Thanks From Star Local Pictures Still Delayed
The Star Local reports delays after moving to a new building causing press and workflow disruptions. It details transfer challenges at W. Third and Grady, missing darkroom equipment, slow local picture production, and expected resumption byWednesday. It explains why some photos need screening and notes amusing wastebasket oversight on Monday edition.
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National Pictures
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NEA
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Star
Berlin kidnapped leader Lorenz still missing today
Berlin AP reports political figure Peter Lorenz remains missing as a plane carrying five anarchist convicts departed for Aden after authorities complied with abductors’ demands. The incident highlights ongoing conflicts in West Germany and the search for the missing leader.
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Heinrich Albertz
West Berlin
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South Yemen
Tripoli
Damascus
Djibouti
Bonn
Peter Lorenz
Christian Democratic Party
Pastor Albertz
Death takes Willie Harris
Willie Harris, 75, died early Tuesday in a local hospital. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and a Cumberland University Law School graduate. He served 26 years as Executive secretary to the Congressman in Arkansas. Surviving are his wife Grace, four children, two brothers, and 13 grandchildren. Services Thursday at 2 p.m. in Washington, Ark, under Herndon. Burial follows.
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Cumberland University Law School
Tennessee
Hempstead
4Th
Arkansas
Grace Stingley Harris
Willie Harris Jr
Phoenix
Ariz
Robert Truman Harris
Washington, D.C
Nina Harris McCarty
Tyler
Tex
George Harris
Austin
Homer Harris
Belton
Oren Harris
el Dorado
Herndon
S.A. Whitlow
Washington, Ark
New phone numbers for Hope Star at new West Third site
Hope Star lists three new telephone lines at its relocated offices on West Third and Grady Streets. Numbers 8841 8842 and 8843 are provided for public inquiries and staff contact.
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GM to borrow for first time in 21 years
GM says it will raise 600 million dollars in bonds to fund heavy investments in worldwide operations including working capital, real estate, plant and equipment. The issue consists of 300 million in 30-year debentures and 300 million in 10-year notes.
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General Motors
Arkansas House approves redistricting bill and bills on tuition
The Arkansas House voted 59 to 28 to approve a reapportionment bill for circuit and chancery court districts amid strong opposition. The body also accepted a modified administration bill allowing elderly residents to attend state colleges without tuition. Senate changes to the county salary bill would let the smallest counties pay sheriffs and judges more than larger counties. The bill draws seven judges into new districts by 1979 with a 1977 district redraw deadline. Gov Pryor opposes piecemeal reform. debate touched on district integrity and workload.
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Star witness resumes cross examination in Rodgers murder trial
In Searcy Arkansas star witness Pegy Jean Hale 21 testifies she and co defendants planned and carried out the September 26 1967 shooting death of Fern Cowen Rodgers 67 of Searcy Hale denies striking a deal with prosecutor Raff and admits connections to Rodgers and William Kimbrell 32 of Beebe Bethune questions her about a $3000 loan and a two key lock access while Hale says Rodgers aimed to kill Mrs Rodgers to marry her.
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Searcy
Fern Cowen Rodgers
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Gene Raff
Rodgers
William Kimbrell
Beebe
Kimbrell
She
Ed Bethune
Maj
W. A. Tudor
State Police Criminal Investigation Division
Tudor
Raff
Bethune
Ethiopia nationalizes land sweeping feudal estates
Ethiopia’s six month old military government declared all land state owned, abolishing private estates and labor hiring on farms. The proclamation ends feudal sharecropping and sets allotments up to 25 acres for individuals, 2000 for villages, larger for cooperatives, with compensation for buildings only. Opposition and Eritrean secessionist tensions loom as reform unfolds.
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Ethiopia
Provisional Military Administrative Council
Eritrea
Ford Energy Deadlines Narrow Veto Window
President Ford faces a decisive deadline as he weighs delaying part of the oil tariff program and end of price controls to win an energy policy compromise with Democrats. White House sources say a 60 day postponement could lessen veto momentum while Congress hammers out plans, including a five cent gasoline tax and oil import quotas, with mixed reactions from both parties.
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al Ullman
D-Ore
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Four Delegates Back More Cambodia Aid
Washington AP: A congressional fact finding delegation to Indochina urged additional U S military aid for Cambodia. Four of seven House members and one senator publicly backed more arms, two were undecided, and two opposed. They agreed medical and food support should rise, as Ford warns of Communist insurgent gains without more arms. The group returned from Vietnam and Cambodia with changed views.
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Cambodia
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House Appropriations Subcommittee
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McCloskey urges more aid to Cambodia despite push to end support
McCloskey, running for the 1972 GOP nomination, backs continuing military aid and relief to Cambodia until the rainy season begins around June 1. He argues the U.S. involvement helped Cambodia’s conflict and warns a fall to insurgents would trigger a bloodbath. He favors supplying ammunition, food, and medicine then withdrawing all personnel, including the U.S. ambassador, a view echoed by Reps. Chappell Murtha and Sen. Bartlett.
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U.S
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Oil exporters open first OPEC summit in Algiers
Oil ministers and leaders from OPEC meet in Algiers to set long term production and price policy while aiming for a unified approach in talks with consumer nations. Absentee leaders include King Faisal of Saudi Arabia Col Khadafy of Libya and presidents of Iraq Nigeria and Indonesia. A preparatory Paris meeting is planned for April 7.
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