Parents Prom for Seniors Successful
The 72 Senior Dance, sponsored by twenty five senior parents, drew about fifty five seniors and dates to the National Guard Armory on Friday April 21. Cade's Gang from Springdale played, with armory decorations transforming the room into a summer garden. Student and adult committees coordinated tickets refreshments and clean up, receiving thanks from the Class of 72 for a well run event. Special thanks went to Sgt Claude Byrd Kroger Hope Beverage Collier Furniture and Floyd Young for help with arrangements and decorations.
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Armory
Paul Young
Tommy Frazier
Debbie Gunter
Steve Harris
Sandra McFarland
Beth Gilbert
Steve Routon
Lynn Harris
W. E. McFarland
W. H. Gunter
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Claude Byrd
National Guard Armory
Kroger Grocery
Hope Beverage Company
Collier Furniture Company
Floyd Young
Land row: University seeks Methodist Children’s Home property
In Little Rock the University of Arkansas votes to file a land condemnation suit over 55 acres owned by the Methodist Children’s Home next to the campus. The sides failed to agree on price after negotiations. the university offered 1.5 million dollars, about 25 000 per acre, while the home asked 1.9 million plus interest and faced higher offers elsewhere. The home says they expected the university to negotiate in good faith and give prior notice before drastic action.
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Methodist Children’s Home
University of Arkansas
J. Edwin Keith
U of A
Methodist Childrens
Storms Leave Kansas With Severe Damage and Injuries
A storm system sweeping the Great Plains spawned tornadoes and severe thunderstorms across Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska Iowa and Missouri with Kansas suffering the heaviest damage late Sunday. A tornado destroyed a mobile home in Bazine injuring several people while other storms damaged farmhouses downed power lines and shattered windows. Tennis ball sized hail was reported in multiple locations as the system spread into the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region.
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Buffalo River landowners pledge not to sell without suit
Harrison Arkansas AP The Buffalo River Conservation and Recreation Council reports 190 landowners along the Buffalo River will not sell their properties without court action They hired Jack Holt Jr and Gene Bailey Little Rock lawyers to represent them The move tests the constitutionality of the act creating the national river park along the river The council met at Forsythe Missouri with a similar group opposing the park effort
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H. van Deven
Forsythe
Sdturuis
Missouri
Buftai Kis
May to plead innocent in abortion charge
North Little Rock mayoral candidate John O. May says he will plead innocent at his arraignment in Circuit Court on a charge of inducing an abortion. Indicted April 1 after a one day Pulaski County Grand Jury probe, the allegation claims the procedure occurred in his home. May calls the charge trumped up and politically motivated and seeks a speedy trial in early May to resume his campaign.
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North Little Rock
John O. May
May
Pulaski County
Grand Jury
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