50 000 Out Of Work Due To Ford Strike
DETROIT AP Union negotiators return to Ford Motor Co offices as talks could decide when over 50 000 Ford workers nationwide may resume. Ohio strike halts supply of parts, closing assembly units and shuttering plants from Nashville to Chicago. Ford cites stockpile space limits and ongoing grievances over production quotas as central issues.
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Tenn
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Girl's Leg Saved After Mower Accident at Arkansas Home
Nine year old Marie Thomas, an orphan at Crowley’s Ridge Academy in Paragould, had a severe leg injury when pulled into a mowing machine. In Memphis, bone specialists saved her right leg though both bones above the ankle were broken and skin torn, with a risk of stunted growth estimated at 15 to 20 percent. She showed remarkable courage and has seven siblings at the home.
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Memphis
Little Marie Thomas
Crowley's Ridge Academy
Mylle
Mamie
Searcy Woman Visits Parents Amid Jail Riot Rumors
Mrs Diane Lambert Morris of Searcy faced ribbing in Little Rock when arriving to visit her parents as rumors swirled about a jail incident at Pulaski County jail involving another Diane Lambert who shot a jailer. The Morris woman, daughter of Mr and Mrs Leon Lambert, was urged about the event.
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Little Rock
Diane Lambert Morris
Searcy
Weather outlook with scattered showers this weekend
Partly cloudy to cloudy with periods of showers and thunderstorms Sunday. Highs near 85 and low around 62 tonight. Arkansas mostly clear to partly cloudy and warmer today and tomorrow with a chance of showers.
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Arkansas
Stray Shells End Guard Practice
National Guard suspends artillery drills after three shells stray near a Faulkner County farmhouse in Arkansas. Dale Price reports two hits Saturday and one Sunday, jarring his home, breaking windows, cracking bricks, and causing shrapnel damage to a tree and five horses. An investigation is under way to determine if the incident involved ammunition or other causes.
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Censeit
Ernest McDaniel
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Co-op Loan Is Approved Quiz Night At Co-op Meeting
Craighead Electric Co-operative Corp will abandon a formal speaking program and host a quiz show at its 24th annual membership meeting on July 13 at Crowley’s Ridge State Park Walcott 12 miles north of Jonesboro Manager Earl Walden said about 10000 of the co op’s 17000 members expected to attend Fact folders will be mailed to members Prizes will be awarded for correct answers President Sam Chapin of Trumann and other officials will report at the event the co op operates in seven northeast Arkansas counties
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Crowley’s Ridge State Park
Walcott
Jonesboro
Earl Walden
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Craighead
Arkansas
Sam Chapin
Trumann Walden
Negro Leaders Meet To Discuss Reverse Freedom Rides
The Urban League of Greater New Orleans announced that Negro leaders from four southern states including Arkansas will meet June 23 to discuss issues raised by Reverse Freedom Rides. Leaders are expected from more than three communities in Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi and Alabama.
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Urban League of Greater
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Mississippi
Alabama
Woman claims jail escape attempt failed at Pulaski County Jail
Diane Lambert said the attempted break from Pulaski County Jail would not succeed and denied plans to shoot Jailer J. F. Anderson. Prosecutor John Jernigan noted she is awaiting trial on grand larceny. Betsy and Carol face manslaughter charges in a fatal hit and run while fleeing police. Diane said the gun was brought in by two men and she hoped to reach her dying mother in Fayetteville.
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Pulaski County
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Demi
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Iday
Fayetteville
Diefenbaker vs Khrushchev on Canadian election meddling
Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker accuses Khrushchev of meddling in Canada’s election to keep a government from arming nukes. The Kremlin protest warns of counter measures if weapons land on Canadian soil. Opposition leaders decry Soviet interference. Continued on Page Two.
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Soviet Union
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T. C. Douglas
New Democratic Party
Social Credit
Robert Thompson
Vote to End Train and Bus Ticket Tax
The Senate Finance Committee unanimously voted to abolish the 10 percent tax on train and bus passenger tickets at month’s end to aid railroads struggling with passenger business losses. The proposal would accelerate the tax removal by six months, affecting revenue by about 58 million dollars.
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Pioneer Radio TV Man Dies In Memphis
E. C. Prase, a pioneer in Memphis radio and television broadcasting, died last night of cancer. He served as chief engineer of WMCP and was involved with WMC-FM.
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E. C. Prase
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Wmc-Fm
Old Time Auto Group Meets in Jonesboro Arkansas
The Mid America Old Time Auto Association holds its annual convention in Jonesboro today and Saturday. Features include car judging and an antique fashion show at the fairgrounds. Saturday morning a parade downtown precedes a drive to Crowley Ridge State Park near Walcott. The event ends with a pageant and officer elections at Arkansas State College campus Saturday night.
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Arkansas State College
Kennedy faces a Congress delaying JFK agenda
President Kennedy pushes major programs but a Democratic Congress blocks action in many fields. Medical care reform stalls in Ways and Means, youth employment bills linger, higher education funding lags, foreign trade tariff powers face House friction, and tax revision stalls in Senate. Voter rights law and urban affairs measures fizzle as Congress rushes home for fall elections. Kennedy seeks debt limit rise while anti-Communist mood hardens in both chambers.
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Lions on Airlift for World Convention Opens in France
An airlift of 20,000 Lions is underway to welcome the world wide men's organization for its international convention on the French Riviera. The first plane carrying 141 American club officials landed from Chicago as the event kicks off in June.
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Chicago
Chicken Cooking Queen Crowned State Finalist In Little Rock
Bobbye Campbell of Hope Arkansas named Chicken Cooking Queen of ArkLa District after winning the state Poultry Festival finals in Little Rock. The former Raleigh girl and Marine Reservist, now a mother of two, balances farm life with cooking, crafts, and community work while guiding her daughters in helping at home.
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Officials Deny Collusion In Grain Storage Triangle
Washington AP reports Commercial Solvents Corp president Maynard C. Wheeler denounced claims of three way collusion with Billie Sol Estes and the Agriculture Department as baseless. Rep. Bass alleged a triangle of interest tied to government surplus grain storage payments and Estes contracts. Wheeler noted first storage contract in March 1959 and delay in sending the assignment to the department, with approval on April 1, as hearings continued.
Jail break plot rattles Little Rock in custody case
In Little Rock a jailer was wounded and eight officers faced a gunman stand off as three female inmates attempted a jailbreak. Prosecutors planned charges of assault with intent to kill against Diane Lambert Bettie Childress and Carole Pickett, with a second male suspect sought for passing a pistol through the bars.
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Pulaski County
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Fayetteville
Bettie Childress
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Carole Marie Pickett
Bastropia
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Lambert
Jessie Anderson
L. C. Young
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Childress
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Miss Childress
Spa Visitors Double in Year at Hot Springs Park
The 1960 report by Slate Publicity and Parker Commission, prepared for the Automobile Manufacturers Association, shows Hot Springs National Park welcomed 1,292,000 cars and 688,900 passengers, more than doubling the 1958 figures.
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Little Rock
Historian Bernie Babcock Dies at 94 in Arkansas
MORRILTON Ark February 10 1950 Mrs Bernie Smude Babcock founder of the Natural History Museum at Little Rock and former society editor of the Arkansas Democrat died at her home on Petit Jean Mountain. She was 94. Babcock gained national notice in 1919 with The Soul of Ann Rutledge Abraham Lincoln's first wife and wrote humorous works. Survivors include a son and two daughters.
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Iapi
Bernie Smude Babcock
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Petit Jean Mountain Phiuesday
Babcock
Ann Rutledge
Abraham Lincoln
Gilbert Hopes To Pay Everyone Back In Brazil Admission
Edward M. Gilbert, a New York financier, admitted unauthorized withdrawals of 2 million from E L Bruce Co. and flew to Rio de Janeiro seeking time to think. He said he aimed to protect the company and holders, denied fleeing U.S. justice, and awaited decisions on extradition as prosecutors and the SEC review the case. He blamed no one but admitted hurting some while pursuing an acquisition plan.
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Brazil Herald
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Wall Street
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Bruce Co
Van Dalsem Pushes Weights and Measures Law
Perry County Representative Paul Van Dalsem asked the Legislative Council to spend a day considering a weights and measures act to protect consumers from dishonest merchants. He noted the bill failed in 1999 and said only one other state lacks such an act. The proposal is among seven items the council will assess at the Capitol next Friday with a favorable report possibly paving passage.
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Camden Plans P. O. Dedication
Representative Oren Harris of El Dorado will dedicate Camden's new post office at 6 p.m. today. W. M. Nichols of St. Louis, assistant to the regional director of the post office department, also on the program.
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Oren Harris
el Dorado
Camden
W. M. Nichols
St. Louis
Post Office Department
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