Pryor board approve 1.9 million in prison projects
Gov. Pryor and the state Correction Board approved 1.9 million dollars in prison construction funded by EDA grants to create permanent housing for inmates at Cummins Tucker units and Pine Bluff. The plan includes buildings for work release, security additions, and storage with total costs listed alongside.
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Little Rock
David Pryor
State Correction Board
Federal Economic Development Administration
EDA
Pryor
Correction Department
Cummins
Tucker
Popu
Mississippi County
Luxora
Pine Bluff
Blytheville
Hope youth joins Continental Singers 1977 tour
Gary Wheeler of Hope has been chosen to travel with the Continental Singers and Orchestra for the 1977 season. The group, touring the United States and world destinations including Israel, requires sponsorship funds between 995 and 2000 dollars per musician. Support gifts may be mailed to Continental Singers in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Gary Wheeler
James C. Wheeler
Hope
United States
Wheeler
Howard Payne University
Safeway
Brownwood
Texas
Israel
Switzerland
Austria
Yugoslavia
Germany
Los Angeles
Gai
Continental Orchestra
Ministry of the Coni
Cam Floria
Gary
Continental Singers
P.O. Box
Thousand Oaks
California
Hope’s Fair Park
Saccharin Study Funds Approved by House Panel
A House Appropriations Committee approved a $1 million saccharin study for the National Center for Toxicological Research in Pine Bluff. The move follows prior FDA action banning saccharin over cancer concerns cited by Canadian scientists and later easing sales as an over the counter drug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Center For Toxicological Research
Pine Bluff
House
Appropriations Committee
Wednes
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Maureen O Hara Plans 22 Hour Transatlantic Flight to Ireland
Actress Maureen O Hara and husband Charles Blair undertake a nonstop 22 hour seaplane flight from Manhasset Bay to Ireland retracing a route 37 years later. J C Kelly Rogers aboard, famed RAF pilot for Winston Churchill, with a Newfoundland refueling stop planned.
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Port Washington
N.Y
Maureen O'Hara
Charles Blair
Ireland
Manhasset Bay
Long Island
North Shore
Newfoundland
J.C. Kelly Rogers
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force
Governor maps prison spending from federal aid package
Governor Pryor outlined using about 2 million dollars of EDA funds for prison construction to ease overcrowding. The plan centers on Cummins Prison Farm Unit, Pine Bluff facilities, and a hospital expansion, with other state agency use for the remaining 1.2 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
David Pryor
State Correction Board
Marshall Rush
Pine Bluff
Correction Board
Federal Economic Development Administration
Pryor
Cummins
Fire probers near cause in Beverly Hills Supper Club blaze
Officials pinpoint the Zebra Room as the starting area and say arson is ruled out as investigators near final a determination of the blaze origin. The death toll rises to 161 with two identified victims Lenora Hill Gentry and Charlene Matthews of Cincinnati, members of a 108 member gospel choir.
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Southgate
Beverly Hills
Dick Riesenberg
Midwest
Lenora Hill Gentry
Charlene Matthews
Cincin
Nati
Campbell County
Fred Stine
Zebra Room
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Johnny Carson
Carson
Camarillo
Calif
Buddy Hackett
Pleasant Valley Hospital
Hackett
Don Adolfo Camarillo
Lessard - LE - Chesne
France
Normandy
Bokassa I
Bokassa
Central African Republic
Lisieux
Buffalo
GTE Sylvania, Inc
GTE Sylvania
GTE Sylvania Center
West Seneca
Sweet Home, Ark
Sweet Home
Arkansas
Johnny Parker
America’s Country
Good
Kentucky
Ken Brandenburgh
Brandenburgh
Hoover
Lehmans
Lehman
Home Center Inc
Lenmans IN
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