AP Chief Visits Arkansas Plants in Open House Tour
The Little Rock AP bureau chief Bob Dalton led a sweep through southwestern counties meeting editors and staff as he explained how AP wire, feature, and photo services reach readers. The piece recalls early Arkansas AP meetings in 1924 and the clashes among publishers that shaped AP’s cooperative structure with a strong general manager and a responsive board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Harris
Bob Dalton
Little Rock
Associated Press
Dalton
el Dorado
J.N
Fred Heiskell
Arkansas Gazette
C.P.J. Mooney
Commercial Appeal
Memphis
Arkansas
Associated Press Cooperative
Officer killed as robbers target bank manager and wife
In Lansing Michigan police respond to a bank kidnapping and robbery attempt. Officer Mack Donnelly Jr. 35 dies from gunshot wounds while three gunmen flee with hostages. One robber wounded. Jim Spoelma bank manager and wife were forced to drive to Michigan National Bank Frandor Shopping Center.
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Lansing
Mich
Mack Donnelly Jr
Jerry Mills
Jim Spoelma
Michigan National Bank
Frandor
Train wreck and fires force Neelyville evacuation
Two freight trains collided near Neelyville Missouri causing 79 cars derailment and fires. About 400 residents were evacuated while crews battled blazes and water had to be ferried from Naylor as vinyl chloride and other chemicals raised explosion fears. Two crewmen were injured and an Amtrak train was redirected to Little Rock.
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Neelyville
Missouri
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Here
Ralph D. Shelton Jr
John M. Bland
North Little Rock
Ark
Chicago
Houston
Hope School Board files formal FOI denial in declaratory action
The Hope School District 1-A board responds to Jim Harris of the Hope Star in a suit over FOI requests. It denies specific allegations for lack of information and cites a vacancy in the superintendent post from April 11 1977 and a new hire on June 13 1977.
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Board of Directors
Hope School District 1-A
Hope Star
the Star
Jim Harris
The
Star Publishing Company
Arkansas
Joe Barentine
Board of
Board of Directors of
Jim Harris and Star Publishing Company
Hope
James H. Pilkinson
Board of Education
Motorist hurt as trailer leaves highway on Highway 4
James Micheal Westerbuhr 20 of El Dorado was southbound on Highway 4 when his 22 foot goose neck trailer swung off the pavement. The trailer traveled 130 feet before resting beside a 1973 Chevy pickup, damaging its right side. The rig belonged to Longs Pipe-type Sheet Metal Co of El Dorado, and Duvall Moore of the Arkansas State Police investigated.
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Hope
Highway 4
Wallace Martin
Arkansas State Police
Luke's Plumbing
Wendell A. Powell
Hudson Foods
Roger D. McClelland
Powell
Randy Biddle
Hempstead County Memorial Hospital
Duvall Moore
Richard Lowell Harris
Harris
Memorial Hospital
James Micheal Westerbuhr
el Dorado
Longs Pipe-type Sheet Metal Company
Brezhnev Elevated to Soviet Presidency in Kremlin Shakeup
Leonid Brezhnev, age 70, replaces Nikolai Podgorny as president while remaining general secretary, becoming the first Soviet leader to hold both posts. Podgorny retires, Suslov endorses Brezhnev, and observers foresee a deputy handling routine duties under a new constitution.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikolai Podgorny
Brezhnev
Lenin
Stalin
Khruschev
Podgorny
Communist Party
Podgorry
Gulf Oil admits cartel role under Canadian pressure
Gulf Oil officials testified before a House panel that its Canadian uranium subsidiary joined an international cartel to fix prices, claiming government compulsion. Documents show Gulf actively attended cartel meetings since 1972, with proposed price hikes amid Westinghouse lawsuits alleging price manipulation.
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Washington
Gulf Oil Corp
Canada
Jerry McAfee
Gulf
House
Canadian Uranium Corporation
McAfee
U.S
Subcommittee
John E. Mos
D-Calif
Moss
John Moss
Westinghouse
France
South Africa
United States
Army boards review Slovik case over 32 years later
Antoinette Slovik asks the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records to secure insurance benefits and move Pvt Eddie Slovik’s grave from a dishonored section in a French cemetery. Five military officers will determine whether the firing squad execution was warranted for the deserter who feared gunfire.
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Washington
Eddie Slovik
Antoinette Slovik
Army Board
France
Slovik
Hope Native Jimmy Allen Elected SBC President
The Rev. Jimmy Allen, a Hope native born on a 1927 farm in Old Providence, was chosen Tuesday as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He grew up in Detroit and Dallas, now serves as pastor of First Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas, and maintains strong church ties in the Hope area.
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Jimmy Allen
Southern Baptist Convention
Kansas City
Hope
Old Providence
Earl L. Allen
Rocky Mound
Allen
Detroit
Dallas
First Baptist Church
San Antonio
Tex
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Alex. H. Washburn
L.A
Hope Visitor
Matthew Drumgoole Jr
Sherwood
Poplar Bluff
Naylor
Lloyd Lurber
Amtrak
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Cotton Belt Railroad
Dexter
Winn, Ark
Arkansas Border
Hope School Board
Times
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet
Mikhail Suslov
Suslov
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
SBA
Hope Native
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