Community Society Calendar Conveys May Meetings and Events
Local society pages list church group gatherings and club meetings for May 7 through May 9. First Baptist First Methodist and Wesleyan Guild plan dinners, Bible studies, and speakers. Music Club features organ recital for National Music Week. various circles and auxiliary units schedule potlucks and officers’ installations. licensed practical nurses hold a special meeting at the bank.
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Fletcher Trotter
Robert Wils
H.S P.C
New Allen
First Baptist Church Sunnday
Chih
First National Bank
Bookmobile Schedule May 1 to May 11
Schedule lists stops and times for bookmobile routes from May 1 through May 11. Stops include Bodean, Texas Foster Camp, Palmos School, Palmos Community, Pankey's Home, Fry's Home, McNab, Guernsey's Schools, Whitneys Grove, Youngblood's Cat, Allen's Home, Cale School, and Rocky Mound with corresponding times across dates May 1 9:00 to May 11 9:45.
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Bodean
Texas Foster Camp
Palmos
Palmos Community
Pankey
Fry
McNab
Guernsey
Whitney
Youngblood
Allen
Cale
Rocky Mound
Money for Pest Control Is Sought
The Agriculture Department asked Congress for 2.5 million dollars for pest control in the new fiscal year. It would fund boll weevil research at State College Mississippi and labs at Tifton Georgia and Brookings South Dakota, plus more plant quarantine inspectors. An all-out fight on boll weevils is planned to save billions in cotton.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Byron T. Shaw
Department
Agricultural Research Service
Senate
Shaw
State College
Miss
Tifton
Brookings
S.C
Arkansas Tax System Needs Modernization Says Cheney
Revenue Commissioner J Orville Cheney argues taxes are high enough but federal and state laws need revision to be workable He favors a simplified system and withholding for state income tax to boost collections He notes many out of state workers evade taxes and cites recent expansions to the income tax rolls while acknowledging inequities in the current structure The article also oddly lists Biblical cities as Arkansas community names.
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Little Rock
API
J. Orville Cheney
Cheney
Chamy
Iwck
Arkansas
Revenue Department
Kol Wa
Wesleyan Service Guild Meets at Haltom Home
Prescott area Wesleyan Service Guild of the First Methodist Church held a Monday meeting at Mrs. Frank Haltom residence with co host Mrs. Julia Guin. Twenty seven members attended as Miss Marguerite Avery led business and program themes featured honors for Werence Gurley with honorary Life membership.
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First Methodist Church
Diamond Cafe
Wesleyan Service Guild
Cargil Scott
Fred White
DT. A. Core
Escarve
TB. R. Ward
Lige Marlin
Clarke White
Circle
Adam Guthrie Sr
C. A. Wynn
A. L
Turner
Wallace Sage
B. A. DeLamar
Mystery on the Bluff A Detective Discovers Laura Reynolds Dead
Private eye Jim Bennett finds Laura Reynolds murdered on a beach near Max Daney's Lake Evie home just before her wedding. A stray dog and a toppled stone hint at a crouched lurker. clues include a pearl rhinestone bag, a gun cartridge, and fresh footprints. Cecil MacDonald confirms an argument between Laura and Julius Stockmaster earlier, escalating to a fatal shooting. Bennett vows to alert authorities as he contemplates the next move.
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Jim Bennett
Laura Reynolds
Max Daney
Lake Evie
Daney
Dancy
Julius Stockmaster
Cecil MacDonald
Cecil
Miss Reynolds
Stockmaster
Jim
Max
Truckers Seek Intrastate Rate Increase in Arkansas
Eighty midlines filed with the Arkansas Commerce Commission seeking higher intrastate shipping rates. The proposed schedule targets 101 to 110 mile hauls at $1.88 per 100 pounds, a 27 cent rise, with bases for all classes adjusted from the first class rate. Hearings will be scheduled. effect could begin in 30 days if approved.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Commerce Commission
Commission
W.M. Butham
Buttram
Federal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Arkansas
Commerce Commission
Tom Harper
Fort’ Smith
Butham
Local social notes list Mondays visits and travel
Mr and Mrs J M Ingram host as Herbert Dawson Jr of Little Rock stays with his mother Mildred Dawson. Ernest Hill of Hot Springs dines with sister Harold Ingram's family. Roy Rawlins travels to Little Rock to visit Duane Kingston and grandson Anthony Duane born April 29. Harrell Hines and son Johnny plus Mrs Willis drive to Shreveport where Johnny departs for Keesler AFB Biloxi. Group returns from Florida vacation, with Grace Dortzing among the travelers.
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Herbert Dawson Jr
Little Rock
Mildred Dawson
Ernest Hill
Hot Springs
Harold Ingram
Roy Rawlins
Duane Kingston
Anthony Duane
Harrell Hines
Johnny
Wilburn Willis
Shreveport
Keesler Air Force Base
Biloxi
Miss
14.2 Million Bales of Cotton Ginned
The Census Bureau reports 4,265,038 running bales ginned from the 1960 crop, equivalent to 14,272,040 bales of 500 pounds, versus 14,515,112 running bales and 14,957,569 bales of 50 pounds for 1959. Data come from 5,395 active gins in 718 counties across 19 cotton states, with state totals including Arkansas 1,346,178 bales for 1960 and 1,534,216 for 1959.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Arkansas
Texarkana Killer to Be Arraigned
Curtis Lee Jones, 38, a Texas fugitive with murder and robbery convictions, will be arraigned in Sacramento on federal theft charges after capture near Eureka, California. He escaped from Parker County Jail in Weatherford, Texas, April 13 and faces transport across state lines charges while custody disputes are sorted.
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Sacramento
Calif
Curtis Lee’ Jones
Texas
Texarkana
Eureka
Oregon
Jones
Parker County
Weather Lord
Tex
Awant
Arkansas
Dorothy Dix column on telling teens about out of wedlock birth
A reader letters debate whether mothers should confess to their teen daughters about being born out of wedlock. responses praise honesty, warn against hidden truths, and share personal experiences with family trust. Dorothy Dix’s column invites readers to send problems for guidance and notes a Bell Syndicate release.
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R. W. Gordon
Middletown
Conn
Balt
Gilead
Helen
Helen Worden Erskine
Dorothy Dix
The
Bell Syndicate
Preston Does Well as Music Man on Film
AP film writer recounts Robert Preston returning to star in the movie version of Music Man. Harold Hill, portrayed by Preston on Broadway, is described as inseparable from the actor who believes no one else can play the role. Warner Brothers plans a $5 million budget with a $1 million tights allotment. filming runs from early month to August.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Harold Hill
Burbank Way
Meredith Willson
Morton DaCosta
Preston
Warner Brothers
Paramount
Utah
Soviet Journalists to Visit U S for Three Weeks
A party of 11 Soviet journalists led by Victor Mayevsky left for New York to be guests for three weeks of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. They will visit Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco and Washington during the trip.
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London
Victor Mayevsky
Pravda
Communist Party
New York
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