Hope Arkansas Leads Local Economic Upswing
National business appears mixed with pockets of strength. Arkansas and especially Hope show solid growth as city permits reach 1,070,613 for the first half of the year. Poultry and livestock prosper. cotton fades from Hempstead county’s past as a Cow Sow and Hen program paved the way. Unemployment rises on the West Coast with war plants winding down, but faith and perseverance keep Hope buoyant. At the Arkansas Press Association Summer convention Tommy Gillespie of Atkins jokes about being a left over lover.
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Arkansas
Florida
Hope
Hempstead
Roy Anderson
America
Arkansas Press Association
Fayetteville
Tommy Gillespie
Atkins
Ark
Governors to Play Tennis in Little Rock Match
Governors Dale Bumpers of Arkansas and David Hall of Oklahoma will team with Jay Freeman and Charley McWilliams to play a public doubles tennis match Sunday at the Little Rock Racquet Club. Game time is 3 p.m.
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Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
Oklahoma
David Hall
Bumpers
Jay Freeman
Hall
Charley McWilliams
Oklahoma City
Grant for Sewer Facilities in West Fork
The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an $83,000 grant for West Fork Washington County to finance a new sanitary sewer project. HUD also approved a $40,000 public facility loan to West Fork to expand its water distribution system.
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Washington
Department of Housing and Urban Development
West Fork
Washington County
HUD
Congress to Hold Secret Policy Probe
The House Government Operations Committee plans a major inquiry into U S policy secrecy. Subcommittee leader William Moorhead says material from the Nixon era will be sought for private review to explain why it was classified. Open hearings begin next week with testimony from White House, Defense, Justice, and State officials.
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Carl C. Craft
Associated Press
Washington
House
Government Information Subcommittee
Congressional
U.S
New York Times
Vietnam
Subcommittee
William S. Moorhead
D-Pa
Executive Department
Government Operations Committee
Grant to Garland County for 222,512 dollars
The Office of Economic Opportunity announced a 222,512 dollar grant approved on Thursday. The funds will support programs in Hot Springs and Garland County for 12 months, funding administration neighborhood services job development and placement housing services family planning general services and senior opportunities and services.
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Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Hot Springs
Garland County
Hope Downtown Urban Renewal Plan Aims to Reshape City Center
Hope participates in an urban renewal program costing 3.07 million dollars with a federal grant of 2.40 million. Planned changes include pedestrian only Second Street from Elm to Walnut, a semicircular Main Street mall, four downtown parking lots, and phased work under Part One with a July completion target and a July 8 public hearing in the Douglas Building.
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Hope
Second St
Elm St
Walnut St
Main St
Third St
Front St
Third and
Cox’s Drug Store
Bud Collier’s
Chamber of Commerce
Owen’s Department Store
Elm and
Vic Cobb’s
Front
Walnut Sts
Jack’s News
Barry's Grocery
Walnut
Third Sts
Hope Star
Crescent Drug
City of Hope
Sixth St
Little Rock
E Douglas
Man Charged in Fatal Stabbing
Earl Lord Jr. aged 22, a resident of 316 East Greenwood Street, was charged with second degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 19 year old Robert Howard. Howard’s body was found in a Dairy Street ditch early Thursday after being stabbed in the back. Lord is jailed in Hempstead County. Investigation by city county and state officers led to the charge.
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Earl Lord Jr
East Greenwood St
Robert Howard
Howard
Dairy Street
Lord
Hempstead
Henry Sinyard
River Museum Planned for Little Rock by Border Star Owner
John F. Trotter, owner of the stern wheeler Border Star, announced plans to open a river museum in Little Rock. The Arkansas river focused facility will blend past present and future with displays on steamboating state river history navigation aids and a 20 foot long replica of the Arkansas River.
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Little Rock
John F. Trotter
Border Star
Trotter
Arkansas
Arkansas River
Here Are Some of the Many Things We Could Do Well Without
HAL BOYLE lists items to skip in modern life from pricey pet tags and exile of auto racing to fashion fads and overextended weight programs. He targets television talk shows, trendy graphics, needless purchases, dull razors, and pompous speeches, urging simpler living.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Martin
Pryor Votes For War Deadline Despite Arkansas Split
Washington AP Rep David Pryor D Ark was the sole Ark congressman backing a Dec 31 war deadline measure. The House defeated it 254 to 158 with Reps Wilbur Mills and Bill Alexander both D Ark and Rep John Paw Hammer Schmidt R Ark voting no.
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Washington
David Pryor
D-Ark
Arkansas
Southeast Asia
House
Wilbur D. Mills
Bill Alexander
John Paw Hammerschmidt
R-Ark
No Clues on Whereabouts of Tipster
Friends and relatives offered no clues about the location of Daniel Ellsberg, named by Sidney Zion as the source of the Pentagon study leak to The New York Times. Ellsberg, MIT research fellow, was last seen in his office Wednesday before Zion on WMCA identified him. Zion said he obtained Ellsberg’s materials from impeccable sources but would not name them.
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NEW York
Daniel Ellsberg
New York Times
Pentagon
The
Times
Ellsberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sidney Zion
WMCA
Zion
Neil Sheehan
Elisberg
South Attracts Spotlight as Nation’s Most Integrated Schools
Mississippi, once among the most segregated, now leads in desegregation with 39 percent of its elementary and secondary schools integrated between 1968 and 1970, while Northern cities see rising isolation. HEW data show South accounted for 690,000 of a national 756,000 increase in Black students in integrated schools. Major northern districts like New York, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Boston lose ground.
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G. C. Thelen Jr
Associated Press
Washington
Mississippi
California
Illinois
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
South
Deep South
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
New York City
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Columbus
Ohio
Indianapolis
Boston
Congress
Supreme Court
Tinois
Heat and Humid Conditions Persist Across States
Hot and humid weather continues through the weekend with a slight chance of thundershowers. Thursday highs ranged from 90 in Harrison to 101 in Texarkana, the hottest in the state this year. Overnight lows included Fayetteville 63 and Texarkana 76, with Pine Bluff receiving .07 inches of rain in the past 24 hours.
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Associated Press
Harrison
Texarkana
Pine Bluff
Arkansas
Fayetteville
Jonesboro
Memphis
Little Rock
Fort Smith
el Dorado
Gov Dale Bumpers urges 18 year olds to vote intelligently
Gov Dale Bumpers told an Arkansas Young Democrats Club supper that 18 year olds should vote intelligently. He urged nonmembers to join YDC and become active in politics, noting he once considered leaving the Democratic party but stayed due to its core beliefs.
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North Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
Bumpers
Arkansas Young Democrats Club
YDC
Democratic Party
Times Gives Up Secret Documents Injunction Hearing Set for Today
The New York Times seeks to lift a temporary ban on publishing secret Pentagon papers arguing the move moot after Washington Post coverage. The hearing, in New York, examines the government injunction while Congress shows support for the Times in its Vietnam war study dispute. Nixon policy shifts on Indochina and anti drug funds draw Capitol Hill praise amid battle.
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Times
NEW York
The
New York Times
Pentagon
Washington Post
Alexander M. Bickel
Murray I. Gurfein
U.S. District Court
Bickel
Justice Department
Washington
Congress
Nixon
Capitol Hill
Arch Ford Cited by Baptists in Arkansas
Arch W. Ford the state education commissioner from Wooster Faulkner County was named Arkansas Baptist Father of the Year by the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine after readers submitted nominations.
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Little Rock
Arch W. Ford
Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
Ford of
No Election Connivance Denied by Pentagon Study
Washington Post reports a Pentagon study asserts no U S connivance with the Saigon regime to block elections in Vietnam as agreed at Geneva. President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles reportedly feared a coalition that could curb Communist influence, with Ngo Dinh Diem blamed for blocking votes in 1955. The Post cites sections of the study. fate of the secret 47 volume document remains unclear.
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Washington Post
Pentagon
United States
Saigon
North
South Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Foster - Dulles
Ngo Dinh Diem
Post
Chalmers M. Roberts
Defense Department
New York Times
Times
All Around Town Hope Band jackets arrive for pickup
A roundup of local notes reports Hope Band jackets ready for students at 1523 South Main Street. Hubert L. Barksdale elected Assistant Cashier at Commercial National Bank of Little Rock, joined in 1970, with BSBA in Banking and Finance from the University of Arkansas, member of Second Baptist Church and Phi Delta Theta, wife Diane Ellis. About 260 prospective freshmen attended Arkansas Tech orientation. Hope students Floyd Laramore and Randy Arnold listed. Mr and Mrs E H Snow of Hope visited Rosedown Plantation in St. Francisville La during rose bloom. At an Honors Recital in Texarkana Nancy Ross of McCaskill received honors. Hope Housing Authority says the Douglas Building community room hosted 173 meetings in six months. Four Hope High graduates joined 77 freshmen at Southern State College orientation on June 16 for fall enrollment starting August 23. local students Sheryl Kaye Bright, James Larry Byers, Anthony Davis and Pamela Kay Gilbey named.
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Hubert L. Barksdale
Commercial National Bank of Little Rock
Pine Bluff
University of Arkansas
Second Baptist Church of
Little Rock
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Diane Ellis
Leonard Ellis
Hope
Four Hope High School
Southern State College
Southern State
Sheryl Kaye Bright
James Larry Byers
Anthony Davis
Pamela Kay Gilbey
House panel approves $12 billion Agriculture bill
The House Appropriations Committee backed a $12 billion fiscal year 1969 bill for agriculture, environmental and consumer protection programs. It funds $6.2 billion for agricultural programs, $932.8 million for rural development, $3.1 billion for environmental protection and $2.76 billion for consumer protection and services, with $3.6 billion allocated to reimburse the commodity credit corporation and funds for EPA water and sewer grants, sedimentation control and watershed protection.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Nixon
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Environmental Protection Agency
Consumer Protection Funds
Food and Drug Administration
Federal Trade Commission
Office of Consumer Affairs
Refuses to Limit Draft for War Only
Senate rejected a Gravel amendment to cap the draft to wartime only by a 58 to 12 vote. The same session denied draftees a lawyer or courtroom hearing before local boards. In Arkansas, Harlan Lane faces a July 19 retrial over a bank loan commission case tied to Wheel-Air and Lao holdings. In Washington, six miles of copper wire were stolen from Tenino Telephone Co leaving 135 subscribers without service.
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Carl P. Leursborf
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Congress
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Little Rock
Harlan Lane
Union National Bank
Lane
U.S
J. Smith Henley
Union National
Wheel-Air, Inc
McLean
Wheel-Air
Lao, Inc
Bucoda
Wash
E. A. Peterson
Tenino Telephone Co
FBI
License Plate Fetches High Price at Auction
London AP reports Allan Hough ton purchased an antique car at auction for 1,800 pounds about $4,320. The sale included a license plate AH-1 valued separately at about $120. The event highlights high prices for vintage autos and unique plates.
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London
Allan Houghton
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