Arkansas Law Measures Stir Debate In Legislature
Lawmakers clashed over a bill to limit LPG dealer monopolies and a plan to bind the Pulaski County delegation. The Senate restored an emergency clause on the Van Dalsem preservation bill, potentially affecting this year’s council elections. Other actions included rights resolutions and a proposal to abolish the Educational Television Commission.
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Deckleman
Deckelman
House
Senate
Legislative Council
Pulaski County
Paul van Dalsem
Perry County
Guy Jones
Conway
William Lawson
Faulkner County
Jim Brandon
Little Rock
Congress
U.S
Ben Bynum
Chicot County
Jim Raney
Warren
Nathan Schoenfeld
Garland County
State
Educational Television Commission
Arkansas
Schoenfeld
Networks prepare Churchill tribute programming
The three major networks CBS NBC and ABC aired commemorations of Sir Winston Churchill highlighting his wartime leadership his famous iron curtain speech and his poignant moments. CBS led with a noon program and plans an additional hour featuring a Churchill interview with Edward Murrow and an Eisenhower chat.
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New York
Winston Churchill
CBS
Nicc
ABC
Churchill
Britain
Eric Severeid
Statesman
Edward R. Murrow
Walter Cronkite
California
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Martin
Road paving pace and highway bills prompt legislative push
Smith notes roads can be paved at 250 to 300 miles per year but eight to ten years remain to finish current paving. Several bills to add roads are pending and a free ferry bill was introduced. Rep Talbot Field Jr asks Hampton and Sturgis to state the Highway Department position before the Roads and Highways Committee. Sturgis signals cooperation but indicates the Highway Commission stance.
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Smith
Rep
Talbot Field Jr
Hempstead County
Roads and Highways Committee
Hampton and
Sturgis
Highway Department
Hampton
Highway Commission
Weather Continued From Page One Kansas and Oklahoma Outlook
Kansas parts show partly cloudy skies through Wednesday with colder night lows 20 to 25 and a Wednesday warm up to 45 to 50. Southeast and southwest Kansas forecast 24 to 30 tonight and 50 to 55 Wednesday. Oklahoma expects partly cloudy west and clearing east today with colder spells, then a little warmer Wednesday. highs range 45 to 58 and tonight’s lows 22 to 34 depending on area.
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Southeast
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Albuquerque
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Boise
Boston
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Des Moines
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Fairbanks
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Helena
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Indianapolis
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Juneau
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Memphis
Miami
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New York
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Omaha
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Ptind
Ore
Rapid City
Arkansas Law Bills Heads to Committees in House and Senate
The Arkansas legislature considers several measures. Rep. W H Thompson proposes a $1000 annual license tax on wholesale wine dealers and a wine tax hike to 1 per gallon. Rep. Jerry Thomas seeks auto liability insurance for each insured car and to repeal the 1963 truck weight law. Rep. O P Hammons targets interstate advertising limits. In the Senate, Sen. Guy Jones seeks 5000 for a Kennedy memorial at Greers Ferry Dam, Bearden pushes primary election codification, and Sen. Jones proposes a temporary second judge for the 5th Judicial Circuit.
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W.H. Thompson
Poinsett County
Jerry Thomasson
Clark County
Arkansas
O.P. Hammons
St. Francis County
Senate
Sen
Guy Jones
Conway
John F. Kennedy
Greers Ferry Dam
Kennedy
Bearden
Jones
5Th Judicial Circuit
Stage Is Set for Churchill State Funeral Route
Britain prepares a grand state funeral for Winston Churchill with a gun carriage for his coffin to St Pauls and a multi service procession. About 3,000 servicemen plus 10 bands and 3,500 troops will line the route through Whitehall Strand Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill. After the service at St Pauls the body travels by river and rail to Waterloo Station for a private family ending at Bladon churchyard near Blenheim Palace.
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Ben
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Churchill
Queen Victoria
Edward VII
George V
George VI
Whitehall
the Strand
Fleet Street
Ludgate Hill
St. Paul's
Thames River
Tower of London
Waterloo Station
Britain
Duke of Norfolk
Carl Marshal
England
Duke of Wellington
William Ewart Gladstone
Wales
Westminster Abbey
Bladon
Oxordshire
Blenheim
Two Accused in Market Robbery
Robert G. Thomas, 24, captured in Kansas City by FBI agents, faces unlawful flight charges for armed robbery and kidnapping in a North Little Rock supermarket case. The other suspect was arrested in Houston last month. The pair forced entry, held the manager’s family hostage, and escaped with $4,500.
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Little Rock
Robert G. Thomas
North Little Rock
Kansas City
FBI
Thomas
Houston
Fire Destroys Oil Depot Storage Facility in Alaska
An Alaska blaze at a Standard Oil depot destroyed a large warehouse and endangered thousands of barrels of oil. The Saturday night fire burned for three hours, causing at least 200000 dollars in damage to a 200 yard metal office and warehouse. No injuries were reported, with officials blaming a broken pump casing that sprayed gasoline and a spark igniting the fuel.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Standard Oil Co. of
California
Marlborough Castle and Churchill Funeral Across Borders
Castle, linked to the Marlborough lineage, anchors Churchill in Blenheim where he proposed to Clementine Hoier. He will lie beside his parents, with Jennie Jerome of New York as his mother. The funeral will be broadcast live across the Atlantic and iron curtain via BBC and Eurovision networks.
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Europe
Soviet Bloc
Eurovision
Intervision
Budget figures outline Arkansas Oklahoma water projects
The document details President and Congress requests for Arkansas and Oklahoma water works. It cites a $15 million current-year saving, a $136.3 million program, and varied allocations for locks dams navigation channels reservoirs parks and related construction across both states with multiple named projects and amounts.
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Army
Johnson
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Congress
Dardanelle Lock
Little Rock
Ozark Lock
Ozark
Robert S. Kerr
Short Mountain
Webbers Falls
Keystone
Eufaula
South Canadian River
Broken Bow
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Pine Creek
Beaver
DeGray
Gillham
Maniece Bayou
Millwood
Narrows
Ouachita
Black Rivers
Louisiana
Red River
Denison Dam
Texas
Dierks
Harding
Pine Bluff
White River
Missouri
Arkansas River
St. Francis Basin
Arkansas Post National Memorial
PeaRidge National Military Park
Launching Town Set for Action
Space officials completed a 90 foot Gemini Titan launch vehicle erection at Cape Kennedy. The two stage booster will launch America's two man astronaut team Virgil Grissom and John Young into orbit in late April or early May after a series of pre flight tests.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Virgil I. Grissom
John Young
U.S. Pushes UN Debt Penalty at General Assembly
The United States seeks support to deny voting rights to Soviet Union and other arrears in UN dues under Article 19. Adlai Stevenson plans to frame the issue as a debtor-nation matter, not a U.S.-Soviet clash, while the USSR proposes voluntary contributions and delaying the clause.
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Tom Hoge
United Nations
N.Y
United States
General Assembly
Soviet Union
U.N
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Assembly
Washington
U Thant
Van Dalsem Pushes State Funds Investment Plan
Van Dalsem pitches using federal money as an inducement for banks to accept state funds on time deposits at three percent. He cites about 9 million idle dollars could yield roughly 300 thousand annually for the general fund. A state depository board would oversee the program, with Faubus reportedly aware but not confirming approval.
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van Dalsem
Sid McMath
Winthrop Rockefeller
Faubus
Conway Wampus Cats to be honored as No 1 team
The Conway Wampus Cats will be honored by the Chamber of Commerce as Arkansas’s top high school football team. A banquet will feature University of Arkansas coach Frank Broyles as principal speaker. Date not announced.
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Conway
Ark
Conway Wampus Cats
Chamber of Commerce
Associated Press
University of Arkansas
Frank Broyles
Assembly debate looms as chairmen election delayed
Assembly President Alex Quaison-Lackey of Ghana said he does not expect to call until next Monday for election of committee chairmen and assembly vice presidents. The election could bring the show down. Thant awaits replies from the United States and the Soviet Union to the latest compromise proposal for a settlement. It would permit the Soviet Union to vote after promising a voluntary contribution to the United Nations.
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Tiations
Assembly
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Ghana
Thant
United States
Soviet Union
United Nations
Arkansans Ginned 1.56 Million Running Bales of Cotton
The Census Bureau reports Arkansans produced 1,561,891 running bales of cotton last year, up from 1,496,387 in 1963. Running bales count ginned material regardless of weight. totals are converted to 500 point weights for statistics.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Arkansans
Budget Price Tag Too Low Sparks Budget Battle
Congress debates Johnson budget provisions with critics arguing the plan overcomes the $100 billion target. Johnson aims to hold next year’s expenditures near but below that level while projecting $94.4 billion in revenue. Republicans warn of higher spending and a record debt as they discuss tax cuts and program funding. Senate and House leaders expect continued pressure on spending though some GOP and Democratic members anticipate modest cuts.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
GOP
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Sens
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Allen J. Ellender
Dta
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Karl FE. Mundt
R-S.d
McClellan
Hickenlooper
Ellender
Aiken
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
House
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