Flags on sale Saturday for 100 flags at $4 each
Saturday sales run 9 to 10 with Boys and Girls Staters handling orders for 100 flags at four dollars apiece. Delivery options include calls to local staters or Red River Feed and Seed, with mounting brackets and metal poles supplied, courtesy of the American Legion Post 12 and its auxiliary. Also urged are further flag purchases through July 4 in cooperation with radio station KXAR.
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Ceasefire in Ireland Announced by Provisional IRA Wing
The Provisional Irish Republican Army says it will observe a conditional cease-fire starting midnight next Monday to halt bomb and gun attacks in Northern Ireland. Britain promises reciprocity if the violence stops, signaling a possible peace for the first time since the 1969 troubles.
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Irish Republican Army
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Irish Republic
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Britain
IRA
William Whitelaw
House of Commons
Court rules on exclusions in convictions
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that convictions of white defendants are invalid if blacks were systematically excluded from juries. The decision marks the first ruling involving a white defendant and centers on a Morp cia case where Rene Peters was convicted of burglary in Muscogee County and sentenced to 10 years. Justice Marshall led the opinion, with justices Douglas and Stewart agreeing, while Burger Blackmun and Rehnquist dissented.
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Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Morpia
Dean Rene Peters
Muscogee County
Marshall
Peters
William O. Douglas
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
William J. Brennan Jr
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Warren FE. Burger
Harry A. Blackmun
William H. Rehnquist
Burger
All Around Town notes and local honors events
All Around Town reports Bill Montgomery former Razorback will teach a Sunday Bible class at First United Methodist Church June 2. He is an investment banker in Dallas and will be introduced by Judge John Wilson of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees. Jimmy Dale Fincher earns a 400 scholarship at Southern State College. Dr William R Orton of the University of Arkansas Mathematics earns a National Science Foundation grant of 228457. Whitfield Lodge 239 holds Open Installation of officers Friday June 23 at 730 p.m. in the Masonic Hall.
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Dallas
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Saratoga
Southern State College
Mapnolia
Fincher
Dale Fincher
Saratoga High
National Science Foundation
William R. Orton
Department of Mathematics
University of Arkansas
Dr. Orton
W.R. Orton
Texarkana
Hope
Whitfield Lodge No. 239
Masonic Hall
State Rep objects to Faulkner County delegate choice
Little Rock AP A J Troxell Greenbrier requests Democratic Chairman Joe Purcell review the Faulkner County convention where Paul Van Dalsem Perry County was elected delegate Van Dalsem won the Faulkner County post at Monday county convention awaiting inquiry outcome
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A.J. Troxell
Greenbrier
Joe Purcell
Paul van Dalsem
Perry County
Faulkner County
van Dalsem
Supreme Court bans school splintering in desegregation ruling
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision from rural Virginia, barred breaking school districts into smaller units to sustain racial segregation and gave federal judges broad power to redraw district boundaries. The ruling highlighted dismantling segregated systems as the test, while a split allowed Emporia’s exclusion from Greensville County but united Scotland Neck with Halifax County.
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Virginia
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Stewart
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Greensville
Nixon Administration
Warren Burger
Scotland Neck
Halifax County
N.C
Arkansas experiment station 24 hour report forecast
Report covers 24 hours ending 7 am Thursday with high 92 and low 71. Forecast from Arkansas shows partly cloudy and warm conditions today and Friday, fair and mild tonight. Highs today and Friday range upper 70s to near 90, with lows tonight from the north low 60s to near 70 in the south.
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Obituary for Edna Reed Griffin of Blevins
Edna Reed Griffin 64 of Blevins died Wednesday in a local hospital. Lifelong Hempstead County resident and Sardis United Methodist Church member. Survived by husband R H Griffin, son Reuben Ray Griffin, mother Emma J Reed, three brothers Wallace Reed Johnny Reed Conrad Reed, one sister Mrs Floyd Tollett. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Friday Lattner Funeral Chapel Nashville. Restland Memorial Park Nashville. Lattner Funeral Home in charge. Burial Providence Baptist Church Holly Springs Cemeter. Hernden Funeral Home of Hope directed for infant Joan Bobo service at 2 p.m. Thursday Holly Springs Cemeter.
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Blevins
Hempstead County
Sardis
Mineral Springs
Lattner
Joan Bobo
Guy Bobo
Providence Baptist Church
Bennie Tiner
Gordon Renshaw
Holly Springs
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Hernden
Hume of Hope
Council seeks action on rising food prices and controls
The Cost of Living Council considers broadening President Nixon's agricultural price controls after the Price Commission urged firm and immediate action. The panel cites lack of control over raw agricultural products like live animals and vegetables, which were exempt since August, as a key issue. A potential option is removing that exemption. a price freeze is not currently recommended.
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Cost of Living Council
The
Price Commission
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Council
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Treasury
George P. Shultz
Price Agency
Mystery Lingered As Grace Lived In Spare Room
Police found Grace living alone in a 10 foot square room with a rumpled bed and two worn chairs. A Bible and several religious manuals titled Marching Orders for a New Day and They Walked With Christ were among the items. An index card displayed the last two stanzas of Ernest Hanley's Invictus, including the lines I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my soul. The killer operated from midnight to 8 a.m., wore a uniform not allowing arms, Linn said.
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Linn
Grace
Christ
Ernest Hanley
Warning issued about misleading Medicare mail ads
Private insurance firms are circulating ads to Medicare beneficiaries in Texarkana, falsely implying connections with the Social Security Administration. The Texarkana Social Security office covers ten counties in Texas and Arkansas. Officials warn that SSA does not endorse private plans and that records are confidential. Contact the local Social Security office or state Insurance Commission for guidance.
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Otis A. Blackwood
Social Security
Social Security Office
Bowie
Cass County
Texas
Sevier
Hempstead
Lafayette
Little River
Polk
Howard
Nevada
Miller County
Arkansas
Blackwood
Social Security Administration
State Insurance Commission
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