Obituaries: Vernis Boswell and notable passings
Vernis Dale Boswell 61 died today in local hospitals. Survived by wife Salma one stepson James Watsket mother Mrs Sim Boswall two sisters Mia W H Tussell Tess arkana Mrs T G Gates. Funeral Thursday 2 00 pm Hern don Funeral Home Rev Gordon Renshaw burial Rose Hill Cemetery Hope. Also noted Gen Robert Wood Johnson 74 former Johnson & Johnson board chair died Tuesday after building a medical products empire. Baroness de Stoeckl 94 and writer Aristocrat died Tuesday. memoir Not All Vanity published at age 78.
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Dale Boswell
Unity Baptist iChurch
W. Welly
Bultvivors
Salma
James Watsket
Herndon Funéral Home
Gordon Renshaw
Rose HM
Herndon
New Brunswick
Robert Wood &Johnson
Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
Iver
England
Dé Stoeckl
Baroness Stoeckt
Announcer Clobbered by Stranger in Arkansas Program
LITTLE ROCK AP Radio announcer Bill Dietz host of a listener participation show at KARK was struck in the booth by a man who entered and asked for the program. The assailant fled in a pickup as police search for him. The incident remains unexplained. King Charles V and King Edward III comments follow in Britannica excerpts.
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Little Rock
Bill Dietz
KARK
Dietz
Men Wanted From This Area To Train As Livestock Buyer
Regional hiring notice seeking men aged 18 to 50 with farm background to train as livestock buyers. No prior experience required. Interview by sending age, phone, and experience to Regional Manager, National Institute of Meat Packing, P. O. Box 57, Muskogee Oklahoma 74401.
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National Institute of Meat Packing
Muskogee
Okla
Embass y siege at Saigon shocks U S diplomats
Viet Cong guerrillas attacked the U S Embassy in Saigon injuring soldiers and drivers, killing several, and triggering a nightlong battle that closed the air port. U S paratroopers secured the six story building while conflicting reports claimed inside access by attackers.
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Secom
Tral
Ellsworth Bankser
U.S
George Jacobson
Jacobson
Westmoreland
United States
Attorney Dies During Murder Trial in Conway Ark
In Conway Arkansas AP report attorney E Martin 40 Morillton died of an apparent heart attack minutes after cross examining the state's star witness in the first degree murder trial of Billy Gross 30. Martin a court appointed lawyer for Gross collapsed at the table and died at Conway hospital. The judge declared a mistrial. Gross had been charged with the 1963 murder of Frank Birch. A federal retrial deadline loomed as prosecutors sought more time. In other notes a historical month proclamation by Mayor Parker marked February as American History Month with DAR leaders and local officials cited. A snakebite antidote derived from horses is briefly described.
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W. A. Turod
Martin
Conway
Russell Roberts
Gross
Frank Birch
J. Smith Heneley
Jeff Mobley
Russellville
Verger School Honor Roll for Semester
Verger School announces the honor roll for the first semester across grades four through twelfth. Readers see names across multiple grades including Mary Joyce Barekins, Barbara Scoggins, Wilson Ragland, and Evelyn Maxwell in fourth grade, Eva J Petty and Cayce Smith in seventh, Beverly Ant Smith and Jewel Lee Pree in eighth, and Meredith Watkins and Ruth H Williams among tenth graders.
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Beverly Ant Smith
Jewel Lee Pree
Gloria Garland
Mae Alice Johnson
Kenneth Ellis
Beatrice Flenory
Gwendolyn Poindexter
Willie Pree
Sylvia Hawkins
Debora Coleman
Sandra Hamilton
Larry Monk
Vickye Davis
James Harris
Shirley Benton
Georgia Brewer
Beverly Brown
Linda Easter
Brenda Flenory
Terri Jones
Wendell Ross
Peggy Washington
Virginia Williams
Robert Jones
Johnny Turner
Carolyn Williams
Joe Maxwell
Betty Philips
Lonnie Ragland
Linda Walker
Reco White
Meredith Watkins
Ruth H. Williams
Kathleen Davis
Stanley Wilson
Norma Smith
Charlotte Ogden
Harriet Hickles
Vera Williams
Linda Newton
Sarah Jones
Mary Blake
Evelyn Walker
Brenda Whitley
Gwen Jones
Neva Tate
Mary Washington
Mar‘tlyn Weston
Ira
Isley
Brenda Milus
Marion
Vietnam War troop figures and DMZ tensions surface
Report cites U S and South Vietnamese manpower totaling 68 600 in South Vietnam with North Vietnamese forces around 45 000 near the DMZ at Khe Sanh. Pentagon briefings warned Viet Cong harassment would rise 100 fold as reinforcements moved to the DMZ, clashing with Westmoreland's optimism during a Washington visit.
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Oid Ie
U.S
South Vietnam
Lourdes
Ava
Dmz
Khe Sanh
Pentagon
William C. Weste Moteland
Vietnam
Washington
Westmoreland
Court upholds Arkansas State Printing Board act
The Arkansas Supreme Court today upheld a 967 det that established a three member state printing specifications review committee to advise the secretary of state on awarding printing contracts. The chancery court in Pulaski County had ruled the act unconstitutional amid a dispute over contracting for printing supplies and a special legislative session. Posterity notes include references to Kelly Bryant and Sidney A. Kegeles in ongoing procurement tensions and a White House wedding for Grover Cleveland.
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Lpptle Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court Today
Mittée
Justice Conley
Byrd
Chancery Court
Pulaski County
Secretary of State
Ernie J. Ambert
Moneays
Sidney A. Kegeles
Kelly Bryant
Bryant
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Tate
Charles V
France
Ward III
Encyclopaedia Britannica
International Monetary Fund
Treasury
London
Colgate
Hope, Arkansas
Otto
Hope Steed Bet
Las Vegas
Paul Klipsch
Donal Parker
Howard Waddle
Daughters of the American Revolution
Paul Kipsch
John Cain
Ook On
Congress of the United States
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
City of
Hope
Arkansas
State of Arkansas
City of Hope
United States of America
Hope Star
Chu Lai
Verger
Orené Brown
James Patterson
Joan Bavis
Jessie Moss
Marsha Pugh
Carol Willams
Alane Haney
James Stith
Linda Hicks
Frances Henitix
Cora Toner
Glynna Stuart
Cong Assaults
State Printing Board
White House
Grover Cleveland
Sue Walker
Income Tax Service
J. W. Strickland
West Third St
Hope Federal
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