Community and church group meetings slated in town
The Friendship Methodist Church hosts a community singing at 7:80 tonight on Highway 24. Ann Wollerman Circle of First Baptist meets Monday January 14 at 7:30 at Mrs. Miles Laha’s home. Two Wesleyan groups and First Methodist circles hold a joint meeting January 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the church. Builders Bible class meets Tuesday at 7:30 at Mrs. Henry Haynes home. Co-hosts Mrs. Roy Smitty and Mrs. J.T. Bowderr urge all members to attend. American Legion Auxiliary of Leslie Huddleston Post No. 12 meets Tuesday night at Mrs. Cecil Weaver’s home.
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Friendship Methodist’ Church
Ann Wollerman
First Baptist Church
Miles Laha
Wesleyan Service
First Methodist Church
Treir
Chrch
Builders Bible Class
Henry Haynes
Roy Smitty
J.T. Bowderr
The
American Legion
Leslie Huddleston
Cecil Weaver
Coming and Going in Texas: Mrs Collins Returns for Holidays
Mrs Bill Collins returned to Texas after spending holidays with relatives. Mrs Sam Damerson of Washington D C is visiting her mother Mrs Carl Smith and other relatives and friends.
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Bill Collins
Texas
Sam Damerson
Washington, D. C
Carl Smith
Bookmobile Schedule for January Visit Times and Stops
The notice lists the weekly bookmobile routes for January 15 to January 17 with stop names such as Laneburg School Manns Grocery Rosston Community Shower Springs Bodean School Falcon Brockman Hill Michaels Grocery Texas Eastern Allen Home Cale School Edwards Patmos School and Patmos Community with various start times including 9 00 1 06 3 43 and 11 43. The schedule indicates multiple communities and schools served across three days with times assigned to each stop.
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Laneburg
Mann's Grocery
Rosston
Shower Springs
Bodean
Falcon
Brockman Hill
Michaels
Texas Eastern
Allen
Cale
Edwards
Patmos
Protests Over End of Rail Service in Missouri and Arkansas
About 200 southeast Missouri residents gathered in Puxico to oppose the proposed shutdown of a 104 mile rail line from Advance Missouri to Pocahontas Arkansas. Legislator Thomas Baker was chosen to head a protest committee and said a lawyer would be hired to file with the Interstate Commerce Commission seeking public hearings before abandonment. The line currently hosts three weekly freight trains and one daily during harvest. there are no passenger trains.
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Puxico
Southeast Missouri
Arkansas
St. Louis
Baker
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Things You Discover in the Mail Column Snippets
New York based column notes diverse trivia from presidents families to lunchable luxuries. Includes facts on bee honey yields, ice cream soda consumption, lamp-making headlights, and long history trivia about museums, pencils, and speed of nerve signals.
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Los Angeles
Jeromel.Jerome
Dral Beach
Miami
Kathy Grant
Bing Crosby
Samuel Johnson
Louvre
Paris
Winged Victory
Venus de Mile
da Vinci
Mona Lisa
America
Library of Congress
Joe B
Lewis
China
Hegel
Firms Add 2,367 New Telephones in Arkansas 1962
Southwestern States Telephone Co and its Four States unit added 2,367 telephones in 31 Arkansas exchanges in 1962. The firm reports total Arkansas telephones at 24,377, up seven percent from 1961. The companies also serve parts of Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana.
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Brownwood, Tex
Southwestern States Telephone Co
Four States Telephone Co
Arkansas
Southwestern
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Private Eye Associates Case of Dr Pruitt Mystery
Private investigator Matt Bacon probes the disappearance of nuclear scientist Dr. Pruitt. In a Corbin Bradley secure lounge Suzy Stevenson and Westfall point to a tangled lab world. Beth Baylor, a sharp lab worker, hints at anti matter theories and a potential bridge to another universe as new clues emerge.
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Matt Bacon
Dr. Pruitt
Suzy Stevenson
Matt
Corbin Bradley
All Research
Pruitt
Chester Pruitt
Dr. Stroup
Dr. Baylor
Bradley
Coor
Leveplion Room
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Westfall
Tig
Bacon
Chet
Mr. Bacon
Jay
Wesley Stroup
Stroup
Beth Baylor
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Dorothy Dix Advice Page Letters Sparks Swirl of Teens
A Dorothy Dix column features reader letters about lipstick choices at age 13, a contrite Betsy Marshall apologizing for earlier insults, and Mrs W defending a strict eye for consequences. Helen Worden Erskine offers guidance, urging constructive self reliance and humor. Dorothy Dix is a Bell Syndicate feature.
Compromise True Says Mr Faubus on Retirements
Gov. Orval Faubus said a Thursday meeting with education officials produced a compromise on teacher retirement terms with no details released yet. He hinted the state may contribute about 10.5 million to the Teacher Retirement System next biennium to prevent unfunded liability from rising and noted a “meeting of minds” with no expected controversy in 1963.
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Tim
Matt
Mr. Baylor
Dr. Baylor
Chet
Beth
Little Rock
Orval B. Faubus
Faubus
Te Arkansas Education Association
Arkansas AG declines opinion on California nudist group
Atty Gen Jack Holt Jr refused to issue a legal opinion to Trobert Clogher executive secretary of The Perfect Christian Divine Way Inc of Holy City California. The request sought to know if Arkansas anti nudism laws would be enforced during the group’s 44th annual convocation in Little Rock February 14 to 17. The act prohibits nudism and Clogher’s group aims to repeal it citing constitutional freedoms. The group once threatened a July 4 Capitol steps exhibition but crowds did not appear.
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Little Rock
Jack Holt Jr
California
Arkansas
Fed
Holt
Cali
Trobert Clogher
The
Perfect Christian Divine Way Inc
Holy City
Calif
Clogher
Jesus
Faubus aide declines invite to Washington party event
An aide to Gov. Orval E Faubus said Faubus declined an invitation to attend a Democratic Party gathering in Washington January 16 to 19. The governor’s decision follows a request from party leaders for his presence at the capital for the meet.
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Little Rock
Orval E. Faubus
Washington
Yerger Hopewells Lunch Menus
Yerger school lunch plan lists weekly menus with errors. Monday features chili and crackers with peanut butter sandwiches and cake with chocolate icing and milk.
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Yerger
Yerger-Hopewells
Freeman Bramlett’s sentence reduced by governor
Freeman Bramlett, 68, of Pocahontas, once sentenced to death for a Marion slaying in 1941, had his sentence cut from 45 to 37 years by Gov. Faubus. The case began with a death sentence in 1941, became life in 1942, then 45 years in 1957, with parole granted in 1959 and later revoked for a drinking problem. Bramlett later surrendered to officials and remains in Pocahontas under parole restoration discussions.
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Little Rock
Freeman Bramrett
Pocahontas
Orval E. Faubus
Bramilett
Charlie Goad
Marion
Homer M. Adams
Faubus
Bramlett
Service Counts on Pension for Firemen in Arkansas
Gen. Jack Holt announced his office found a Arkansas law allowing certain military service to count toward a firefighter pension. Batesville city attorney D. Pat Moran was notified after earlier AG guidance said service could not be counted. The statute covers service from Sept. 16 1940 to Dec. 31 1946, contingent on civil service merit status at induction and return to duty within days after discharge.
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Little Rock
Jack Holt
Arkansas
Holt
D. Pat Moran
Batesville
Attorney General's Office
Moran
Civil Service Oy
Deadline set for breakfast with Kennedy by Democratic leaders
An aide said Paubus opposes an early visit and predicts the state legislature would die in session after his January 15 inauguration. The plan would include a breakfast with President Kennedy and involve all Democratic governors and state party officials.
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Ing
Kennedy
Tpaubus
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