Arkansas House Week Summary in Late January 1977
Arkansas House of Representatives week January 24 28 1977 included passage of HB 206 limiting licensing board appointees, the sunset bill HB 5, and 12 bills plus budget measures. Judiciary Committee advanced 12 items including HB 117 SB 152 and HB 153 while others were killed or deferred. ERA hearings continued with postponement, energy bills moved forward, and tax policy discussions featured HB 302 and solar appliance tax exemptions.
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Arkansas House of Representatives
House
Thicksten
Alma
State of
Arkansas
House Judiciary Committee
Jim Harris
The
Hope Star
Senate
Fowler
Federal Energy Office
Arkansas Department of Education
Joint Budget Committee
Revenue and Taxation Committee
House Committee On
Beaumont
Rural Life Conference Set for February Fourth in Hope
Mrs. Nonnie McKinney of the Southwest Arkansas Development Council announced the 25th Rural Life Conference to be held February 4 at 8 30 a.m. at Red River Vocational Technical School Hope The theme is Developing Arkansas resources today and tomorrow for effective living The keynote speaker is Thomas C McRae president of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Little Rock Sessions will be led by McKinney and Hugh Simmons with agency representatives from the Southwest Arkansas Development Council Planning District Farmers Home Administration Human Resources Arkansas Council of Farm Workers and Hempstead County Extension Service.
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Nonnie McKinney
Southwest Arkansas Development Council
Rural Life
Red River Vocational Technical School
Hope
Arkansas
Thomas C. McRae
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Little Rock
Hugh Simmons
Southwest Arkansas Planning & Development District
Farmers Home Administration
Human Resources
Arkansas Council of Farm Workers
Hempstead County Extension Service
Deputy wounded in training exercise at Calcasieu Parish
Deputy Donald De Louche was wounded in the chest knee and leg during a two day special weapons and tactics drill in Sulphur Louisiana. The incident occurred as insurgents simulated an attack near City Hall and the cause remains under investigation.
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Calcasieu Parish
Donald DeLouche
DeLouche
Seige
National Guard
Hope officer has scene in Peppard film The Long Escape
Arkansas State Trooper Ron Stovall and Lt. Earl Orr from Hope were cast as troopers in George Peppard's The Long Escape. They filmed a roadblock scene at State Line in Springhill Louisiana, with Peppard hidden in the trunk. Filming continues about three weeks, with most night shots in Springhill.
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George Peppard
Arkansas
Ron Stovall
Magnolia
Earl Orr
Hope
Peppard
Springhill
Stovall
Orr
State Line
Tom Pryor
Angola Prison
Vern
Angela
Los Angeles
Pryor
United States
Markley
Nevil Brand
Abortions safer than childbirth in early pregnancy says federal study
A CDC study of 1972 to 1974 finds death risk for childbirth nine times higher than for legal first trimester abortions performed by licensed physicians. It notes 3.9 maternal deaths per 100 000 legal abortions, 1.7 in the first trimester, and cites overall pregnancy mortality at 14.8 per 100 000 live births.
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Chicago
Willard Cates Jr
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Federal
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
U.S. Supreme Court
National Center For Health Statistics
Archeologist and husband freed by Chad rebels arrive in Tripoli
French archeologist Francoise Claustre and her husband Pierre were reported in good health after being freed by Chad rebels and arriving in Tripoli Libya. The case traces a long captivity since April 1974 with prior exchanges and ransoms involving France and West Germany.
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Chad
Paris
Francoise Claustre
Arab Revolution
Claustre
Central
Africa
Hissen Habre
Tibesti
Frolinat
Staewen
Gustav Heinemann
West Germany
Bonn
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Combe
Libya
Pierre Claustre
Hollywood
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Rome
Montreal
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