Our Daily Sliced Thin Editor Watches Newsprint Costs Rise
The piece notes newsprint prices rose $8 per ton from April 1 with a regional $7 adjustment for the East Coast and Mid South, lifting costs from $251 to $158 per ton. A second $8 rise is planned for November 1, totaling a $16 per ton yearly increase and prompting discussion of higher subscription prices. The author laments inflation and the impact on newspaper pricing.
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Our
Alex. H. Washburn
U.S
East Coast
Mid- South
America
Israel Faces Pressure to Reopen Suez Canal Talks
Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco met with Prime Minister Golda Meir and Foreign Minister Abba Eban in Jerusalem to urge Israel toward reopening the Suez Canal. Arab leaders in Tripoli condemned Hussein of Jordan’s crackdown and urged collective military intervention to stop Palestinian guerrillas.
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Joseph Sisco
Golda Meir
Abba Eban
Jerussam
Nixon
Israel
Suez Canal
Tripoli
Hussein
Jordan
Muammar Kadafi
Jerusalem
Sisco
Eban
Meir
Weather Outlook For Arkansas This Weekend
The Associated Press reports a cool front moves southeast from Arkansas with fair to partly cloudy skies through Saturday. Highs will be in the 70s to low 80s and overnight lows mid 50s to upper 60s. A return of showers is possible Sunday through Monday, with a chance in the north on Tuesday. A line of thunderstorms Thursday caused minor tree damage in Horseshoe Bend.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Gulf of Mexico
Nebraska
Noth
Horseshoe Bend
el Dorado
Fort Smith
Pine Bluff
Fayetteville
Harrison
Jonesboro
Texarkana
Memphis
Little Rock
Agreement Near on 2 Year Draft Extension Bill
House-Senate negotiators near a two-year draft extension bill urging President Nixon to set a personal withdrawal date from Indochina. Conflicting reports linger on removing the nine-month deadline while Mansfield pushes the amendment. timing hinges on filibuster votes and next week’s session before the summer recess.
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Washington
House
Senate
Nixon
U.S
Indochina
Mike Mansfield
Congress
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Ella Fitzgerald Seeks Eye Clinic Examination in Boston
Singer Ella Fitzgerald travels from Paris to Boston to consult doctors at the Retina Foundation about eye injuries and cataracts. She has a burst blood vessel in the right eye and a cataract in the left, with doctors cautioning that more touring could risk her sight.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Eye Clinic
Boston
Paris
250 Billion Budget for 72 Shows Nixon Deficit Risk
Nixon administration plans about 250 billion dollars for fiscal 1973 in a budget aligned with the full employment concept. Officials avoid confirming a likely deficit and note the 1971 deficit was 23.2 billion while claiming a small full employment surplus.
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Nixon
Bill Neikirk
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Steel Mills Bank Furnaces for Strike
Seven of the nation’s 10 largest steel companies banked blast furnaces and slowed production as a looming industrywide strike neared. U.S. Steel, the largest, began coke banking at Gary Indiana, with 27,000 workers involved, and planned staggered shutdowns in Pittsburgh district plants as officials sought a settlement before the Saturday deadline.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
U.S. Steel Corp
Gary
Ind
U.S. Steel
Steel Mills
Strike Closes Down 6 More Railroads
Six more railroads were struck by the United Transportation Union raising total to ten lines idling about 120000 workers. Roads hit include Santa Fe, Alton & Southern, Houston Belt & Terminal and three iron ore carriers Duluth, Mesabi, Bessemer and Lake Erie and Elgin Joliet and Easter. White House talks followed with no result as national output suffers and Gov Carter warns of millions in losses for Georgia industry.
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Santa Fe
Alton & Southern
Houston Belt & Terminal
Duluth
Megabi & Iron Range
Bessemer
Lake Erie
Elgin
Joliet
Nixon
UTA
White House
Southern
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Norfolk & Western
James D. Hodgson
Labor
John A. Volpe
Transportation
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
George P. Shultz
American Plywood Association
Seattle
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Carter
Norfolk & Wester Railroad
California
How to Keep Your Life Alive Find New Things to Do
HAL Boyle suggests refreshing living by listing possible next efforts. Items include playful stunts like pulling a mountain goat's beard, renting a self flying carpet, decoy for the FBI, and graffiti for humor. Concludes happiness comes from planning what to do next rather than present actions.
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Hal Boyle
New York
FBI
Raquel Welch
Sphinx
Egypt
Jap Air Collision Kills 162 In New Japan Crash
A Japanese Boeing 727 carrying 162 people collided with a Japanese jet fighter over northern Japan and crashed. The fighter pilot parachuted to safety. 6 bodies were recovered by nightfall, with search teams pressed to find survivors. Passengers included a 10 month old and many relatives of World War II soldiers.
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Edwin Q. White
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
AA Nippon Airways
Donn M. Carpenter
Detroit
Mich
Air Self-Defense Force
Kokkaido
Yoshiwara Bereaved Family Association
All Nippon Airways
Sind
Pipeline Safety Probe Could Lead Charge
Newport prosecutors await more details from federal pipeline safety officials to decide if a charge will be filed over the June 5 rupture of a Gulf Central Pipeline Co. anhydrous ammonia line in Independence County. Checks at 10 sites showed burial at 14 inches against a required 24.
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Newport
Ark
David Hodges
Independence County
Hodges
Gulf Central Pipeline Co
Chicago
Boy's Body Found in River Near Wrightsville
The body of 9 year old Jimmy Maxwell of Wrightsville in Pulaski County was recovered from about 20 feet of water in the Arkansas River ten miles south of Little Rock at about 1 a.m. He is said to have drowned around 6 p.m. Thursday while wading with his 7-year-old brother. The father rescued the older boy but could not locate the younger child.
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Little Rock
Paula Seay
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Miss Seay
Kelly Bryant
Atty
Ray H. Thornton Jr
Bryant
Thornton
Jimmy Maxwell
Wrightsville
Pulaski County
Arkansas River
Here
Apollo 15 Astronauts Set for Moon Landing at Hadley Site
Apollo 16 astronauts Scott and Irwin detach the Falcon from the command ship after a tense first separation and head toward a lunar dawn landing near Hadley Rille, with Worden remaining in orbit aboard Endeavour. They report rugged cratered terrain but no jagged peaks as they approach the Moon.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
David R. Scott
Alfred M. Worden
Scott
James B. Irwin
Irwin
Falcon
Rwin
Lunar
Mission Control
Alps
Tetons
San Juans
Earth
Hadley Rille
Space Center
Worden
Endeavour
Apennine Mountains
Moon Mission Echoes From Apollo Fifteen Portraits
Apollo 15 astronauts, after 250000 miles of space, exchange terse technical chatter with Mission Control while they prepare to fire the command module. The scene is described as profound by a Houston observer aboard the Endeavour in Earth orbit.
Two years after retiring Whitlows live it up in Hope
Feature in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine shows Dr and Mrs S A Whitlow at their Spring Hill Road home near Hope. Other notes include Kenneth Harmon’s successful VA Hospital surgery in Little Rock and Mrs Leo Harmon returning home from a Texarkana hospital.
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Whitlows
Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
Mrs
S.A. Whitlow
Spring Hill Road
Hope
Kenneth Harmon
Little Rock
Leo Harmon
Texarkana
Apollo 15 Tracks Mountain Landing Site Near Apennines
Apollo 15’s lunar orbit maneuvered to boost Falcon’s approach for a pinpoint touchdown over seven mile high peaks in the Apennines. David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden watched the rugged basin and mountains from 65 miles, relaying a TV view as they prepared for landing and lifted back to higher orbit.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Earth
Apennine Mountains
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Scott
Irwin
Falcon
Apennines
Mission Control
Alfred M. Worden
Worden
Bumpers Explains Silence In Arkansas Governance
Gov. Dale Bumpers defended a planned silence by his office at a Little Rock news conference saying the public cares about actions, not words. He indicated the low profile was deliberate to avoid excessive press exposure and denied plans to cut state work, addressing Rockefeller’s charge of a credibility gap.
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Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
Bumpers
Winthrop Rockefeller
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