Arkansas lures growth industries amid labor pull and ads
Arkansas’ industrial commission targets aluminum, chemicals, paper mills and other growth sectors to raise wages and jobs. Officials cite cheap labor and abundant water and timber, exploring statewide economic studies and potential new financing. A national film drive aims to attract out-of-state prospects while unemployment remains low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Hinkle
Hinkie
Commission
AIDC
Mansfield Helps Quiet Criticism
Senator Mike Mansfield works to calm Viet Nam tensions by using patient talk and bipartisan cooperation. He returns from Florida to back a $4.8 billion military authorization and helps coordinate Humphrey’s informal Senate discussion, maintaining steady ties with Johnson while opposing North Viet Nam bombing. Pompeii excavation note follows in brief.
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Jack Bell Washington
Trishman
Senate
Johnson
Viet Nam
Mike Mansfield
Florida
Montana
Mansfield
Hubert K. Humphrey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Asia
Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Humphrey
North Viet Nam
White House
Carp
Save Your Vision Week Proclaimed in Hope Arkansas
A proclamation by Mayor John B. Gardner Jr. designates March 6 through 12 as Save Your Vision Week in Hope Arkansas. The Hempstead Optometric Association sponsors the effort urging residents to preserve and protect sight through available care, citing a national designation for the week and the importance of vision to all ages.
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Congress of the United States
Save Your Vision
John
Don Freel
Lloyd Guerin
Hempstead Optometric Association
B. Gardner, Jr
City of Hope
Arkansas
Hempstead County Optometric Association
Save Your
John B. Gardner Jr
Shipley
Hempstead
Guidelines to Enforce Integration by W Joynes MacFarland
The government releases new guidelines to speed Civil Rights Act compliance in public schools hospitals and mental facilities. They tighten freedom of choice procedures strengthen anti discrimination reporting require hospitals and nursing homes to disclose progress and urge transparent faculty desegregation with full personnel integration. The Health Service will survey facilities and Medicare payments hinge on nondiscrimination pledges effective July 1.
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W. Joynes Macfarland
William H. Stewart
Public Health Service
Harold Howe II
U.S
State Aiming at Business Muscle Men
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission plans to target growth industries to boost the state's economy. Col. Carl Hinkle Jr., AIDC director, says the agency shifts from smaller firms to focused pursuit of major growth sectors as part of a strategic expansion.
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Bill Simmons
Associated Press
Little Rock
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
Carl (. Hinkle Jr
AIDC
Hinkle
Warren Regan Birthday Observed at Hope Nursing Home
On Friday, Warren Regan celebrated his 98th birthday at the Hope Nursing Home. Born in March 1868, he moved to Nevada County at age three and remains active, walking daily without a cane. The note also mentions the card game canasta, tracing its Latin American origins.
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Warren Regan
Hope Nursing Home
Mr. Regan
Nevada County
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Hope Lark
North Dakota Farm
Stanton
N.D
North Dakota
Pompeii
Mt. Vesuvius
Europe
Ural Mountains
Ural River
Caspian Sea
Caucasus Mountains
Black Sea
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Hope Federal Savings & Loan Assn
Squth
Main Street
Latin America
American Optometric Association
Cerry
Hunt's Tomato Juice
Eatmore Margarine
Kroger
the Kroger Co
Tae
A Jax
Kandy
Cei
U.S.D.A
Quan Jor
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