Martins Leave for Season in Arkansas Goings On
A July 4 observation notes purple martins leaving their Arkansas nests after a record season. Arrival dates span 1962 to 1965 with final departures around July 4 or 5. The piece also mentions mallard population rise and a dispute with a talkative goose named Mrs. Grundy affecting Canada geese dynamics with neighboring honkers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Vast
Gulf Coast
South America
Canada
Mrs. Grundy
Old Post Office Becomes Hope School District Facility
Congressman Jim Trimble notified the Star that the Federal Surplus Property Program assigned the old U S Post Office at Hope to Hope School District No 1A. The building will house adult education courses a text book depository teacher training facilities and offices for district personnel devoted to federal programs.
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Jim Trimble
The
Star
U.S. Post Office
Hope
Hope crowd gathers for Pilkinton political rally
Home Folks Rally for Pilkinton will be held at the Hempstead County Courthouse in Hope with music by Sammy Strong’s string band at 7:00 p.m. Speakers begin at 7:30 led by Master of Ceremonies Municipal Judge John L. Wilson. Judge Pilkinton will give the main address as local leaders urge turnout before the Democratic primaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
James H. Pilkinton
Arkansas
George Frazier
Hope Business
Hempstead County
Sammy Strong
John L. Wilson
Albert Graves
Hope Attorney
Pilkinton
Frazier
Capitol Hill Recess Keeps Lawmakers Quiet and Busy
AP dispatch describes a midsummer Capitol Hill recess with no major bills in motion. Staff bustle includes brunch, beauty shop trips, and mail backlogs while lawmakers and aides juggle routines, parades, and light social moments amid a slow political pulse.
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Kelly Smith
Washington
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Kennedy
Morse
Wisconsin
White House
Johnson
Fulbright
Teddy
Proxmire
Capitol
Ptr
Congress
Joe Karth
Nedzi
Detroit
Goldie Pence
Stennis Compound
Girl Drowns at Rover River Swim Near Blytheville
Roxann Hodge aged 15 drowned while swimming with her sister Peggy 17 near Blytheville in the Mississippi River. Police said the sisters were from near Lonoke Arkansas and were among local youths swimming in the river when the accident occurred.
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Blytheville, Ark
Roxann Hodge
Peggy
Mississippi River
Here
Lonoke
Never Meets That Kind of Mosquito
HAL BOYLE surveys odd facts and curiosities from around the world and in common life. He notes Sweden guarantees workers three weeks of vacation, GE patents a lifting suit, and a fish hospital exists in Japan. The piece surveys quirks from diaper giants to barbed wire collectors and includes short quotes and reflections on daily life.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Sweden
General Electric
Hardiman
The
Texas Barbed Wire Collectors Association
Japan
General Mujors
Giant
Car Company
Ling Yutang Prosperity Auto
United States
Man Drowns At Bauxite Pit South Of Here
AP reports 10 year old Ehtior BHI Ehtior of Little Rock drowned Wednesday while swimming in a bauxite pit south of the city, police said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Here
Hoffa Gains Full Power Over Union
AP report from Miami Beach outlines James R. Hoffa tightening grip before his likely re election to a five year term. Hoffa consolidates influence over 13 vice presidents amid looming appeals and possible post term power struggles with Fitzsimmons Gibbons and McIn as top contenders. Dusty Miller noted as a potential future power broker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neil Gilbride
Miami Beach
Fla
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Une Son
Teamsters
Hoffa
Frank Fitzsimmons
Harold Gibbons
Einar Mcin
Dave Beck
Dusty Miller
Murray W. Miller
Chicago
Dusty
Fitzsimmons
Plane Crash Kills Pilot Near Hazen Arkansas
Calvin Slaughter 24 of Stuttgart died when his light plane crashed on a farm near Hazen while spraying fertilizer as a crop duster. The aircraft was owned by Carl Fischer Aerial Applicators of Stuttgart.
Arnold backs rural voice in legislature reform
El Dorado Ark AP Richard S Arnold of Texarkana a Democrat running for 4th District congressman said Wednesday he favored a state legislature with one house based on more than population. He urged amending the U.S. Constitution to protect rural areas and small towns and endorsed the Everett Dirksen amendment to modify the Supreme Court one man one vote ruling on apportionment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Dorado
Ark
Richard S. Arnold
Texarkana
Arnold
U.S
Everett Dirksen
U.S. Supreme Court
Tito cleans house as purge widens in Yugoslavia
President Tito pursued a broad purge after dismissals across courts, military, government and party. Speculation centered on interior minister Vojin Lukic as a potential next top official to fall, amid moves to end opposition to his liberal economic program.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Vojin Lukic
Communist Party Central Committee
Shover Springs Homecoming at Baptist Church
Shover Springs Baptist Church will hold its annual Homecoming on Sunday July 10 with services at 10 a.m. Lunch will be served at noon and a special singing in the afternoon. The Rev. J A McAdams is pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shover Springs Baptist Church
J. A. McAdams
Johnson seeks private capital to erase budget deficit
President Johnson promotes measures to substitute private lending and guarantee programs for direct government funding to cut billions from the budget. Congress has blocked only some proposals while Republicans charge deception. The Administration cites private capital as sound policy and notes the 1966 deficit forecast and the 4.2 billion reduction via the Participation Sales Act.
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Edmond LE Breton
Washington
Johnson
Congress
Treasury
Iscal
National Defense
Ume
House Education and Labor Committee
Appropriations Committee
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae
Plans Annual Bible School at Bruce Memorial Church
Vacation Bible School begins Monday July 11 at 8:30 a.m. at Bruce Memorial Church in Blevins. Daily sessions run 8:30 to 11 a.m. with refreshments. A children's program closes the week on Saturday night July 16 at 7:30 p.m. Supervisors are Rev Wayne Bell and Rev Bruce Beene.
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Bruce Memorial Church
Blevins
Wayne Bell
Bells Chapel
Bruce Beene
Bruce Memorial Methodist Church
Oil Depots at Haiphong Bombed Twice by U S Planes
U S Navy planes bombed the Haiphong oil depot in the dock area two miles northeast of the city for the second time. The command said bombs hit the target and one Skyhawk was shot down but the pilot was rescued. The raids come as U S forces fly a record 113 missions against North Viet Nam with limited ground action reported. The South Vietnamese army announced its third major military success.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
Haiphong Dock
U.S
Haiphong
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Hancock
U.S. Command
Jones pledges to expand Arkansas interstate system
John Harris Jones, a Democrat, said Wednesday that if elected to Congress from the 4th District he will push a bill to expand the interstate highway network in Arkansas. He argued Arkansas highways are not tourist inducements and will give priority to U S 62 across the southern part of the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Dorado, Ark
John Harris Jones
Arkansas
Jones
U.S. 62
Ark legislators honored at Conway dinner and groundbreakings
In Conway Arkansas businessmen sponsor an appreciation dinner for Senator John L. McClellan and Representative Wilbur Mills, both Arkansas Democrats. Before the event they are set to speak at groundbreaking ceremonies for the Conway Municipal Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conway
Ark
John L. McClellan
Rep
Wilbur Mills
McClellan
Mills
Viet Nam peacemaker bid stalls amid wary governors
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson aims to mediate on Viet Nam with visits to Moscow and Washington but faces slim chances. Meanwhile a South Vietnamese force hits a major Viet Cong depot in the Mekong Delta, claiming over 155 enemy deaths.
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Viet Nam
Harold Wilson
Moscow
Washington
Johnson
Mekong Delta
Defense Department
Stokely Carmichael
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
International
Dean Rusk
Red
China
United States
America
Tito
Yugoslavia
Communist Party
Laos
Capitol Hill
Hope Chamber to Visit Sweet Home Friday
The Hope Chamber of Commerce and the Hope Trade Development Association sponsor a goodwill caravan to Sweet Home on Friday July 8. A Main Street gathering forms at 2nd Street between 6th and 3rd Streets at 6 15 p.m. The group leaves at 6 30 and a buffet dinner follows at 7 p.m. urging residents to join the tour led by W L Tate and George Farzier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Hope Trade Development Association
Sweet Home
Main Street
2Nd
3Rd Sts
C of C
W.L. Tate
George Farzier
Fire destroys Elon College dormitory storeroom
A 76 year old former dormitory now used for storage of Elon College scientific supplies was extensively damaged by a recent fire. College officials estimated damage at
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Elon College
N.C
Rally broadcast for Lt. Governor candidate Pilkinton
All Around Town notes that KXAR will air the rally for James Pilkinton, candidate for Lt. Governor, at 7 o'clock tonight. Also at 6:30 p.m. tonight a Six Flags Over Texas revue with D laine Bonds will be broadcast.
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KXAR
James Pilkinton
Dlaine Bonds
Rusk Warns Red China of US Retaliation
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told reporters in Kyoto that the United States would retaliate by whatever means are required if a nuclear attack hits any American Asian ally. He stressed this would meet obligations under mutual security treaties and followed discussion of Chinese nuclear activity.
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John Roderick Kyoto
Japan
Dean Rusk
Red China
United States
America
Rusk
Asia
China
Etsusaburo Shiina
U. S
Black Power Defined by SNCC Leader Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael of SNCC defines black power as political strength tied to racial pride and self determination for Negroes. He says the movement's aim is to build power and identity without being antiwhite, though it could split civil rights efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don. McKee
Atlanta, Ga
Stokely Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Carmichael
SNCC
Atlanta
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Joseph Moore
United States Air Force
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Moore
Home Folks Rally
James Plikinston
Rover
Neante
Henry Thoreau
Hoffa Gaines
Union
Shover Springs
AP News Digest
Howard
Lafayette
Nevada County
Jimmy Dean Dismuke of Hope
University of Arkansas
Clyde Arnold
Arthur Wimmell
McCaskill
Imon Hoover
E. J. Hawkins
Hatfield, Ark
Cynthia Okano
Snookie Lawson
Channel 6
Shreveport
Kay Okano
Walter Johnson Jr
USN
Mattie Johnson
Prescott, Ark
Orleck
7Th Fleet
Mike Gaines
James Gaines
Alvin E. Butler
Texas Eastern Transmission, Corporation
Earl Humble
Lite Rock
Butler
Ardis Marie
Peggy LaVelle
Ardis Janelle Daniels
Butlers
Bodean
Constance Fisher
Fairfield
Carl
Fisher
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