Silent phone prank targets Batesville reader
Paul Buchanan reports ongoing silent call harassment in Batesville. Using long silent intervals, telephonists delayed responses for hours, forcing the victim to stay connected. The writer sought advice, noting a caller even pretended to need a justice of the peace service the next day. He urges letting the phone ring and leaving the line off hook after two silent rings.
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Batesville
Watine
Paul Buchanan
Batesville Guard
Texas Storms Cause Damage and Tornado Touchdowns
Violent weather lashed Texas with strong winds hail and heavy rain. Tornadoes touched down near Pampa and Damas causing property damage as hail the size of pears fell in Pampa and winds reached 75 mph near Amarillo. Thunderstorms stretched across the South and into the Missouri Valley. Pocahontas voters approved two industrial bond issues totaling 3.5 million for Cinch Manufacturing and Aircraft Engineering Corp. In Arkansas a $2.6 million Cinch Manufacturing issue and a $1 million plant expansion at Pocahontas Airport were approved. Wa shington reports educational grants to Little Rock University and Philander Smith College totaling 22,109.
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Associated Press
Texas
Weather Bureau
Pampa
Damas
Amarillo
Tex
Plains
Missouri Valley
Pocahontas, Ark
Pocahontas
Cinch Manufacturing Co
Aircraft Egineering Corp
Srutommee
Poahontag
Riot Clean Up Ends Chicago Disturbances After Two Nights
Chicago AP Five hundred police removed over 2000 people from the Puerto Rican district on West Division Street Tuesday night arresting 31 as rioting winds down. The nationwide crackdown brought total arrests to 112 since riots began Sunday after a Puerto Rican youth was shot.
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James E. Dwyer
Chicago
West Division
Nelson Algren
Hollings tops Rus sell in South Carolina Senate race
South Carolina voters rejected incumbent Democrat Donald Russell in a Democratic primary, backing former Gov. Ernest Hollings. Morrah swept attorney John Culbertson for the other Senate nomination. Hollings will face Marshal Parker in November for the two year Johnston seat. Morrah meets Thurmond for a full six year term. Illinois renomination went to incumbents in bitter Chicago contests.
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Associated Press
South Carolina
Donald S. Russell
Ernest F
Fritz) Hollings
Illinois
Senate
Russell-Hollings
Bradley Morrah
John Bolt Culbertson
Hollings
Marshal Parker
GOP
Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
Russell
Johnston
Morrah
Strom Thurmond
Chicago
William L. Dawson
Aeeae
Gueanes
Negroation
East
Tae Negro
Fred Hubbard
Seattle Library Board rejects ban on Little Black Sambo
Seattle officials refused to remove the children’s book Little Black Sambo from city libraries. Wayne Booth, board president, said the tale of a native Indian boy outwitting tigers has no racial overtones and argued the request aimed to censor books. Keve Bray of the Central Area Action Committee called the book a gallery of Negroes and criticized the decision.
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Seattle, Wash
Seattle Library Board
Wayne Booth
India
Booth
Central Area Action Committee
Keve Bray
Angus Association Field Day at Freeda's Farm Saturday
The Arkansas Angus Association hosts a field day on Saturday June 18 at Freeda's Angus Farm on Rocky Mound Road. Events start 9:30 a.m. with registration, include livestock judging with Dr Carl Lueker, herd bulls show, weight guessing, talks by Dr Raymond L Burns and Dr J D Patterson, and demonstrations on foot trimming vaccination tattooing and more. Lunch 12:15 to 1:00 p.m.
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Arkansas Angus Association
Freeda
Rocky Mound Road
Freeda Greenan
J. D. Patterson
Carl Lueker
University of Arkansas
Wayne Griffeth
Angus Farm
Clarence Anderson
State’ Association
American Angus Association
Lloyd Miller
St. Joseph
Arkansas Livestock Improvement
U of A
Raymond L. Burns
Junior Rings Association
Don Pollock
Dr. Patterson
Albert Luebker
Ayne Griffeth
Jack White
Better Let Things Stay Like They Are
In a humorous column HAL Boyle portrays Trellis Mae Peeble and Wilbur debating a South African anthropologist who claims women are superior in longevity intellect and safety. Wilbur accepts the idea then jokes about wives doing heavy chores and retirement ages while Trellis Mae resists and they shift to TV. A second item from Austin notes Hope Shackelford praising newspapers over textbooks for real world learning.
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Hal Boyle
Yourville
U.S.A
Wilbur
Trellis Mae Peeble
America
Marvyn Jeffreys
South Africa
Trellis Mae
Johnson to appeals medical cadets on Medicare rollout
President Johnson will urge medical cadets at a White House briefing to uphold ethical leadership to prevent hospital overload as Medicare begins July 1. He will stress that Medicare covers the sick, not custodial care, and officials seek cooperation to ensure proper patient discharge, nursing-home rules, and clear limits on benefits.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Johnson
White House
John W. Gardner
Violence clamp in Chicago police sweep clears streets
AP reports police in Chicago clear more than 2000 from streets in a Puerto Rican neighborhood with 26 arrests. Other items include voter registration offices closed in Mississippi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr apologizing, and airline cutbacks for jet transport needs.
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Chicago
Meredith
Mississippi
Martin Luther King Jr
Bennie Stewart
Kansas City
California
Harry
Kitty
South Viet Nam
Saigon
Lull in War Seen as Temporary by South Vietnamese Leader
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky toured frontline Vietnam and credited American paratroopers with wrecking North Vietnam's 2nd Regiment. He warned of fresh North Vietnamese regiments moving from Laos toward central regions as monsoon rains approach, signaling a potential broader drive.
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South Viet Nam
Laos
U.S
Monks Keep Up Protests With Riots
Buddhist demonstrators clash with police in Saigon for a third day as crowds riot and Buddhist altars are set up. Premier Ky's junta pledges to stay in power until next year amid demands for its dismissal. US airstrikes press toward Haiphong as radar defenses near Halong report.
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Andrew Borowiec
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
U. S
North Viet
Haiphon Cock
Ranger
North Viet Nam
Halong
Bingen Native Bapt. Father of the Year
Ralph A. Holt of North Little Rock titled Arkansas Baptist Father of 1966 by a committee for Arkansas News magazine. Holt, born March 31 1903 in Bingen, bore a long Arkansas life as grocer and former teacher. He and Edna Batterton Holt have two daughters and a son who died at sea in 1957.
Hope Board Approves Zoning for Soybean Plant Site
At a meeting last night the Hope Board of Directors rezoned an area in the L and A Railway yards to allow a soybean loading plant. The plan followed a Planning and Zoning Commission report dated June 13 with BE, P. Younger as spokesman. The city manager was authorized to purchase 985 sealed devices for parking meters. Bids will be sought for two new police autos. Covington Roofing Co. of Little Rock bid 3470 to re-roof City Hall and was accepted. A Hickory to N Hazel to Spruce Street Park petition seeks an Improvement District for paving and the directors ordered an ordinance for this purpose.
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Hope Board of Directors
L& A
Planning and Zoning Commission
P. Younger
Police Department
Covington Roofing Co
Little Rock
City Hall
Hickory
N. Hazel
Spruce O City Park
ALC Meets Friday at Washington
The Arkansas Legislative Council will hold its regular monthly meeting in Washington at 11 am Friday the 17th. It is a joint interim committee of the Arkansas House and Senate with 24 members. After the meeting, members attend a luncheon at 1 pm hosted by the Pioneer Washington Restoration Foundation and tour the Confederate Capitol Building and other historic sites. The visit supports the council budget duties and state appropriation funded project goals.
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Arkansas Legislative Council
Washington
Legislative Council
Arkansas House and Senate
Historic
Pioneer Washington Restoration Foundation
Voter registration clash in Grenada marches
Officials kept clerks at Grenada County courthouse until 8:30 p.m. for Negro registrants but only six registered. About 250 Black residents gathered at a church then marched to the locked courthouse. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr urged restraint and asked the crowd to return tomorrow in larger numbers.
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Don McKee
Grenada
Miss
Grenada County
Mississippi
Martin Luther King Jr
King
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