Time to repeal Arkansas full crew law urged
Arkansas shippers announce a petition to place an initiated act on the general election ballot to repeal the existing full crew law. The Star supports repeal citing higher freight costs and labor shortages while noting Wisconsin recently repealed its law. The piece also reports a murder charge in Little Rock as Helga Henley is found dead and her husband Talmadge Henley arrested.
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Bob C. Worley
Forth Smith
Principal Industries and Farm Associations of
Arkansas
Secretary of State
Little Rock
Star
The
Missouri
Texas
Talmadge Henley
Helga Henley
Miss Branch Named National Delegate To Girls Nation
Marynell Branch of Hope and Rhonda Young of Blytheville were chosen as Arkansas delegates to Girls Nation in Washington, D C, July 23 29 by the American Legion Auxiliary. Both had attended Girls State last week. Branch is the daughter of Dr and Mrs J W Branch and Young is the daughter of Sgt Victor W Young.
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Marynell Branch of
Hope
Arkansas
Washington, D. C
Rhonda Young
Blytheville Air Force Base
American Legion Auxiliary
Miss Branch
J. W. Branch
Miss Young
Victor W. Young
Tern Castle of Hope
Miss Castle
Wayne Hatfield
Jakella Young
Anita McCauley
118 Die in Heathrow Plane Crash Killing 118 on Board
A British Trident jetliner operated by British European Airways crashed shortly after takeoff from Heathrow for Brussels, killing all 118 aboard. Among the dead were 29 Americans and at least 12 British physicians bound for a professional congress, plus top Irish industrial leaders. Flight recorders recovered for official inquiry.
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Brussels
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Heathrow
Britain
Michael Heseltine
Common Market
Con Smith
Confederation of Irish Industry
Michael Sweetman
Irish Council of the European Movement
Ivan Webb
Texarkana Man Shot and Killed in Family Altercation
A 20 year old Negro man Oscar Sails of Texarkana was shot once in the chest by a .22 rifle during an altercation at his in laws home on Red Lake Rd near Sping Hill. Sails died at Memorial Funeral Home about 9 pm. The death was ruled justifiable homicide by Hempstead County Sheriff Henry Sinyard.
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Memorial Funeral
Red Lake Rd
Sping Hill
Hempstead
Henry Singard
Oscar Sails
Texarkana
Sinyard
Sails
Lenar Agee
Republicans Hold Convention in Little Rock
The Arkansas GOP votes to hold a state convention in Little Rock on July 15 to elect a new state committee and the 18 delegates to the GOP National Convention. The move follows national rules requiring a fresh convention process and mirrors a past Democratic action. county committees will select reps today.
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Little Rock
Bob Scott
GOP
Scott
State Party
Dale Bumpers
Global airline pilots strike grounds many foreign carriers
The International Federation of Airline Pilots launched a 24 hour strike disrupting 19 foreign flag airlines while major U.S. carriers largely kept flying. Eastern, Southern Airways, and Northeast Airlines halted operations in defiance of a federal court order. Other U.S. majors reported normal service.
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Southern Aiirways
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Airline Pilots Association
America
International Federation of Airline Pilots
ALPA
Trans World Airlines
American Airlines
Northwest Airlines
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Western Airlines
Irish Airlines
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Sabena Belgian World Airlines
el- al
Air Canada
Alitalia
Lufthansa
Swissair
Air New Zealand
Czechoslovakia
Moscow radio demands U S halt UN military actions
Moscow Radio demanded the United States immediately and unconditionally halt military actions against North Vietnam ports and resume constructive talks in Paris. It pledged continued Soviet aid to Hanoi and tempered expectations for new peace moves amid Kissinger's visit to China and Podgorny's Hanoi trip.
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United States
North Vietnam
Paris
Hanoi
Far East
Henry A. Kissinger
Peking
Nikolai Podgorny
Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Moscow
Podgorny
Xuan Thuy
Calcutta
Soviet Union
Podporny
Tass
Hawaii
Guam
Shanghai
U.S
Washington- Peking
Vietnam
Arkansas to Build DeGray Reservoir State Park
The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism won a 987000 federal grant matched by state funds to develop a new state park on the DeGray Reservoir near Arkadelphia. The 715 acre site in Hot Spring and Grant counties will include 100 campsites an information building roads parking and essential utilities. The park lies about 15 miles northwest of Arkadelphia near Arkansas. Announcement came from the office of Senator John I McClellan on Saturday.
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Arkadelphia
Arkansas
John I. McClellan
D-Ark
Hope Man Wins Man of the Year at Arkansas Poultry Festival
At the 13th Arkansas Poultry Festival in Hot Springs the Hope man Wayne Russell won Man of the Year after leading the Cornbelt Hatcheries and serving as APF past president. Northwest Arkansas entrants led awards over two days. Virginia Rhea Dalton 21 of Waldron was crowned Poultry Princess with Mary Jane Myers as first runnerup. Marsha Dickerson of Conway won Miss Congeniality. James B. McGough of Emmet named top turkey producer. Eddie Mike Pope of Mineral Springs named top broiler producer. Elizabeth Tornerlin of Nashville won cooking queen. Arkansas leads in egg and turkey production. Jamies Hudson of Rogers named APF president.
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Arkansas
Hot Springs
Wayne Russell
Northwest Arkansas
Virginia Rhea Dalton
Mary Jane Myers
Marsha Dickerson
Conway
Miss Dalton
J. A. Dalton
University of Arkansas
Russell
Arkansas Poultry Federation
Cornbelt Hatcheries
James B. McGough
Mountaine Corp
Nashville
McGough
Broiler
Broiler Advisory Committee
Nevada County Farm Bureau
Elizabeth Tornerlin
Eddie Mike
Pope
Mineral Springs
Tamerline
James H. Thurman
Blevins
Delight Egg Farms, Inc
Federation
Jamies Hudson
Rogers
McGovern cancels upstate trip due to pilots strike
Sen George McGovern postpones planned appearances in Albany Rochester Buffalo and Big Flats as airline pilots strike widens. He schedules a news conference to discuss hijacking and international action while Solid support from Montana Colorado Connecticut and Utah lifts his delegate total to 1956, with 1509 needed at Miami Beach convention next month.
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George McGovern
South
Miami Beach
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