Rights Issue Will Be On LBJ Agenda
President Johnson says civil rights will be on the campaign agenda while seeking to avoid inflaming tensions with Barry Goldwater. They discussed the issue in a 16 minute meeting and at a news conference, with both urging restraint and a calm campaign atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter R. Mears
Washington
Johnson
Barry
White House
Arizona
Goldwater
Democratic Party
Johnson-Goldwatr
White’ House
George Reedy
Sen. Goldwater
Reedy
Vapors Club Closes in Hot Springs Over Gambling Ban
The Vapors at Hot Springs will close August 5 due to ongoing financial losses after Gov Faubus shut gambling rooms. The Southern Club and other venues have also paused operations, awaiting legalization or reopening. Vapors operator Dane Harris cited $29,593 lost in spring and projected losses over $16,000 in July. The November ballot will include a constitutional gamble proposal for Garland County.
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Hot Springs
Ark
the Vapors
Orval E
Ca Aines
Faubus
Vapors’ Theater
Southern Club
Belvedeer
Oaklawn Park
Harris
Garland County
Weather Outlook: Partly Cloudy, Humid with Scattered Thunderstorms
Partly cloudy and hot with high humidity today. Tonight stays humid as wildly scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers develop across the area, with no significant cooling. Staying prepared for brief downpours and localized lightning.
Miss Hospitality for Hope Miss Pilkinton chosen Miss Hospitality
The Hope Chamber selects Tena Louise Pilkinton to serve as Miss Hospitality for 1964-65. She will represent Hope and Hempstead County in the Arkansas Hospitality Pageant in Little Rock August 4 to 9, with the state winner to be crowned at halftime of the Arkansas All Star Football game on August 8. Pilkinton, a Lindenwood College for Women alumna and current University of Arkansas student, has a background in voice study, opera auditions, and college activities. She will attend events including a visit to the Petit Jean Mountain home of Winthrop Rockefeller and tea at the Governor’s mansion in Little Rock.
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Hope Chamber of Commerce
Tena Louise Pilkinton
James H. Pilkinton
Hempstead County
Little Rock
Pilkinton
Lindenwood College For
St. Charles
Missouri
University of Arkansas
Arkansas
Hope
Petit Jean Mountain
Winthrop , Rockefeller
Govenor
Rules Ban 2 Little Loop Star Teams in ABBA Tourney
Arkansas ABBA ruling bans two Hope Little League All-Star teams from the district tournament starting August 3. Only first place teams in four team leagues and first and second place teams in six team leagues qualify. A playoff to determine Hope’s second place team will be CBC versus the Sheriff’s Dept on July 27 at 7:00 p.m. The July 29 All-Star game Hope versus Arkadelphia remains.
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Arkansas Boy’s Baseball Association
Hope
CBC
Sheriff's Dept
Arkadelphia
Star Abandons Election Party This Year
The Star will not host an election party due to shrinking crowds. The County Clerk's office at the Courthouse will receive boxed ballots after precinct counts. A full Hempstead precinct and statewide results report will appear Wednesday with KXAR broadcasting results as precincts report. Election officials should bring boxes to the Clerk's office promptly.
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the Star
Hempstead
KXAR
Traffic Deaths Show Increase in Arkansas
AP reports that Arkansas traffic fatalities rose in the first half of 1964 to 272 deaths, up from 256 in the same period in 1963, with 3 392 injuries versus 3 076 the prior year. June saw 31 fatal accidents, 742 total, including 480 car collisions and 117 runoffs.
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Lipper Rock
Arkansas
Negro Leaders Push Civil Rights at Johnson Goldwater Meeting
Three national Black leaders Luther King Jr James Farmer and John Lewis urged that civil rights be addressed in the presidential campaign after a five hour strategy session at Tougaloo College. They supported the Freedom Democratic party plan to challenge Mississippi's all white delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City August 24.
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ED McCusker
Freedom Democratic Party
King
Goldwater
Farmer
Lewis
De Gaulle proposes four power Viet Nam parley
Paris AP President Charles de Gaulle proposed a four power conference on the Vietnamese conflict involving the United States Red China the Soviet Union and France to settle Indochina and arrange a peace then a joint reconstruction program for Cambodia Laos and former French Indochina. He noted the shift in power and warned against a direct US war expansion while saying France seeks only peace and that Vietnam needed neutral guarantees. He criticized Ngo Dinh Diem and recalled his overthrow and later coup in Saigon.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Viet Nam
French Indochina
Cambodia
Laos
Indochina
United States
Soviet Union
France
Viet Nams
de Gaul
Pest
United State
Washington
Tech de Gaulle
Ngo Dinh ‘Diem
South Viet Nam
Diem
Saigon
Five KKK Men Charged With Cross Burning
Five Ku Klux Klan members face misdemeanor charges for cross burning on private property in St. Augustine, as Florida Attorney General Dan Warren vows to pursue lawbreakers. Warranted suspects include J.B. Stoner of Atlanta and Connie Lynch of California, with others from Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Penalties include a $500 fine and up to 90 days in jail.
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ST. Augustine, Fla
St. Augustine
J.B. Stoner
Atlanta
Connie Lynch
San Bernardino
Calif
Paul Cochran
Agia’ Klateman
Jacksonville
Bill Coleman
KKI
Car Foils Man in Yard Tragedy at Humphrey
Leonard C. Cox, 61, of Humphrey, Ark, died when a car he was working on fell from a jack crushing his head and chest in his front yard Thursday, according to Arkansas County Coroner Russell McCollum. Humphrey lies about 10 miles southwest of Stuttgart.
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Stuttgart
Ark
Leonard C. Cox
Humphrey
Arkansas
Russell McCollum
Here
Valley Forge 1964 Jamboree Recreates 1777 Scene
Mary Anita Laseter recounts the 6th National Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge Pa in 1964 where 52000 scouts from the US and 60 other nations camped. The piece contrasts 1777 hunger and hardship with 1964 abundance and discipline, noting food aplenty yet orderly use, and the spirit of democracy and service fostered by the event.
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Valley Forge
Mary Anita Laseter
George Washington
Bill Coffee
Monroe Pardue
Jimmy Turner
Keenan Williams
Jack Fountain
Mike Murphy
Terry Huffman
Jerry O'Neal
United States
Empire State Building
Hope
Continental Army
America
Geologists Digging Up a Dinosaur in North Dakota
University of North Dakota geologists probe an 80 million year old triceratops skeleton uncovered by a student in southwestern North Dakota last summer. The partial find measures roughly 20 feet long and 10 feet tall as Prof. F D Holland describes the discovery.
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Marmarth
N.D
University of North Dakota
North Dakota
F. D. Holland
Bids Opened for Arkansas Secondary Road Projects
Arkansas Highway Commission sets August 19 bid opening for five secondary road jobs, with 14 additional state maintenance projects to follow. Counties did not use 750000 in funds, per Commission Chairman Wayne Hampton. Readouts include surfacing and bridges on routes in Stone, Little River, Lonoke, Greene, Madison and others, plus paving at the State Capitol parking area in Pulaski and various county road improvements.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Highway Commission
Commission
Wayne Hampton
Stuttgart
Stone
Arkansas
Tomahawk Creek
Mountain View
Little River
Alleene
Winthrop
Lonoke
Okolona
Cleveland
Lincoln County
Jefferson County
Besha
U.S
Grant
Poyen
Hot Spring
Grant County
Lafayette
Louisiana
McDonald’s Corner
Marion
Peel
Bull Shoals Reservoir
Miller
U.S. 71
Gin Valley Road
Prairie
Hazen
Interstate 40
Pulaski
State Capitol
Phillips
Maryelly
Residents of Saigon Not Good Troops
In Saigon U S advisers critique Saigonese troops as less effective marines and cite discipline issues while praising Maj Gen Nguyen Khanh for reforms. Despite minting praise for leadership, corruption rises and Saigon’s crime, nightlife, and youth delinquency surge amid overall war weariness. The piece notes many wealthy Vietnamese seek exit visas, and Saigon remains politically indifferent.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Vietnamese Marine Corps
West Point
Nguyen Khanh
Khanh
Store Becomes Political Focal Point in Kirby Visit
In Kirby Arkansas Ernie Dunlap’s shop drew political attention as Winthrop Rockefeller stopped to shake hands and buy gas at 2 30 p m. Gov Orval Faubus arrived at 5 55 p m and greeted locals before Odell Dorsey one of Faubus’ Democratic primary rivals drove up to campaign briefly.
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Kirby
Ark
Ernie Dunlap
Pike County
Arkansas
Winthrop Rockefeller
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
Odell Dorsey
Harlem anti police protest sparks clash over ban
In New York a self described Communist leader William Epton vowed to lead an anti police demonstration in Harlem despite a ban by Police Commissioner Michael J Murphy. About 300 pickets chanted charges of brutality as civil rights leaders urged moderation and a meeting with Mayor Wagner. The ban follows deadly rioting last weekend and a fatal shooting of a 15 year old by Lt. Thomas Gilligan. Demonstration at police headquarters Friday was staged by CORE and drawn mixed reactions from Italian downtown residents.
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New York
Harlem
Michael J. Murphy
Murphy
Robert F. Wagner
William Epton
Har- Tem Defense Council
Bayard Austin
Richard A. Hildebrand
New York City
National Association For the Advancement ‘of Colored People
Thomas Gilligan
Bedford-Stuyvesant Section l
Brooklyn
Gilligan
Congress of Radicial Equality
Manhattan
Youths on Crime Spree Jailed in Arkansas Chase
Two Conway youths aged 14 and 15, arrested after a crime spree and high speed chase, were sentenced to Boys Training School. the 14-year-old’s suspended sentence was breached when he aided the other in escaping custody, leading to further burglaries and a police pursuit on Interstate 30 toward Little Rock.
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Benton, Ark
Conway
W. A. Tudor
Coney
Tudor
Little Rock
Saline-Pulaski County
Pickup Overturns Man Is Killed in Texas
MEXIA Tex AP Claude H McLain a gun dealer from Malvern Ark was killed Thursday night when his pickup overturned A companion W T Ross Jr 25 also of Malvern was taken to a Mexia hospital with injuries The accident occurred 544 miles west of Mexia central Texas McLain was en route to a long rifle show at Brownwood Tex
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Mexia, Tex
Claude H .McLain
Malvern
Ark
W. T. Ross Jr
Mexia
Mexia i
Texas
McLain
Brownwood
Tex
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