Candidates in Dead Aim at Prayer Ruling
The Associated Press report covers Arkansas governor candidates Coffelt and Alford condemning the Supreme Court ruling that prohibits official prayers in public schools. Coffelt calls it the blackest page in U.S. judicial history while Alford vows to defend prayer rights and seeks a constitutional amendment. Winston Chandler labels the decision godless and left wing, arguing the Court has distorted the nation's principles.
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Associated Press
U.S. Supreme Court
Dale, Alford
Kenneth Forfelt
Coftelt
Alford
Brown
Board of Education of
Topeka
Kan
Supreme Court
Winston Chandler
Little Rock
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Coffelt
Arkansas
Chandler
Court Criticized for School Prayer Ruling
In Little Rock Edifica tion Commissioner Arch Ford says the Supreme Court ruling on school prayers won t affect a 1920 Arkansas law requiring daily Bible readings in public schools It allows prayers to be optional but mandates scripture reading with no comment Ford notes some schools do not read scriptures and expects no surprise at the Court s decision. Congress debates constitutional amendments to circumvent the ruling with bills from Rep Taylor and others. lawmakers fear implications for pledges and spiritual life.
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Little Rock
Arch Ford
Supreme Court
Arkansas
Ford
New York
Washington
Supreme
Congress
High Court
New York State
Wasi
Roy A. Taylor
D-N.c
Billy Graharm
J.glenn Beall
R-Md
Senate
Frank Chel
D-Ky
House Judiciary Committee
Chel
Supreme “Court
Lcetime
Thomas _F
Johnson
Cout
Howard WW. Smith
D-Va
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Taylor
United States
Decision Could Hit Many Things In Supreme Court ruling
Arkansas Attorney General Frank Halt criticized the Supreme Court ruling on compulsory school prayers as shortsighted. He said his office joined Nevada in an amicus brief arguing prayers were lawful and offered to join a petition for rehearing. The brief questioned effects on pledges of allegiance, flag prayers, oaths, and mottoes if prayers are prohibited.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Frank Halt
U.S. Supreme Court
New Hyde Park
N.Y
Halt
Nevada
Attorney General’s Office
Holt
Hiic
Rostow Committee to Quiz Rostow on Policy Plan
Senate Foreign Relations members to quiz Walt Rostow behind closed doors on a master strategy document tied to his role as State Department counselor and policy planning chief. Rostow, 45, is an economist historian and former professor, known for shaping Kennedy era foreign policy and for an unpublished file now awaiting White House review and NSC archiving. Critics question if the document signals a pro-Communist stance amid broader charges of a faltering administration foreign policy.
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Washington
Senate
Walt Whitman
Rostow
Kennedy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
White House
State Department
Department
National Security Council
Everett IM. Dirksen
Illinois
Conway Man Dies in Accident Near Little Rock
Aubrey Ragland age 49 of Conway died in a three car crash on U8 highway 65 eight miles north of Little Rock Monday. Five injured including Mrs. Dexter Cochran 63 Russellville hospitalized but not severely. Vehicle driven by Ragland struck by truck driven by Samuel Blanks 23 North Little Rock after truck crossed center line. Nancy Cochran 19 Russellville rear-ended Ragland car. Mrs Cochran a passenger in her car. Weather forecast: cloudy warm with scattered showers and thunderstorms, highs in 80s to 90s, lows 60s to 70s, continued through Sunday.
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Little Rock
Aubrey Ragland
Conway
Dexter Cochran
Russellville
Ragland
Samuel 4. Blanks
North Little Rock
Nancy Cochran
Benny in Ukraine arrives after Leningrad triumph
Benny Goodman arrived in Kiev with his All Star Band after a triumphant success in Leningrad. The group toured Ukraine following the Soviet stop, drawing attention from local fans and press.
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Kiev
Benny
Goodman
Leningrad
Commission Can Order Recount in Eureka Springs
LITTLE ROCK AP The elections commission may order a vote recount in a band election but cannot void illegal ballots. Atty. Gen. Horton advised Mayor Roy Walker that the commission has discretion to order a recount if voters request it. If the commission refuses, the issue can go to court.
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Little Rock
Elections Commission
Attorney General's Office
Roy Walker
Eureka Springs
Asst. Atty
Dennis Horton
Walker
Horton
Living Cost Steady at Record Level in May
Washington report shows consumer costs unchanged in May at 105.2 percent of the 1967-59 base, offset by lower food and gasoline with higher housing and medical care. Deputy skills Myers called the May stability a welcome respite while predicting a small rise for June, and after tax earnings for factory workers hit a new peak at 85.70 weekly for a four-person family.
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Robert J. Myers
Labor Department
Myers
W T Fowler 75 of McCaskill Dies Monday
William Thomas Fowler 75 of McCaskill dies Monday afternoon in a Hope hospital. A retired farmer and Pentecostal Church of God member in Nashville. Survived by wife Rena Woolsey Fowler, two sons William and James, three daughters Inez Hoover Gertrude Neeley and Pauline Heislerberg. Funeral at 2:30 Wednesday at Friendship Church near McCaskill. Burial in Friendship Cemetery, Latimer Funeral Service of Nashville.
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McCaskill
Hope Hospital
Pentecostal Church of God At
Nashville
Mre
Rena
Woolsey
Temple
Texas
Friendship Church
Friendship Cemetery
Latimer Funeral Service
Hope, Prescott and Hendrix alumni noted in spring honors
All Around Town lists Spring Semester honorees from Henderson State Teachers College Prescott Hope and Washington Franklin and McCaskill. Names include Faye Louise Stuart William Donald Crane Barbara Bright Wayne Lee Judy Grand Vandiver Sammie Vandiver Martha Adams Joan Willis Nancy Reese Sondra Russell Joyce Riley and more. Included are military and medical graduates such as Capt William La Hinds Frances Frazier Judy Arnold and Dr Donald G Browning plus student Walker from Hope who will join LSU medical program in Panama.
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Henderson State Teachers College
Faye Louise Stuart
William Donald Crane
Barbara Bright
Wayne Lee
Judy Grand Vandiver
Sammie Vandiver
Martha Adams
Prescott
Joan Willis
Nancy Reese
Sondra Russell
Joyce Riley
William Warren
James W. Allen
Susan Davis
Derry McPherson
Judith
Robing
Hope
Herbert Pierce
Rosdion
Carolyn| Lee
McCaskill
U S Requests Data From Steel Firms
The Justice Department demanded expense account and other data from steel company executives as part of a continuing probe into April’s price increases. Subpoenas were issued to several firms including U S Steel Bethlehem Steel Wheeling Steel and possibly Jones & Laughlin. The grand jury probe, ordered April 12 by Attorney General Kennedy, targets potential price collusion and remains ongoing.
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Justice Department
Steel Company
Samneetina
Steel Corp
New York
Dan Jones Business News Service
Pittsburgh
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Wheeling Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Alty
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Teachers Tire of Working Conditions
Public school teachers grow impatient with intolerable working conditions and may feel forced to strike. National Education Association official says strikes are deplorable but reflect eroded systems. He cites politics, bureaucracy, old buildings and rotten equipment, and urges negotiations over power tactics.
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Colo
National Education Association
T. M. Stinnett
Pole
Aaue
Stinnett
New York City
Stinnet
National Commission On ‘Teacher Education and Professional Standards
Witnesses Plan Shreveport Convention Outing
Seven delegates from the Hope Arkansas congregation will attend a three day Jehovahs Witnesses convention in Shreveport Louisiana June 29 to July 1. Clifford Cook presiding minister notes the Shreveport event is one of 59 summer conventions across the United States and Canada by the Watchtower Society. Local meetings will be suspended during the Ministers District Assembly in Shreveport.
New York stock market slumps after early gain fades
Bulletin reports the New York stock market closed lower after a big early gain, marking the sixth straight losing session as advances withered while profit takers pressed in the afternoon. Flight engineers were restrained for an additional ten days from resuming their strike against Pan American World Airways, in a Brooklyn federal court order signed by Judge George Rosling.
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J AP
Pan American World Airways
Brooklyn
George Rosling
Emerson Plant Warns Replacements If Strikers Do Not Return
Paragould Ark AP The division manager Jim Dischinger of Emerson Flecttie Co said if striking employees do not come back by Wednesday the firm will hire permanent replacements. About half of 1350 workers have worked during the week long stoppage with others honoring picket lines Local 767 IUOE. Negotiations with federal mediator Charles A Wheeler were set to begin in Paragould. Union seeks more insurance benefits holidays and vacations in a new contract. Union president Wilson Hunt said the strike is not economic and will be settled legally.
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Paragould, Ark
Emerson Flecttie Co
Paragould
Charles A. Wheeler
Little Rock
International Union of Electrical Workers
Emerson
Jim Dischinger
Ite
Hase
Wilson Hunt
Econome
Nixon to represent U S at Denmark Independence Day
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon will represent the United States in Denmark's celebration of American Independence Day on July 4. The event underscores ongoing diplomatic ties and the historic alliance between the two nations.
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Nixon
Denmark
Los Angeles
Richard M. Nixon
United States
State Policeman Kills a Man in Morrilton Arkansas
MORRILTON Ark AP Jack Steven Kindrick 20 was fatally shot Monday night near Blackwell at his father's home. Conway County Prosecutor George Hartje said State Trooper Bill Vogle fired after Kindrick emerged from a barn with a knife and ice pick as he moved toward the trooper. The shooting left Kindrick dead at a Morrilton hospital.
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Morrilton
Ark
Jack Steven Kindrick
Conway
George Hartje
Hartje
Vogel
Kindrick
Medical Money Released for Little Rock AFB Facilities
AP reports Rep. Dale Alford announced $1.7 million is being released to the Corps of Engineers for construction of medical facilities at Little Rock Air Force Base. Details of the project were not disclosed. Also, Leonid Zamyatin was named head of the Soviet Foreign Ministry press department, former acting head of the ministry’s U.S. section.
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Dale Alford
D-Ark
Corps of Engineers
Little Rock Air Force Base
Moscow
Leonid Zamyatin
Foreign Ministry
Zamyatin
Jeblei
U.S
Leaders Move to Press Kennedy Medical Care Plan
Democratic leaders said they will push action in the Senate on the Kennedy medical care program stalled in the House. Sen. Mansfield reported additions to the plan, including Blue Cross as administrator and coverage for elderly not on Social Security, financed by Social Security taxes. Senator Anderson floated attaching it to another bill or letting Blue Cross handle care for millions outside Social Security. House leaders cautioned action in the Ways and Means Committee remains possible through concurrent action.
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Washington
Senate
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Congress
Kennedy
Mansfield
Blue Cross
John W. Mel Cormack
Massachusetts
Ho Salt
Rights Group Shifts Focus to Housing Issue in Memphis
The US Civil Rights Commission ends a two day hearing amid protests from the Memphis Citizens Council. It criticizes segregation at three city hospitals while praising school officials for progress in desegregation. The Supreme Court declines to review a Sixth Circuit ruling finding the plan inadequate after token integration began last October.
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Commission On Civil Rights
Memphis Citizens Council
Theodore Hesburgh
Notre Dame University
Commission
Hesburgh
U.S
Supreme Court
High Court
U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Tennessee
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