Aviation Map Advances Arkansas Airports Theme
The Arkansas Aeronautics Department published the 1968 Autonautical Chart praising Arkansas air facilities led by Hope’s municipal air station. The piece notes altitude details and airport data, mentions a forthcoming Vietnam booklet via AP, and covers editor and staff attending APA conventions in Hot Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas Department of Aeronautics
Little Rock
Jilliny Woodard
Hope
Municipal Air Station
Arkansas
Southwestern Proving Ground
March of Dimes Radiothon Set for Hope High Teens
Hilda Quillen announces a Saturday radiothon on KXAR to crown a teen age March of Dimes queen. Four Hope High contestants will be voted by contributions over two weeks ending with a dance. Local talent Donna Langston Nickle Burke and others perform. Jaycees join for baby-sitting and yard work bids from 3 to 6 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilda Quillen
March of Dimes
KXAR
Hope High
Donna
Rhonda Langston
Laneburg
Nickle Burke
Nashville
Ken
Jabettes
Percer High School
Hanns
Jaycees
Living costs outpace wage gains in 1967 rise
The 1967 living costs rose 4.1 percent, eroding wage gains for about 80 percent of workers. The Labor Department and White House cited broad price increases in food, housing, transport, and medical care, with December CPI up 0.3 percent and 1967 ending at 118.2. Wholesale prices for materials and farm products signaled higher grocery costs ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neil Gilbride
Washington
White House
Labor Department
Arnold Chase
Bureau of Labor, Statistics
Chase
Rome
Johnson
Clifford affirms U S policy amid Vietnam bombing talks
Senator Johnson's pick for defense secretary Clifford tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States will not require an immediate complete halt to North Vietnamese infiltration for a cease fire. He says bombing pauses may occur while enemy military activity continues and U S forces stay in place to support South Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert T. Gray
Associated Press
Washington
Clark Cliifford
Johnson
U.S
Clifford
South Vietnam
Senate Armed Services Committee
Takesume
Gardner resigns as HEW secretary amid domestic crisis fears
John W. Gardner quits as secretary of health education and welfare effective March 1. President Johnson accepts with regret. Speculation centers on Wilbur J. Cohen as potential successor. Gardner cites cities poverty and discrimination as gravest national issues and says Congress and public ignore the crisis. Gardner plans to return to the Carnegie Foundation as a consultant on city problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner
Jack Miller
Associated Press
Washington
John W. Gardner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Johnson
al Ready
HEW
Reeige Nation
Congress
Sis
U.S
Vietnam
White House
Gardener
Carnesie Corporation
Foundation
Foreign Travel Curbs Ignored by Touring House Subcommittee
A House subcommittee touring the Pacific amid a Treasury warning that travel by government staff drains the dollar balance. The six day conference of the International Road Federation in Sydney drives the trip with Tahiti stopovers. Treasury official Vilam W Diehl argues each dollar spent abroad worsens the balance of payments. Frank Turner of the Public Roads Bureau canceled his travel after Johnson's limit. Pentecostal youth revival ongoing at First United Church with nightly services by Evangelists David and ... Mathis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Barnes
Associated Press
Washington
Johnson
House
Pacific
Treasury
Vilam W. Diehl
The
Office of International Economic Activiey
Congress
Group 5
United States
Diehl
House Public Works
International Road Federation
Sydney
Australia
Tahir
Frank Turner
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Pentecostal Youth
First United Pentecostal Church
David Mathis
Texas
B. W. Lane
21 Gis Me Killed in Combat
Communist forces killed 18 Americans and wounded 198 others in attacks across South Vietnam before a 36 hour Tet cease fire. A U.S. convoy was ambushed near the demilitarized zone, and at Khe Sanh the Marines report only limited bombardment as fighting continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Khe Sanh
Lal Khe
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Two Marines Escape North Vietnam Jungle Rescue
Two Marines, Cpl Steven D. Nelson 19 of Elkhart Indiana and Lance Cpl Michael R. Roha 20 of National City California, slipped past about 200 North Vietnamese guards and fled through jungle to U S Marines positions two days after escaping captivity. They spoke at a news conference detailing the Jan 7 attack near Da Nang and said 7 Marines were killed and the rest wounded. Nelson described being grabbed and dragged toward a burning bunker before breaking free and escaping barefoot with Roha aiding a wounded Marine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John. Lenge
da’ Nang
Vietnam
U.S
Steven D. Nelson
Elkhart
Ind
Lance
Michael Robert Roha
Natonal City
Calif
United States
Roha
Nelson
Chua Lua
da Nang
Mke Thad
Jury Funds for Plaintiff in Damage Suit
In Texarkana Arkansas a federal court awarded 25000 to Western Fire Insurance and Mr and Mrs Paul Jones in a suit against Louisiana Nevada Transit Co over a Dec 25 1965 explosion and fire that destroyed the Jones home in Oakhaven near Hope. The plaintiffs alleged negligent gas line maintenance while the defense argued responsibility limited to the gas line and the homeowner’s service habit. The two story home was destroyed after the Jones returned from visiting relatives and switched on a light on Christmas night 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texarkana
Arkansas
Western Fire Insurance Compay
Paul Jones
Louisiana-Nevada Transit Company
Jones
Oakhaven
Hope
Ark
Louisianar Nevada Transit Co
Bible Class to Hear Mack McLarty
Mack McLarty of Hope Arkansas president of the Hope student body will be guest speaker at Century Bible Class First Methodist Church Sunday morning January 28 at 9 30. He led Hope High School as student body president won the Beryl Henry award and was Governor of Boys State in 1963.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack McLarty
Hope
University of Arkansas
First Methodist Church
All Hope College
Macks
Frank McLarty
Hope High School
Beryl Henry
Hope High
Boys State
Cardinal XX
Sigema Chi Fraternity
Blue Key
Mack
Mike Mansfield
Barry Goldwater
David Brinkley
Robert Veughs
Melvin Belli
Edward Brooke
Edwin C. Newman
First Baptist Church
Pueblo Crisis Deepens as U N Security Council Looms
Nearly 14 800 air reservists prepared for indefinite active duty as the United States pursued diplomatic channels to a bloodless Pueblo settlement. President Johnson sought North Korea’s return of the Pueblo and 83 crewmen, while Washington pressed the UN Security Council for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred & Hoffman
Washington
United States
Pueblo
Johnson
North Korea
U.S. Navy
U.N. Security Council
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Perca
Goldberg
Illo
Moscow
Communist Party
Security Council
Kim Il Sung
Charles Storer
Wester United Nations
Puebla
Archie J. Goldberg
Jatuary
Agha Sharif
Poktatan
Ddd Fam
Council Manihars
Shanl
Woril
South Korea
U.N
Council
Vietnam
General Assembly
Ugn
Korat
United Nations
Snowbank in Her Living Room
Mrs John Garlough was hit by ice and snow when a snowblower gear broke sending a blast through her living room window in Cornwall New York City crews cleared the snow cleaned the room and replaced the window resulting in minor cuts to Mrs Garlough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornwall
N.Y
John Garlough
Gerlauch
Uynig
Local optometric meeting and graduation notices around town
Dr Emmett Thompson and Der Don Free attended the South Arkansas Optometric Association meeting at Chris Steak House in Canden. About 950 seniors and grads will receive degrees Saturday at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville campus. Degrees listed include Mary Alice Caston of Hope BA, Howard Aaron Houston Jr Hope BS, Bruce Wayne Eley Prescott BS Civil Eng, Dwight Edward Daves Hope MS, Charles B Finley Hope MBA, Lillian Elaine Boyce White Hope MEd. A fire destroyed a house in the Patinos area unlikely the fire trucks arrived. The Razorback Booster Club seeks members via John L Wilson and Julie Wilson. Arkansas Baptist News notes three new Baptist preachers and music minister Roy Chatham at First Baptist Church, plus Wayne Smiley resigning as organist to become choral director at First Methodist Pine Bluff. Mrs Dean Murphy resigns as president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs FE Formby becomes president. Mrs Henry undergoes eye surgery in Little Rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett Thompson
Der
Don Free
South Arkansas Optometric Association
Chris’ Steak House
Canden
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
Mary Alice Caston
Hope
Howard Aaron Houston Jr
Bruce Wayne Eley
Prescott
Dwight Edward Daves
Charles B. Finley
Lillian Elaine Boyce White
Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
Arkansas
John Anthony
Mir
Graydon Anthony
First Baptist Church
Roy Chatham
Wayne Smiley
First Baptist of
Pine Bluff
First
Vance Saitley
Hot Springs
Two Injured in Accident on Shover St
City police investigated two crashes on Shover Street resulting in two injuries and major property damage. W C Irvin's car struck a patrol vehicle with Mrs May Irvin and Mr Irvin hospitalized but not in critical condition. Patrol driver Eat Hampton stopped just before impact.
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East Shover St
W.c.irvin
May Irvin
Sirs
Irvin
Focal Hospital
Eat Hampton
Neal
Starley Investigatug
Walnul
Nogris
Gokisby
Debbie Watson
Johnson
Mtani
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the Kester “Alea
W. Washiar
Airpo Vietna Tanverto
New York City
APA
C. M
Pod) Rogers, Jr
Billy Dan Jones
Rogers & Jones
Youths March For Dimes
AP News Digest
Vetnam
Tha
Highlands
U.S. Marine
Clark Clifford
Priest Horton
Patinos
Ute Ovyal
Razorback
John L. Wilson
Julge Wilsari
American Legion Auxiliary
FE. S. Formby
Dean Murphy
Formby
Fld. Henry
St. Vincent Infirmary
Dr. Henry
Elis
Roger Dew
Sir
Dew
Son
Shover St
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