Friday Music Club Kiwanis program highlights and guest artists
National Music May activities featured the Friday Music Club president Mrs. Clarence Geist describing the club as four years old with 27 active members. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hart performed Romberg selections with Mrs. Hart, accompanied by Mrs. W H Peterson Jr. An El Dorado guest Jim Allen attended, along with Hope visitors Mrs. Mudgett Mrs. Hamilton Mrs. Grigg Mrs. Wyle and Key Club members Lynn Norton and David Stil. Calvin Breedlove signed a grantin‑aid with Arkansas State University as a top Arkansas basketball prospect.
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Clarence Geist
Geist
Jim Hart
Hart
First Baptist Church
Centurymen
Southern Baptist Convention
Jim Allen
el Dorado
Hope
W.A. Mudgett
K.G. Hamilton
Guy Grigg
Arch Wyle
Lynn Norton
David Stil
Chevron Oil Indicted for Pollution Off Louisiana Coast
A federal grand jury in New Orleans indicted Chevron Oil Co on 900 counts of willful violations of pollution prevention rules for offshore wells. The case, first of its kind under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, could bring up to 1.8 million in fines.
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New Orleans
Chevron Oil Co
Washington
Walter J. Hickel
Chevron
Hickel
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
K. H. Shaffer
Standard Oil of
California
Gulf
Reds Boycott Peace Parley on Bombing
Hanoi accuses the United States of continued bombing in North Vietnam and boycotts the 66th Paris peace plenary, vowing not to participate while attacks, described as barbarous, persist. Viet Cong backs protests as negotiations proceed with the U.S., North Vietnam ready to meet again May 14.
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Stephens
Associated Press
PARIS
Hanoi
United States
North Vietnam
Nguyen Thanh le
Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
Democratic Republic of
North
Ly van Sau
Indochina
Philip C. Habib
Habib
McMath weighs run for governor in Democratic field
Former Arkansas governor Sid McMath said he is seriously considering seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination this year but has made no definite plans. He predicted the Democratic nominee will have a good chance in November and expected other candidates to enter the race. Attorney General Joe Purcell and El Dorado attorney Robert Compton have already filed.
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Little Rock
Sid McMath
John L. McClellan
Senate
Orval BE. Faubus
Pollution at Worst in Canada in Sudbury Nickel Sector
Sudbury Ontario area shows severe pollution effects from nickel smelters Inco and Falconbridge. Open roasting and waste disposal degraded soil and water while giant smokestacks aim to disperse emissions. Community concerns rise as new plants and grass seeding trials seek recovery.
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Preas
Sudbury
Ont
Nickel Capital
International Nickel
Falconbridge
Inco and
Kelly Lake
Inco
Don Fraser
Fisesistant
North Bay
Ontario Water Resources Commission
Faubus Ty and Alabama politics in runoff dynamics
Governor Faubus discusses possible re election plans and a France industrial trip with no ambassadorship intent. Alabama Republican runoff outcomes map to current gubernatorial chances as Wallace legacy influences Brewer path. past Deep South gains cited. The piece notes France study trip and timing for declaring reelection intentions.
Topless act introduced at Black Orchid in Hot Springs
Derrel Sims, owner of the Black Orchid nightclub in Hot Springs, announces a permanent topless dance act to meet demand from tourists and convention goers seeking something unusual away from home. The move marks a first in Arkansas for a permanent topless performance.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Derrel Sims
Arkansas
Nonviolent protest blocks University of Arkansas campus
About 75 students at the University of Arkansas blocked a campus driveway for about 45 minutes on Tuesday to protest the Vietnam War and demands listed in a petition to Dean P. C. Pilcher. The group called for ending ROTC credits, ending government contracts on weapons research, persuading Nixon to end the war, offering imperialism classes, and a teach-in with an official day of mourning for Kent State victims. The dean praised the peaceful, responsible protest.
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Fayetteville, Ark
University of Arkansas
Cambodia
P. C. Pilcher
Kent State University
Pilcher
Topless act debuts by two 22 year old dancers
On May 6 1970 two 22 year old performers Pat Powell and Pat Stevens identified as the dancers in a topless act. They begin in black see through blouses then wear a bikini and shed the tops as they perform on a small stage with striped poles flanking them.
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Sime
Iits
Pat Powell
Pat Stevens
Watson Chapel Defies Desegregation Threats in Arkansas
Watson Chapel School Board stands by a 1968 desegregation plan amid a possible Justice Department lawsuit. The department warned 38 Arkansas districts to comply with the Civil Rights Act by fall.
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Watson Chapel, Ark
Watson Chapel
Justice Department
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Jonesbro
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