Johnson Seeks Draft Age Cut to 17 for Poverty War
President Johnson plans a Congress proposal to lower the draft age from 18 to 17 to aid poverty students. About 500,000 youths yearly failing the draft test would enter special academies focusing on education and vocational training to help reintegrate them into decent jobs.
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W. B. Ragsdale
Washington
Johnson
Congress
Sargent Shriver
War On Poverty
Selective Service
Shriver
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
New Deal
Word Of Honor Teen Novel From Claud Garner
Farrar, Straus & Company announces Word Of Honor by Claud Garner and Ruth Adams Knight. Garner their first teen title in a new collaboration after adult novels. The story follows a fatherless boy reviving a Kentucky farm with help from a seasoned Mexican cowhand. Garner lives in Weatherford, Texas.
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Farrar, Straus & Company
Word of Honor
Claud Garner
Ruth Adams Knight
Mr. Garner
Hope
Juvnile
Kentucky
Bluegrass
Weatherford
Texas
Texas Institute of Letters
Weather Report From Station For 24-Hour Period
Weather station notes a 24 hour period ending 7 a.m. Monday with high of 78 and low of 87 and precipitation of .72 inch. Arkansas shows scattered locally severe thunderstorms in the southeast with hail and damaging winds ending early afternoon. Cloudy with light rain and scattered thunder showers turning cooler this afternoon. Rain changing to snow flurries in the northwest. Mostly cloudy and cooler. Continued on Page Two.
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Arkansas
Hough
Yellville
Harrison
St. Joe
Farrison
Searcy County
Texas
Jasper
Pine Ridge
Oden
Fort Smith
Fayetteville
Walnut Ridge
Dorado
Pine Bluff
Memphis
Te Weather Bureau
Indecision Cloud in New Hampshire
In Concord New Hampshire the AP reports a cloud of indecision surrounding the Republican presidential primary. Voters debate choices among Goldwater Rockefeller Lodge Nixon and others as nearly 100000 ballots loom. Stakes center on first showing ahead of California and ongoing campaigns.
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Jack Bell
Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
Rockefeller
California
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Washington
Senate
Gordon Likely to Change His Mind
MORRILTON Ark AP Lt Gov Nathan Gordon of Morrilton wavers on re election decision saying many people urge him to reconsider He will wait for the legislature special session on voter registration before deciding Roy Riales of Mena a former state senator has filed as a candidate for the office.
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Morrilton
Ark
Nathan Gordon
Gordon
Roy Riales
Mena
Students nominate Johnson Lodge in mock conventions
In Ellensburg Washington Central Washington State College students nominate President Johnson for the Democratic ticket and Henry Cabot Lodge for the Republican ticket in a mock convention. Johnson wins 318 votes to 4030 for Adlai Stevenson with 27 for George Wallace after multiple ballots. Lodge trails with 225% votes to 10944 for Barry Goldwater.
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Ellensburg
Wash
Central Washington State College
Johnson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Adlai FE. Stevenson
U.S
United Nations
Gov
G George Wallace
Alabama
Lodge
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Methodists to Hear a Missionary in Arkansas Meetings
A Methodist missionary from Arkansas Miss Helen Wilson of Hot Springs will speak at the annual spring meetings of Methodist women of the southern half of Arkansas the Little Rock Conference in March. The article lists district officers from Hope Foreman Texarkana Prescott Ashdown Nashville and Mena among those serving as executives during the meetings.
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Arkansas
Helen Wilson
Hot Springs
Little Rock
Hope District
Roy Bagley
H. M. Stephens
R. L. Broach
Albert Graves
F.C. Crow
Charles C. Thomas
Edith Brown
Sam Andrews
Hope
Raymond Harris i
Hichard Cross
Arthur Terry
Charles Gardner
J. G. Jarvis
B. N. Wallace
A. J. Davis
W. R. Shackelford
Gladys Isenhower
R.A. Bennett
V. S. Segler
Wilma Chasteen
Texarkana
P. A. Escarre
Charles B. Thomas
Saxon Regan
Prescott
BE. H. Keener
Herbert Evans
Frank . Locke
Ted Mason
Ashdown
H. W. Timberlake
Nashville
H. J. Hendricks
Mena
Father of Local Man Dies Sunday
James KE. Allen, 73, died Sunday afternoon in a Johnson City Tennessee hospital after a prolonged illness. Survivors include son Gene Allen of Hope. Funeral services will be held Wednesday in Johnson City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James KE. Allen
Johnson City, Tenn
Gene Allen
Hope
Johnson City
Press Scimitar editor dies in Memphis at 61
Fred Snod gress telegraph editor of the Memphis Press Scimitar died after a short illness in a Memphis hospital. He was 61 and came to Memphis in 1925 from Little Rock where he worked for the Daily News. He served as city editor of the Pyemibg Appeal before joining the Press Scimitar. He was a native of Arapaho Oklahoma.
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Memphis
Fred Snodgress
Memphis Press Scimitar
Snodgress
Little Rock
Little Rock Daily News
Pyemibg Appeal
The
Press-Scimitar
Arapaho
Okla
Death notices recount Arkansas violence in week
The Associated Press reports 23 people died violently in Arkansas during the week ending Sunday. Incidents include a Lonoke County man drowning while trying to save his niece near Ward, and a Stamps couple killed by accidental asphyxiation. A Hamburg Black man died from an ax attack, Forrest City fire claimed seven Black victims, and gas poisoning from a water heater killed a couple in Stamps. Several others died in traffic, tornado, or accidental shootings. Ida Bell Franklin is held in Ashley County.
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Associated Press
Lonoke County
Stamps
Arkansas
Forrest City
Eddie McEllyea
Brenda Kay McEllyea
Ward
Melilyea
Noice
Grady B. Welch
Charles Cross
Lafayette
Tim Franklin
Harrsburg
J. B. Stell
Franklin
Ida Bell Franklin
Ashley County Sheriff’s Office
Man on Trial for Murder Charge in Arkansas Cabin Slaying
Herman Wingard, 32, of Pine Bluff, goes to Conway Circuit Court for first degree murder in the death of Rank Birch aged 67. Birch was beaten to death Sept 29, 1963 in his cabin near Hattieville. Billy Gross, 27, of Hattieville, was convicted last Thursday of first degree murder and sentenced to life. Judge Bean overruled defense motion to quash a 30 member jury panel. Pros Ally Jeff Mobley did not qualify jurors for death penalty.
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Rowell
Ally
Jeff Mobley
Russellville
Prescott Juniors Stage Play Professor How Could You
Prescott Juniors present the three act comedy Professor How Could You to be staged by the Prescott Junior Class at 7 30 p m Friday March 13 in the school auditorium Admission is 50 cents for students and 75 cents for adults The cast includes Greg Wren Sharon Plyer Patsy Cash David Anderson Johnny Langston Alex Gordon Bonita Meadow Jeanne Hendrix Mary Beth Zumwalt Glen Willis Ellen Rettig Tony Nelson and Tommy Hooks
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Prescott
Greg Wren
Sharon Plyer
Patsy Cash
David Anderson
Johnny Langston
Alex Gordon
Bonita Meadow
Jeanne Hendrix
Mary Beth Zumwalt
Glen Willis
Ellen Rettig
Tony Nelson
Tommy Hooks
Supreme Court overturns 500000 libel award against Times
The Supreme Court unanimously reversed a $500,000 libel verdict awarded Montgomery police commissioner L. B. Sullivan in a suit against the New York Times and four ministers over a March 29 1960 advertisement. Justice Brennan announced the decision. The ruling sets a constitutional standard requiring proof of actual malice before a public official can recover for false statements about official conduct.
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Washinton
Arthur J. Goldberg
William C. Douglas
Prescott Manufacturing Thanks for Dedication Service Note
Prescott Manufacturing Corporation thanks you and your staff for interest shown during our Dedication Service. We feel you gave your time beyond the call of duty and are grateful. Morris Stotsky, General Manager, March 7, 1964, Prescott, Arkansas.
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Wdi
Prescott Manufacturing Corporation
Prescott Manufacturing Corp
Morris Stotsky
Prescott, Arkansas
Mrs Harold Simpson Dies in Los Angeles
Mrs. Harold Simpson aged 56 daughter of Rosa C. Wallach of 320 S Elm St Hope died in Los Angeles last Saturday morning. Her body will be brought to Hope at noon Thursday with funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Harold Simpson
Rosa C. Wallach
S. Elm Sr
Hope
Los Angeles
Town News Roundup and Local Appointments
Sheriff Jimmie Griffin moved to St. Michael's Hospital Texarkana room 427 for treatment. Hope hosts a large meeting to form an Arkansas Arts Center chapter. permanent officers may come in May temporary chair Mrs Talbotfeild Jr. leads. 90 scouts and 15 leaders attend church to open Girl Scout Week at First Assembly of God. Hempstead County Har Association meets 7 p.m. at Diamond Cafe with special guests. Arkansas Tech tryouts name 1964 All State Bands. Hope members include Ricky Stone Tony Smith Paddy Davis Leland Lavender Sharon Waris David Chism Phil Melarty Gayte Williams Tommy Cornelius. Son of Mr and Mrs Sam Cornelius serves aboard USS Ranger near Alameda. Dr James W Branch elected to American Angus Association membership at St Joseph Mo.
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Arkansas Arts Center In
Hope
Talbotfeild Jr
New First Assembly of God Church
Melonvile
Calvin Smith
Arkansas
Arkansas Tech
Ricky Stone
Tony Smith
Paddy Davis
Leland Lavender
Sharon Waris
David Chism
Phil Melarty
Enor
Gayte Williams
Performance and Testing Results at Extension Bulls Sale
Performance testing of bulls completed last week marking the station's second 154 day test. At 10 a m all bulls will be exhibited with Dr C J Brown and Cecil Buve presenting results. Carl B Lucker and Robert B Hallmark will conduct a grading demonstration. Bulls offered include 9 Angus 10 Hereford and 2 Shorthorns with 9 showing high conforma tion scores for potential use in registered herds. Several bulls show strong gain records beneficial for herd improvement programs.
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C. J. Brown
Cecil Buve
University of Arkansas Extension Animal Husbandmen
Carl B. Lucker
Robert B. Hallmark
Lucker
Southwest Branch Experiment Station
Hope
Arch Smith
Texarkana
Federal judge clears sheriff from court costs in anti union case
U S district judge Gordon Young ruled Mississippi County Sheriff William Berryman need not pay court costs in a suit challenging an Osceola anti union ordinance. The matter targeted city officials. the city repealed the ordinance and the case was dismissed. The plaintiffs included the International Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and the state AFL CIO plus three union officials.
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Little Rock
Gordon Young
Osceola
Mississippi
William Berryman
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers
AFL - Cio
Berryman
Young
Steady Rains Drench Most of Arkansas
Steady rains drenched Arkansas Sunday and today, driving streams toward bank levels. Crooked Creek at Harrison reached its highest since May 1961 when it burst banks causing deaths and millions in damages. Rainfall topped four inches in 24 hours, aided year-to-date totals toward normal, with several communities reporting heavy totals as warnings for tornadoes were issued though none confirmed.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Crooked Creek
Harrison
Little Rock
McNamara to Take Aim at Guards Again
Washington AP le o Namara aims at Army Guard and Reserve costs after November elections. Indications show focus on reducing low priority units that would mobilize only for long wars, jeopardizing 15 National Guard and 6 Reserve divisions with 7 million per division yearly cost. States and backers expect battle over further cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Hoffman
Washington
Leo Namara
Army
Namara
Army National Guard
McNatara
National Guard
Congress
Injuries Fatal to Bike Rider
Tony David Hanson eight died Sunday night from injuries after his bicycle was struck by a car. Grady Don Perry fifty four of Waldo Arkansas was charged with negligent homicide. Perry said the boy and bicycle appeared suddenly from behind a parked car.
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Mouston
Reg
Tonymy David Hanson
Grady Don Perry
Waldo
Ark
Perry
South Leaders Plan Civil Rights Strategy
Southern opponents held a strategy session before a long Senate battle over a broad civil rights bill. Senator Richard Russell led Dixie forces in a closed meeting while Senator Mansfield prepared to move to consider the 40 point measure, which Senate debate could stretch for weeks. The plan may involve a double filibuster and extended discussions that could stall other business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Richard B. Russell de Ga
Dixie
House
Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Rainstorms Sweep Wide Regions Causing Flood Fears
Violent rainstorms, wind and hail hit the Midwest and Southwest, causing property damage and rising rivers. Tornado reported near Lutesville Missouri with no damage. strong winds damaged buildings in Illinois and Texas. Kentucky flood fears rise as river nears flood stage, while Ohio River climbs toward danger levels.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Texas
Misouri
Illinois
Ohio
Lutesville
Missouri
Aviston
Waco
Tex
Kentucky
Ohio River
Maysville
Cincinnati
Portsmouth
Dallas
Harrison, Ark
Cape Girardeau
Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Indianapolis
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Michi ‘Gill
Iowa
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Arkansaw
Sonway
Tommy Matthews
Spring Hill
Greenbrier
Faulkner County
Bunker Hill
Washington State
Matthews
Carlos Matthews
Tommy
Parkay
Indianafolis
Claypool
Robert Gigure
We S
Phi Delta Theta
Indiana
Purdue
DePauw
Wabash and Hanover
Lost of the
Coeds
Scimitar
Prescott Juniors
Jimmie Griffin
St. Michael's Hospital
Hempstead County Har’ Association
Diamond Cafe
Royce Weisenberger
Talbot Feild Jr
John L. Wilson
Tommy Cornelius
Sam Cornelius
Ranger
Alameda
Calif
James W. Branch
American Angus Association
St. Joseph, Mo
McNamara
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