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Editor Alex W Washburn notes his friend Brooks Shults has been missing and is reported in Wadley hospital Texarkana Room 407. He mentions two purple martin boxes last seen July 3 and explains migration factors and the eight-year arrival and departure pattern of his martins in a Hope-area setting.
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Alex. W. Washburn
S. America
Brooks Shults
Fulton
Wadley Hospital
Texarkana
Walnut St
South America
Tucker Head May Take Training Job
The Tucker Pris on Farm superintendent may lead a federally funded program to train 160 staff for Arkansas prisons. If the grant is approved, John Price would move from Tucker to Fine Bluff to run the 21 month program for Tucker and Cummins Prison farms, training officers for disadvantaged people.
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Little Rock
Tucker Prison Farm
Arkansas
Correction
Robert Sarver
John Price
Tucker
Fine Bluff
Cummins
Sarver
Price
Board of Corrections
Grant to Penitentiary Urine and Law Enforcement Plan
Governor Winthrop Rockefeller announced the Department of Corrections received a $61,005 federal grant from the U S Justice Department to fund a maximum security unit at Cummins Prison. The funds are part of a comprehensive Arkansas law enforcement plan prepared by the Arkansas Commission on Urine and Law Enforcement.
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Letter Rock
Gav
Winthrop Rockefeller
Department of Correction
Justice Department
Cummins
Prigeo Pym
Wit Will House
Robert Sarver
Commissioner of Correction
Arkatas Commission
Dennis to Be Whaley Success at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE Ark AP De David Mullins president of the University of Arkansas said Monday that Dr James L Dennis dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma has been hired to replace Dr Sturm Whaley as vice president for health sciences at the college Whaley resigned July 1 to become an associate director of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda Md
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Fayvet irviLue
Ark
David Mullins
University of Arkansas
James L. Dennis
School of Medicine
University of Oklahoma
Sturm Whaley
Cof
A Whaley
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Grass Fire on Hickory Street Report
Hope Fire Department responded to a grass fire on Hickory Street at 12 30 p m Monday. The flames burned small areas but caused no damage and no injuries were reported.
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Hickory St
Hope Fire Dept
Hickory Street
Israel Seeks More U S Arms After Missile Reports
Israeli papers urged immediate U S action after reports Soviet SA missiles near the Suez front and Israeli claims two SAM-3 shots missed. Bar-Lev said pilots believed missiles were fired, with low level SAM-35 moving toward the canal. Egyptians reportedly use SAM-2 with Soviet help. SAM-1s may be Soviet crews.
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Tel Aviv
Egypt
Suez Canal
Haim Bar-Lev
Israel
Washington
Canal
Canal Zone
Soviet Union
Lamerhay
Davar
Jerusalem
Israt
United States
Nixon
Middle East
Lebanon
Galilee
Amman
Palestine Resistance Movement
Travel Agency Folds Stranding 3000 U S Students in Europe
Paris reports show about 3000 American students on a World Academy tour stranded after bankruptcy filings by the Cincinnati based group. An airlift was arranged with planes from New York to evacuate half the youths. The firm cited assets of 800000 dollars and debts of 4 million while European agents fear impact.
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Paris
Europe
Rome
Cologne
Geneva
Vienna
Athens
Yugoslavia
T. Budge Hyde
The
World Academy
New York
Hyde
U.S. District Court of Cincinnati
Sincerity Is Key to Draft Exemption
Washington AP reports the Selective Service director issued a directive defining sincerity as the key factor for conscientious objector status. Boards must assess if beliefs are sincerely held and govern actions, with training and belief systems considered, per Supreme Court guidance.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Selective Service
Curtis W. Tarr
Tarr
One Rose Is Charmer Only for First or Second Social Date
New York dispatch mocks social mores with light jabs at dating ritual payoffs. A rose for a first or second date seems harmless yet repeated gestures risk branding the suitor as a cheapskate while broader society judges behavior, taste, and the moral economy of courtship.
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New York
Ian
SE Asia Needs Help Says House Group Report
A 12 member House study team reports non Communist Southeast Asian nations are ill prepared to form a mutual defense pact and continued U S aid is essential. Rep Augustus Hawkins cites a Con Son Island prison finding of about 400 political prisoners crammed in small cages and urges U S troop withdrawal and a coalition government free of Communist dominance.
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Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
Southeast Asia
U.S
Con Son Island
Augustus F. Hawkins
D-Calif
Indochina
United States
Red China
Hawking
Hawkins
William R. Anderson
D-Tenn
Lye
Anderson
OBrien to Reply to Nixon in Equal Time Broadcast
Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F OBrien will deliver an equal time reply to President Nixon's June 24 economy address on CBS for 25 minutes. The program will juxtapose Nixon and Agnew with Democratic views and include excerpts from their speeches. Republican officials pressed networks for their own rebuttals on the economy via ABC NBC and CBS.
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Washington
Lawrence F
Interstate Damaged by Big Trucks
A GAO study warns the interstate system suffers cracking and buckling from heavy truck loads. An estimated 200 million dollars may be needed for overlays across about 2,800 miles built before 1963, with more future costs likely. The report covers nine states and calls for federal maintenance standards and state funding of added layers.
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James BR. Polk
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Congress
General Accounting Office
GAO
Bernard Sacks
Texas
GAQ
Department of Transportation
Arizona
Colorado
Maine
New Mexico
Oregon
Vermont
Washington
Wyoming
State Voters Show Drop of 22 000 In Arkansas
Arkansas voters as of June declined by about 22 000 from the year before, State Auditor Jimmie Jones said. The drop stems mainly from the first purge of nonvoters under Amendment 31, reducing registered voters to 821,122 as of June 1, 1989.
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Little Bock
Arkansas
Jimmie Jones
Jones
Pellet-Thrower Aids Berkeley Police In Campus Riots
Berkeley police deploy blunt wooden pellet launchers against demonstrators during an Anti Honor America rally. Lt. Michael Healy says the nonlethal weapons sting but do not penetrate skin and helped quell a riot involving about 400 people.
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Earl Ammeirman
Associated Press
Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Michael Healy
Hong Kong
Healy
United
Birth Control Law Struck Down by Appeals Court
In Boston the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned William Ritchie Baird's 1967 conviction under Massachusetts anticontraceptive law as unconstitutional. The ruling frames the ban on unmarried individuals obtaining birth control devices as an infringement of basic human rights. Massachusetts Attorney General Quinn plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Boston
William Ritchie Baird
U.S. Court of Appeals
Baird
Massachusetts
New York
Harlem
New York City
Boston University
Suffolk County
Atty
Robert H. Quinn
U.S. Supreme Court
Three Railroads Struck in Firemen Dispute Strike
The United Transportation Union struck three railroads Baltimore & Ohio Louisville & Nashville and Southern Pacific affecting about 8,000 union members and delaying trains across eleven states including Maryland West Virginia Pennsylvania Illinois Texas California Florida Indiana Ohio Kentucky and Oregon. UTU president Charles Luna said the action targets the fireman issue and not a broader bargaining restart.
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Associated Press
United Transportation Union
W. H. Gilbert
UTU
Cleveland
Baltimore & Ohio
Louisville & Nashville
Southern Pacific
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Texas
California
Florida
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Oregon
Charles Luna
Voter Registration Ahead of August Primaries in Hempstead County
Mrs. Pat House, Hempstead County Clerk, reminds non-registered voters to file by August 4 for the August 25 primaries. Registered voters need only re register if their name changes. Changes of address may be reported by mail, in person, or by telephone. office hours are 8 to 5, Monday through Friday. Also notes recent college orientation and scholarships for local students, plus a Southwest Arkansas food fair and a post 91 Explorers contact.
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Place Wall
Pat House
Hempstead
Southwest Arkansas Development Council, Inc
Arkansas
U.S. Fiscal Year Shows Record Debt
The Treasury reports a preliminary year end debt of 373 billion dollars, up from 357 billion the prior year, with the debt ceiling at 395 billion. Spending cuts in military and space programs, plus tax timing, shaped a year of deficits and fluctuating cash balances, while future outlook remains uncertain.
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U.S
Washington
Treasury Department
Nixon
Nixon Administration
Treasury
Showers Likely Across Arkansas This Week
Showers are likely as moisture returns from the western gulf and southerly winds raise temps. Clouds spread from the north Monday night with light showers in northwest and north central counties. A slow warming trend continues through Wednesday with highs in the 90s and lows in the 60s to 70s.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Western
Gulf
Rockies
Harrison
Fort Smith
Bey Drowns at Greers Ferry Lake Near Clinton Ark
William F. McCoy age 17 of Morriston drowned while swimming in Greers Ferry Lake near Clinton Arkansas. He was in about 90 feet of water when bystanders heard him call for help and authorities reported he died before responders could reach him.
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Cleinton, Ark
William F. McCoy
Morriston
Greers Ferry Lake
Here
McCoy
Myo
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