Navy pilot clips 12 feet of high voltage wire in test flight
A Navy A4C Skyhawk piloted by Lt. William P. Olsen clipped about 12 feet of a 66,000 volt transmission line while flying a low altitude test near Hugo Oklahoma. The jet landed safely at Little Rock AFB with damage to the fuel tank and stabilizer. electrical service in southeast Oklahoma was disrupted.
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Jacksonville
Ark
U.S. 70
Hugo
Oklo
William P. Olsen
124Th
Naval Air Station
LeMoore
Calif
Little Rock Air Force Base
Olsen
Oklahoma
Smithy to Close After 45 Years at Same Smithy
ST LOUIS AP Thomas Filla 81 plans to close his blacksmith shop on Sept 1 ending 45 years at the same site A gasoline station will replace the smithy. Fire touches off 15 to 20 acres of brush during reconnaissance and radar evasion tests by Joint Task Force Two in Arkansas and Oklahoma. All Cotton Dress Activity at State 4 H Day in Little Rock July 18. Minn taxes: Minnesota becomes 44th sales tax state with 3 percent rate.
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Thomas Filla
Olsen
Joint Task Force Two
Albuquerque
N.M
SAAFE
Norfolk Reservoir
Arkansas
Oklahoma
de Queen
Ark
Little Rock
Betty Jean Brewer
Waldo
Freida Middlebrooks
Hope
Angela Sartini
Marion
Judy Huffman
Harold LeVander
Fayetteville Youths Hospitalized After LSD Report
Fayetteville police investigate two incidents in which local youths were hospitalized after taking what was believed to be hallucinatory drugs. A man found two youths in a parked car near the University of Arkansas stadium and they were treated and released. Another pair, aged 15 and 16, were found wandering in woods southeast of the city. one was hospitalized. None were University of Arkansas students.
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Fayetteville, Ark
Fayetteville
Fayettesville
University of Arkitesis
Here
Arkansas
Traffic Kills 3 Persons in Arkansas
Three people died in Arkansas over the weekend in traffic crashes. Robert Lyles, 59, of El Dorado, died after his pickup left a Uni on County road and hit an embankment. Mae McAdoo, 33, of Trashwood, died when her eastbound car left the pavement and struck a bridge abutment in Saline County. Zen Barrett, 60, a pedestrian from Fordyce, was struck on Arkansas 4 near the Cleveland-Bradley County line by a car driven by 19-year-old Raymond Earl Scoggin of Wilmar.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Robert Lyles
el Dorado
Mae McAdoo
Trashwood
Saline County
Zen Barrett
Fordyce
Pieroni
Travis Nagh
Lyles
Uni
Monty
Barrett
Raymond Earl Scoggin
Wilmar
Drew County
Cleveland-Bradley Counnty
Arkansan Dies in Okla. Wreck
A 46 year old man from Alma Arkansas died in a two car accident on U.S. 59 about seven miles south of Sallisaw Oklahoma. The crash occurred Saturday and involved two vehicles with fatalities reported. Sheriff deputies investigated the scene and identified the victim as Gordon Wiley Lam.
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Sallisaw, Okla
Wile’ Lam
Gordon
Alma
Ark
U.S. 59
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