Conway moves to resume generating own electricity
In a column by Horace Cabe of Gordon the piece notes Conway’s plan to restart part of its own power generation to reduce reliance on Arkansas Power & Light. It compares Conway and Hope’s municipal plants, discusses fuel and rate pressures, and warns that loss of profit in the utility could trigger higher taxes for the city.
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Gerald Keith
Hope Municipal Water & Light
Conway
Hope
Arkansas Power & Light Co
James H. Brewer
Conway Corporation
Arkansas Gazette
AP and
L’s
Federal Power Commission
AP and L
FPC
Owen Bell
Hobbs, N.M
Jonesboro
Snowstorm Delivers Largest in Years to Hope Southwest Arkansas
Old man winter dumps just over three inches of snow across southwest Arkansas this weekend. Temperatures dip to a season low of 13 degrees Sunday night with highs near the freezing mark. Snowfall began Saturday night at 9 p.m. and iced roads and bridges, though no major accidents were reported. By noon Sunday ice melted but refreezing followed as temperatures drop again. Forecast calls for clearing skies, mid 0s highs, and upper 40s by Tuesday.
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Arkansas
U.S. Weather Service
Little Rock
Ark
Hope
Michelle Mitchell
Forrest Hills
Snowman
Michelle
Charles H. Mitchell
Memphis Utility Workers Strike Over 6 Percent Offer
Memphis 2,200 member union at the city owned light gas and water utility walked out after rejecting a 6 percent wage rise. Pickets braved 17 degree weather as negotiations were to resume. The strike follows a four inch snowfall that shut area schools and comes after a prior one day walkout. Union seeks 12.3 percent plus pension and fringe benefits. City officials urged acceptance, noting limited funds and that supervisors would maintain service at reduced levels.
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Memphis
Tenn
Light, Gas and Water Utility
Shelby County
MLGW
Harold Gillespie Jr
Wyeth Chandler
Union
Chandler
Ford Motor Co
Ed McBrayer
Robert James
Billy Hyman
William S. Crawford
Jean McCorkle
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CofC Head Names Committee Chairs for New Year
Jimmy Tate as president of the Hope-Hempstead Chamber of Commerce oversaw the January meeting and appointed committee chairs across Industrial Retail Membership Special Events Education and Youth Services Transportation Publicity Newsletter Finance Legislative Sports Recreation and Tourism with Agriculture left open. The chamber reported over 3000 dollars in the operating account and planned a mid March banquet. A Centennial Square Dance is set for January 31 in downtown and February 1 at the Third District Livestock Coliseum with 150 couples expected hosted by the Melonaires Square Dance Club. New tourism postcards and brochures, 10000 copies of each, will be produced in full color for summer distribution.
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Jimmy Tate
Hope-Hempstead
Yancey Reynolds
Bob Gullett
Kenneth Paddie
Haskell Jones
Third District
Melonaires Square Dance Club
Demo task force to present economic energy plans today
Washington AP Democratic leaders push to complete economic and organizational agendas as Congress prepares to convene. A special task force will issue official recommendations on economic and energy policy, with Ford expected to outline a tax cut and oil tariffs in the State of the Union. House moves include tax relief for low and moderate income groups and measures to restrain interest rates while boosting housing and public service jobs. caucus to consider creating a special CIA investigating committee and possible abolition of the Internal Security Committee, transferring duties to the Judiciary panel. debates over chairmanships loom as 75 new Democrats enter, with incumbents favored. Senate Majority Leader Mansfield to present his own economic plan Wednesday.
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Washington
House
Congress
Ford
Democratic Caucus
Central Intelligence Agency
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Internal Security Committee
Committee On Un-American Activities
Judiciary Committee
Ternanus
Congressional Democrats
Wright Patman
Dtex
Banking Committee
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Edward F. Hebert
D-La
Armed Services Committee
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
Agriculture Committee
James A. Haley
D-Fla
Interior Committee
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Bumpers to address joint Assembly today
Former Gov. Dale Bumpers will address a joint session at 1 p.m. on the opening day as he prepares to be sworn in Tuesday as a U.S. senator. Gov-elect David Pryor will outline goals in his noon inaugural address, signaling major issues like public employee collective bargaining, retirement system reforms, and the budget for the coming biennium.
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Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
U.S
Arkansas General Assembly
Bumpers
David Pryor
Arkansas
First State Capitol
Pryor
Nashville judge named temporary Third Division jurist
Judge Bobby Steel of Nashville is appointed temporary Third Division judge in Arkansas Eight Judicial District. The term runs through December 31, 1978. The order notes Arkansas practice allows circuit or chancery judges to serve as special judges in other jurisdictions at the request of the presiding judge to aid prompt administration of justice in Clark Hempstead Lafayette Miller and Nevada Counties.
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Nashville
Ark
Bobby Steel
John Goodson
Texarkana
John Lockadoo
Arkadelphia
Steel
Ninth Circuit
Arkansas
Goodson
Clark, Hempstead
Lafayette
Miller
Nevada
Woman 46 survives six days in freezing Wheeler Gorge
Barbara S. Wilson was found injured at the bottom of Wheeler Gorge after six days with temperatures down to 32 degrees and no food or water. A teenager, Dean Herman, and friends located and aided her as she recalled a passerby refusing to call for help and a later rescue lifting her 500 feet to safety. She left Ventura heading toward Bakersfield when a pedal miscue sent her car off the road.
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Ventura
Calif
Barbara S. Wilson
Wheeler Gorge
Los Padres National Forest
al Goldberg
California Highway Patrol
California 33
Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Dean Herman
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