City in Address and You'll Regret It
A Hope Arkansas reader warns against using City in addresses causing misrouting. Checks mailed between Hope and Texarkana faced delays, with Dallas and back to Hope before delivery. A bottler reports Cincinnati mail arrived weeks late. Also notes on paying the Arkla Gas bill: send the first figure, not the last, to avoid a 10 percent late fee.
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Texarkana
Dallas
Ark
A. L. Page
Hope Bottler
Cincinnati
Ohio
Arkla Gas Co
Convention opens as McGovern seeks first ballot edge
Democratic convention begins amid tight security in Miami Beach. McGovern aims to reinstate 151 California votes stripped by the Credentials Committee, which could pull him within 50 votes of a first ballot victory. Uncommitted delegates edge toward a winning bandwagon while Humphrey supporters push to keep the committee ruling. Congressmen, governors, and mayors weigh pivotal credentials battles that promise a marathon session tonight.
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Miami Beach
Fla
George McGovern
California
McGovern
Associated Press
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Ja‘uuary
Mervyn Dymally
Los Angeles
Humphrey
Logjam at Democratic convention over credentials fights
Democrats confront a maze of 23 challenges to delegates in 15 states at the Miami Beach convention opening. Compromises may ease some disputes while the California winner take all rules fight between George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey dominates. The Credentials Committee shifted 271 California delegates to be allocated by popular votes, triggering a potential floor clash that could threaten party unity and help President Nixon.
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George C. Wallace
Humphrey
Alabama
Tennessee
Miami Beach
Fla
California
George McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Credentials Committee
South Dakota
Nixon
Case
Wallace
Party of the People
Hubert Humphrey
Delegates' march to diverse drummers at Democratic convention
In Miami Beach delegates arrive in varied attire from dungarees to Dashikis, representing a spectrum of geographies and causes. The convention hall, heavily guarded, displays portraits of Roosevelt, Jefferson, Jackson and Kennedy while Hubert Humphrey backs party reforms amid debates over George McGovern's California delegates.
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Washington, D.C
George
McGovern
Democrats Clash Over Convention Seats In California
California Democrats quarrel over chartered jet seating as 271 convention seats are allocated. Big donors grab first class while others, including Harold Barner, protest. McGovern supporters clash with alleged dirty politics in a tense pre Miami Beach caucus.
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Miami Beach
Fla
California
Peacemaker Spurned by McGovern At Democratic Con
At the Democratic National Convention McGovern rejected a mediation offer from Muskie who proposed a parley among eight candidates to resolve California delegates dispute. McGovern dismissed a closed meeting as pointless while Muskie urged unity and warned of polarization within the party. Separately, a Wallace call for party confidence emerged as local hearings prepare to probe a ballot box opening, with subpoenas issued to about 10 residents and testimonies set for a closed session tomorrow chaired by Prosecuting Attorney Dub Arnold.
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Fla
Edmund S. Muskie
George S. McGovern
Muskie
California
McGovern
Maine
Hempstead County
Dub Arnold
Arkadelphia
John Robert Graves
Hope
Carl Arrington
Arnold
The
Star
Wallace Directs Convention Fight From Wheelchair
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace directs his convention effort from a wheelchair, appealing to undecided and unfriendly delegates. He invites delegations with bus transport to his hotel with a 20th floor suite and mentions another Democratic candidate besides Henry M Jackson visiting. Jackson says their talks focused on national defense and that Democrats need a strong posture to win in November.
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Miami Beach
Fla
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Charles Snider
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Ten
Nessee
Jackson
Mrs Pruden Named 72 GOP Delegate From District 20
Jerri Pruden of Hope is among eight delegates elected by congressional district committees to attend the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. The Arkansas Republican Convention in Little Rock will approve these eight and select 10 more delegates. Other chosen include Keith Rutledge Batesville Sam Sparks Little Rock Otis Richmond Sr Pine Bluff Phyllis Kincannon North Little Rock Joe Mills Clarksville and C W McWhorter Rogers.
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Jerri Pruden
Hope
Miami Beach
Fla
Pruden
Little Rock
Jonesboro
Camden
Fort Smith
General killed in Vietnam as shell hits An Loc base
Brig. Gen. Richard Tallman, 47, promoted 12 days earlier, is killed along with three other U.S. officers in an An Loc inspection by a North Vietnamese artillery shell. Two officers wounded. Tallman, from Honesdale Pennsylvania, was chief of staff of the 3rd Regional Assistance Command and has now become the eighth American general killed in the war. The incident follows multiple clashes around Quang Tri with 101 North Vietnamese and 14 South Vietnamese dead and 34 wounded.
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U.S
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Honesdale
Tonkin Gulf
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Next of
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Korea
Vietnam
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the Point
Quang Tri
Slaughter House Meeting Postponed In Hope
A meeting for those interested in a Hope slaughter house was postponed until the planning committee secures more information. The Hempstead County Cattlemen’s Association will meet July 11 at 8:00 p.m. in Perry’s Restaurant Perrytown with guest Cecil M. Bittle, SW Branch Experiment Station assistant director. Glen Ford urges members to attend. The razorback bus trip to Fort Worth for the October 7 TCU game and Rame ticket purchases run through July 15 with bus fare set at $12. The Hope Optimist Club begins charter membership with a breakfast at 6:15 a.m. tomorrow at the Town and Country, a final chance to join.
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Hope
Red River
Vo-Tech
Hempstead County Cattlemen’s Association
Perry’s
Perrytown
Cecil M. Bittle
Glen Ford
Ft. Worth
TCU
The
Hope Optimist Club
Optimist International
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