Youths Not Impressed by St. Pat
In New Orleans a boy dismisses St Patrick’s Day as Batman Day on TV. An uncle explains the historical saint as a good guy opposing evil, likening him to a spy who drove out snakes from Ireland. The kid recalls Batman’s cape, while plans for a school Batman role emerge.
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Euusker
New Orleans
Batman
Sean
Miy Tephew
Unk
Thrush
U.N.C.L.E
St. Patrick
Treland
St. Pat
Ireland
Margaret
Hope City unveils new flusher and fire fighting truck
Hope announces a new 1000 gallon street flusher and fire truck bought on November 18 bids. Chevrolet chassis from Young Chevrolet. equipment by BR. A. Young and Son Machinery. Built by Emyre Manufacturing in Oregon Illinois and delivered to Hope. Chief Jim Cobb calls it the most valuable emergency asset. Old flusher replaced, in service since 1962.
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City of Hope
Young Chevrolet Company
BR. A. Young and Son Machinery Company
Chevrolet
Emyre Manufacturing Company
Oregon
Illinois
Hope
Jim Cobb
De Gaulle's move to place French troops in Germany
Charles de Gaulle seeks full French command over troops in West Germany a move seen as pressuring Bonn and a test of NATO unity. The article notes roughly 60,000 to 70,000 French troops in Germany against 26,000 US in France and discusses Allied command structures and Erhard's cautious stance amid domestic politics. It mentions Adenauer and Strauss opposing Erhard within the CDU and hints at broader European defense ideas around a French nuclear basis.
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Carl Hartman
Bonn
Germany
Charles de Gaulle
West Germany
France
United States
Britain
de Gaulle
Atlantic Alliance
Ludwig Erhard
Atlantic
Erhard
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Konrad Adenauer
Franz Josef Strauss
Christian Democratic Party
Gerhard Schroeder
Dardanelles
Heflespont
Wall Street Skeptical of Inflation
Wall Street remains skeptical as the administration vows expansion can continue without overheating or rapid inflation. Officials stress healthy, sustained growth backed by spending, while hedge messages promise readiness to raise taxes if overheating occurs. Bankers face lending pressure as demand for capital grows to fund expansion, with industries near capacity and auto sales hitting March records.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
New York
Wall Street
Washington
White House
Auto Industry
Macedonia Baptist Choir to sing on March 20 at Macedonia Church
The Macedonia Baptist Church Music Department will present the Arkansas A M and N Chorus of Pine Bluff in concert on Sunday March 20 at 2 30 p m No admission will be charged. Also Nelson Hill Post 427 and the Ladies Auxiliary will mark the 47th anniversary of the American Legion with a program in the City Park Youth Center Friday March 18 at 7 30 p m Guest speaker planned. Refreshments served. Carmichael Post Commander Gamble Reporter. Curtis Jamison in VA Hospital in Little Rock awaiting mail on the 8th Floor South Wing.
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Am&n College of
Pine Bluff
Ark
Macedonia Community School
Columbus
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Arkansas A. M. & N. Chorus
Nelson Hill
Ladies’ Auxiliary
American Legion
City Park
C. G. Carmichael
Linda Gamble
Curtis Jamison
South Wing
Probate Court Receives First and Final Settlement
Notice filed February 18 1968 in Hempstead County Arkansas Probate No 1859. Executor Charles Edward Bridewell Jr seeks approval. Interested parties must file exceptions within sixty days or be barred. Also included is a warning order in Hempstead Chancery Court case No 9038 Willie Lee Simmons and Velda Simmons defendants. Judge Robern LBA Jim Cole clerk.
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Hempstead County
Arkansas
Charles Edward Bridewell, Jr
Ruth Elizabeth Bridewell
J. D. Turnage
Pat McCain
Hempstead Chancery Court
George E. Hamilton
Carrie M. Hamilton
Willie Lee Simmons
Velda Simmons
Negro Named Music Supervisor in Arkansas Schools
Leon Lovejoy Adams Jr., 30, of Little Rock, a Negro, was named Tuesday as the Arkansas Education Department’s supervisor of music in public schools. He will coordinate music-teacher programs for the remainder of the year and begin developing elementary guidelines for a comprehensive music program. Adams holds a master's degree and previously taught at Horace Mann High School.
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Little Rock
Leon Lovejoy Adams Jr
State Education Department
A Adams
Horace Mann High School
Adams
Elementario
Birthday Gift Brings Baby Boy And Birthday Twin
ARTELIA New Mexico AP report notes Mrs Isauro Gonzales gave birth last Tuesday to a baby boy on her 25th birthday. A prior birth occurred five years earlier on March 5, the date of her husband’s birthday. In Arkansas, John Jernigan Pulaski County prosecutor filed Tuesday to run for the 2nd Division of the 1st Chancery Circuit. Lawrence Burrow of Little Rock also entered the judgeship race. The 1st Chancery Circuit covers Pulaski, Saline, Prairie and White counties.
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N.M
Isauro
Gonzales
Little Rock
John Jernigan
Pulaski County
1St Chancery Circuit
Kay Matthews
Guy Williams
Lawrence Burrow
Pulaski
Soare Prairie
White Counies
Watusi Plan Invasion Reported Near Rwanda Border
The Associated Press reports about 2,400 Watusi tribesmen led by guerrilla experts massed in Burundi near the Rwanda border and near invasion. Wives of American Embassy staff in Kigali evacuated to Nairobi as Canada readies evacuation of about 100 nationals. Watusi fighters, some seven feet tall, allegedly armed with modern Chinese weapons, fled Rwanda in 1963 after Bahutu violence.
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Associated Press
Nairobi
Kenya
Tap
Peking
Burundi
Riyanda
Rwanda
Nisgali
National University
Butare
China
Sukarno in Touch With China Reds Seeks Assassination Clues
Singapore sources report an assassination order for four anti-Communist generals from Sukarno. Suharto’s new regime reportedly found the document, drawn before power transfer, and Sukarno remains a figurehead. Intelligence calls it highly credible and potentially inflammatory.
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John Cantwell
Singapore
Sukarno
Jakarta
Suharto
Peking
Bogor
Subandrio
Navy reenlistment jumps into frogman training
Carl T. Zellers Jr., 21, re-enlisted in the Navy by parachuting 13,000 feet near Virginia Beach. Lt Cmdr Joseph Heinlein Jr. swore him in during descent. Zellers aims to enter frogman training at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, as his Palmyra parents watch.
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Virginia Beach
Carl T. Zellers Jr
Navy
Zellers
Joseph Heinlein Jr
Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base
Zellens
Palmyra
Page Five Receives a Navy Promotion
CARACAS Venezuela AP President Raul Leoni is facing a split in his three party government coalition over policy. The National Democratic Front may quit, shrinking Leoni's congressional majority to two votes. The National Democrats and Democratic Republican Union protest limited influence in Leoni's Democratic Action led government.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Raul Leoni
National Democratic Front
National Democrats
Democratic Republican Union
Leoni
Democratic Action Party
Democratic Groups Sue for Charters in Arkansas
In Little Rock Kay Matthews was asked to decide on appeal after the Arkansas Young Democratic Clubs executive committee refused charters to several YDC units. A hearing is set for Thursday as the YDC meets its annual state gathering. The suit by Richard Griffin seeks charters for clubs in Conway Crittenden Greene Izard Johnson Lincoln Lonoke Sharp Monroe Dallas Garland Crawford and Harding College Searcy plus challenge to a $10 delegate fee.
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Little Rock
Pulaski
Kay Matthews
Arkansas Young Democratic Clubs Executive Committee
YDC
Richard Griffin
Crossell
Ashley County Young Democrats
H. B. Pierce
Charles Ware
Conway County
Rules Committee
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Conway
Crittenden
Greene
Izard
Johnson
Lincoln
Lonoke
Sharp
Monroe
Dallas
Garland
Crawford
Harding College
Searcy
New York Ratifies Disabled Presidency Amendment
New York becomes the 24th state to approve a proposed constitutional amendment allowing the vice president to assume duties if the president is disabled. The amendment needs 38 states’ votes to become law, potentially becoming the 25th Amendment.
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N.Y
New York
U.S
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