City Bid for Crime Funds Rejected
The Nixon administration rejected direct city grants for crime funds and will continue funneling federal law enforcement aid to states. Attorney General Mitchell told a Senate subcommittee states, not cities, are best positioned to allocate funds for police, courts and corrections under the 1968 act. Kennedy urged direct city grants for a few years, but Mitchell backed existing state distributions, with lawmakers weighing a $650 million authorization for the coming fiscal year.
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John Chadwick
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Kennedy
Congress
Roman L. Hruska
Rneb
Strom Thurmond
R- 5.C
House
Committee Left Off Ballot In Pulaski County Vote
Luke A. Moorman Jr, chairman of the Pulaski County Democratic Committee, filed an absentee ballot with the county clerk for two positions on the county committee. The act defies a state party directive to abandon expanding the committee from 271 to 712 and to hold an election for 255 contested posts. Moorman argued the directive would violate state rules.
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Little Rock
Luke A. Moorman, Jr
Pulaski County
Democratic Committee
Moorman
Democratic Party
State Committee
Compton
Charles Matthews
Mate
Matthews
Rev Phinas A Lewis obituary notes North Texas work
Obituary from Wichita Falls Texas reports Rev Phinas A Lewis first pastor of Hope Gospel Tabernacle and later district superintendent of the North Texas Assemblies of God. Funeral services set for 10 a.m. Friday at First Assembly of God Church in Wichita Falls. The piece also mentions Navy certificate of appreciation for Cecil F Fincher and family from Texarkana Navy recruiter for civilian service.
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Phinas A. Lewis
Wichita Falls
Texas
Lewis
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Assembly of God
Hope
North Texas
Cecil F. Fincher
Louisiana St., Hope
Texarkana Navy
Louie E. McGuffie
U.S. Navy
Finchers
Navy
U.S. Naval Recruiting Service
Rain Washes Smog Threat Over Eastern Seaboard
Rain showers reduced smog levels across the East as Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia rescinded alerts while New York kept a relaxed stance on incinerator use. President Nixon urged strict federal action and nonpolluting fuels as a pollution threat from a stationary air mass lingered over the region.
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Seaboard
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York City
Los Angeles
Nixon
New York
FHA appraisers flagged as profiting from slum housing
Congressional investigators report that FHA 235 subsidies were used to profit from substandard slum housing in Washington and Philadelphia. More than 120 Washington and 13 Philadelphia cases showed cracked plaster, faulty wiring, rotten wood, lead tanks, and other code violations. A speculator bought a property for 9000 and sold it four months later for 17500 under the program.
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Washington
FHA
George Romney
House Banking Committee
Wright Patman
Od-Tex
Romney
Patman
Philadelphia
House Select Committee On
Banking Committee
Congress
Hope Ark St Borman May Head Space Agency
Frank Borman, Apollo 11 commander, leads as a front runner to become NASA administrator after Paine resigns. Former astronaut, Air Force retiree, and Eastern Airlines VP is under consideration alongside Low, Von Braun, Newell, Phillips, Paige, and Seamans Jr. The choice helps set 1972 budget goals and agency direction.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
Washington ( AP
Frank Borman
Space Agency
Borman
Air Force
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Eastern Airlines
Nixon
Thomas O. Paine
George Low
NASA
Wernher von Braun
Agency
Homer E. Newell
Samuel Phillips
Apollo
Air Force Space and Missiles System Organization
Hilliard Paige
General Electric Co
Space Division
Robert C. Seamans Jr. Borman
Pacific
America
Harvard University
White House
Paine
Low
Aeronautical
Congress
von Braun
Germany
Seamans
James Webb
Newell
Phillips
Applo
Paige
Information Systems
Newa.rk
General Electric
Arkansas Weather Forecast For Weekend Hot Deregion
Offset Weather Experiment Station report for 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Friday. High 95, Low 72. Arkansas forecast fair through Saturday with hot days and warm nights. High Saturday in the 90s to low 100s. Low tonight in the 70s. Isolated afternoon thundershowers Saturday.
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Arkansas
Arsenic and Lead Feared in Pollution
Washington AP reports preliminary tests show lead and arsenic being poured into Louisiana waterways as officials verify findings. Tests checked for mercury pollution. Senate subcommittee chair Sen. Hart calls for steps to repair environmental gaps.
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Washington
Louisiana
Senate
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
House Would Force Wage Price Control
Washington AP report on a bitter House battle over granting Nixon standby power to freeze wages and prices. Democrats back the stand by plan with Patman arguing the president would have a tool if needed. Republicans push a congressional action amendment. The bill extends the Defense Production Act authority to control defense materials, with a 1971 expiration, amid inflation and unemployment tensions and Nixon urging congressional cooperation.
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Edmond Lebreton
Associated Press
Washington
House
Nixon
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking Committee
Banking Committee
Congress
City approves bonds for bakery expansion and Oak Street work
Floyd Young helps fund a $230,000 bakery plant expansion and the city passes an ordinance authorizing bond sales. Oak Street will be blacktopped from Hazel to North Laurel, with a public hearing date set to discuss assessments. The district petition has two thirds of property owners supporting it and paving could start this fall. The council warns sewer system liability limits and requires relief outlets in plumbing to prevent backflow, delaying building permits for vulnerable structures unless relief is included.
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Oak St
Hazel
N. Laurel St
Price Fired for Absences from Arkansas Prison Project
Correction Commissioner Robert Sarver announced John Price was dismissed from deputy commissioner and staff training project director roles at the Arkansas Department of Correction. Absent days marked a pattern tied to a personal issue, with the $282,000 federal grant training program aimed at modernizing prison staff in line with federal court orders. Price, 50, was reportedly absent from Pine Bluff and uncontactable.
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Tucker Prison Farm
Ark
Robert Sarver
John Price
State Department of Correction
Sarver
Arkansas
Price
Lune
U.S
Pine Bluff
Air Force C-130 crash near Piggott kills six crew
Six crew members died when a Air Force C-130 Hercules crashed and burned one mile southwest of Piggott Arkansas during a routine training flight. One identified as M Sgt Charles A Carver II of Wilkes Barre PA. others unnamed. An eyewitness reported a wing detached before impact. aviation units from Little Rock Air Force Base assisted. The crash disrupted power and phone service in the area.
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Tate
Roy Book
Book
Blytheville Air Force Base
Piggot
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