies mainly on driver license fees and has faced long term financial difficulties Sen Merle Peterson will present a comparison of Arkansas driver registration laws with other states Also considered is a plan to create a Department of Public Safety to oversee the State Police driver examination licensing a central records system and other safety measures.
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Little Rock
Roads and Highways Committee
The
Legislative Council
Arkansas
Bill Tucker
Hot Spring ‘County
Raymond Mays
Cleveland County
State Police Department
Merle Peterson
Dumas
Glenn Walter
Pulaski County
Department of Public Safety
Space Grant Awarded to University of Arkansas
Fayetteville Arkansas AP The National Aeronautics and Space Administration grants the University of Arkansas 48000 a year for three years enabling eight graduate students to pursue doctoral work in space sciences. Each trainee gets 2400 a year plus tuition and expenses with possible dependents allowances. The program aims for post training research or teaching in science or engineering. Eight students already benefit from a similar grant awarded last year.
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Fayetteville, Ark
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Arkansas
W. W. Adkinson University
In Prohi Days Dandelions in Your Yard Meant You Were Making Wine
Nostalgia frames Prohibition era memories in a loose, reflective sketch. The piece recalls Gen John J Pershing memorabilia, slot machines in clubs, long stockings, family Bibles, chewing tobacco over cigarettes, many mules and horses, small-town hints of Prohibition era behavior, and common beliefs about calories, wages, jobs, and public money. It closes with the line In God We Trust All Others Cash.
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New York
Jay
John J
Blackjack
Pershing
U.S
France
America
United States
Airman’s Medal Awarded for Heroic Lake Rescue
Prescott area obituary notes Airman Madnick received the Airman’s Medal for diving into a lake to save an unconscious German boy last summer. He swam 100 yards to reach the youth, risking his own safety. Madnick, son of Bell Gardens residents, is married to Mary Davis of Prescott. Colonel Roger W. Page presented the medal.
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Madnick
John Madnick
Darwell Sr
Bell Gardens
Bell Gardens High School
Mary
Frank Davis
W. Gee &J
Prescott, Ark
Roger W. Page
Cold Front Pushes Into Arkansas With Snow and Hail
The Associated Press reports a cold front moving into Arkansas brings light snow in the northwest and rain in Fayetteville Harrison and Walnut Ridge. Temperatures fall to the low 20s tonight with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s Wednesday. Snow可能 this weekend, with hail observed in El Dorado causing minor street hazards and greenhouse glass damage.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
el Dorado
Will Push Rockefeller as Governor
Pine Bluff resident E. G. Basinger urges Southeast Arkansas Republicans to back Winthrop Rockefeller’s 1966 gubernatorial bid. In a Pine Bluff Commercial ad he says he will campaign on his own and seeks a sample of GOP support to persuade Rockefeller to run, noting Rockefeller could win regardless of Faubus. Basinger, who managed Warren Lieblong’s 1962 campaign, believes the GOP is now stronger statewide.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Arkansas
Winthrop Rockefeller
Win
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Rockefeller
Orval
Faubus
South
Warren Lieblong
Lieblong
Rep
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Congress
Mrs Allen Seeks Senate Seat in 26th District
Mrs Dorothy Allen of Brinkley widow of late state Sen Tom Allen filed for the senate post in the 26th District. Dr John Miller of Brinkley filed last week for the same seat and Lester Graves of Stuttgart says he will run. Allen, 53, became publisher of the Brinkley Citizen and the Monroe County Sun after her husband died last October. The district covers Lee Arkansas Phillips and Monroe counties.
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Little Rock
Dorothy Allen
Brinkley
Tom Allen
John Miller
Lester Graves
Stuttgart
Allen
Harris Lands State of the Union Speech
Washington AP Rep Oren Harris praised President Lyndon B. Johnsons State of the Union message as the best since the Roosevelt era. The Arkansas delegation largely praised the speech with comments on budgeting spending and tax reductions. Only Sen Fulbright was on vacation and not commenting.
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Oren Harris
D-Ark
Lyndon B. Johnson
State of the Union
Roosevelt
Arkansas
J. William Fulbright
Vacatiin
Harris
Wilbur Mills
Kensett
John L. McClellan
Johnson
E. C. Gathings
West Memphis
Congress
James W. Trimble
Berryville
Succession Major Issue for America
New York AP reports a clash over presidential succession with former presidents Eisenhower and Truman and Nixon and Keating weighing who should be next if a vice president assumes the presidency. They discuss elected versus appointed successors, the 1947 law, and Electoral College options. Nixon backs a 30 day Electoral College vacancy bill. Truman and Eisenhower oppose duplicating the vice presidency.
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New York
Dwight D. Hisenschower
Harry S. Truman
Foremer
R Richard Mc Nixon
Kenneth B. Keating
Musennower
Ler
Roman
House
Senate
Truman
Electoral College
Nixon
Wee
Eisenhower
Man Killed in Fight at Marvell
In Helena Arkansas a 25 year old Marvell man Billy Crawford was fatally shot at a farm home 15 miles southwest of Helena Tuesday night. Deputy sheriff Pete Garcia who lived there was being held but not charged. Crawford and Raymond Russell pursued a Negro woman to the house when Garcia fired a shotgun through the door killing Crawford. A pistol was recovered from Crawford at a hospital. Russell was held without charge. A coroner the inquest was set for Friday.
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Helena
Ark
Billy Crawford
Marvell
Frank Lawhon
Pete Garcia
Lawhon
Crawford
Raymond Russell
Garcia
Lawdon
Russell
Medicare Showdown Faces Hurdles in 1964 Battle
Washington AP by Edmond LeBrton reports President Johnson pressed for a Social Security health plan for the aged in his State of the Union while House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills signals a vote will be sought this session. Odds of passage remain long barring a compromise, with hearings resuming January 20 and a vote unlikely before February.
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Edmond Lebreton
Washington
Johnson
Wilbur D. Mills
House
Ways and Means
Mills
Jobn F. Kennedy
Legislator Ruth Clark Sees Court Dismiss Left-Turn Charge
Denver AP report says Mrs. Ruth Clark, long time member of Colorado House and former Judiciary Committee member, convinced City Court to dismiss a traffic charge for an alleged illegal left turn, noting the ticket identified her with a map reference.
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Denver
Ruth Clark
Colorado House of Representatives
House Judiciary Committee
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