Elmer Brown Retires After 43 Years of Teaching Service
Elmer R. Brown, long-time educator from Hempstead County, retires after 43 years in teaching and administration. He began in smaller schools, advanced through district consolidation, earned a master's in education, and served as county school supervisor 1945 to 1966 before final posts as high school counselor and Nevada County Cale School District superintendent until retirement in January.
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Hempstead
Brown
Bingen
East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce
East Texas State University
Sulphur Springs
Tex
East Texas College
Hope
DeAnn
Guernsey
Columbus
Patmos
Henderson State Teachers College
Arkadelphia
University of Arkansas School of Education
Hempstead County
Washington
Saratoga
Blevins
Cale
Nevada County
Yazoo City humorist Jerry Clower to speak at Chamber banquet
Jerry Clower from Yazoo City Mississippi will headline the Friday Chamber of Commerce banquet a Southern humorist known for the Knock em Out John tale. More than 900 attendees expected 7 p.m. tickets still available. By John Lundquist AP. Wounded Knee coverage continues.
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C OF C
Jerry Clower
Yazoo City
Miss
Chamber of Commerce
Clower
Mississippi
John
Nixon urges death penalty for federal crimes
President Nixon asks Congress to enact a carefully tailored death penalty statute for certain federal offenses and seeks life imprisonment without parole for major drug traffickers with prior convictions. Attorney General Kleindienst to send a related measure, as Supreme Court had ruled the prior death penalty unconstitutional. Senator Hugh Scott says the bill will narrowly define capital punishment and apply only where federal jurisdiction exists, including treason war crimes assassinations hijacking and kidnapping. Barbara Rush named 1973 chair of Hemophilia Foundations of Southern California.
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Gaylord Shaw
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Capitol Hill
Richard G. Kleindienst
Supreme Court
Scott
White House
Troop Withdrawals Resume Amid POW Releases in Vietnam
U S command said withdrawals restarted to align with the release of 108 American POWs by North Vietnam. About 6,926 U S troops remained in South Vietnam as phase three of prisoner repatriation and troop withdrawal aimed to finish by week’s end, with another 32 POWs to be released Friday.
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Saigon
United States
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Hanoi
State Police seek 33 more troopers in 1974 budget
Arkansas budget panel backs an 8.1 million per year appropriation for the State Police for the coming biennium. Director Miller says 33 troopers could be hired in 1974, but fewer in the second year due to dwindling funds and rising salaries. The panel also shifts racing revenue to general funds to offset losses.
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Little Rock
Legislative Joint Budget Committee
William C. Miller
Miller
Dale Bumpers
General Revenue Fund
Mrs Joyce Gail Singleton Injured In Auto Crash
Mrs Joyce Gail Singleton of Shreveport formerly Gail Alford of Hope was injured in an October accident. Paralyzed from the waist down, she remains hospitalized in New Orleans with three months of expected care ahead. her husband Paul and two daughters request cards and letters at 142 Tulane Avenue New Orleans La. 70112.
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Joyce Gail Singleton
Shreveport
Gail Alford
Hope
Paul
Vivian Alford
V.R.I
Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
Arkansas Weather Summary for 24 Hours Ending Wednesday
Experiment station report shows 24 hour period ending 7 am Wednesday with high 75 and low 53 inches rain 0.14. State forecast notes scattered thundershowers tonight and Thursday mainly in east and south. Continued warm tonight turning cooler northwest Thursday with lows tonight mid 50s to mid 60s and Thursday highs from the low 70s in the northwest to near 80 in the south.
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Arkansas
Arkansas House Debates Child Labor and School Bus Policies
The House weighed repealing parts of child labor laws to allow longer work hours for under 16s on non school days and ended a 10 p.m. limit for under 18s. A Senate bid for school district written bus policy failed 14-14. Other actions included tax exemption for broadcast materials, Lake Chicot work funding, college library equipment purchases, a tick eradication program budget, and refusals to advance several insurance and growth policy measures.
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Tom" Collier
Newport
Senate
W. E. Beaumont
Little Rock
State Game and Fish Commission
Lake Chicot
Arkansas
House
Steve Smith
Huntsville
Manuel Allison
Morrilton
Joe Cambiano
Conway County
Thomas W. Scott
Morriston
Scott
George Locke
Hamburg
Locke
South
Frank Henslee
Pine Bluff
Congress
Henslee
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