Upper DeGray Reservoir exploration and access noted
A writer and crew describe a Saturday trip to the upper DeGray Reservoir near Arkadelphia, detailing how to reach the upper ramp via State Highway 84 from Bismarck. They report water depth, flooded Caddo River conditions, and plan further color shoots for The Star with a focus on upper DeGray's rugged scenery and fishing activity.
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DeGray Reservoir
Arkadelphia
DeGray
Highway 7
Bismarck
Texarkana Lake
Narrows
Millwood
Hope
State
Bob Peterson
Dick Lauterbach
Charles Gough
Road Runner
Highway 67
Medlin Marine Boatyard
Medlin
Peterson
Gene Allen
Hot Springs
Lake Hamilton
O.K
No. 84
Upper DeGray
Caddo River
The
Star
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Prisoners to Show Paintings at Arkansas Arts Center
Inmates from Cummins Prison Farm present about 100 drawings and paintings in a Cummins art program exhibit at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock. The show runs through July 25, with many works offered for sale to raise funds for art supplies for the inmates.
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Little Rock
Cummins Prison Farm
Arkansas Arts Center
Cummins
Interstate 30 Project Delayed But Sections Progressing
Arkansas officials say Interstate 30 from Hope to Prescott likely will not finish this year. The 17 mile stretch is in three parts with 5.4 miles from Highway 29 to Emmet interchange nearing concrete paving for fall completion. a six mile bottleneck from Emmet to Highway 332 awaiting grading and surfacing. and 2.9 miles from Highway 332 to Nevada County pavement with earth work in progress and a planned fall finish.
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Hope
Prescott
John A. Tallant
Arkansas Highway Department
Highway 29
Emmet
Highway 332
Highway 19
Nevada County
Supreme Court Reverses Muhammad Ali Conviction
The Supreme Court reversed former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali's five year sentence for draft evasion. In an 8 to 0 decision, the court held Ali's beliefs were religious in nature as he understood them, noting government concessions that his conscientious objector stance rested on religious training and belief.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Muhammad Ali
Ali
Pedestra deaths near 10 000 spur safety program demand
In Eureka California a chartered DC3 crash killed 10 with 7 survivors and 6 missing after takeoff from Shelter Cove. Coast Guard and local boats aided search amid rough seas, while the board urged federal action to improve pedestrian safety nationwide.
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Eureka
Calif
Coast Guard
Here
Shelter Cove Co
Los Angeles
Shelter Cove Land Development
San Jose
Tom Wallace
Redway
Machs
Dave Zebo
Humboldt ‘County
Point Ledge
Fort Bragg
Vern Haugland
Associated Press
Washington
National Transportation Safety Board
Department of Transportation
DOT
Safety Board
Secretary of Transportation
John A. Volpe
Federal Highway Administration
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Open House at Fulton Post Office
The opening of the new U S Postal Service is celebrated July 1 in Washington and every post office. Fulton Arkansas invites all residents to visit the Fulton Post Office from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. July 1 with guests including the Mayor District Manager and local business officials.
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Fulton
United States Postal Service
Washington
D. C
Martha L. Blackwood
Arkansas
U. S. Postal Service
Blackwood
Marshall
Social Security Administration
Production Credit Association
Ranch Properties, Inc
Tragic Green River trip ends with Scout drowned
Long-awaited Boy Scout trip down Utah’s Green River ends in tragedy as one 11-year-old drowned and 25 others were rescued after their boats struck logs and capsized. Rescue crews, including helicopters from Hill Air Force Base, saved the survivors.
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Edwin McCarthy
Bernardoni
McCarthy
Rock Creek
Price
Utah
Hill Air Force Base
Ogden
Man Perishes in House Fire in Arkansas
Clarksville Arkansas AP report states Eugene Gray aged 63 of near Lamar Johnson County was killed Saturday night when a fire of undetermined origin destroyed his house.
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Clarksville, Ark
Eugene Gray
Lamar
Johnson County
35 Death Sentences Reversed in Supreme Court Ruling
Washington reports the reversal of 35 death sentences including Richard F. Speck's electric chair sentence for murdering eight nurses in Chicago in 1966. The ruling cites the 1968 decision barring automatic jury exclusion of anti death penalty opponents and remands cases to lower courts for further action.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Richard F. Speck
Chicago
Speck
Peoria
Ill
Speck’s
Witherspoon
U.S. Court to Rule on Death Penalty
The Supreme Court agreed to rule on the constitutionality of the death penalty with cases from California Georgia Illinois and Texas to be heard next term. The ruling will address excluding death penalty opponents from juries and could affect 648 current death row inmates. The term starts in October.
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Washington
Supreme Court
California
Georgia
Iinois
Texas
Chicago
Lyman A. Moore
Chatham County
Lucious Jackson Jr
United States
Body of Man Found in Lake Ten Killer
Doyle Henry a 23 year old resident of Fort Smith Arkansas was found in Lake Ten Killer near searchers after authorities say he drowned June 19 following a collision of two boats the body surfaced Saturday near the group of divers and rescuers
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Tahlequah
Okla
Doyle Henry
Fort Smith
Ark
Lake Ten Killer
Henry
Ellsberg surrenders in Boston over Pentagon papers case
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, 40, former Pentagon researcher and MIT research associate, surrendered in Boston after weeks of FBI pursuit and announced to about 150 supporters he provided the New York Times with secret Pentagon documents. He had been missing from Cambridge with his wife since a Times source allegation on June 16.
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Boston
Daniel Elisberg
New York Times
Pentagon
Cambridge
Ellsberg
Times
Walter Cronkite
CBS
The
Los Angeles
the Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FBI
Daniel Ellsberg
U.S
Supreme Court Extends Term to Decide Pentagon Papers Case
The Supreme Court did not rule today but extended its term to decide the Pentagon papers dispute. Justices will not publish excerpts from the Vietnam War study as the government argues the material is too sensitive. The Times and Post contend the case centers on freedom of the press and national security concerns.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
High Court
George Rose Smith
Supreme Court
Pentagon
Washington
Pentagon Papers
Press
Supreme Court Today
Warren Burger
New York Times
Washington Post
Burger
Times and Post
Justice Department
U.S
Whitfield lodge to confer Entered Apprentice degree
All Around Town reports Whitfield Masonic Lodge No 239 will confer an Entered Apprentice degree Tuesday June 29 at 730 p.m. all Masons urged to attend. The item also notes July trailer truck and boat registrations in Hempstead County and July revenue office noon-hour hours.
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Whitfield Masonic Lodge No. 239
Diane Lauterback
Hempstead
Millwood Appoints Jimmy L Findley as Resident Engineer
Jimmy L Findley is named reservoir manager for Millwood Lake and Dam on the Little River, succeeding Herbert R Smith who moves to Denison. Findley previously served in Tulsa District since 1954 with military and civil works projects across Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and North Dakota. He and his wife Dorothy Marie and two children Jack and Julie Lee reside in Ashdown Arkansas.
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Jimmy L. Findley
Millwood Lake
Little River
Vernon W. Pinkey
Tulsa
Corps of Engineers
Findley
Herbert R. Smith
Corps’ Denison
Lake Texoma
Tinker, Vance
Altus Air Force
Oklahoma
Civil Works
John Redmond Dam
Kansas
Keystone Dam
Whiteman Afb
Missouri
Grand Forks Afb
North Dakota
Robert S. Kerr
Dorothy
Marie
Jack
Julie Lee
Ashdown
Ark
Weekend Minor Accidents Reported by Sheriff
The sheriff reports two weekend accidents. A Sunday 6 p.m. crash on a gravel road between Washington and Columbus involved a car driven by Roger Ficks of Washington. damage was minor. Earlier, at :15 this morning, a deer collided with a car driven by Judy England four miles out on the Shover Springs Road, damaging the left front fender window and windshield.
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Sheriff's Office
Roger Ficks
Washington
Columbus
Judy England
Shover Springs
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Wilson
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Kenneth Trout
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