Henry Ford II resigns from Ford Foundation board
Henry Ford II resigns from the Ford Foundation board citing its overreach and perceived misallocation of wealth. The piece argues the move reflects frustration with socialistic drift and contends Ford Motor Co. faces no consumer backlash while trustees run the foundation.
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Henry Ford I
Ford Foundation
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Ford Junior
Foundation
Banana Republics
Mr. Ford
Court rules city jaila public place
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled the Little Rock City Jail is a public place and a prisoner accused of deviant sexual behavior there could be tried on a sex charge. The decision overturns a lower court dismissal citing the jail’s drunk tank as not public. The ruling concerns Sam Black charged last February and addresses speedy trial requirements under state law.
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Little Rock
State Supreme Court
Little Rock City
Sam Black
High Court
Black
Grooms
Arkansas
Ford budget calls for increase in defense and tax cuts
President Ford unveiled a 1978 budget totaling 440 billion with a 7 percent spend rise over 1977 and a 47.5 billion six year tax cut plan. The deficit would reach 47 billion, down from 57 billion this year, as Carter prepares counterproposals.
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Ford
Washington
Congress
America
Carter
Gilmore Executed by Utah Firing Squad After Stay Lifted
Gary Mark Gilmore, 36, condemned for the Provo motel clerk slaying, was executed at 6:06 a.m. MST by firing squad in Utah. The decision followed a federal appeals court ruling lifting a stay after weeks of court challenges. witnesses described his composed demeanor as the hood was placed and the shots rang out.
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Point OF the Mountain
Utah
Gary Mark Gilmore
Gilmore
United States
Parole Officer Faces Tight Rope Duties in County He Calls Home
Ken Thomas, district parole officer for Hempstead and Miller counties, took the role January 3 and manages 68 cases, 19 in Hempstead. He describes the job as balancing law enforcement needs with offender rehabilitation, coordinating housing and work for parolees, and monthly reports to his office.
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Ken Thomas
Hempstead
Miller Counties
Thomas
Parole Board
Hope
Ark
Jim Harris
Miller
Yellville Man Last to Die in Arkansas Executions
Charles F. Fields, 32, of Yellville, died at Cummins Prison Farm as Arkansas’ last execution in 1969. He escaped in 1962 while serving a rape sentence, then was linked to murders and further rapes. Despite multiple parole denials, he was not commuted. Six others sit on death row. Arkansas has carried out 169 executions since 1913 electric chair use began in Little Rock.
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Cummins
Ark
Arkansas
Charles F. Fields
Yellville
Marion County
Fields
Sherrill
Tucker
C.M. Mercer
Jefferson County
George Holmer Sr
Pine Bluff
State Supreme Court
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
Cummins Prison Farm
Carl Albert Collins
Washington County
Charles Martin Neal
Pulaski County
Little Rock
Henry Lee Giles
St. Francis County
Forrest City
Billy Woodard
Poinsett County
Jonesboro
Tragic Naval Collision Kills 20 Off Barcelona Harbor
A U S Navy launch ferrying sailors from weekend leave collided with a coastal freighter in Barcelona harbor. Twenty American servicemen died and nineteen were hospitalized with injuries and drowning symptoms. Dozens were trapped briefly until tugboats righted the overturned craft.
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Barcelona
Spain
U.S
U.S. Navy
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Times
Highway 67
Wallace Martin
Arkansas State Police
Ronald E. Cook
Cicero
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Cook
George R. Beavers
Noblesville
Vem Damico
Gary
Ronald Stanger
4Th District Court
J. Robert Bullock
Schiller
Samuel Smith
Moody
Stanger
Thomas Mearsman
Benton
Edward Charles Pickens
Prairie County
Arkansas County
Dewayne Hulsey
Urlea
Guam
Trenton
Europa Press
Hos
Mediterranean
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