Youth Center fund on deposit in Hope Arkansas
A letter from Marynell Turner notes that as of June 30, 1968, the Hope Community Center Building Fund holds 2840.64 dollars in Citizens National Bank with Cecil O Stephen and Turner as co treasurers. A student drive led by journalism students, including Susan McCain and others, began the fund with a March 4, 1968 deposit of 610 dollars from a talent show.
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the Star
Jim Gunter
Susan McCain
Janeanne Reynolds
Pat Westbrook
Donna Connelly
Marynell Turner
Hope High School
GM contract talks open as auto unions apply pressure
AP reports UAW and General Motors begin negotiations two months before current contract ends. Billions hinge on the talks with potential auto strikes by Sept. 14 if no deal. Past strikes hit 67 days in 1970, affecting millions of workers. today unions push fringe benefits amid wage around $5.12 per hour.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
UAW
Car of Newsprint unloaded at former Safeway site
A photo shows drayage crew unloading 32 tons of newsprint from a Louisiana & Arkansas Railway car at the former Safeway Store No 141 at W Third and Grady Streets. Hope Star owns the stock total 60 tons, newsprint moved weekly to The Star Building press until the Safeway site is ready in several months.
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Drayage
Safeway
W. Third
Grady Sts
Hope Star
Monroe Hardeman
Drayman
George Smith
Louisiana & Arkansas Railway
Allen DX
Third
Hervey Sts
Star
Governor dedicates new unit of Children's Colony
Governor Dale Bumpers dedicated a new Arkansas Children’s Colony unit near Booneville two miles south of town off Arkansas 23. He said the facility will employ 80 to 90 people and aims to train mentally retarded children for supervised living, provide parent-child counseling, respite care, and eventually offer long term care for severely handicapped individuals, with initial housing for 74 residents and long range plans for 200–300.
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Booneville, Ark
Arkansas Children’s Colony Unit
Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Dale Bumpers
Here
Arkansas 23
Bumpers
Truck Crash Injures Six Near Mena Arkansas
A mother and four children were among six seriously hurt when a truck collided with a train four miles south of Mena Arkansas on a Polk County road. Driver Jo Ann Gandy 34 and children Horace 6 Joseph 8 Sherry 10 and Gwendolyn 12 were injured. Joseph and Gwendolyn remained hospitalized at Polk County Memorial Hospital. A visitor Carolyn Shock 12 from Prescott Arizona was also seriously injured. The train driver H G Lile 64 from Heavener Oklahoma was unharmed. No signals were at the crossing and the occupants were briefly trapped inside the truck.
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Mena, Ark
Here
Tom Morrow
Mena
Jo Ann Gandy
Horace
Joseph
Sherry
Gwendolyn
Carolyn Shock
Prescott
Ariz
Gandy
Gwendolyn Gandy
Polk County Memorial Hospital
Sparks General Hospital
Fort Smith
Morrow
H.G. Lile
Heavener
Okla
Polk County
Nixon showing considerable improvement at Bethesda
President Nixon, on his fourth day at Bethesda Naval Medical Center for viral pneumonia, is reported to be improving considerably. Chest congestion eased, pain diminished, and he slept well after a day marked by a light schedule and family visits as doctors noted fatigue from chest therapy.
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Washington
Nixon
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
White House
Walter R. Tkach
Maryland
Tkach
Ervin Defends Televised Watergate Inquiry
Senate Watergate panel chair Sam J. Ervin Jr. defends its televised hearings as crucial to national welfare quoting Nixon's Six Crises. The panel resumes with Richard A. Moore questioning and Kalmbach testimony on campaign money and financing tied to Nixon’s California estate.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Senate Watergate Committee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Dn.c
Ervin
Nixon
Alger Hiss
White House
Richard A. Moore
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Moore
John W. Dean II
Hig
Congressional
Woodrow Wilson
Kalmbach
California
San Clemente
Dean
Miss Arkansas Becky Hume heads to Miss America pageant
Becky Jean Hume 23 of Jonesboro won Miss Arkansas at Hot Springs to compete in Miss America. The ASU physical education major, captain of ASU gymnastics, performed a four inch bar balance routine and balletic jumps. First runnerup Janet Graves. second runnerup Debbie Purtle. third runnerup Donna McGee. fourth runnerup Rita Hargrove. Linda Nichols named Miss Congeniality. Finalists included Lynn McLemore, Jill Litzelfelner, Joan Hardin, Mary Jane Myers, and Martie Adams.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Becky Jean Hume
Jonesboro
Miss Hume
Janet Lou Graves
West Memphis
Eastern Arkansas
Debbie Purtle
Conway
State College of
Arkansas State University
Rise Lynn McLemore
Little Rock
Jill Litzelfelner
Piggott
ASU
Joan Hardin
Augusta
Mary Jane Myers
Waldron
Scott County
Martie Adams
Benton
Arkansas All-America Soap Box Derby Winner Named
Steve Brantley 15 of Little Rock defeated Jay Agee 11 of Sherwood and Larry Long of Little Rock to win the Arkansas All-America Soap Box Derby. Brantley is the son of Dr and Mrs Richard Brantley.
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Little Rock
Steve Brantley
Jay Agee
Sherwood
Brantley
Richard Brantley
Larry Long
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Alex. H. Washburn
Youth Center Fund
Martin Report
Hope, Ark
Cordes Drake
Patmos
South America
North America
Hope
Children’s
Jesi
Julie
David Eisenhower
Tricia Cox
New York City
Ronald L. Ziegler
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Rose Mary Woods
Watergate Committee
United States
Becky
Pod Rogers
Becky Home
Arkansas
Fayetteville, Ark
Lloyd O. Warren
University of Arkansas
Arkansas Agriculture Experiment Station
University
Division of Agriculture
Warren
National Cancer Institute
State Planning Department
Antaeus Lineal Research Institute
Little Rock, Ark
Internal Revenue Service
Emmett Cook
IRS
Cook
Los Angeles
Hollywood Meat & Provision Co
Sun Valley
The
Fund For Animals
Canada
Maritime
Honolulu
Atlantic City
N.J
Hawaii
Kaneolehud Kaumeheiwa
Hilo
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