Report on Arkansas Press convention at Hot Springs
The Winter meeting of the Arkansas Press association at the Arlington Hotel featured Bob White of the Mexico Ledger delivering an inspirational talk on journalism. Other highlights included humorist Toni Lavin of Atlanta Texas and a Madragals choir directed by Dara Jane Ledgerqucad Ells, with remarks on long rail journeys and the profession.
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Bob White
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Bob
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Toni Lavin
Atlanta
Texas
Hope High School
Mr. Lavin
Cleveland
Madreats
Dara Jane
Fish Farmers Seek Charter Change From State Agency
Charles Files of the Little Ruck area farm group led opposition to a proposed charter change. He urged members of the Agriculture Association to oppose a document creating an agricultural regulatory agency. The Fish Farmers asked to keep fish farming under current state game and wildlife jurisdiction rather than a new state agency, citing federal oversight and industry concerns.
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Charles Files
Hunter
Arbeit Bys Farmers
Asc
Vietnamese Cadets Die in Mine Blast Near Saigon
Vietnamese cadets at the Thu Duc Military Academy were killed and wounded when a Viet Cong claymore mine exploded amid a training column north of Saigon. The blast, during a 150 to 200 strong exercise, killed 18 and wounded 35, with an instructor and civilian also among the dead. In other news, a showroom fire at Bob Morton Motors in Hope, Arkansas destroyed five new cars but firefighters saved the service department, while local police investigated multiple crimes and traffic incidents reported over the weekend.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Nedy
Thu Duc
Bob Morton Motors
Ope
Hope Fire Dept
Mamnes
Service
May Than Cold War With China
AP Special Correspondent reports Washington plans to propose pragmatic steps to open trade and travel between the United States and Communist China at Warsaw meetings. The talks aim to reduce tensions and improve relations while Beijing reacts to Soviet border moves and U S pressure.
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John M. Hightower
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United States
Peking
China
Warsaw
Soviet Union
May thaw and Vietnam war headlines muddy 1940s page two
The clipped wartime wire reads and society blurbs mix bets and bravado as suspect figures like Brody and Bond Jr. surface in sensational headlines. Scattered names, dates, and places hint at political tremors and personal fortunes amid confusion.
Moon colonization debated by NASA official at Arkansas meeting
Dr Charles A Berry of NASA said research is underway to develop shelters on the lunar surface and that vegetation could be grown indoors amid lunar dust. He spoke at the Arkansas Press Association meeting in Hot Springs. Francis Murry was elected president of the association with Harry McDonald as first vice president and other officers named.
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Aerosttution and Space Adeningstration
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Arkansas Press Association
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Iptra Tek
Hubert MM White Luther
Agere
Hayes
Talon
Harel
Vigia Delta
Francis Murry
Iluatsyie
Madison County Record
Association
Harry McDonald
Jonesboro
George Gearhart
Fayetteville
Fist Vie
Bill Sadler
Rison
Obert Chowning
Magnolia
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Conway
Robert S. McCord
North Litte Mock
Woods
Hagen
Ty Uy Board
Agnew Heads Home From Pacific Asia Trip
Vice President Spiro Agnew completes a four week Asian station tour and departs Hawaii en route to Washington. At Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland a large welcoming delegation from the Cabinet, diplomats, and congressional leaders awaits his arrival.
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George Zucker
Associated Press
Honolulu
Spito
Agnew
Washington
Tefweling
Travers Air Force Base
Call
Widan
Supreme Court blocks speeding draft for protesters
In a 5-3 ruling, the court stripped draft boards of authority to hasten inductions of Viet Nam era protesters. Justice Douglas said no Congressional authorization exists for such power, limiting punishment to prosecutions for draft-card refusals. Davis Gutknecht, 22, Gaylord, Minn., protested in 1967, his draft call accelerated after turning in his card.
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Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Congress
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Hugo L. Black
Whe Ilam J. Brannan Jr
Byron R. Wille
Thurgood Marshall
Warren KE. Burger
Peteter Stewart
John M. Harlan
Minnesota
David Barl Gutknecht
Gaylord
Minn
Minneapolis
Cummins Prisoners Resume Work After Protest at Cummins Farm
Arkansas Correction Commissioner C Robert Sarver says no concessions were made to end the Cummins Prison Farm protest. About 270 inmates participated with roughly 40 holdouts. Work and hunger strikes began January 10 and most protesters returned to duties by the following Monday. Holdouts face loss of statutory and meritorious good time with no promise of restoration.
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C. Robert Sarver
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Last Momlay
Surver
Weather Pats Off Chrenit at Court Session
Fragmentary weather note and court session reference in Hempstead County tale with unclear names. Readable fragments mention Chrenit Sahat and a Friday session at the county court.
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Hempstead
Oirditt Court ‘A Ciel
Cold May Increase in State Tonight
The Arkansas weather bulletin notes a cold night with lows dropping to five degrees in the northwest and teens to the low 20s in the southeast. A warming trend is expected by Wednesday as a high pressure system shifts eastward across Texas into the Gulf, with daily highs ranging from 18 at Fayetteville to 62 at Texarkana and precipitation totals varying across the state.
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Arkansas State Police
U.S. Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Louisiana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Texas
Mexico
Gulf
Devel
Fayetteville
Texarkana
Harrison
Memphis
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
el Dorado
Fort Smith
Jonesboro
Captain of Marines Acquitted in Vietnam Court Martial
DA NANG Vietnam AP A court martial acquitted Marine Capt Robert W Poolaw 31 of Anadarko Oklahoma of murdering a Vietnamese prisoner of war. Poolaw an American Indian wore a broad grin at the verdict after a 64 hour trial, having pleaded innocent to shooting a captured man during an operation on August 11 in the Que Son mountains south of Da Nang. Witnesses identified the dead man as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war.
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Vietnam
Robert W. Poolaw
Anadarko
Okla
Poolaw
Que Son
Radium Plant at Memorial Hospital Is Dismantled
Experts in yellow suits removed glass flasks containing radium from Memorial Hospital basements marking the end of an era in American medicine. The plant, once built with Dr James Douglas’s radium gift in 1917, produced material to treat cancer and is now the last private facility of its kind in the United States. The dismantling occurred late last week at night to minimize exposure.
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Brian Sullivan
New York
Fea Sre
Memorial Hospital
James Douglas
Douglas
Merworids Hospital
Su Memorial Hospital
Instituton
United States
Nixon faces veto threat on education health bill
President Nixon confronts a $19.7 billion education and health budget in a budget year already over halfway through. Democrats may need a two thirds override after a Nixon veto, while GOP leaders doubt success. The bill tops the Senate agenda as debate starts ahead of the State of the Union.
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