Our Daily Bread and the Debt Debate Across Parties
The piece defends fiscal restraint and criticizes perpetual borrowing, arguing that government over spending pressures the public and corrupts the currency. It cites past editors and readers, notes Eisenhower and Nixon deficits, and references a Wall Street Journal analysis showing steep rises in government outlays from 1965 to 1968, urging voters to scrutinize budgets and debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street Journal
John O'Riley
Outlook
Pereraanat
Senate panel VOA Abm plan with top Army officers
The Senate Armed Services Committee summoned Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor and General William Westmoreland as witnesses as it began drafting legislation to back Nixon's Safeguard ABM plan. The $900 million package covers two sites and 10 more missiles, with opposition looming from the Foreign Relations Committee and a later hearing by Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert T. Gray
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Nixon
Army
Stanley Resor
William C. Westmoreland
John Stennis
Mississippi
Senate
David Packard
Senate Foreign Relations Disarmament Subcommittee
Secetary
William P. Rogers
Senate Foreign Relations
Foreign Relations Committee
Individual History Largely Accumulation of Your Memories
HAL Burn reflects on memories as unique snowflakes and fingerprints. The piece notes personal history grows from individual recollections, with humor about fashion secrets, steno habits, dieting, twin beds, church Sundays, cake serving, circuses, phrenology, piggy banks, and moonlight fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Burn
New York
Nixon Seeks One Year Extension for Surtax Hike
President Nixon plans to ask Congress to renew the 10 percent income tax surcharge for another year to help fight inflation. Senate GOP Leader Dirksen and House Leader Ford relayed the plan after a White House meeting, with Nixon to outline budget steps as an anti inflation policy.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Senate
Republican
Everett M. Dirkesen
House
GOP
Gerald R. Ford
White White House
Ford
Dirksen
Losing Ground Doctors Say
Former President Dwight D Eisenhower weakens after repeated heart attacks but rests comfortably as doctors report a new crisis. Walter Reed issues latest bulletin citing no change since earlier updates. John Eisenhower arrives from New York and visits his father during the crisis. Mamie and Milton Eisenhower speak with the ailing president as Brig Gen Hughes calls it a crisis.
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Frank E. Carey
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed General Hospital
John Eisenhower
Belgium
New York
Mamie
Milton Eisenhower
Nixon
Frederic J. Hughes Jr
Walter Reed
Eisenhower
Revival Services Led by Rev Arlis East at Providence Baptist
The Rev Arlis East will be evangelist for revival services from March 26 to 30 at 7 30 p m daily in Providence Baptist Church ten miles south of Hope on Highway 29 East formerly served in Tennessee mission fields and now pastors Central Baptist Church in Prescott Singing directed by Dwight Qdom Chester Daniels is pastor.
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Arlis East
Providence Baptist Church
Hope
Highway 29
Mr. East
Tennessee
Central Baptist Church
Prescott
Dwight Qdom
Chester Daniels
Weather to Be Cool for Few Days
A cool spell is expected across Arkansas for the next two days with no rainfall through Wednesday. A large high pressure ridge dominates the weather, shifting southward to settle in the mid-South. Monday night was overcast, clearing from the west today with partly cloudy skies tonight. Highs ranged from 42 at Fayetteville to 60 at Memphis. overnight lows from 32 to 44.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
mid-South
Fayetteville
Memphis
Injuries Fatal at Magnolia
Emily Radford Thomas a Magnolia resident died from injuries after a two vehicle crash on U S 79 about one mile north of Bienville hospital in Magnolia. Leroy Green of Ogeman also died in the Sunday crash authorities reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia, Ark
Emily Radford Thomas
Magnolia
Wagnolia Hospital
U.S. 79
BieNei
Leroy Green
Oqgeman
Hopewell 4‑H Exhibit Showcases 400 Items
More than 400 items from the second phase of the Special 4-H program will be on display at Hopewell Elementary School on Tuesday March 25 at 7 p.m. Cayce B. Smith notes 171 participants under the guidance of Katie Harris and Maxine Green. Completed projects include wastepaper baskets cloth houseshoes and sewing kits. John Cavender will share experiences. parents and interested citizens are invited to attend.
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Hopewell
Cayce B. Smith
Katie Harris
Maxine Green
John Cavender
Ozark Man Killed in I-40 One Car Crash
Ozark, Ark. AP reports Paw H. Ackley 24 of Quark was killed Monday in a one car crash on Interstate 40 about four miles east of Jamestown Johnson County.
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Ozark, Ark
Paw H. Ackley
Quark
Jamestown
Johnson County
Officials Seek Clear U S ABM Stance With Trudeau
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau arrived in Washington for talks with President Nixon over the anti ballistic missile system. Officials hope the discussions ease Trudeau's doubts about ABM deployment and potential fallout while Trudeau faces parliamentary scrutiny upon return.
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John M. Niuhrower
Washington
Nixon
Pierre Eliott Trudeau
U.S
Trudeau
Ottawa
White House
William P. Rogers
State Department
Canada
Senior Citizens Plan Meeting for March Luncheon
The Baker Young Williams Club of Senior Citizens will hold a luncheon meeting on Wednesday March 26 1969 at 1130 a.m. in the Community Room of the Douglas Building at 720 Texas Street. After lunch Mrs Haskell Jones will present a patriotic program with 13 tunes accompanied by club pianist Mrs Ollie Evans.
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Baker- Young- Williams Club
Douglas Building
Texas Street
Haskell Jones
Jones
Ollie Evans
Second Seminar Session Tonight at Red River Voc Tech
Session 2 of a six session credit seminar is at Red River Vocational Technical School tonight Tuesday March 25 at 7 p.m. A panel led by George Frazier Ralph Lehman and Forest Singleton will discuss Merchants and Consumers Gaining Through Use of Consumer Credit. Rowe says registrations available at the school that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red River Vocational Technical School
Messrs
George Frazier
Ralph Lehman
Forest Singleton
Mr. Rowe
War News and Politics Digest Highlights
AP reports Marines sweep Laos frontier with a haul enough to feed 8000 North Vietnamese troops for three months. Eisenhower in stable condition after a reported leak. State Dept says groundwork for Big Four Middle East talks not yet ready. Democrats wary of advisory council service. Narcotics chief says distributors not chased enough. Trudeau’s views on U S missile defense discussed. Nixon urges bank conglomerate regulation. Senate panel drafts funds for missile defense. LAPD adds six ex-convicts to force. States seek to balance budgets with taxes. Sirhan Sirhan’s motive framed as robotic programming.
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Mars
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
State Department
Middle East
Trudeau
U.S
White House
Nixon
Senate Armed Service Committee
Army
Local Designers and Events in Ft Smith Area
Les Stephens of Spates Florist designed arrangements at a Design School in Ft Smith on Sunday March 23. The event was sponsored by the Quark Florist Association with Stephens one of only four designers from Southeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas. Congressman Hammerschmidt announced district events in Hope on March 26 with a 9 am to 4 pm window in the local post office security room. The 9th Diabetic Class met at W O W Hall at 1 30 pm on March 26 with Wyeth Laboratories showing injection site slides and insulin procedure demos. Eighteen Hope students performed piano solos at the Southwest District Music Festival on March 22 by Mrs C C McNeill’s pupils and Mrs Bess Evans’ pupils. Cub Scout Pack 62 from Garland School attended a Texarkana drama and won a blue ribbon for their booth. Den 3 and Den 4 details are listed with leaders and Cubs. TechSgt Alonzo Brown, son of Lenora Simpson, received the US Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service at Bentwaters RAF Station England. a Tuy Hoa Vietnam veteran and McRae High School graduate.
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Lesley
Les) Stephens
Spates Florist
Ft. Smith
Quark Florist Association
Oklahoma
Arkansas
W.O.W
David Verble
Wyeth Laboratories
Hagel Underwood
Red River Vocational Technical School
Hope
C. C. McNeill
Garland School
Texarkana
Den
Bill Morgan
Allen Foster
den Chiaf
Clayton Morgan
Bill
Bob Browning
Dennis Cumsble
Greg Gough
Tom Berry
Wayne Anderson
Jerry Anderson
Dasvid Berry
Carl Ward
Rusty Saunders
Alonzo Brown
Lenora Simpson
Prescott
Bentwaters
Raf Station
England
Tuy Hoa AB
Vietnam
McRae High School
Rice haul could slow enemy push in Vietnam war
U S Marines recovered 600 tons of rice near the Khe Sanh base as part of Operation Maine Crag, enough to feed 8,000 for three months, potentially hindering North Vietnamese offensives in the northwest. In related sweeps, 2,000 paratroopers move through the A Shau Valley, with more than 100 enemy casualties and 33 U S and 117 Vietnamese injuries reported.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
Laos
U.S. 10St Airborne Division
A Shau
1St Military Corps
Quang Tri City
Hue
da Nang
Mekong
Delta
U.S. 9Th Division
Quang Neai
da N
New Elections Ordered in Alabama by Supreme Court
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled six NDPA Negro candidates in Greene County must be reballoted amid claims they were barred illegally. The decision, 6-2, found disparate treatment under state election laws and extended to 17 other Negroes in three counties, reflecting a clash over race and ballot access during the NDPA challenge to George Wallace era politics.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Alabama
National Democratic Party of Alabama
NDPA
Greene County
High Court
Web of Alabama
Iby
Nave
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