Nashville Production Credit Association expansion in 1966
The Nashville Production Credit Association operating in seven counties reports 1966 as its strongest year with 2,741 loans totaling $24,139,031, up from 2,509 loans and $21,842,605 in 1965. Since 1934 the PCA has loaned over $158 million to farmers and ranchers with a loan loss ratio under two tenths of a percent.
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Howard
Hempstead
Nevada
Pike, Sevier
Clark
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Nashville
BGA
Nashville Pca
PCA
Bobby Webb
Hope
Shirley Garney
Thelma Bratton
Arkadelphia
Barney Smith
Bobby Carroll
Murfressboro
Francis Bell
Mineral Springs
T. O. Porter
Leroy Nix
DeQueen
John McLelland
Prescott
Steve Hedges
Malvern
Paul Harper
Obituaries and Thought for the Day in The Negro Community
Obituary notices for Mrs. Rosie Huntley with funeral at Walker Street Church of Christ, burial Cave Hill Cemetery, and Mr. Willie W. Brown father of Mrs. Bessie Lee Evans of Hope, died January 13 1967 in De Kalb Texas with funeral arrangements by Hicks Funeral Home and Atlanta Funeral Home. A Thought for the Day offers a jest about timing and jesting.
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Ester Hicks
Fuller
Rosie Huntley
Walker Street Church
Willie W. Brown
Bessie Lee Evans
Hope
DeKalb
Texas
Hardy Methodist Church
Atlanta Funeral Home
Atlanta
Helen Help Us Responds To Teens And Housework
Readers’ letter column defends teens asking rights while praising mothers and seeking balance. A respondent argues a sitter’s week with three preschoolers would prove labor’s weight, urging tolerance, communication, and family time over perfect housekeeping, reflecting 1967 views on parenting roles.
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White
Rcanes
Suter
Helen
Pye
Fights Last Night By The Associated Press
A roundup lists boxing results with fighters from Tokyo Zanesville Bologna Los Angeles Portland and Portland area bouts. Notable outcomes include Antonio Herrera scoring 125 percent knockout Rokura Ishiyama, Bobby Stinmato stopping Vittorio Saraudi, and Willie Ray Richardson stopping Indian Tony Burwell.
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Tokyo
Antonio Herrera
Colombia
Rokura Ishiyama
Zanesville
Ohio
Jack Rodgers
Uniontown
Mort Brownfield
McKeesport
Bologna
Italy
Bobby Stinmato
San Francisco
Vittorio Saraudi
Los Angeles
Claudio Adame
Torreon
Mexico
Allen Sayers
Liverpool
England
Portland
Maine
Willie Ray Richardson
Boston
Tony Burwell
Philadelphia
Brownie Troop 60 Invests New Members At Ceremony
Brownies of Troop 60 held an investiture and re dedication at the Girl Scout Little House. The program featured color guard, pledge and My Country ’TIs of Thee sung, with first year Brownies receiving pins and pledges, and second year Brownies earning pins. Seventeen adults and others attended with refreshments served.
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Sandra Whitaker
Ruth Ann Ogburn
Julie Johnson
Tamaria Rhodes
Kay Caldwell
Donna Petre
Pam Thrash
Dorynda Andress
Donna Pendergraft
Angela Kellam
Mary Frances Moore
Kathy McCain
Katy O’malley
Melanie Smith
Becky Burke
Barbie Watson
Debbye Petre
Bridget Guerin
Jamie Jones
Browne Troop 60
Girl Scout Little House
Katy O'Malley
Charles Jones
Hope Ark First Day for Negro Sheriff
Macon County Alabama swore in Lucius Amerson the first Black sheriff there since Reconstruction. On his first day he handled civil court hearings, helped a mother with an incorrigible son, served meals to prisoners, and dealt with a cow shooting scene. The town of about 27,000, 83.5 percent Black, showed calm cooperation with Amerson and deputies as he started his duties.
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Don McKee
Tuskegre
Ala
Lucius v. Almersot
Amerson
Alabama
Montgomery
tEveryone
Macon County
L. J. Tyer
Eddie Ivory
Arthur Knowles
Preston Hornsby
Old Stone Bridge on Appian Way Collapses
In Rome two cars plummeted 30 feet when the central arches of a long old stone bridge on the Appian Way gave way just after midnight. Police and firemen searched by searchlights until dawn but the two drivers were found dead. The span, located 18 miles south of Rome, collapsed with a blast-like shock.
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Associated Press
Rome
Kennedy gets a $2 gift for a haircut
A New Yorker, Emanuel F. Manheimer of Ossining, sent Sen. Robert F. Kennedy two dollars to help preserve the Empire State image after Kennedy’s State of the Union TV appearance. Manheimer, 25, says he is a lifelong New Yorker and wants public figures to look the part. Kennedy’s office joked that the senator should watch for him at his next appearance.
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Washington
Empire State
Robert F. Kennedy
Emanuel F. Manheimer
Ossining
N.Y
Kennedy
Johnson
Manheimer
New York Democrat
State of
New York
Tom
State Park
Slowdown Not Laughing Matter Now By James Marlow
AP News Analyst James Marlow argues that the 1966 political mood shifts as Congress cools after a surge of Great Society programs. With fewer Democrats and rising war costs, expectations for bold legislation fade amid Vietnam criticism and tighter budgets.
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James Marlow
Washington
Congress
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Arkansas Life Echoes in Nation News and Local Quips
A collage of notes from Harry King and other Arkansas writers covers politics, social security, and congressional pace in 1967, with reflections on Johnson's State of the Union, Mansfield’s reexamination push, and gun versus butter budgeting. Local items include editor Jit Bland er’s ZIP coding woes, a hypothetical Wallace divorce question, Arkansas Razorbacks’ punt redesign, and Gov. Rockefeller’s county appointment. The piece closes with a definition of truck crops tracing back to French roots.
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Mansfield
Senate
Congress
Johnson
Sizet
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