Arkansas Heads for Showdown on Prohibition Fraud
Arkansas faces a clash over private clubs and liquor, sparked by a Top of the Rock raid in Little Rock. The Arkansas Gazette and The Star critique private club privileges, urge ending state liquor prohibition, and propose regulated sales in wet counties and hotels. Local option politics, taxes, and hypocrisy are debated as governance and democracy are weighed.
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Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Little Rock
Mqnor
Rockefeller
the Star
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Anh
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Arkansas Gazette
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Gazette At Star
Gazette
Rockefeller Won't Be a Candidate for President
New York AP report notes Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller declares he will not campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. He cites insufficient GOP backing and says major party routes must be pursued. Rockefeller weighs ballot and campaign options before a 2 p.m. New York City press conference.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
United States
GOP
Ice
Richard M. Nixon
eRockfeller
Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Rockefeller
New York City
Oregon
Lee Rockefeller
Top of the Rock Club Seized in Liquor Raid
In Little Rock a raid led by ABC officials seized twenty eight fifths of liquor at the Top of the Rock Club which counts Gov Winthrop Rockefeller among its members. The operation issued a cease and desist order prohibiting sale or storage of liquor by the licensed venue.
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George F. Bartsch
Associated Press
Uttle Rock
Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
Harrel Hughes
State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Emil Urban
ABC
Little Rock County Club
Riverdale Country Club
Rockefeller
Hughes
Urban
Charles Crawford
Pat Aldridge
the Top of the Rock
War funding request eyed as 35000 more troops eyed
Congressional sources say the administration will seek 3.9 billion dollars more for Vietnam with about half for sending 35,000 additional U S troops. Senator Fulbright criticizes White House consultations and warns of the serious impact of any troop increase.
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Carl-Plec
Bsdorf
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Capitol Hill
U.S
Defense Department
Congress
J. W. Fulbright
Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Capitol HI
Johnson
Vietnam
Fulbright
$10 Million Program Aims At Hunger In 19 Arkansas Counties
Washington AP reports a federal plan by Agriculture Health Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity to provide emergency food and medical aid to the poor including 19 Arkansas counties. More than half the funds will be used immediately to reach the hungry and malnourished. Counties listed include Chicot Crittenden Cross Dasha Fulton Jefferson Lee Lincoln Madison Mississippi Monroe Newton Poinsett Bearcy Sharp St Francis Stone Wooldriff.
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Arkansas
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Office of Economic Opportunity
South
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Crittenden
Cross, Dasha
Fulton, Jefferson, Lee, Lincoln
Madison
Mississippi
Monroe
Newton, Poinsett
Bearcy
Sharp, St. Francis, Stone and
Woolruff
Arkansas Gs Killed in War
The Defense Department reports Navy Hospital Corpsman Lonnie J. Crismon of Attica Community Randolf County was killed in action in Vietnam on March 9 while on detail about 10 miles south of the Da Nang Marine base.
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Defense Department
Navy Hospital
Lonnie J. Crismon
Fred Crismon
Attica
Rando F County
Vietnam
da Nang Marine Base
Kennedy Expands South Campaign At Alabama University
AP dispatch notes Robert F Kennedy carries his presidential bid into the Deep South to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he recalls 1963 integration efforts by his Justice Department. Young Democrats on campus signal endorsement after switching from McCarthy. Rockefeller mulls a GOP bid as Nixon faces late-hour challenge. Public mood split on Kennedy vs Wallace era issues and national leadership.
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Robert F. Kennedy
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Eugene J
New York Democrat
George C. Wallace
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Rockefeller
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Vietnam
Johnson Administration
N & Battle
Saigon
Politics
Nelson A. Rockefellar
Deep South
Escape thwarted as man awaiting trial halted in courthouse
LITTLE ROCK AP A body block stopped John Earl Alexander a 29 year old Memphis man awaiting trial on four counts of passing bad checks from escaping a Pulaski County Court House restroom. Deputy Prosecutor Lee Munson Little Rock attorney Bil Butler and Court Officer P B Frederick pursued him down stairs after he burst from the restroom. Alexander had previously escaped police and was recaptured at a road block. Authorities found saw blades and a sawed bar in his cell while awaiting trial.
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Little Rock
John Earl Alexander
Memphis
Pulaski County Court House
Alexander
William J. Kirby
Lee Munson
Bil Butler
Munson
Butler
Court
Fighting Breaks Out in Middle East and Saigon Battles
A sprawling market of war reports spans the globe. In the Middle East Israeli forces invade Jordan as fighting flares anew near the Jordan River. In Vietnam allied troops claim 167 Viet Cong killed near Saigon, with Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut Airport hit by multiple shells. The war’s toll climbs, with weekly casualty figures showing shifts in American and Vietnamese losses.
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Middle East
Jordan
George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
Quyet Thang
Quy
Thang
Demilitarized Zone
Tan- Son Nhut
ACA
Executor Discovers Uncashed 1936 Dividend Check
Local resident and estate executor uncovers a $12.24 uncashed dividend from Aetna Insurance issued March 6 1936 in Hartford Conn. After 32 years Aetna issues a new check though the odds of honoring such old instruments are slim.
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Aetna Insurance Co
Hartford
Withdrawal Follows U S Plea In Israeli Jordan clash
Israel sa ys it launched a 200 mile front operation to wipe out terrorist bases in Jordan and then planned a phased withdrawal after pressure from Britain and the United States. The daylong fighting left about 15 dead and 70 wounded on the Israeli side with at least 150 El Fatah militants killed. Jordan estimated up to 15,000 Israeli troops crossed the Jordan with three armored brigades. The clash marked the first major incursion since the June war and the Israelis claimed heavy losses for Jordanian forces while denying 200 Israeli deaths reported by Jordan.
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ED Blanche
Associated Press
TEL Aviv
Israel
Jordan
el Fatah
Lavi Eshkol
Jordan Valley
Shaol
Britain
United States
Great Bitter Lake
Suez Carial
Middle East
Tal Aviv
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Jericho
East Bank
Hussein
Ingbut
Dsaid Hussein
Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Believed Drowned Man Searched Near Clear Creek
Washington County authorities hunted Wednesday night for Henry Coe 75 of Springdale after his car was swept into rain swollen Clear Creek about four miles northwest of Fayetteville.
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Fayetteville, Ark
Washington County
Henry Coe
Springdale
Clear Creek
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