United Fund Drive Kicks Off In Hope This Week
The Hope United Fund drive begins with a Tuesday breakfast at the Barlow Hotel with a $20 475 budget. Last year's raised amount fell short at about 14 000, funding Red Cross Boy Scouts Girl Scouts United Cerebral Palsy Arkansas Mental Health Salvation Army and other local groups. Fourteen co chairmen will be named and a meeting with directors and the budget committee is planned.
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Hope Chamber of Commerce
Hempstead County
United Fund
Barlow Hotel
Red Cross
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
United Cerebal Palsy
Arkansas Mental Health
Assn
Salvation Army
Cancer Fund
Multipleclerosis Fund
March of Dimes
Heart Fund
Wayne Russell
Board of Directors
LBJ Budget Signals Defense Cuts Amid Tax Outlook
AP analysis notes Johnson aims to cut the next year's deficit to about 10 billion, boosting prospects for a Senate tax cut. The plan also funds welfare and reduces defense spending, prompting business hopes for lower taxes and stimulus through consumer spending while inflation risk would be muted if receipts meet forecasts and spending tops them by around five billion.
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Sam Dawson
NEW York
Johnson
Senate
Congress
Businessien
Shrine Pilgrimage to Shreveport Sunday
The Millwood Shrine Club plans a Sunday trip to the Shrine hospital in Shreveport led by president H. M. Olsen. Trucks depart 8 a.m. from the lodge, reach Shreveport at 10, attend Presbyterian services as a group, dine at Morrison's, visit the hospital from 1 to 2 p.m., then depart with a police escort. Members are asked to invite a Master Mason or Rite member and his body.
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Shrine Hospital
Shreveport
H. M. Olsen
Millwood Shrine Club
Lodge Hall
Morrison’s
Rite
Weather outlook for today with clouds and showers
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with occasional rain and a few thundershowers today and tonight. Temperature ranges unspecified. winds light to moderate across the region.
Grants to West Helena and North Little Rock AR
Washington reports two federal agencies approving funds for Arkansas cities. The Public Housing Administration authorized a 1,989,179 loan to West Helena for 150 town rental homes. The Urban Renewal Administration advanced 84,977 to North Little Rock for the North Tennessee Project, with a further 291,283 needed.
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Washington
Arkansas
Public Housing Administration
West Helena
Ark
Urban Renewal ‘Administration
North Little Rock
North Tennessee
ICC Chief Declares Rail Industry Healthy and Sound
Washington AP report states Abe McGregor Goff, Idaho Republican and new ICC chairman since Jan 1, says the nation’s railroad system is healthier than a year ago, with increased long haul traffic. He notes mergers reflect modern needs and supports public-interest justified consolidations while opposing bad ones.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Abe
McGreg
Golf
Idaho
Goff
Will Work to Retain Ft. Chaffee
Washington AP reports Arkansas congressional delegation and Fort Smith Mayor Bob Brooksher planned talks in Washington to keep Fort Chaffee open as the Defense Department lists it among more than 20 installations to be closed or curtailed in a cost cutting drive. Brooksher met Pentagon officials and Rep. J. W. Trimble. Fort Smith's Top Harper was named Democratic National Committeeman from Arkansas and expected to attend.
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Washington
Arkansas
Bob Brooksher
Fort Smith
Ft. Chaffee
Defense Department
Brooksher
Washinton
Pentagon
J. W. Trimble
Top Harper
Scranton Seeks To Downplay Presidential Candidacy
Governor William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania told reporters he is discouraging any effort to promote his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. He said he has no political speaking engagements aside from a Jan. 29 appearance in Indianapolis and noted a planned Washington visit for a dinner with the Pennsylvania GOP delegation and a reception for the Republican National Committee.
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Harrisburg
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Indianapolis
Washington
Kennedy
Pilkinton May Run for Governor in Arkansas
Hope attorney James H. Pilkinton said he might run for governor if Governor Faubus does not seek a third term. He noted statewide urging and a funded poll to test his chances, though he would not publish results. Pilkinton values his law practice and is also interested in the lieutenant governorship, with good terms with Lt. Gov. Mathan Gordon.
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Pilkinton
Mathan Gordon
Gordon
Little Rock Central High School
Faubus
Tie
View of Warfare in Year 1975
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The year 1975 sees U S spaceships the size of house trailers circling the globe in a pattern to surveil the earth. A hostile missile salvo triggers an American defense with antimissile rockets and orbital attack craft. The Air Force wins a MOL program to study a manned orbiting laboratory for space warfare and its mission role planned for late 1967 or early 1968 after unmanned tests.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
United States Orbiting Force
Air Force Long
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
MOL
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
United States
High School Bible Class Teaches History With One Textbook
Paducah Tilghman High School offers an elective Bible course for juniors and seniors, taught off campus by Marv Montgomery using only the Bible as the text. About 145 students, or roughly one fifth of the upper class, enroll and pay $40 per student per year funded by the Paducah Association of Churches. The class covers Old Testament one semester and New Testament the next, emphasizing historical literature and reverence, with superintendent Cr ewman Walker noting it aligns with postwar court rulings on religious instruction in schools.
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Bill Hudson
Supreme Court
Crewman Walker
Paducah
Montgomery
Walker
Tilghman
Pioneer Doctor T A McLarty of Patmos and Hope
The Patmos and Hope history centers on Dr. T A McLarty one of Hope’s first five doctors and grandfather to Tom and James McLarty. He arrived in Arkansas from Georgia in 1869, family shifts to Georgia and back to Arkansas by 1885, with Patmos home to early settlers like the Riders Johnsons and Coopers. Lon McLarty, known in Hope, recalled Patmos and early Hope life, including a square dance memory to Arkansas Traveler.
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Hope
T.A. McLarty
Tom
James McLarty
Arkansas
Georgia
Lon
Patmos
Hope Star
jLon McLarty
Hempstead
Rider & Johnson
Buchanan
Stampson
Thomas
Ward
Bob Mayton’s
Riders
Johnsons
Coopers
McLartys
McLarty
West 3Rd Street
Arkansas Traveler
Promeade
Letters on Star's P O Position
The Star letters praise opposition to federal spending and federal aid, urging independence and local pride. Miriam Watkins supports the Star's stance and warns against regional plans. A Milwaukee Journal notice hints at local protest and forwarding of a paper to the editor.
U S Begins Peace Talks on Panama
U S envoys Thomas Mann and Cyrus Vance opened peacemaking talks with Panama after Sanamana broke relations over the canal treaty dispute. President Chiari and U N Security Council debated sovereignty as clashes flare along the Canal Zone injuring Panamanians and soldiers.
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Panama
Johnson
United States
Panama Canal
U.S
Organization of American States
Washington
Chiari
Chari
Mann
Vance
Car in Fog Kills Man Flagging It
SEARCY Ark AP Arthur Schmidt 48 near Jim was struck by a car and killed while in a fog on Highway 157 near Searcy. State Trooper John Westmorey said Schmidt was in a dark road active in flashing lights trying to warn motorists after 4 am when he was hit by a passing vehicle. The driver, Donald W Miller, was identified.
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Searcy
Ark
Arthur Schmidt
Jim
John Westmoreyland
Schmidt
Westmoreland
Donald W. Millersonia
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E. P. Young, Jr
Lloyd Guerin
Calvin Smith
Girls Scouts
Lynn Murphy
Pe Starrow
United Fund Drive
Clifford Franks
Hempstead County United Fund
Cecil O’steen
B. N. Holt
LBJ
W. Helena
NLR
ICC Head
By Howard Benedot
Anny Projects
T. A. McLarty
Lon McLarry
Mary Anita Laseter
the Star
Miriam Watkins
John N. Watkins
Broadwa Little Rock, Ark
Star
Journal
Milwaukee Journal
Gronowski
Washington, D.C
Chairi
Canal Zone
Dwight D
Blaenhower
Balboa High School
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