Word from two faced L A Gazette on Arkansas history
The Arkansas Gazette is criticized for shifting from honest record to partisan stance. The writer recounts past editorials on property assessment reform and Governor Cherry versus Faubus, accusing the Gazette of inconsistent, out-of-state writers and lost integrity since 1954.
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Arkansas Gazette
The
Gazette
Arkansas
FrancisCherry
Cherry
Orval Faubus
Hempstead County
Faubus
Little Rock Bid Lands AEC Laboratory Site
A 3000 acre Camp Robinson tract in Arkansas is offered to the Atomic Energy Commission as a site for a 280 million accelerator laboratory. The state would transfer ownership if built there. The Little Rock Chamber of Commerce leads the bid with 2000 scientists and 1000 visiting staff possible. Over 20 states expected to bid, decision due in November.
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Little Rock
Camp Robinson
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Miss Arkansas Pageant season tickets go on sale
The 1965 Miss Arkansas Pageant in Hot Springs runs July 14 to 17. Only season tickets are sold due to a 4,000 seat auditorium, available through the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce.
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Associated Press
Hot Springs, Ark
Hot Springs
Weather Experiment Station report for 94 hours ending
Weather data from the Weather Experiment Station covers a 94 hour period ending at 7 a.m. Monday with a high of 87 and a low of 62. The report notes continuation on Page Three.
Johnson Signs 4.7 Billion Tax Cut Amid Congress Push
VP Humphrey reports fruitful talks with De Gaulle while Johnson signs a 4.7 billion excise tax cut that takes effect Tuesday and Congress advances appropriations totaling near 50 billion dollars. Dominican unions back rebels with a three day strike. Destructive floods threaten Kansas Colorado and New Mexico. Bern ard Baruch dies at 94, tributes flow. Billy Graham appeals for unity in Alabama.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Washington
Humphrey
Johnson
de Gaulle
Congress
Bernard M. Baruch
Arkansas River
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Billy Graham
Montgomery
Ala
New Zealand
Florida
Arkansas
Ford to Meet on Federal Education Aid
Arkansas Education Commissioner Arch Ford travels to Washington for a three day session with U S Office of Education officials on the federal education aid bill The plan reserves 21 million dollars to improve programs for disadvantaged children The bill awaits Congress action and Ford expects possible delay until August He will lead July meetings across the state to inform local leaders about the program with a schedule that includes Monticello El Dorado Nashville Fort Smith Marianna Walnut Ridge Mountain Home Russellville Fayetteville Little Rock and Blytheville
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Little Rock
Arch Ford
Washington
U.S. Office of Education
Ford
Arkansas
Congress
Monticello
el Dorado
Nashville
Fort Smith
Marianna
Walnut Ridge
Mountain Home
Russellville
Fayetteville
Blytheville
Accidents Take Toll in Arkansas
A string of weekend deaths in Arkansas includes Carey Reynolds 42 from Hughes and other victims. The report lists drownings and traffic fatalities across multiple counties with unclear causes and a jail death after a house collision.
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Arkansas
Carey Reynolds
Hughes
U.S. 79
LRU Grant Approved for Little Rock University
Secretary Anthony J Celebrezze announced a 134852 grant to Little Rock University to fund a science facilities project under the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963. The Office of Education provided the funds to assist construction and remodeling at the institution.
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Washington
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Little Rock University
Office of Education
Arkansas Dairy Princess in Chicago for national title
Arkansas Dairy Princess Alicia Brush of Rogers travels to Chicago to compete for the American Dairy Princess title. If she wins she would succeed Wilma Lea Blevins of Harrison as state’s former beauty queen.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Alicia Brush
Rogers
Chicago
Miss Brush
Wilma Lea Blevins
Harrison
State to Observe July 5 Holiday at Capitol
The Independence Day holiday will be observed at the state capitol July 5 this year, a Monday, since July 4 falls on a Sunday.
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Little Rock
State Capitol
Head Start Grants Approved for Arkansas Districts
The U S Office of Education approved nine more Operation Head Start programs in Arkansas. In Hope area districts Fordyce School District 75 gets 13361 dollars, Oak Grove District Rosston 75 10340, Hope Special District 90 14826, Blevins School 30 4483, Washington School District 30 5760.
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Washington
United State Office of Education
Arkansas
Hope Area
Fordyce
Oak Grove
Rosston
Hope
Blevins
Hempstead County
Washington School District
Additional Registration Forms Ready in Arkansas
State Auditor Jimmie Jones expects 60 000 more voter registration forms this week but a shortage limits distribution. 800 000 forms on order and 50 000 already issued to 26 counties. Pulaski County may get 10 000 this week for Sept school elections as he plans to start full county registrations by early July.
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Little Rock
Jimmie Jones
Jones
Pulaski County
Farm Bureau panel gathers youths at Harding College seminar
Mrs. Lester Kent represented Hempstead Farm Bureau at a June seminar on Americanism and Communism at Harding College June 13 19. About 238 youths from five states heard speakers including Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi Bradley University Dr R T Clark Houston Space Center and Cuban Refugee Augusto Cilliason. Attendees visited Jacksonville AFB Rogers Walking Horse Farm and Camp Tahkodah. The event sponsored by Farm Bureau and Civitan clubs was deemed one of the best by Mrs Kent.
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Lester Kent
Hempstead
Farm Bureau
Harding College Search
Nicholas Nyaradi
Bradley University
R. T. Clark
Houston Space Center
Augusto Cilliason
Jacksonville Afb
Rogers Walking Horse Farm
Camp Tahkodah
Kent
President Johnson set to sign second major tax cut
President Johnson signs into law a $4.7 billion excise tax repeal, taking effect Tuesday. The move, delayed to let agencies review the bill, aims to reduce prices and spur the economy, with $1.75 billion in annual Treasury relief. Progressive auto and telephone tax cuts continue through January 1, 1969.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Johnson
Congress
Treasury
Dominican workers strike for 72 hours amid peace talks
Labor unions backing Dominican rebels launch a 72 hour nationwide strike with Santo Domingo factories closing in parts of the capital. Rebels and the civilian junta study an Inter-American Peace formula calling for a provisional government and elections in six to nine months while disputes over governance persist.
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Louis Uchitelle
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Santo Domigio
Luis Henry Molina
Organization of American States
OAS
CAS
Rafael Trujillo
Juan Bosch
Fire destroys home of Rufus Young on Sherman and Hickory
Fire of undetermined origin gutted a residence at Sherman and Hickory Streets. Rufus Young, a Black resident, was asleep in the room where the blaze started but escaped as Fire Chief James Cobb reported the house was completely destroyed.
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Sherman
Hickory Streets
Rufus Young
Young
James Cobb
Rioters Back Ben Bella as Algeria Rulers Ban Events
In Algiers riot police guarded streets after a Sunday night rally by about 1,000 youths in support of ousted President Amhed Ben Bella. Boumedienne's government, which toppled Ben Bella in a bloodless coup, announced the Asian African conference would open as scheduled on June 29.
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Algiers
Amhed Ben Bella
Houari Boumedienne
Ben Bella
Akers
Algerian Student Federation
Yahya Ben Bella
Algeria
42 Percent of Arkansas Farms Participate in ACP Program
ACP data for 1964 shows 28 547 farms in Arkansas participated, about 42 percent of cropland. 62 168 farms carried ACP practices over five years. main actions include permanent vegetative cover, stock ponds, tree stands, erosion controls, drainage, irrigation, and temporary grass covers. Hempstead County saw 518 participants with 40 percent cropland under ACP measures including grasses, liming, ponds, timber stands, and temporary covers.
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A. C. Mowery, Jr
ASCA
Mowery
Arkansas
Hempstead
Barracks and Bridges Hit by U.S. Planes
American and Vietnamese planes struck bridges barracks and other targets in North Vietnam as ground fighting left 27 Government troops and 20 Viet Cong dead. A Marine was killed and three wounded near Da Nang. U S Navy planes hit Moc Chau barracks near Hanoi and Thanh Hoa area. Viet Cong ambushed a convoy on Route 21 killing 11 soldiers and wounding 13. An estimated two Viet Cong companies attacked a government outpost northwest of Saigon leaving 13 missing.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U. S
U.S
da Nang
Viet Nam
U.S. Thunderchief
Vinh
Khu Mai
Midway
Oriskany
Moc Chau
Hanoi
Congress Debates Major Money Bill Package in Week
Congress moves forward on nearly 50 billion dollars in appropriation bills headed by a 45.2 billion Defense Department financing for the coming fiscal year. The 4.2 billion public works measure and other actions crowd the House and Senate calendars as bills on silver coin reform and federal flood relief advance.
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Washington
Congress
Defense Department
House
Senate
District of Columbia
Banking Committee
House Banking Committee
Interior Department
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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L. A. Gazette
Miss Arkansas
Boy Scout
Calvin Caldwell
Camp Pioneer
Mena
Olen Overturf
Jamie Boyett
Hope Lions Club
Dean Murphy
AP News Digest
U.S. Navy
National
Conway
Missouri
Jessie Humble
Rogersville
George T. Wilkerson
Little Rock Air Force Base
Arkansas 89
Lonoke
John R. van Jr
Van
David Curtis
Curtis
William T. Lange
Dallas
Tex
Andy Spradley
Mayflower
Spradley
Virginia Lea Bell
Hugh Bell
Glyvey
LRU
Dairy Princess
Edward Bode
Carbondale
Ill
Northwestern University
National High School Institute, Engineering Division
Ernest Bode
Bob Lewis
State Farm Insurance Co
Tennessee
Kentucky
Lewis
George P. Lively, Jr
Saudi Arabia
Houston, Texas
Texarkana
Arabia
Bud Jameson
Belew Street
Bud Jamison
Ned Ray Purtle
C. L. Hughes
Bismarck
Nashville Production Credit Association
N. B. Coleman
F. C. Luck
Barney Smith
Ray Lawrence
Bobby Carrol
F. J. Bell
L. J. Bryson
Hope Civitan Club
Diamond Cafe
Boys Town
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Edwin Q. White
William F. Arbogast
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