Brother and Sister to Defend Title in Clay Court Meet
Nancy Richey and her brother Cliff defend their National Clay Court titles as a deep field opens in Milwaukee. Billie Jean King leads the challengers, with Rosemary Casals Tory Fretz and Peaches Bartkowicz among top contenders in the 57th event.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Nancy Richey
Cliff
Miss Richey
Billie Jean King
Long Beach
Calif
U.S. Lawn Tennis Association
Mrs. King
Willie Rosemary Casals
San Francisco
Tory Fretz
Los Angeles
Peaches Bartkowicz
Hamtramck
Mich
Cool Air to Continue Through Several Days
Unseasonably cold weather persists across Western Arkansas with record low maximums in July. Fort Smith topped out at 68 degrees, a July record, while Monday's morning low also set a July 17 record. Elsewhere in the state highs were mainly in the 70s and 80s with Batesville at 68. Overnight lows ranged from 54 in Fayetteville to 68 in Portland as moisture spreads eastward Tuesday behind a drifting high pressure system.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Batesville
Fayetteville
Portland
Pastor Schleiff Named African Missionary Couple
Pastor Gerald E. Schleiff and Mrs Barbara Schleiff of Calvary Baptist Church Hope Ark are appointed missionaries to Africa by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board on July 13. Schleiff served Hope since 1965 and was born in Fort Smith Ark. He and his wife, a Monette Ark native, will relocate after years of preparation, with son John Mark.
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Calvary Baptist Church
Hope, Ark
Africa
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Schleiff
Hope
Fort Smith
Ark
Charleston
Barbara Robertson
Monette
Foreign Mission Board
Southwestern Seminary
Fort Smith Junior College
Ouachita College
Fort Smith College
McKinney
Tex
Greenwood
Mansfield
Hackett
John Mark
Southern Baptist
Schleiffs
Seventh St
Vietnam War Forecasts Through Nine McNamara Visits
AP Special Correspondent Relman Morin examines Defense Secretary McNamara’s Vietnam trip statements from 1962 to 1963 and the shift from optimism to ongoing combat. The piece notes wartime reporting tensions, the evolving U.S. troop roles, and the disputed accuracy of official forecasts.
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Relman Morin
New York
Robert S. McNamara
South Vietnam
Washington
White House
Boys Camp Opens at Camp Robinson in Arkansas
The Arkansas Young Citizens Camp opened at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock for 588 boys from low income families. Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller led the dedication, noting potential replication by other states, as Gerald Christiansen of the President's Council on Youth Opportunity represented Vice President Humphrey. A two week encampment will be followed by a girls program.
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North Little Rock
Arkansas
American Legion
State Office of Economic Opportunity
Camp Robinson
Winthrop Rockefeller
Gerald Christiansen
Council On Youth Opportunity
Hubert H. Humphrey
Christiansen
Humphrey
Glen Jermstad
Buckpasser Heads to Aqueduct in Brooklyn Handicap Bid
Buckpasser, the Ogden Pripps four year old, aims to sweep the handicap triple by winning the $100,000 Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct on Saturday as part of a quest for a second consecutive Horse of the Year. Other top results include Dr. Fager’s track record in Rockingham Special and Damascus’s Dwyer victory at Aqueduct.
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Ted Meier
Associated Press
Buckpasser
Ogden Pripps
Brooklyn
Aqueduct
Ring
Dr. Fager
Damascus
Native Diver
Rockingham Park
Hollywood Park
Thai Leaders Plan October Bangkok Summit on Vietnam War
Premier Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand announced that government chiefs of seven allied nations fighting Communists in Vietnam will meet in Bangkok in October. A ministers' conference in Saigon will precede the summit, the annual dates not yet fixed. The Bangkok gathering would be the second such meeting after the 1966 Manila session.
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Railand
Thanom Kittikachorn
Thailand
Vietnam
Thanomn
Saigon
United States
Thaieland
South Vietnam
Philippines
South Korea
Australia
New Zealand
Manila
Young Demos Would Lower Voting Age In Arkansas
Ray Lee Hight of the Arkansas Young Democrats Clubs said the group would push an initiated act to lower the voting age to 18 for the November ballot. The effort seeks support from other groups, including Young Republicans, despite the Arkansas Constitutional Revision Study Commission recommending 21. The YDC also chartered a new Dallas County club, planned a statewide Democratic Youth Rally in Little Rock next August, and named delegates to the Southern Young Democrats Conference August 5-6 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Little Rock
Ray Lee Hight
Arkansas Young Democrats Clubs
Hight
Young Republicans
Arkansas Constitutional Revision Study Commission
YDC
Young Democrat Club
Dallas County
Late Rock
Don Trumbo
Fayetteville
Judith Rogers
North Little Rock
Southern Young Democrats Conference
Nashville
Tenn
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