Computer Goes to Work Setting Type for Star
Our Daily Sliced Thin reports the first Compugraphic machine began setting type for today's Star. The edition blends new computer types with old Just-O Writers, producing bold subheads and accurate weather and standings. The Savios, with two children, relocated to Arkansas as the second machine is anticipated.
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Our
Alex. H. Washburn
Star
Justowriters
AP Telegraph
Compugraphic Corporation
Joseph A. Savio
Boston
Mass
Little Rock
Atlanta
Savio
Savios
Conway Road
Arkansas
Earthquake Devastates Peruvian Andes. Death Toll Feared
AP reports a major quake in Peru's Huaylas Canyon near Yungay Caraz and Huaraz caused widespread destruction. Up to 30,000 feared dead with only 2,500 of 20,000 in Yungay surviving. Weather, blocked roads, and floods from Lake Llanganuco hinder rescue efforts. The air force delivered supplies to Huaraz and Chimbote faces heavy damage. President Velasco declared mourning and ordered $16 million for reconstruction while Peru’s team won 3-2 over Bulgaria in Mexico City.
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Saaca
Levi Associated Press
Lima
Peru
Huaylas Canyon
Yungay
Caraz
Huaraz
Augusto Zimmerman
Llanganuco
Air Force
Juan Velasco
Chimbote
Bulgaria
Mexico
Little Rock Becomes Port of Entry for Cargo
Gov. Rockefeller announced Little Rock is designated a port of entry by the U S Customs Bureau. An office with two staff will open next month to inspect cargo locally, allowing ocean shipments up the Mississippi to pass without New Orleans inspections.
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Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
U.S. Customs Bureau
Ray Hufft
New Orleans
Customs Bureau
Arkansas
Rockefeller
Hufft
State Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas Waterways Commission
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
Mississippi River
2489 Enroll at A State for Summer Term
Arkansas State University reports enrollment of 2489 students for the first semester of the summer term. The count compares to 2535 students at the same point last year.
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Jonesboro, Ark
Arkansas State University
Grant Awarded to Catfish Farmers of America
Federal grants totaling 580 900 have been approved for use by the Catfish Farmers of America with headquarters at Little Rock.
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Catfish Farmers of America
Little Rock
Jonesboro Man Killed by Hit and Run Driver
Police say 59 year old John Koster of Jonesboro was killed Tuesday night along Arkansas 141 near the city limits. Three witnesses saw a blue car pause after the collision and drive away. Headlight glass and other clues were found at the scene.
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Jonesboro
Ark
John Koster
Koster
Arkansas 141
Mitchell asks judge for more time to seal presentment
Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell seeks to keep a Baltimore grand jury presentment sealed for at least two more weeks and delay a scheduled grand jury meeting set for June 10. The motion, drafted by Mitchells office, argues the Justice Department needs time to study the case and opposes public disclosure before a prosecution decision.
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Washington
John N. Mitchell
Baltimore
U.S. Department
Thomson
George Beall
U.S
Mitchell
Justice Department
Department
Washington Post
House of Representatives
Thoughts on trees and life lessons from a jumble of musings
A New York AP piece mixes light reflections on planting trees with asides on aging hair, inflation, and everyday quirks. It riffs on growth, cause and effect, and social observations with a casual, humorous tone. The collage includes jokes about doctors, leapfrog, pensions, and razor borrowing.
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New York
Doc
Progress Report on War to Be Given by President in TV Talk
The Senate rejected a Dole proposal to grant the President a free hand in Cambodia while American prisoners are held. The 54 to 36 vote came hours before Nixon was to address the nation in a 9 p.m. EDT TV speech on the Cambodia campaign. The Church Cooper amendment to curb post June 30 powers faced House opposition as antiwar members sought faster troop withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
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Washington
Senate Today
Cambodia
Nixon
Senate
Kansas
Robert J. Dole
U.S
Indochina
House Today
Southeast Asia
Dole
Sens
Frank Church
D-Idaho
John Sherman Cooper
Itay
Cooper Church
Businessmen Say Nixon Anti-inflation Moves Failed
A Nation's Business survey finds 540 of 712 responding businessmen say Nixon anti inflation efforts have no improvement or have worsened inflation. AFL CIO economist Goldfinger calls current economy the worst in 20 years with recession broadening amid stock rally stall and wage price controls debate.
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Brooks Jackson
Associated Press
Washington
U.s.chamber of Commerce
Nation's Business
Nixon
Afl-Cio
Nathan Goldfinger
House Democrats
Health Dept Unrest Sparks Quick Government Shakeup
Washington AP reports a long simmering rift in the federal health establishment culminated in the abrupt firing of Dr. Stanley F. Yolles, head of the National Institute of Mental Health, after his resignation letter accused HEW politics of neglecting the mentally ill and cutting research budgets. The clash involved Health Secretary Finch and Chief Physician Dr. Roger C. Egeberg as YooLes was dismissed on the spot.
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G. C. Thelen Jr
Associated Press
Washington
Federal Health Establishment
Nixon
Stanley F. Yolles
National Institute of Mental Health
Yelles
Roger C. Egeberg
Robert H. Finch
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Finch
Wilte House
Yolles
Psychigetrist
Frederic Y. Malek
Drowning tragedy in Sea Branch near Hot Springs
Hot Springs Arkansas police said Charles Darrell ten years old of near Hot Springs drowned Tuesday in a pond on Mill Creek Branch near U S 70 about two miles east of Hot Springs.
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Hot Springs, Ark
Charles Darrell
Hot Springs
Mill Creek Branch
U.S. 70
Wallace wins Alabama governorship race in runoff
Wallace defeats incumbent Albert Brewer in Alabama Democratic runoff, with 542,154 to 510,442 votes, in a win seen as a prelude to potential 1972 presidential bid. he calls for improved schooling as Nixon era politics continue. Unruh wins California Democratic nomination for governor, defeating Sam Yorty, while Reagan secures renomination. in Senate races Tunney leads Brown and Murphy tops Simon as eight states vote. Army contract for Pine Bluff Arsenal worth 1 747 000 dollars awarded for 120 000 grenade launchers.
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Carl P. Leabsdorf
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Jess Unruh
Ronald Reagan
California
Wallace
Albert P. Brewer
Nixon
Brewer
Unruh
Big Daddy
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Reagan
John Y. Tunney
Gene Tunney
George E. Brown Jr
U.S
Cambodia
George Murphy
Norton Simon
Murphy
Southeast Asia
Washington
Pine Bluff
Primaries Shape California Nevada and New Mexico
On a busy primaries day Jess Unruh wins the Democratic nomination for California governor to oppose incumbent Ronald Reagan. John Y. Tunney leads for the Democratic nod to meet Sen. George Murphy, while Gov. Cargo of New Mexico loses the bid to face Sen. Montoya. Nixon plans an Indochina progress report on national TV. Five hundred S Vietnamese troops mount a helicopter assault to join defenses at a mountaintop artillery base. The Soviet Union agrees to resume talks with the United States over the Middle East, while the UAR withholds details of pilot and missile support to Egypt. A massive earthquake near Pear hampers rescue efforts with up to 30,000 feared dead. In Madison scientists create a lab gene, prompting debate on storing life in a test tube.
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Mike Mansfield
Montana
John C. Stennis
Mississippi
Harrison A. Williams Jr
New Jersey
Joseph M. Montoya
New Mexico
Reagan
Robert D. Ray
Town
Frank Farrar
South Dakota
David Cargo
Anderson Carter
Montoya
Richard Edwards
Associated Press
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Jess Unruh
California
Ronald Reagan
John Y. Tunney
George Murphy
David. Cargo
Sgt Melvin D Johnson serves in Vietnam Air Forces unit
U S Air Force Sergeant Melvin D Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Willie Johnson Prescott Arkansas is on duty at Da Nang AB Vietnam as a jet engine maintenance technician with the 366th Maintenance Squadron Pacific Air Forces He previously served at Seymour Johnson AFB North Carolina He is a 1960 Prescott High School graduate His wife Carroll is daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Phillips Sherman Texas Also mentioned are Arkansas Boys State activities at Camp Robinson and state political notices for Michigan Senate candidate Robert J Huber plus local memorial day services and tax collector and justice of the peace appointments in Harrison Summers counties.
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U.S
Combat Air Forces
Vietnam
U.S. Air Force
Melvin D. Johnson
Willie Johnson
Rt. 4
Prescott
Ark
da Nang AB
Johnson
366Th Field Mainetenance Squadron
Pacific Air Forces
Southeast Asia
Far East
Pacific
Seymours Johnson Afb
Sy Ul
Prescott High School
Carroll
Roy Phillips
Sherman, Tex
Robert J
Bob) Huber
US. Senate
Michigan
Mary Pauline Tolleson
Hope
Huber
Troy
Mich
Michigan Senate
Troops on Helicopters Hit Enemy in Vietnam Battle
U S and South Vietnamese forces pressed a dawn to noon assault on Tun Tavern in the Da Krong valley near the Laotian border. Helicopter reinforcements linked with defenders as North Vietnamese mortars pounded the outpost. Casualties mounted with 50 killed and 119 wounded reported. 9 Americans killed in a helicopter crash near Loc Ninh. Cambodian sweep near Phnom Penh reported eight foreign reporters missing with three said held by Viet Cong.
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Richard Pyle
Associated Press
Saigon
South Vietnam
Tun Tavern
Krong
U.S
Loc Ninh
Hellicopter
Phnom Penh
Moonshine Still Destroyed by Officials in Two Counties
A large liquor still was destroyed in Hempstead County yesterday by local and Nevada County officers. Deputy Sheriff Fred McCulley and Sheriff Arthur Lea Walter led the operation, with deputies Jim Dillard Clyde Covington and U S ABM police. The still, described as a 30 cent felay SQDPRE still, along with 108 gallons of moonshine and barrels of mash, were seized near Dedan.
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Hempstead
Nevada County
Sherif Fred McCulley
Arthur Lea Walter
Jim, Dillard
Clyde Covington
U.S
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AP News Digest
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Pear
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Arkansas Boys State
Camp Robinson
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Jerry Browneing
Harry Hawthorne
Olin Purtell
Leslie Huddleston
Boys State
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