Waterways Investment and Eastern Hope for Cheap Transport
The editorial argues against charging barge lines to cover inland waterway costs and frames waterways as an investment. It cites federal funding of roads and rail rights of way, European reliance on waterways, and recent Florida and Arkansas river projects, including the Red River lock and dam groundbreaking, as proof that American waterways must be expanded to compete with Europe.
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Brock Adams
Congress
Adams
U.S
America
Europe
National Geographic Magazine
Yankee
Mediterranean Sea
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West Germany
Holland
English Channel
Seine River
Paris
Mediterranean
Elbe Lateral Canal
Tennessee River
Arkansas River
Little Rock
Tulsa
Okla
Arkansas
Red River
Marksville
Ouachita River
Camden
Mississippi
Shreveport
Fulton
Tri-State
Hope Board to Hear Pipe Suppliers on Concrete vs Clay
The Hope Board of Directors will hold a public hearing Tuesday night at City Hall on the concrete pipe versus clay pipe dispute. Hydro Conduit Corp Choctaw Culvert and Jonesboro Concrete Pipe contest bids and EPA filing from June 7 while city plans to review sewer tap charges and incinerator expansion funds and bids for an auditor air conditioning system and two treatment plants.
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Hydro Conduit Corp
Choctaw Culvert Division, Inc
Jonesboro Concrete Pipe Company
Hope Board of Directors
City Hall
EPA
John E. Hawkins
Hawkins
Hope
John Swift
Swift
Hope Star
Thomas and
Thomas
John Whitten
Richard Divine
City Park
Amin Missing After Assassination Attempt
Nairobi Daily Nation reports Ugandan President Idi Amin is missing after a weekend assassination attempt. Ugandan officials deny the report while an Entebbe resident says no one knows his whereabouts. Radio Uganda mentions a possible refugee day event in western Uganda.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Uganda
Kampala
Amin
Entebbe
Radio Uganda
Nation
Mustafa Adrisi
Adrisi
Start of Prudhoe Bay oil flow marks pipeline milestone
Alaskan pipeline begins operation with oil flowing toward Valdez after 9 years and $11.7 billion in build costs. The startup at Pump Station No 1 uses a pig device to test the line as crews monitor indicators for safety and efficiency ahead of wide distribution to markets and refineries.
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Prudhoe Bay
Alaska
William Darch
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Circle
Valdez
Prince William Sound
Alyeska
U.S. Interior Department
North Slope
West Coast
Panama Canal
States need not pay for abortions Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that neither the Constitution nor federal law requires states to fund elective abortions when mothers are not in danger. Connecticut and Pennsylvania decisions were upheld against lower court rulings, leaving state funding for abortions to be optional under current law. Congress is considering a bill to bar federal funds for abortions.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
High Court
Congress
Validity of 1969 liquor law argued before Arkansas Court
In Little Rock the Arkansas Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Act 132 1969 allowing mixed drink permits amends the 1942 initiated act without a two thirds vote. Jasper attorney Tommy Martin contends the change invalidates permits in 44 dry counties while wet counties remain outside the suit.
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Little Rock
State Supreme Court
Tommy Martin
Jasper
Martin
Karen Jones
Mias Jones
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Dry County
New electronic livestock ID system moves to field tests
Des Moines Iowa AP a new electronic livestock identification system is ready for field testing. The implant reads with a gunlike interrogator and also measures body temperature. Harold Mindermann of the Livestock Conservation Institute backs the project noting theft traceability and origin tracking benefit producers and consumers. Dr Dale Holm of Los Alamos led government work and the LCI will form an industry advisory committee to work out issues with implanting the system across the marketing chain.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Harold Mindermann
Livestock Conservation Institute
LCI
Mindermann
Dale Holm
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
New Mexico
Holm
Department of Agriculture
Water wall drowns Ft. Riley soldier during training incident
A 19 year old Ft. Riley soldier Willie J. Holmes of Dermott Arkansas was swept away and drowned by a wall of water on a Rimrock Creek training range. Two Army vehicles and three men were washed into the swollen creek. two escaped and one, Capt. John Firth of the University of Texas Arlington, was reportedly involved.
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FT. Riley
Kan
Willie J. Holmes
Dermott
Ark
Holmes
Rimrock
Kansas
John Firth
University of Texas-Arling
No regrets for Lone Ranger at Decatur horse show
Clayton Moore, 62, says he never regretted playing the Lone Ranger after 20 years since the series ended. He spoke during a Decatur appearance, noting the character kept him from pursuing other work and that the Lone Ranger never killed anyone in his battles with outlaws.
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Decatur, Ga
Clayton Moore
Moore
Decatur
Carter airs views on American family and government
President Carter discusses social values and mobility disrupting the American family. He argues welfare laws often benefit divided families and that government action can push behavior. He supports equal tax benefits for working couples, mothers with children, and after school programs. He reflects on his family life and Rosalynn.
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Carter
Washington
Associated Press
Ily
Amy
White House
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