Arkansas Louisiana Weather Update
Forecast from the regional bureau shows Arkansas mostly cloudy tonight with decreasing clouds and a slight warm trend Friday. A chance of showers is likely in the northwest Friday night while temperatures dip near 60s tonight and reach around 70s Friday. Louisiana remains cloudy to partly cloudy and warm through Friday with scattered thunder showers mainly in the north and southeast regions and overnight lows 70 to 76 and highs 68 to 94.
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Newport
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Walnut Ridge
Relief From Rains Due During Day
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts lighter rains for Arkansas during the day after heavy showers hit most of the state and southern areas. The main thundershower activity has moved east, with showers and thundershowers likely in the afternoon and evening through Friday. More general shower activity is expected Saturday as northeast winds keep temperatures below normal north of a passing front.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Scratching Causes Pain and Infections Warned
An old ad warns that scratching spreads infection and increases pain. It promotes ITCH-ME-NOT as a quick drying remedy that soothes in minutes and provides antiseptic action to speed healing. Suitable for eczema insect bites foot itch and surface rashes with a 48 cent money back offer at TORBAY Gibson's Rexall Drug Store.
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Torbay
Gibson's
Rexall Drug Store
Russia Tries to Woo Latin Nations
The Soviet Union began wooing Latin American members of the United Nations to salvage something after the abortive U N Assembly session on the Middle East. Latin Americans were urged to draft a compromise resolution from surviving parts of rival proposals. The vote split, with the nonaligned draft backed by the Russians and Arabs, while the United States and Israel supported the Latin American plan.
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Liam N. Oates
United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
U.N. Assembly
Middle East
Assembly
Abdul Rahman Parhwak
Afghanistan
Moshe Dayan
Gaza Strip
Egypt
Israe
Israeli
Defense Ministry
U.N
Israel
Strip
Platon D. Morozov
United States
Alexei N. Kosygin
Security Council
Wanted Civil Service Jobs Ad From Lincoln Service
A mid-century classified style notice seeks men and women 18 and over for U S Civil Service job openings in the next 12 months. It promises high starting salaries, strong security, advancement, and little required education, urging readers to request a free list of positions and how to qualify. Lincoln Service claims decades of test-preparation help since 1948, stressing it is privately owned and not government funded.
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U.S
Lincoln
Lincoln Service
Scout Troop 62 Attends Camp Pioneer Campouts
Boy Scout Troop 62 sponsored by First Methodist Church spent a week at Camp Pioneer near Ludlow Vermont. The group included Ernie Fravel Mike Newton Gary Spicer Ted Price Gary Marcum Wade Harris Charles Russell Ken Allen Ben Downs Benny O’Neal Steve Routon and Mike McQueen with Scoutmaster Buddy Jordan. Not present but attending were Mark Stephens John Spraggins and other leaders. An Okemo Mountain ski area expansion plans a chair lift with a 6000 skiers per hour capacity.
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Camp Pioneer
Ernie Fravel
Mike Newton
Gary Spicer
Ted Price
Gary Marcum Ami Wade Harris
Charles Russell
Ken Allen
Ben Downs
Benny O'Neal
Steve Routon
Mike McQueen
Bicycle trip from California to Beatrice Nebraska
Joyce Lindquist and her children began a cross country bicycle journey from Orangeville California to Beatrice Nebraska. The trip started as a brainstorm but continued as a planned trek with a long road ahead and stories from the road as they travel eastward toward Beatrice.
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Beatrice, Neb
Joyce Lindquist
Orangeville
Calif
Beatrice
Nebraska
Rusk Defends Vietnam Policy in South Viet Nam Remarks
Secretary of State Dean Rusk rejects unconditional surrender wording and says the U S seeks only a stop to North Vietnamese arms and troops moving into Laos and South Vietnam. He argues there has been no aggression by North Vietnam and would not have American combat forces otherwise. Meanwhile a California family completes a cross country trip with stopovers and travel notes.
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South Vietnam
United States
Vietnam
Laos
Fighting Is Reported in Congo War News
Fighting was reported on the Congo’s eastern border as mercenaries landed at Kisangani Stanleyville and Bukavu. Mobutu declared a state of emergency and accused Western powers of aggression. Reports said Belgian mercenaries prepared to fly to Congo to aid in freeing ex Premier Tshombe, kidnapped to Algeria.
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Stanleyville
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Joseph D. Mobutu
U.N. Security Council
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Algeria
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Katanga
Brussels
Mobutu
U. S
Truston F. Crigler
Washington
Azed National Army
Stanteyville
Buka- Vue
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Alra
Perry Mier
Patrice Lumumba
Apollo 1 Packed for Barisge Move to Langley Vault
The Apollo 1 wreckage is loaded in cardboard boxes and plastic bags for a slow barge trip from Cape Kennedy to Virginia. It will be sealed in a 40 by 24 by 19 foot steel aluminum coated container with a pure nitrogen atmosphere and placed at Langley for 10 years under the custody of Dr. Floyd L. Thompson while a decision on its fate is pending.
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Jim Strothaman
AP Aerospace
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Virginia
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Langley Research Center
Hampton
Floyd L. Thompson
Langley
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissoft
Edward H. White I
Navy
Roger B. Chaffee
NASA
Apollo
ATA AEA Merger Approved in Arkansas Education Group
The National Education Association's Executive Committee approved merging the Arkansas Education Association and the Arkansas Teachers Association at its Minneapolis convention. Deadline for ratification set for April 15, 1969 with NEA deadlines for segregated affiliates and June 12 final deadline. The plan keeps the name Arkansas Education Association and combines ownership of buildings equipment assets and liabilities.
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Little Rock
National Education Association
Arkansas Education Association
Arkansas Teachers Association
ATA
NEA
Minneapolis
Arkansas
AEA
Batesville Plant Wins $3 Million Air Force Contract
The Air Force awarded Batesville Manufacturing Co. a $3 million contract for additional production of an unspecified ordinance item. Company spokesmen said the plant has produced the item here since early 1966.
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Associated Press
Batesville, Ark
Air Force
Batesville Managerisring Co
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