Vietnam War Update Notes Heavy Ho Chi Minh Trail Activity
Official sources report heavy truck movement along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and South Vietnam as dry-season fighting outlooks rise. U.S. Command notes attacks, casualties, and withdrawals with 469,900 troops in country, 484,000 ceiling, and shift toward fewer deployments amid Tet preparations.
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Tay Ninh
Saigon
Vietnam
Israeli Jets Strike Egypt Mortar Posts
TEL AVIV AP Israeli jets struck Egyptian mortar and antiaircraft positions along the central Suez Canal for more than an hour after a weekend of fighting on all fronts. The Israelis denied reports of Arab air losses and an attack on a radar station Sunday. Gwendolyn Webb of Saratoga will graduate with an education degree at Southern State College.
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Suez Canal
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Gwendolyn Son
MeJriking Webb
Saratoga
Agra
Southern State College
James.l. Smyth
Janes MeJunkins
Saratoga High School
Local Band Members Place in Region Meet
Hope High School bandsmen competed for positions in the all region band Saturday at Murfreesboro. Judges scored pre assigned material and a sight reading test to assess playing ability. Top finishers include Polly King Mary Net Branch Kathy Watson Acqunetta Smith Ken Trout Ashley Hoggard Sheila Wheeler Mary Jane Reyenga Andy Stone Marilyn Dodson Don Williams Doug Byrd and Mike May Basson. Williams and Byrd ranked in the top five percent of about 800 tested and advance toward all state honors.
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Doug Byrd
Mike May
Don Wiliams
Three Traffic Fatalities in Arkansas
Three people died on Arkansas highways over the weekend in two crashes near Malvern and Warren. In Malvern, Mrs. J. C. Whitelow, 63, was killed and several others injured in a two vehicle collision on Arkansas 9 south of Malvern. Her husband, the minister of Rockport Baptist Church, and Birdie Lee Tate, 91, of Malvern, were seriously injured. Charles Jones of Route 1 Leola, driver of the other vehicle, was hospitalized at Malvern. On Saturday two died and six were injured in a head on collision two miles west of Warren on Arkansas 4, with Robert Earl White, 17, near Uaipton, and Eligha Lee Golden, 18, near Harrell, identified as the dead. Thomas Pickett 18, of near Harrell, was the other driver and four in his car plus one in White’s car were injured.
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J. C. Whitelow
Milvern
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Malvern
Charles Jones
Leola
Warren
Arkansas 4
Robert Earl White
Uaipton
Eligha Lee Golden
Harrell
Gray Allen
White
Thomas Pickett
Pickett
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Army seeks smaller divisions to boost effectiveness
Washington sources report generals favor a 25 percent cut in Army divisions to improve fighting efficiency and cut costs. Proposals focus on better ammunition, artillery, tanks, and communications to run leaner divisions of about 12 000 to 4 000 men, with potential three smaller divisions replacing two larger ones by 1975.
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Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Budge
Arkansas Supreme Court Won't Halt Port Smith Obscenity Prosecution
The Arkansas Supreme Court declined to block Port Smith from pursuing obscenity charges against a news agency. The ruling directs the case to Circuit Court rather than Chancery Court and refuses a blanket injunction against future magazine issues without clear content details. Authorities seized magazines October 1, 1968, deeming them obscene.
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Mattie Royston Obituary at 96 in Felton
Mattie Isabelle Royston 96 of Felton died Sunday. A retired school teacher, she served Arkansas School for the Blind and for the Deaf for over 30 years and belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Washington. Survived by four brothers and two sisters. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Washington Presbyterian Church, burial in Washington Cemetery. Oakcrest Funeral Home guiding arrangements.
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Felton
Presbyterian Churtch
Washington
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Arkansas School For the Deaf
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Hope
J.J
Battle of Washington
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Prescott
Washington Presbyterian Church
James Sewell
Washington Cemetery
Oakcrest Funeral Home
Episcopal seminaries in danger as funding dries up
The Episcopal Church plans to close at least six of its 11 seminaries because they have been reduced to begging for money to stay open. The move was disclosed by Rev. Almus M. Thorp Sr. during a sermon. In a separate ruling, the U S Supreme Court said seized magazines at Pine Bluff did not stir prurient interest.
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New York
Episcopal Church
Almus M. Thorp Sr
Board For Theological Education
U.S. Supreme Court
Pine Bluff
Arkansas High Court Proceedings Summary
The Associated Press reports reversals and affirmations by the Arkansas Supreme Court across cases from Columbia Pulaski Lonoke St Francis Crawford and Benton circuits. Reversed and remanded in several actions including Harris v McDaniel and Deason v City of Rogers, with others affirmed.
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Carleton Harris
Burings Shaw Wilson
J. F. McDaniel
Coslumbia City
George Rose Smith
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co
Arkansas Commerce Commission
Pulaski
Ernest L. Bailey
Ernest Bradford
Carol Bradford
Tam Lonoke
Lyle Brown
Joseph A. Furrow
Forrest & Cotton, Inc
Garver & Garver, Inc
Orville M. Fine
Joseph O. Bucha
Crawford Ch
Conley Byrd
S & § News Agency, Inc
Jack Freeze
Ark Supreme Court Orders In Reversed Remand Petitions
On January 28 1979 the Faulkner Circuit court cases including Curiam orders in Smith v State of Ark and Ark State Highway Commission v Alma Summers Wallace were noted. Appellate motions regarding filing extensions and costs were decided. Dessert Seaed Company and Service Seed Company v Drew Farmers Supply saw a motion to set briefing times granted.
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R, C. Smith
State of Ark
Ark
State Highway Commission
Alma Summers Wallace
Motion of Appellee
Dessert Sead Company, Inc
Service Seed Company
Drew Farmers Supply, Inc
Motion of Service Seed Co
Prison System Hearing to Start Today in Little Rock
A U.S. District Court in Little Rock hosts a hearing led by Judge J. Smith Henley on the Arkansas prison system. The session reviews inmate complaints and a challenge to the constitutionality of the trusty guard system and compulsory work in prison farm fields.
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Arkansas
U.S. District Court
Little Rock
J. Smith Henley
Henley
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