Editorial: Malice Toward None and Public Figures
The editor defends responsible journalism after the Supreme Court libel ruling affects private citizens, urges accuracy and fairness in reporting, and cautions against overuse of the word input. Separate items note Gov Bumpers musing on a limited end-year special session and a Ray Charles flight forced to land at Florence Municipal Airport.
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United States Supreme Court
High Court
Birmingham
Ala
Little Rock
Dave Bumpers
Bumpers
University of Arkansas Medical Center
Florence
5.C
Ray Charles
Raylettes
No Such Thing as a Deaf Child Says Reuben Setliff
Dr Reuben Setliff III of El Dorado disputes deafness as a barrier while Arkansas funds a pilot program to educate hearing handicapped preschoolers. The Childrens House of Learning in El Dorado uses Montessori methods to blend hearing impaired and normal hearing children with early intervention and parent involvement.
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Reuben Setliff
el Dorado MD
Gary Syver
KELD
Radio
el Dorado School Board
Setliff
South Arkansas
Childrens House of Learning
Gail Setliff
Vanderbilt University
el Dorado
el Dorado School
Doreen Pollack
Porter Memorial Hospital
Denver
Colo
Pollack
el Dorado Project
Ralph Kirkman
Peabody College
Kirkman
Sweden
Arkansas
Legion Installs Officers After July Dinner Meeting
Leslie Huddleston Post 12 American Legion installed newly elected officers at a July 22 dinner at the Douglas Building. Officers include Commander Dee Coffee and Adjutant Talbot Feild Jr. State installing officer Ernest Gober urged membership growth and youth activities under the theme Reach Out Time for Action. Ted Goldman announced a Texarkana conference for post commanders and district officers on August 22.
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Douglas
Leslie Huddleston
American Legion
Dee Coffee
Vance Marcum
James L. Foster
Nels Epperson
Joe Jones
Talbot Feild, Jr
Raymond Jones
Harry Hawthorne
State Department
Ernest Gober
McGehee
Bobby Knuckler
Dumas
Ted Goldman
Texarkana
Gober
Legion
Goldman
Vaccination Schedule Set for Tuesday for VEE
County Extension Agent Calvin Caldwell announces Tuesday August 3 clinics to vaccinate horses against Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis. Dr Herbert Rogers administers the vaccine. Stops include Belton and farms along Old 67 Highway and nearby stores with additional clinics planned in the coming days. Call 777-5771 with questions.
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Calvin J. Caldwell
Herbert Rogers
Caldwell
Belton
Judge Oren Harris
Dewey Haughland
Lewis Adair
Cecil Cohen
Gordon Olea
Blevins Voc. Agri
W. C. Johnson
Sweet Home
Chester Avery
Jewel Burke
Samuel’s
Homer Salisbury
Highway
Strikes Cut More Rail Lines Nationwide
United Transportation Union strikes have shut down ten railroads with sixty more lines pending in the two weeks ahead. Forty one percent of the national track is idle and 120000 rail workers are off the job. Nixon and Congress face limited legal options, while Javits seeks authority to order a return to work during a three week congressional recess. Losses hit California produce at 2.5 million dollars daily with coal miners idle and Ford planning plant closures. Officials report states range from critical to disastrous effects.
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Washington
United Transportation Union
Nixon
UTU
Dow
Congress
Labor Department
Jacob Javits
R-N.y
California
Ford Motor Co
James Hodgson
GOP Says Bumpers Can Be Defeated in 1972
Arkansas GOP says a Mid-South Opinion Surveys poll shows Gov. Dale Bumpers vulnerable in 1972 with 61 percent praise yet only 45 percent confidence in re election. Neal Sox Johnson highlights Mills leading McClellan and Mills as a home town choice for president while noting poll caveats.
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Little Rock
Neal Sox Johnson
Arkansas Republican Party
Mid- South
GOP
Dale Bumpers
Eugene Newsom
Mid-South
Newsom
Bumpers
Johnson
Arkansas
Wilbur 1. Mills
D-Ark
Mills
Case Presses Transparency on U S Aid to Laos Guerrillas
Sen Clifford Case accuses the Nixon administration of inconsistency in Congress on U S aid to irregular forces in Laos. He presses for full details on cost personnel and end date, noting 350 million yearly funding plus a large air war bill. He cites Laird testimony and CIA financed Thai troops in Laos.
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Walter R. Mears
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Clifford P. Case
Nixon Administration
Congress
Laos
New Jersey
Case
State Department
Thailand
U.S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Department of Defense
Central Intelligence Agency
Ten students get second chance at College of the Ozarks
Ten students from the United States and Canada will start a new program at College of the Ozarks this fall. The students, aged 19 to 25, have learning difficulties but show potential with oral exams and taped texts. They will study 12 hours per semester, with oral exams and extra reading and writing sessions, and tuition goals of 5,000 dollars in year one.
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Dala McKinsey
Associated Press
Clarksville, Ark
United States
Canada
College of the Ozarks
Sam Clements
University of Arkansas
Clements
Bus Service Petition Considered by Commerce Commission
The Arkansas Commerce Commission heard Southern Continental Trailways seek to discontinue the Hope to Shreveport daily bus route. Traffic director Frank Kegley said the route is unprofitable and could lose about $8,000 in the first half of the year. A similar abandonment request is on file with Louisiana officials, who have not yet held a hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
State Commerce Commission
Southern Continental Trailways
Hope
Shreveport
Frank Kegley
Kegley
Louisiana Commerce Commission
Louisiana Commission
Moon Descriptions Excite Scientists About Lunar Valley
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin prepare to drive the moon rover to Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains base. They will deploy a nuclear powered science station to study moonquakes magnetism the solar wind and the thin lunar atmosphere after a four hour rover leg and a seven hour rest. Scientists note Scott’s reports of lineations on mountain sides, unexpected features that deepen lunar evolution theories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Stockton
Space Center
Houston
David R. Scott
Hadley Rille
Apennine Mountains
Moon Valley
Scott
James B. Irwin
Falcon
Rille
Earth
Robin Brett
Manned Spacecraft Center
Brett
Harold Masursky
U.S. Geological Survey
Appeal Denied in Circuit Court for Pointer Embezzlement Case
The U S Eighth Circuit in St. Louis denied former Pine Bluff city collector John H Pointer's appeal for a writ of probable cause to overturn a 1969 embezzlement conviction. Pointer sought habeas relief from a 1951 Jefferson County Circuit Court verdict, with $32473 misappropriated and a five year sentence. Notice of action was filed Thursday in Little Rock district court.
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Little Rock
U.S
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Pine Bluff City
John H. Pointer
Pointer
G. Eisele
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