Weather Station Report and Forecast for Arkansas Delta
Page Two Weather Experiment Station report for 34 hours ending at 7 a.m. Tuesday shows high 68, low 47, one inch of precipitation. Forecast calls mostly cloudy today and tonight with occasional rain mainly in southern and eastern areas, diminishing tonight. Wednesday looks fair with mild temps, highs in the 60s to low 70s and overnight lows in the 40s.
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$100,000 Set Up for Farm Machinery
The Arkansas Joint Budget Committee approved a $100,000 supplementary appropriation for the Department of Correction to buy tractors and farm implements for Cummins and Tucker prison farms. Commissioner Robert Sarver had sought $171,000 and plans to borrow from the treasury repaid by a $1.4 million capital improvements bond issue to modernize penitentiary farming operations. The panel also authorized $35,692,000 for 1969-70 and $6,100,000 for 1970-71 for the Children's Colony, below requested totals.
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Little Rock
B.D. Bramdon
Department of Correction
Robert Sarver
Commissioner of
Correction
Cummins
Tucker
Sarver
State Treasury
Children's Colony
Nepotism claims tone through Arkansas legislative payroll list
The payroll records show wives, children, and relatives of lawmakers receiving wages during the current session drawing scrutiny of nepotism. Names include Mrs M M Dawson, Doris Day, Lea Landers, Myrtle Hudson, Valerie Lookade, Juanita Moore, Eunice Stafford, and others linked by marriage or family to state legislators. The Defense Department later reported three Arkansas servicemen killed in Vietnam, two in action and one nonhostile death.
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Little Rock
M. M. Dawson
Ester Dawson
James C
Budd Dawson
Conway
Doris Day
Walter Day
Blytheville
Carlene Feild
Talbot Feild Jr
Hope
Helen Goodwin
Robert L. Goodwin
Hampton
Jewel Hayes
Jesse Hayes
Pocahontas
Lea Landers
Glady Landers
Benton
Ruby Maddox
Qde
Gmaddox
Goden
Lowman Oglesby
Gladys Martin Oglesby
Stamps
Gary Rose
Jvan Rose
Rogers
Myrtle Hudson
Ralph Hudson
Harrison
Valerie Lookade
J. Hugh Lockade
Arkadelphia
Juanita Moore
W. D. Moore Jr
el Dorado
Eunice Stafford
Fred Stafford
Marked Tree
Maratha Thompson
Burrell A. Thompson
Paragould
Dorothy White
Dan White
Fort Smith
Terry McDonald
Gean McDonald
Sheridan
Henry Hamilton
Joe Hamilton
Mary R. Bryan
Rep. L
Crank
Bill Wells
Maurice Britt
Wells
Negro Group Drives Black Capitalism Effort in Detroit
A Negro organization has promoted about $2 million in loans and grants to spark black capitalism in Detroit's racial slums. After the 1967 riot, 65 percent of residents were Black while 62 percent of businesses were white owned. Walter McMurtry Jr., director of the Inner City Business Improvement Forum, notes rising awareness of economic independence. ICBIF, formed after the riot, provides funds, technical and management help to foster individual enterprise, with 77 projects active and 20 more planned.
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Detroit
Sirhan Trial Rests on Book Evidence and Citing Pages
The Sirhan trial stalls as lawyers spar over admitting about 90 pages from A Casebook of a Crime Psychiatrist to show similarities with a psychologist's testimony. Judge Walker limits excerpts to material that coincides with Schorr’s statements, keeping the jury in suspense during the tenth week of the case.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Martin Schorr
Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
John E. Howard
James A. Brussel
Schorr
Herbert V. Walker
Howard
Kennedy
Hope Lions Club nominating candidates for 1969 offices
At the regular noon lunch, the Hope Lions Club discussed nominations for 1969 offices. Hubert Thrash served as chairman. Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia and Connecticut were noted as the first five states to ratify the Constitution. Explanations and extemporaneous talks accompanied each nominee. Balloting is planned for April. New member Jim Wheeler was presented by sponsor Paul McClelland. The club’s annual broom sale is set for April 14.
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Hope Lions Club
Hubert Thrash
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Georgia
Connecticut
Jim Wheeler
Paul McClelland
Senate Doves Obituaries Holding Back Not Fulbright
AP report notes Senate doves hesitate to attack Nixon Vietnam policy as Fulbright and McGovern renew criticism. McGovern assails Nixon plan as risk to national stability. Mansfield and Kennedy defend patience and test Paris talks. Obituary notices for Kenneth Wheat and Robert Ford appear amid page text.
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Fulbright
Jack Bell
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Nixon
J. W. Fulbright
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Lyndon Johnson
McGovern
South Dakota
Johnson
Foreign Relations Committee
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U.S
Mike Mansfield
Edward M. Kennedy
Mansfield
White House
Montana
Kennedy
Paris
Meyer's Bakeries names Joe Turner production development manager
Joe E. Turner 38 a bakery production veteran has been named Production Development Manager for Meyer's Bakeries Inc in Little Rock He will lead new product development and research production methods Turner a Commerce Texas native and Fort Worth trained baker formerly supervised production at American Bakeries Meads Wichita Falls and Mrs Bohner's San Antonio He studied at Siebel Institute served as Patco sales service rep and has presented papers to industry groups Married with five children he will reside in Little Rock Meyer's operates more than two dozen baked goods for nationwide distribution from Hope Blytheville Little Rock and Memphis plants Officials note the 1969 credit tightening could deter some firms from funding new plants and equipment a government survey shows planned 14 rise in plant and equipment spending over 1966 As spending surges critics worry about effects on Federal Reserve tightening and Moody outlook
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Joe E. Turner
Meyer's Bakeries, Inc
Little Rock
Commerce
Texas
Turner
Fort Wort
Siebel Institute of Technology
American Bakeries Company
Fort Worth
Meads Bakeries
Witchita Falls
Hope and Blytheville
Memphis
Federal Reserve Board
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