Magnolia Plans Dorcheat Bayou Dam To Fuel Water Growth
The editor notes Magnolia plans a 17 500 acre Dorcheat Bayou reservoir producing about 80 million gallons daily. Col Herbert Haar will speak at a March 30 meeting in Columbia county to weigh a dam project and Magnolia’s stance on Millwood pipeline. Hope likely to build its own line if Magnolia remains opposed.
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Millwood
Congress
Arkansas
Texarkana
Magnolia
Columbia
Dorcheat Bayou
Hope
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Corps
Herbert Haar
New Orleans
Millwood Reservoir
Decision on Welfare Plan Nears House Vote
Washington AP reports the House Ways and Means Committee moves toward a bill to shift most welfare costs to the federal level and replace food stamps with cash for a minimum of 2200 dollars per year for a family of four. The plan seeks a federal takeover benefiting about 2 million aged, 81,000 blind, and 918,000 disabled adults.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Nixon
City Favors Professional Appraiser
City board approves professional appraisal for all real property in Hope School District No 1A and Washington School District No 12. Ordinance raises health program fees and requires a sinking fund for equipment replacement. Bid acceptance for a backhoe and tractor loader totals 59000 with old equipment trade-in. delivery in 30 days. Six structures condemned per Citizens Advisory Committee. See CITY FAVORS on page two.
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J. A. Riggs Tractor Company
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Citizens Advisory Committee
Hope School District No
Washington School District No. 12
Hope
Inmate sues over conditions at Pulaski Penal Farm
Floyd Bailey Jr an inmate at the Pulaski County Penal Farm files a U S District Court petition alleging unconstitutional conditions. He says he must work in cold weather without clothing toilets lack running water drinking water has green slime inmates act with impunity and use clubs mail is opened and money stolen by staff inmates are confined for unpaid fines.
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Little Rock
Floyd Bailey Jr
Pulaski County
U.S. District Court
Bailey
Editor Replies to Grassroots Bulletin in Hope
The editor explains a white paper circular named the Grassroots Bulletin circulated in Hope on Tuesday. It attacked the Hope School District proposal to hire out of town professional appraisers and re assess district property. The bulletin identifies itself as authorized publication of the Concerned Citizens Group with Wm. E. Tarpley as Secretary Editor.
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Grassroots Bulletin
Hope
Concerned Citizens Group
Wm. E. Tarpley
P.O. Box
Hope, Ark
Hope Ark reader questions school tax and death penalty rulings
A 1971 Hope Arkansas letter to editor questions local school tax assessments and the death penalty high court decision. The author cites concerns over fairness of assessments, urges Tarpley to publish and address six points, and identifies herself as a concerned citizen and mother.
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Mr. Tarpley
Hope's
New Underground Press
High Court
Budget Takes Time of Legislators in 2nd Week of Extension
The Arkansas Legislature enters a second extended week as adjournment likely by late March. The Eagleton Study prompts calls for procedural reforms to speed up business and budget scrutiny. Aiming for longer sessions, lawmakers seek flexibility and careful tax dollar value in budgeting, with Red River Vo-Tech receiving a favorable appropriation. See BUDGET TAKES on page seven.
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Arkansas
Eagleton
House
Senate
Red River
Vo- Tech
Escapee Is Captured Near North Little Rock
North Little Rock police arrest Rudy Hickman, 36, of Little Rock Tuesday night shortly after he escaped from Cummins Prison Farm. Hickman was serving a life sentence from Lawrence County for first degree murder and fled in a milk truck.
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North Lite Rock
Rudy Hickman
Little Rock
Cumnins
Hickman
Lawrence County
Crucial Vote on SST Seen as Tossup
AP reports a White House effort to sway undecided senators ahead of a crucial Senate vote on the supersonic transport plane. Nine senators remained uncommitted as President Nixon prepared to phone key lawmakers, including conservative Republican James Buckley of New York.
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H.L. Schwartz
IIT
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White House
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Ronald L. Ziegler
Nixon
James Buckley
New York
Buckley
San Francisco
Joseph L. Alioto
Washington State
Washington
Storm of Protests to Railpax moves through Congress
Washington AP report details rapid backlash against Railpax final route map with Rep. Harley Staggers warning of a congressional inquiry. AFL CIO leaders advocate railroad nationalization citing job losses and service cuts while Mansfield and Metcalf press bills to reclaim land grants for abandoned routes. Critics fault the routing from Washington to the West Coast and the end of interstate passenger trains via Cleveland.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harley O. Staggers
D-W.va
House
Commerce’ Committee
Afl-Cio Transport Workers Union
Matthew Guinan
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Lee Metcalf
Montana
Mansfield
West Coast
Cleveland
Rorex Asked to Quit as Drug Education Director
Gov. Dale Bumpers requested the resignation of John T. Rorex from the Arkansas Crime Commission drug education program. Eu gene T. Kelly, executive secretary, said Bumpers sought a trusted appointee to build a concrete anti drug plan. Rorex’s office said he had resigned, unavailable for comment.
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Little Rock
Eugene T. Kelly
Dale Bumpers
Bumpers
John T. Rorex
State Crime Commission
Kelly
Rorex
South Vietnamese push in Laos ends with Red tanks pursuit
South Vietnamese forces backed by U S units concluded a 45 day operation along the Ho Chi Minh trail in southern Laos as North Vietnamese tanks pursued Saigon troops to the border. The last base at Khe Sanh was being closed and about 2 000 troops moved toward the frontier amid continuing air strikes on pursuing tanks.
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Khe Sanh
Washington
Southeast Asia
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William L. Calley
George Esper
Associated Press
de Viet
Five States Approve 18-Year-Old Voting Amendment
Washington AP Five states Minnesota Delaware Tennessee Connecticut and Washington approved a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18, launching ratification efforts aimed at extending the franchise to 11 million Americans before next year’s elections.
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Delaware
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Tennessee
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Supreme Court
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Jailing for Inability to Pay Fines Challenged in Court
A U S district suit filed in Little Rock challenges a state law allowing jailing for misdemeanor fines when the offender cannot pay. Richard Monroe Sims, fined 306 dollars in North Little Rock for possessing stolen property, was ordered to work off the amount at five dollars daily at Pulaski County Penal Farm. The suit cites the U S Supreme Court ruling that imprisonment cannot be solely for inability to pay a fine.
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Little Rock
U.S. District Court
Richard Monroe Sims
Sims
North Little Rock
Pulaski County
U.S. Supreme Court
All Around Town Edna and the Misfits at Laneburg School
A musical program by Edna and the Misfits with Red Goodner is set for Friday March 26 at Laneburg School starting 7 30 p m Admission is 1 for adults and 50 cents for children The event aims to entertain the local community. The piece mentions other local notes and upcoming events.
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Edna and the Misfits
Flag Defilement Law Upheld by Tie Supreme Court
New York law criminalizing desecration of the American flag stood after a 4 to 4 tie in the Supreme Court. Madison Avenue gallery owner Stephen Radich was affirmed in his 60 days jail or $500 fine for exhibiting war protest sculpture showing the flag as a male organ. The New York Court of Appeals had upheld the conviction 5 to 2 in February 1970.
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Washington
New York
Supreme Court
Madison Ave
William O. Douglas
Stephen Radich
New York State Court of Appeals
Radich
Senior Class to Present Three Plays at Hope High
The Hope High School Senior Class will stage three comedies in matinees on March 25, 26 and 29. Curtain is at 1 10 p.m. at the high school Thursday and Friday and at Yerger Junior High on Monday. Admission 50 cents, proceeds fund the senior banquet and commencement. Director Mrs Mildred McPherson assisted by Becky Huff and Tim Strawn. Cast lists include Aunt Billie From Texas and Cupid On J Loose with several named actors and characters.
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Hope High School
Yerger Junior High School
Mildred McPherson
Becky Huff
Tim Strawn
Henderson College
Aunt Billie
Texas
Julie Barber
Sheryl Bright
Sharon Cox
Marilyn Dodson
Barbara Fuller
Pat Huckabee
Stan James
Robert Jones
Delig Jordan
Sheila Martin
Steve Martinaul Moss
Lonnie Raglang
Charles Rateliff
Jennifi Rhodes
Rhonda Rook
Sar Schenck
Susan Stevens
Richard Stuart
Barbara Bradley
Hogan
Tim Rowland
E' Smith
Randy Wright
Weather outlook for Arkansas area shows scattered showers
The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports scattered showers likely overnight in Arkansas as a developing storm over the Rockies advances a warm front. Brisk northerly winds bring cloudy skies and cooler temperatures with highs around 50s, upper 40s to 56, ending Thursday afternoon.
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