Low American Dead Rise in Vietnam War War Toll
Eighty Americans were killed in action in Vietnam and Cambodia the past week, the smallest weekly American death toll in nine weeks, while wounded numbers jumped to 643. Vietnamese casualties included 366 killed and 1,071 wounded, with enemy deaths claimed at 2,093. Cambodian fighting near Phnom Penh and Kompong Luong continued as Cambodian forces counterattacked and bombardments occurred along Highway 4 toward Kompong Som.
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Richard Pyle
Associated Press
Wester Saigon
Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S. Command
U.S
Phnom Penh
Kompong Luong
Tonle Sap
Kompong Speu
Kompong Som
Rain for Week End Prognosis and Tornado Sighting
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts more rain and thunderstorms for the state over the next two days with Friday night and Saturday morning most likely for storms. A squall line caused wind damage at Conway and Morriston on Wednesday night with uprooted trees. Russellville police report a tornado sighting north of town after heavy rainfall. funnels dipped but did not touch ground. Minor wind damage noted at Russellville and pow…
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Associated Press
U.S. Weather Bureau
State College of Arkansas
Conway
Morriston
Russellville
Pow
Cancer Crusade Will Begin in Hempstead
The Hempstead County Crusade for Cancer is under way with Mrs. F. Bennett Wood of Hope as county chairman. Maurice Britt, state chairman for the American Cancer Society Crusade, announced the drive. A Hempstead unit meeting last Friday planned the campaign with several members pictured.
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Hempstead County
F. Bennett Wood
Hope
Maurice Britt
Little Rock
American Cancer Society Crusade
Society
Olin Purtell
W. ©. Beene
Harry McLemore
Jud
Arkansas
American Cancer Society
Nixon heads West to craft Cambodia report at Jun 50th Jr Chamber event
President Nixon travels to St Louis for the Junior Chamber of Commerce anniversary and then to his San Clemente villa. A nationwide Cambodian report may air next week from the western White House. Nixon and aides plan to discuss home front problems and future prospects while Mrs. Nixon aids earthquake relief in Peru. Local weather notes and community cancer society notices follow in the dispatch.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
America
H. R. Haldeman
Henry A. Kissinger
Dwight Chapin
Patrick Buchanan
White House
San Clemente
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Southeast Asia
Peru
California
Weather report from station for 24 hours ending Thursday
Weather summary shows high 91 and low 66 with 0.42 inches of rain. Forecast notes considerable cloudiness tonight and Friday with scattered thundershowers and little temperature change. Tonight lows in upper 60s to low 70s, Friday highs in the upper 80s to low 90s with chance of locally heavy storms tonight.
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Arkansas
Metro to set up central office for six county area
The Metro board approved creating a central office in Little Rock to align manpower resources across Pulaski Saline Faulkner Lonoke Prairie and Monroe counties. The plan hinges on a $37 970 federal grant pending Labor Department approval.
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Little Rock
Metroplan
Pulaski
Saline
Faulkner
Lonoke
Prairie
Monroe
Labor Department
War debate over Cambodia dominates Senate action
Washington AP reports Nixon backers push to finish antiwar amendments during military sales bill debate. Democrats accuse Republicans of crude partisanship while Senate votes 61 to 10 to approve Dole's Tonkin amendment and 52 to 36 to reject Miller's requirement on cost sharing for aid.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Cambodia
U.S. Southeast Asia
Robert P. Griffin
Georges. McGovern
D- 8
U.S
Indochina
Gordon Allott
R-Cole
Offset High Relations Committee
Dole
Johnson
Tonkin
Vietnam
Nixon
Hollings
Jack Miller
Iowa
Memphis Says Hospitals Shortage Revealed
Memphis hospital officials report less than half of total Arkansas indigent hospital bill payments have been collected in Memphis. Special dog racing nights at Southland track raise funds sent to the Welfare Department for Arkansas indigents treated in Memphis hospitals. Tuesday’s collection of 17,661 brings 16 night total to 267,080 for the 1969 season.
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West Memphis
Ark
Memphis
Arkansas
Southland
State Welfare Department
Israeli Bombs Hit Two Syrian Bases Near Damascus
Israeli warplanes attacked camps at Qatana and Kiswah near Damascus in retaliation for a Syrian tank and artillery assault on Israeli posts in the Golan Heights. Another camp at Seijen near Suwayda was also hit. A Syrian spokesman confirmed the strikes while noting air defenses engaged the raiders.
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Michael Gross
Associated Press
TEL Aviv
Damascus
Golan Heights
Qatana
Kiswah
Seijen
Suwayda
Qalana
al Baath
Syria
Baath Socialist Party
U.S
Middle East
U.N. Security Council
Israel
Obituaries and Civil Rights Legislation Notes
Obituary notices for infant son of Mr and Mrs James H Jones Jr of Little Rock and Patsy Ann Gray of Okay plus funeral details. Also brief items on Latimer Funeral Home services in Nashville and Saratoga cemetery burial. Separate paragraph notes civil rights law criticisms by opponents and differing views from Black leaders. Also a scientific aside about the aortic arch in birds versus humans and mammals.
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James H. Jones, Jr
Little Rock
James H. Jones, Sr
Hope
K. M. ‘Trimble
Benton
Griffin-Legegelt Funeral Home
Patsy Ann Gray
Okay
Texarkana
Howard County
Community Baptist Church
James Richard Gray
Richard Allen
Robert Wayne
Thelma Arnold
Ozan
Ray Arnold
Leo Arnold
D. F. Arnold
Cecil Arnold
Vena Mae Bratton
Mary Lancaster
Peggy Robinson
Queenland
Texas
Esther Ammonette
Nashville
Latimer Funeral Home Chapel
Charles Stanford
Saratoga Cemetery
Latimer
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