Highway Dept. breaks safety rules on road
Editor Alex H Washburn accuses the State Highway Department of disregarding road safety as a bill to require canvas covers on gravel and rock trucks fails in the Arkansas General Assembly. He cites windshields damaged by passing trucks and criticizes department practices, including lack of rear fender flaps on state trucks.
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General Assembly
State Highway Department
Hope Carpenter
Narrows Lake
Nashville
Taylor
Little Rock
Consumer assembly opens with focus on rising prices
Washington AP report on the Consumer Federation of America conference opening with concerns over rising food prices and short supplies. It notes government studies on middlemen gains, farmer versus consumer fault lines, and calls for energy policy discussion. Governors, lawmakers, and diverse groups attend. Lucey to speak on whether farmers and consumers are victims of monopolies.
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Washington
Consumer Federation of America
U.S
Wisconsin
Patrick Lucey
Agriculture Department
The
American Gas Association
Children Before Dogs Organization
New York City
Gas Association Advo
Flames devour LNG tanks in Irving evacuations rise
About 400 residents fled a Dallas Fort Worth suburb as three liquefied petroleum gas tanks burned after a hose detached from a delivery truck. Explosions damaged tanks, four more tanks nearby were cooled, no injuries reported, firefighters from multiple cities aided.
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Trving
Tex
Dallas-Fort Worth
Dallas
Lewis Williams
Liquified Petroleum Gas Co
Williams
Chase Manhattan lowers prime rate to 9 percent
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, the nation’s third largest bank, dropped its prime lending rate by 1.2 points to 9 percent today, effective immediately. The prime rate is the rate banks charge on loans to their most creditworthy commercial borrowers.
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New York
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
Government Eases Export Rules for Wheat and Soybeans
Washington reports relaxed export limits allow up to 100000 tons of wheat and soybeans to foreign buyers without prior Agriculture Department approval. The change follows cancellations by the Soviet Union and mainland China of large planned purchases, easing pressure on sagging prices and responding to market shifts.
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Washington
U.S
Soviet Union
China
Agriculture Department
Cook Industries Inc
Memphis
Final rites Friday for Miss Briant
Evelyn Briant 56 of 920 South Elm Street Hope died Thursday in a Texarkana hospital. She served as superintendent of the Children s Division of the First United Methodist Church Hope and was a retired certified leader with the United Methodist Board of Education. Surviving are several aunts uncles nieces and nephews. Services Friday at 2 pm in Herndon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Norris Steele officiating. Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery under Herndon Funeral Home direction.
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Evelyn Briant
South Elm St
Hope
Texarkana
First United Methodist Church of
Fire Kills Mother and Three Children in Pine Bluff
A mother and her three children died and five others were injured when a single story wood frame home burned in Pine Bluff Arkansas. Coroner Havis Hester named victims Carolyn Cummings 22 Tammy Michele Hurt 5 Chris Nantel Hurt 3 Ruby Cummings 2 all residents of the house. The pregnant woman died inside the living room with her daughter. other bodies were found in beds. Fire began in the rear kitchen but cause unknown. Firemen arrived around 1 20 am and the structure collapsed within minutes. Neighboring homes were sprayed to prevent spread. Five injured were taken to area hospitals with burns. Gladys Pierce 17 in serious condition Ruby Roberts 41 James Pierce 15 Jimmy Pierce 13 and Shirley Miller 18 were listed in fair or satisfactory condition.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Jefferson County
Havis Hester
Carolyn Cummings
Tammy Michele Hurt
Chris Nantel Hurt
Ruby Cummings
Connie Taylor
Watson
Ruby Roberts
Gladys Pierce
James Pierce
Jimmy Pierce
Shirley Miller
Little Rock
Arkansas Senate approves convention bill with GOP amendment
The Arkansas Senate backed Gov. Pryor’s constitutional convention bill 290 and added an amendment to bar the convention from re districting the Senate. Pryor agreed. House rejected four nonbacked amendments while approving one that shifts the convention start from June 2 to May 29. The plan assigns Senate three delegates, House five, with Pryor appointing the rest, and forbids redistricting. The convention would last up to 60 days with a brief recess, then a few days to fix rules, and the proposed document would go to voters September 16.
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Little Rock
State Senate
David Pryor
Senate
Pryor
House
John F. Gibson Jr
Dermott
Gibson
Moore
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