Teamsters Move Out From Hoffa Shadow at Convention
At a Florida convention, new Teamsters leader Frank Fitzsimmons guides the union out from Hoffa’s long shadow. President Nixon’s message, a cabinet visit, and AFL-CIO speeches mark a shift as 2,100 delegates hear plans for a healthy economy with jobs at good wages.
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Wiaml Beach
Flatar
Teamsters Union
Frank F. Fitzsimmons
James R. Hoffa
Nixon
Afl-Cio
Hoffa
Teamsters
Fitzsimmons
Secretary of Labor
James D. Hodgson
Congress
White House
Kiwanis Convention Report Highlights Hope Club
Hope Kiwanis Club heard Dale Franks recap the Kiwanis International Convention in San Francisco with 5,183 delegates and attendance over 15,000. Dr. Billy Graham spoke on Americanism. a taped copy of his speech will be shared locally. Other attendees included Dean Murphy, K G Hamilton, and Mr Hill of Clinton Iowa.
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Hope Kiwanis Club
Dale Franks
San Francisco
California
United States
House of Delegates
Kiwanis International
Billy Graham
America
Kiwanis
Franks
Mr. Hill
Clinton
Iowa
Prescott District Convention Hosts Week of Activities
The Prescott District A M E Fellowship Convention opens at Ward Chapel in Prescott Arkansas with Rev R N Thomas preaching the annual sermon. Workshops, preaching, and a youth talent program run through Friday with a winner earning a trip to the 12th Episcopal District Congress in Little Rock August 11 12 13. Attendees include Rev J Morgan and Rev H H Scott with Rt Rev D Ward Nichols presiding Bishop. Obituary notices for Miss Betty Jean Stuart and Floyd Marshall noted along with birth announcement for Rhonda Michele Muldrew.
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Prescott District
Ward Chapel
A. M. E. Church
Prescott
Arkansas
R. N. Thomas
St. James A. M. E
Texarkana
12Th Episcopal District Christian Education Congress
Bethel A. M. E. Church
Little Rock
Morgan
H. H. Scott
D. Ward Nichols
Oklahoma
Laos launches two prong attack on Plain of Jars
Six battalions of Meo tribesmen trained by the CIA seized the southern rim of the Plain of Jars as Air America helicopters ferried commando teams to the central airfield. Laos reports low Communist supplies due to monsoon mud, with some North Vietnamese units moving south. Thai troops with US bombing alleged by Pathet Lao radio, while the U.S. says no rise in strikes.
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Saigon
Plain of Jars
Vietnam
Vientiane
Vang Pao
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Air America
U.S
Mili
Laos
Pathet Lao
Congress Works On Two Year Draft Renewal Amid Deadlock
Washington AP report says House Senate conferees push for a two year draft renewal as talks stall. Mansfield amendment seeks nine month Vietnam pullout and an immediate cease fire before troop withdrawal, while House backers push a 2.4 billion military pay plan. Mansfield maintains openness to changes but may not curb a Senate filibuster.
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Hope
Ark
Congress
Mst
ADAMS
Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
U.S
Indochina
Mansfield
Nixon
Hanoi
Cancer Bill Aims to Create Independent National Agency
Washington. A cancer bill headed for Senate passage would establish the Conquest of Cancer Agency, an independent body reporting directly to the President. It would absorb the NIH Cancer Institute personnel in Bethesda and merge Kennedy and Nixon proposals into a unified plan to accelerate cancer research.
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Washington
Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Maas
Nixon
Conquest of Cancer Agency
Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Medina in Vietnam for My Lai case depositions
Capt. Ernest Medina arrived in Saigon to give depositions for use in his defense against charges of assault and murder tied to the 1968 My Lai massacre. He traveled with Army attorney Capt. Mark Kadish and prosecutor Maj. William Eckhardt. In a separate report, Dominican civil court grants divorce to Elliot Gould and Barbra Streisand after seven years of marriage.
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Medina
Vietnam
Saigon
Ernest Medina
My Lai
Army
Mark Kadish
William Eckhardt
Gould
Streisand
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Elliot Gould
Barbra Streisand
Euripides Matos Medina
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Henry Haynes
Star
Harald Gibbons
St. Louis
Teamsters Executive Board
Thomas &. Flynn Hoffa
William Cooper
Charles Shaw
Kansas City
Missouri
Cleo M. Ward
Flint
Michigan
Kitty Paige
Addie Markham
Hot Springs
Tyree Walker
Ophelia Fields
Alex Fields
Johnnie Fields
Foreman
Jessie Poindexter
Floyd Cooper
Chicago
Sarah Piggee Hill
Illinois
Andrew Jackson Piggee
Tacoma
F. N. Piggee
Berry Street
Amos Rice
Piggees
South Bend
Indiana
Ira J. Muldrew
Emmet
Rhonda Michele
Ira Muldrew, Sr
Bnunet
Thomas Brewer
Patmos
Isdora Carrigan
W. W. Muldrew
Betty Jean Stuart
Common Hill Baptist Church
Dooley Hill Cemetery
Hicks Funeral Home, Inc
Floyd Marshall
McNab
Hicks Funeral Horne, Inc
West Second St
Hope, Ark
Cee
McCall's
Adri Rayon
Premanent Press
Fortres
Avril Rayon
Shandora
STOWE
Wrights
Talon
Ultra
Adril Rayon
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