Rescue mission tale from Vietnam air battle and field
A large Vietnam air operation began May 31 focusing on a coast road toward Mu Gia Pass and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Navy pilots Kenney D. Fields and a Corsair crew faced heavy anti aircraft fire, with Fields ejecting over jungle and being rescued by helicopters after his plane was shot down. the rescue continued as Skyraiders scoured the area for the missing Thunderchief pilot amid intense Viet gunfire.
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McGarthur
Jae Arid
Attort
Vietnam
Alr Fates Offigere
Abiln
Navy
Kenney D. Fields
Jacksonville
Fia
Fields
Mu .Gia Pass
Ho Chi Minh Trail
17Th Parallel
Amert“Ga
North Vietnam
Boriing
Ater
Air Force
Drowned Youth Joe Rhodes Found Dead in Texas
Obituary notice reports the death of Joe Rhodes, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rhodes of Paris Texas, who drowned near Paris. Funeral services set for 10 am Saturday at Roden Funeral Home in Paris, with graveside rites at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery on Highway 19 near Prescott.
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Joe Rhodes
Mel
Ted Rhodes
Paris
Tésas
Roden Funeral House
Nevada County
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
Prescott
Rockefeller to re introduce riot controls bill in 1969 session
Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller said he would re submit his anti riot controls bill if re elected and hopes sponsors for a fund bill to aid the Association of Arkansas Counties. He noted past criticism of public funds for lobbying and said copies of the riot bill would be shared with law enforcement for order during disorder or disasters.
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Uttle Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
Association of Arkansas Counties Fund
Rockefeller
Sterling R. Cockritl Jr
Little Rock
Crank explains background stay during Arkansas session
State Rep. Marion Crank of Foreman said he stayed in the background during the recent special legislative session because he was a gubernatorial candidate. He told Gov. Rockefeller he could not sponsor administration bills or participate actively. Crank noted he would have faced criticism for campaigning on the floor and said the session could have lasted four days, but extended to nine. He indicated he would have voted against tobacco tax proposals and favored only the real property transfer tax, urging caution on tax plans without revenue data for the next biennium. Crank also called Medicaid cost studies necessary and hoped Congress would adjust funding before 1970.
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Little Rock
Marion Crank
Foreman
Crank
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
House
Congress
Labor Will Interview Arkansas Gubernatorial Candidates
J Bill Becker president of the Arkansas State AFL CIO says the COPE screening committee will interview gubernatorial candidates in closed doors starting June 15 at Hotel Marion. Thirty minute speeches are planned for all candidates though Democrats Bruce Bennett and Mrs Virginia Johnson and Republican Sidney Roberts had not yet spoken. The Pine Tomato Festival in Warren conflicts with the June 15 session as all candidates were invited to speak at 2 p.m.
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Labor
Little Rock
J. Bill Becker
Arkansas
Afl-Cio
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Hotel Marion
Bruce Bennett
Virginia Johnson
Sidney Roberts
Becker
Warren
Weather Station Report and Local Meeting Summary
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 am Friday shows high 89 and low 68 with fair to partly cloudy conditions and isolated afternoon thundershowers in Arkansas. Tonight’s low in the 60s. Alton Bush of the Arkansas Community Development Program discussed the year’s plan with the Chamber of Commerce Board, which approved the program and outlined categories and a record book of activities.
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Arkansas
Alton Bush
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Escapee Hutcherson Captured Near Arkansas City
Larry Hutcherson a 22 year old escapee from Cummins Prison Farm was captured four miles south of Arkansas City. Desha County Deputy Mickey Atkinson said Hutcherson offered no resistance and was driving a stolen pickup. Hutcherson had pleaded guilty March 14 in Harrisburg to sky charges including three counts of assault with intent to kill and received over 100 years with concurrent 21 year sentences.
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Arkansas City
Ark
Larry Hutcherson
Trumann
Cummins
Desha County
Mickey Atkinson
Hutccherson
Atkinson
Hutcherson
Poinsett
Harrisburg
Joh Mosby
Trooper to Attend Meeting in Little Rock
At Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's request a state trooper was set to join the state Aeronautics Commission meeting in Little Rock. James Hurley of Springdale said the governor's secretary Marion Burton told him to pick up a trooper to accompany him to the 1 p.m. session.
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Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
State Aeronautics Commission
James Hurley
Springdale
Marion Burton
Two Newspapers Change Owners in Beebe and Bald Knob
Beebe News and Bald Knob Banner change hands as Bob Kemp of Little Rock and John A. Cummons of Clinton purchase from Ellis W. Ramsey and wife. Kemp, former KARK news director, also served as welfare department PR chief. Ramsey’s 20 years as publishers end with the sale.
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Beebe
Ark
Bob Kemp
Little Rock
John A. Cummons
Clinton
Beebe News
Bald Knob
Ellis W. Ramsey
Kemp
Kark Radio and Television
State Welfare Department
Air Force unit earns Outstanding Unit Award for McConnell
G Prescott, a food service supervisor with the 85th Combat Support Group at McConnell AFB Kansas, will wear the distinctive service ribbon as a permanent decoration after helping his unit earn the U S Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. He is a 1955 Prescott High School graduate and son of Mr and Mrs G B Chism. His wife Evelyn is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Jarry J of 220 Ozan Drive Prescott.
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Clifton W. Chismet
Prescott
U.S. Air Force
85Th
Mcs Connell
Afb
Kansas
G. B. Chism
Prescott High School
Evelyn
Jarry J, Oni
Ozan Drive
Gill elected president of Arkansas Law Enforcement Officers Association
Milburn Gill of Malvern, chief Investigator for the state attorney general's office, was elected president at the association's annual meeting in Hot Springs. Vice presidents include B Frank Mackey Jim McQuerry Melvin Delong as secretary treasurer and Frank Graves as chaplain. Senator McClellan canceled his Thursday speech due to Robert Kennedy's death.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Milburn Gill
Malvern
Arkansas Law Enforcement Officers Association
Gill
State Attorney General's Office
B. Frank Mackey
Little Rock
Jim McQuerry
Hensley
Melvin $. Delong
Frank A. Graves
Miller
John L. McClellan
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
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Myfund
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Hope High
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Hope, Ark
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Hope High School
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