Youth Dies in Accident on Highway 67 West of Hope
A one car crash on Highway 67 nine miles west of Hope left Lonnie Miles Harris sixteen dead in a local hospital after three hours. His mother Mrs B G Boulton and other relatives were injured. Charles Harris thirteen in critical condition and another five year old child severely injured were rushed to Little Rock. Driver Mr Boulton, a long time trucker, possibly dropped a cigarette as he moved toward Kentucky from Fort Worth. Traffic halted for nearly two hours while responders cut the vehicle free. Sheriff Jimmie Griffin assisted in the investigation.
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Hope
Lonnie Miles Harris
B. G. Boulton
Cary
Charles Harris
Little Rock
Guy Downing
Arkansas
Boulton
Kentucky
Fort Worth
Texas
Herndon-Cornelius
Jimmie Griffin
Investigaton
Clergy Condemns Reverse Freedom Riders Cruel deed
In Hyannis Massachusetts the Rt Rev Anson Phelps Stokes Jr denounces the sending of Negro riders north as inhumane. Six more arrivals from Little Rock bring total to seventy one as unemployed men and families received five dollars for travel from White Citizens Council. Bishop Stokes urges churches and agencies to respond with wisdom and compassion.
Arkansas Regional Forecasts From The Associated Press
Partly cloudy to cloudy and mild through Sunday with showers and thunderstorms at times. Highs 75 to 85, lows 62 to 72. Experiment Station 24 hour report ending 8 am Tuesday: high 68, low 74. Central Arkansas forecast calls for partly cloudy afternoons and evenings with scattered thundershowers, cooler tonight. Wednesday to Thursday: partly cloudy, cooler, with a chance of widely scattered thundershowers.
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Arkansas
Associated Press Central Arkansas
Ballot Removal Deadline Looms for Arkansas Candidates
In Little Rock, candidates must notify the state or county secretaries by 6 pm Saturday to remove their names from the ballot. Ballots will be amended only if a candidate dies. The report mentions Martha Townsend involved with Republican and Democratic party secretaries in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Pary
Martha Townsend
Hurricane Hunter Sent Into Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Hurricane-hunting TIROS V satellite launched aboard a Thor Delta rocket to study tropical storms origins movements and other weather phenomena. The 286 pound satellite sent cloud cover pictures to Wallops Island and expected to aid forecasts during the Caribbean Atlantic hurricane season peak.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Tiros V
Aeronam Ies
Space Administration
Wallops Island
Robot Weatherm
Hes
Rober Gray
Gray
Tiros. V
Arctic’ Circle
Pacific Ocean
Caribbean
Atlantic
Alma
Tiros Y
Circle C Club Rodeo Opens at Camden This Week
The Circle C Riding Club hosts a world championship rodeo at Camden starting Wednesday night June 20 and running through Saturday with 8 pm performances. A 4 pm parade marks the opening. Cowboys compete for the world title while winnings count toward the national title and top money winners advance to the National Finals after the season cutoff.
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Circle C
Camden
South
Misleading Arkansas Population Figures Questioned
LYTLE ROCK AP Vernon Whitten of Mount Holly questions a University of Arkansas report claiming a 6 percent population gain for Arkansas in 1961. He cites a net out migration and says natural increase offset it, warning the state faces youth brain drain as graduates leave for better opportunities. Whitten spoke before a campaign trip to Prescott Hope and Nashville.
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Lytle Rock
Vernon Whitten
Mount Holly
Arkansas
Whitten
University of Arkansas
Prescott
Hope
Nashville
Whitson
University For Arkansas
IWC
Gue
Khrushchev says no reason for Berlin war and no deadline
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told Romanian workers in Bucharest there is no reason for war over Berlin and no deadline on settling the issue. He warned against pushing the button, spoke of changing West Berlin’s status, and linked arms competition to higher Soviet meat prices.
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Bucharest
Romania
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Berlin
United States
West Berlin
German Democratic Republic
More Riders to Hyannis Reach Cape Cod
Six more Arkansas Reverse Freedom Riders arrived in Hyannis Massachusetts bringing the total to 71. The group includes Edward Evans 21 Emma Jean 19 and their 17 month old daughter James Roe 25 Henrietta 17 and Robert Lee Robinson 22 all from Little Rock.
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Hyannis
Mass
Protestant Episcopal
Massachusetts
Anson ‘Phelps’ Stokes Jr
Stokes
Cape Cod
Little Rock
Ark
Edward W Evans
Emma Jean
James Roe
Henrietta
Robert Lee Robinson
Roes
White Citizens Council
Commonwealth
Viet Nam government launches major attacks against Viet Cong
Saigon reports two large government offensives target enemy concentrations in four provinces. The operations along Vinh Long An Giang borders and in Long An Binh Duong slash Red forces, with 180 killed and 131 captured. Delta fighting featured foot soldiers after helicopters were sidelined.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Vinh Long
An Giang
Long An
Binh Duong
Delta
Peter Lollar Home After Chicago Operations
Little Peter Lollar, aged 2, returned from Chicago with his mother yesterday. He was supposed to undergo the last of six operations to correct his osteogenesis imperfecta condition but may not have had it. Shriner Hospital officials declined comment.
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Little Rock
Little Peter Lollar
Chiscago
Peter
Cris B. Lollar
Chicago
No Agreement in Metal Strike
In Little Rock AP report, Arkansas Sheet Metal Contractors Association and Local 249 of the Sheet Metal Workers Union held their first bargaining session since the June 4 strike. Small concessions emerged as the union trimmed its wage demand from 40 to 35 cents per hour over two years, while contractors increased their offer from 15 to 17 cents. Federal mediator C A Wheeler continued to oversee the talks.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Sheet Metal Contractors Association
Local 249
Striking Sheet Metal Workrs Union
Sion
C. A. Wheeler Ls
Around Town Broadcasts and local notices in Hope Arkansas
Mrs Bobbye Campbell will appear on Little Rock Channel 4 on Wednesday June 20 from 12 noon to 2 pm to share her Chicken Kiev recipe on Arkansas Chicken Cooking champion. Mrs Nina Dean Miller, formerly with Hope Public Schools, named outstanding Junior High creative writing teacher by Dallas Public Schools supervisors. Ramsey Cargile VFW Post 4511 hosts special meeting tonight at 8 o clock at the Hut on Highway 67. all members urged to attend. Maryin L Anterbury named life and casualty focal agent for Life and Casualty Insurance Co. The Averbury family, Baptists with three children, lived at 307 N Ferguson where Mr Arterbury will maintain his office. A colored film of the 1961 Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta shown to Hope County Club members at a potluck. about 30 golfers attended. Jimmy Reese Chambless earned the Dean’s List for Spring at Arkansas A&M College Monticello. he majors. Henry T Grant promoted to Airman First Class at Eielson AFB Alaska. Hope High graduate, son of Mr and Mrs Henry A Grant, entered service January 1960. Closing exercises for Vacation Church School at Linton will be Sunday June 24 at 5 pm in Presbyterian Fellowship Hall. Annual Vacation Church School picnic set for Friday June 22 at 6 40 pm at Fair Park. all members and parents invited.
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Bobbye Campbell
Hope
Arkansas
Little Rock
Nina Dean Miller
Hope Public Schools
Dallas’ Public School
Ramsey Cargile
Maryin L. Anterbury
Life and Casualty Insurance Co
Averbury's
N. Ferguson
Arter
Bury
Henry T. Grant, Hope
U. S. Air Force
Eielson Afb
Alaska
Hope High
Henry A. Grant
Linton
Christian
Presbyterian
Presbyterian Fellowship
Fair Park
Crit Stuart
Engineers Postpone Strike Temporarily But Pickets Appear
LITTLE ROCK AP Live pice quotations on broilers and fryers question poultry prices. AMS prices are questioned by industry leaders who say live bird markets are negligible in integrated operations. Arkansas officials halt AMS reporting, while the Arkansas Poultry Federation plans its own private service in Little Rock.
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AMS
L. D. Thompson
Arkansas
Aot
White
Little Rock
Lex Killibrew
Arkansas Poultry Fperation
Killibrew
Federation
Federation Re
Lidle Rock
McMath Alford Attack Concentration Of Power In Arkansas
Former Gov. Sid McMath and Rep. Dale Alford assail concentration of political power in Arkansas under Gov. Orval Faubus. McMath warns of a police state drift, cites canceled fish fry and university speech bans. Alford questions why he sought office without permission, denounces Faubus’s control.
Goldberg Plan for Settlement to Be Studied
Flight engineers postponed a scheduled strike on Trans World Airlines as government mediators review a settlement proposal. Labor Secretary Goldberg, joined by Wirtz and others, urged a temporary hold as union and airline negotiators continue talks on cockpit crew makeup and other disputed issues. The pace remains cautious with no clear progress reported before the deadline.
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Washington
Trans World Airlines
Arthur J. Goldberg
Eogin Cers International Association
Golksberg
Beadhing
New York
Idlewild
TWA
Goldberg
Andersteretiary
W. Willard Wirtz
Francis A. O'Neill Jr
National
Secretary of
Joseph Suskiewich
Flight
Engineers
Pilots Association
Hospital Contract Let for 39-Bed Bax ter County Facility
A general contract for a $615,000 hospital in Baxter County was awarded to H. C. Enterprises of Little Rock. Construction on the 39 bed facility near Mountain Home will start July 9. It is financed by $330,000 federal Hill Burton funds and a $285,000 bond issue approved by Bradley County voters last June.
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Wiwunialn Home
Ark
Baxter County
H. C. Enterprises, Inc
Little Rock
Mountain Home
Hill-Burton
Bradley County
Immanuel Baptist Revival Planned With Evangelist Jones
Immanuel Baptist Church announces a revival beginning Wednesday with nightly services at 7 30 o clock through June 30. The evangelist will be Rev Charlie Jones from Logansport La, with Eugene Hughes serving as pastor. Special music is planned for each meeting.
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Charlie Jones
Logansport
Eugene Hughes
Arkansas Unions Report Receipts Across State Totals
The Labor Department Bureau's latest Labor-Management Reports show 334 Arkansas locals with total assets near 2.6 million dollars. Dues exceed 2 million in receipts while expenditures reach 2.7 million, including 746 thousand for officers and staff. Most locals report under 5 thousand, with two near 300 thousand. All unions file financial statements under the 1960 act.
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Little Rock
Bureau of Labor Management
Department of Labor
Arkansas
Car Overturns Injuring Two Near Hope Sunday Night
A small foreign car overturned three times on a curve six miles south of Hope injuring two occupants William Martensen and John A Gore of Bossier City Louisiana. Both were hurt but not critically with Martensen thrown into a barbed wire fence and cut up. They were en route to Narrows Lake to join their families vacationing. State Police Lt. Guy Downing and Sheriff Griffin investigated.
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Hope
Wiliam Martensen
John A Gore
Bossier City
Marttensen
Narrows Lake
Guy Downing
Griffin
L. D. Formby of Nevada County Dies at 72
L D Formby, 72, lifelong Nevada County resident and retired farmer, died at his home near Prescott early today. Survived by wife Lorena, two sons Rufay Joe Prescott and Shellie of Victor Texas, a daughter Early Melyen of Hope, and sister Mrs H N Gurley of Logansport Illinois. Arrangements to be announced by Herndon Carnebus.
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J. D. Formby
Nevada County
Prescott
Lorena Formby
Rufay Joe Prescott
Shellie
Victor
Texas
Early Melyen
Hope
H. N. Gurley
LogansportiLa
Herndon Carnebus
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