IRS to Probe Retail Gas Stations Across Arkansas
The IRS announced an intensive investigation into gas stations for 60 day price freeze violations. Owners face fines up to 2400 dollars per violation unless they voluntarily comply by rolling back to June 1 to June 6 prices and refunding overcharges within five days. Details and help numbers provided for Arkansas residents.
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Little Rock-R
Russell James
Internal Revenue For
Arkansas
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
James
Little Rock
Pulaski County
Employment survey results announced by Red River school
Red River Vocational Technical School announced the first mailing results of an employment needs survey covering eight counties. It aims to identify growth occupations and hard to fill jobs to guide course changes and new offerings in day classes and extension programs. Second mailing to nonrespondents on June 22. final deadline July 10.
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Red River Vocational Technical School
State Board For Vocational Education
Hope
Hempstead
Former Eaton plant worker sues for racial discrimination
Clarence Hicks a former employee at the Forrest City Eaton Yale and Towne plant files a federal suit naming the company and Forrest City Local 878 of the Teamsters. He alleges firing after a false sleeping on the job claim and seeks class action relief for black employees in hiring and promotion. The suit argues the union contract seniority system disadvantages blacks.
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Little Rock
Eaton, Yale and Towne, Inc
Forrest City
Clarence Hicks
Teamsters
Hicks
Arkansas papers weigh impact of sex disallowed ads
Arkansas newspaper officials study a U S Supreme Court ruling on gender designations in help wanted ads. Some papers had already dropped headings like help wanted male or female while others intended to review the ruling before changing columns.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
U.S. Supreme Court
Help
High Court
John Trout Jr
Jonesboro Sun
The
Sun
Zette
Arkansas Democrat
Hot Springs Sentinel Record
Weems Contempt Hearing Set in Child Support Case
In Little Rock, Prof. Atty. Sam Weems, of Stuttgart, skipped a Chancery Court hearing on a petition by his former wife, Anne Weems, alleging 2500 in back child support and seeking contempt. No court order was issued per attorney Mike Wilson.
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Little Rock
Atty
Sam Weems
Stuttgart
Chancery Court
Anne Weems
Weems
Mike Wilson
Jacksonville
Portland Zoo realizes newborn elephant is a male
Portland zoo officials report that a 3 day old weighing 226 pounds is a male, correcting an earlier belief that the infant was female. The 13th member of the 700 series, the calf’s gender update comes as staff monitor its health and development.
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Portland, Ore
Portland Zoo
Texas producers destroy chicks over price freeze
Wester Texas broiler farmers say they cannot raise chicks under the price freeze and will destroy hundreds of thousands of birds. T C Moore, president of Home Foods of Nixon Texas, says his growers will have about 200000 chickens destroyed by week end and laments there is nothing left but drown them.
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Sylvia Lee
Associated Press
Wester Texas
South Texas
T. C. Moore
Moore
Home Foods
Nixon, Tex
Poultry makers cut back as feed prices soar
Texas broiler producers such as Moore and Rite-Care Poultry report large output cuts due to a 60 day price freeze on retail food and a surge in feed grain costs. Producers warn of severe shortages in 8 to 12 weeks as eggs and chicks destined for market are destroyed and overall production declines across the South.
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Moore
Texas
Gene Biddle
Rite-Care Poultry Co
Tenaha
Tex
Biddle
Gulf Coast
Bo Pilgrim
Pittsburgh
Pilgrim Industries
Dallas-Fort Worth
Pilgrim
Roy Hebder
Herider Farms
Nacogdoches
Cawley
Texas A&m
Law officials applaud obscenity ruling the court decision
Law enforcement officials across the country welcomed the Supreme Court ruling widening obscenity definitions to let states ban materials that offend local standards. Prosecutors and store owners cautioned about civil liberties concerns and potential complexity in enforcement.
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Bernard Cohen
Associated Press
Supreme Court
Florida Asst. Atty
Ray Marky
High Court
Larry Salmon
Floyd County
State Bar of Georgia
Arkansas
Jim Guy Tucker
New York City
Bald Knob
Ark
Melvin Wulf
American Cvil Liberties Union
Jack Frantz
National Book Com
Pilot recalls Berlin airlift and rescue mission
Gail Halvorsen recounts the Berlin airlift that began June 26, 1948 after the Soviet blockade. He notes near zero weather in November 1948 and pride in the airlift that saved West Berlin and its 20 million residents. Peter Downward, then Royal Air Force captain, agrees the operation could have failed.
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West Berlin
Peter Downward
Royal Air Force
Halvorsen
Downward
Berlin
Air Force
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