Status of Star's Essay Contest in Hempstead and Nevada Counties
The Star reports a $400 high school essay contest split with $200 prizes for Hempstead and Nevada counties. Hempstead concludes with 42 essays under review. winners to be announced soon. Nevada remains open as some schools have not submitted papers, with a May 15 target. both counties funded by The Star. Also includes a letter about Pereogee Lake spelling origins in Bradley County, traced to survey notes and a French survey team, noting a local geese story.
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Hope Star
Hempstead
Nevada County
Star
Emmet
Prescott
Nevada
Bradley County
the Star
Eagle Democrat
Lawrence H. Derby
S. Main St. Warren, Ark
Calif. University Reforms Urged To Avert Student Revolts
A Berkeley unrest study by Jerome C. Byrne urges the University of California to reorganize its structure to match changing times. The 85 page report criticizes both the Free Speech Movement and university administration and calls for reduced regent control and greater student self government plus off campus advocacy rights.
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Dave Smith
Los Angeles
University of California
Berkeley
Beverly Hills
Jerome C. Byrne
Byrne
Free Speech Movement
Weather experiment station report continued on page three
A weather experiment station report continues on page three with observations and preliminary findings. The note references ongoing measurements and data collection, indicating further discussion and results to follow in the next column.
Govs Program Hinges on a Tax Increase
The Legislative Council approved highway tax increases to fund a road program and sent the measures to a May 24 special session. Gov Faubus said he will consider the proposals but not be bound by them. An amended fee hike to $35 for license renewals was approved. a 1 cent gasoline tax minus reduction failed. Faubus prepares final details after talks with lawmakers and officials. the earlier $150 million bond plan was rejected.
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Little Rock
Legislative Council
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Roads and Highways Committee
Orval E. Faubus
Marcus J. Howell
Phillips County
Faubus
Forecasters Weigh Revisions Amid Possible Slowdown
At mid second quarter, business holds near the record pace of early 1965. Steel and auto sectors show strength though some signs suggest a slowdown may come, but consumer demand and incomes remain robust with high retail sales and raisedemployment.
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New York
Misspelled branding trend in New York prompts spelling decry
New York AP reports on a fashion of quirky spellings in product names and signs, mocking the trend where wrong spellings replace standard words. The piece cites examples like Maid Rite and Kut and Kurl, noting studios and stores adopt odd letter choices to appear stylish.
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New York
Noa Webster
Reddy-Maid
Qwik Kustom Kleaners
Lunik 5 Heads Toward Moon in Soft Landing Test
The Soviet unmanned Lunik 5 spacecraft launched Sunday aims for a gentle on moon landing near the Sea of Clouds. Tass said it was 29,000 miles from the moon and expected to touch down around 10:15 p.m. Moscow time, signaling a possible advance in the space race and data on the moon and future planetary missions.
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George Syvertsen
Moscow
Tass
United States
Lunik 5
Earth
ESD Approves Job Training for El Dorado and Salem
State Employment Security announces approval of MDTA training in El Dorado for 30 stenographers and Salem for 20 dairy farmers. The program cost is estimated at 92,382 dollars with trainee selection by the ESD.
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Little Rock
el Dorado
Salem
J. L. Bland
ESD
Bland
Student in Speech Affair Is Suspended
Gary Coe, president of Off-Campus Men, was disciplined for arranging a Berkeley speech without faculty sponsor approval. He received probation for the rest of the semester and a suspension from the university until spring 1966. Whitney Halladay cited missing faculty approval for Steve Weissman's appearance. Continued on Page Three.
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Fayetteville, Ark
University of Arkansas
Gary Coe
Berkeley
Calif
Doe
Whitney Halladay
Steve Weissman
Halladay
Coe
Interfaith group to march on Pentagon in silent Viet Nam protest
An interfaith group plans a silent march from a Washington church to the Pentagon to protest bombing of North Vietnam and call for a peaceful settlement. Organizers expect 50 to 1000 clergy and lay leaders to participate, with King cited as an organizer but not expected to attend.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
Potomac
Pentagon
North Viet Nam
Washington Methodist
Defense Department
Virginia
Interreligious Committee On
Viet Nam
Martin Luther King Jr
King
United States
Johnson
Southeast Asia
Johnson seeks $853 million yearly military and civil pay raise
President Johnson asked Congress to approve an $853 million per year pay hike for military personnel and federal workers. The plan includes a 3 percent across the board raise for civil service, postal, and foreign service staff, with top policymakers and about 600,000 blue collar workers excluded. Military proposed increases average 4.8 percent for those with two or more years of service, and 2.7 percent for enlisted personnel with under two years. He also urged a government wide four year salary review to benchmark federal pay against private industry.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Civil Service
Postal
Foreign Service
Executive Branch
Dominican Rebel Leader Holds Talks With U S Envoy
Col Francisco Caamano Deno met with U S representative John Bartlow Martin at his headquarters in Santo Domingo. The rebel leader pledged he would not retreat and criticized the rival junta while signaling openness to settlement talks with church officials and observers.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Francisco Caamano Deno
U. S
Caamano
John Bartlow Marti
Johnson
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Msgr
Emanuele Clarizio
Martin
U.S
Spa Desegregation Plans Expanded to Upper Grades
Hot Springs Arkansas AP reports the Hot Springs School Board will extend desegregation into fifth and sixth grades next fall, continuing a 1963 program that already reaches the fourth grade. The board aims to desegregate grades 7-9 in 1966 and grades 10-12 in 1967, with about 15 Negro students currently in integrated classes across three elementary schools.
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Hot Springs, Ark
Hot Springs
Poll Tax Ban Battle Narrows Vote On Rights Bill
In Washington a party lines clash forms as the House Judiciary Committee votes on an amendment to bar state and local poll taxes from the voting rights bill. The decision follows Republican support for the president and signals a potential fight in later chambers. Virginia Texas Alabama and Mississippi retain poll tax practices while legal questions swirl around a flat federal ban.
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John Beckler
Washington
Johnson
House Judiciary Committee
William M. McCulloch
Ohio
Emanuel Celler
New York
White House
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Kuchel
California
Celler
U.S
Virginia
Texas
Alabama
Mississippi
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Supreme Court
Arkansas Club reunion picnic set at Felicita Park
All Around Town notes the 6th annual Arkansas Club reunion will be held Memorial Day at Felicita Park near Escondido California with over 33 former Arkansas residents expected. Picnic lunches encouraged and a $5 prize will go to the owner of the most interesting old Arkansas photo. The item also reports military news from Hope Arkansas residents including Army personnel at Fort Hood and Berlin, and local tax lien notices in Hope.
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The
Arkansas Club
Felicita Park
Escondido
Calif
Highway 395
Arkansas
Hope
Garnett Martin
Leon Bundy
Martin
Denver
Colo
U.S.A
Paratroopers and Marines Land in Viet Nam Escalation
Nearly 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrive by sea from Okinawa joining about 2,000 already in country to defend Bien Hoa. U.S. Marines land at Chu Lai, boosting total U.S. forces to about 46,500. Marine arrival described as routine. no welcoming ceremony. Lt. Col. Lee E. leads an artillery battalion among the paratrooper units.
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Ronald J. Deutsch
Saigon
South Viet Nam
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Okinawa
Viet Nam
U.S
Bien Hoa
Chu Lai
da Nang
Lee E
War Brought Civil Rights Legislation
Barry Schweid explains how Reconstruction era civil rights laws became tools for enforcing rights in the South and why federal courts have struggled to apply them in racist murder cases. The piece notes indictments under the 1870 conspiracy law, judicial dismissals, and ongoing federal efforts including a Supreme Court review.
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Barry Schweid
Washington
United States
Congress
South
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Philadelphia
Miss
Mississippi
William A. Bootle
Macon
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Warren Note
Star Office
Bobo
Spring Hill
Sam Dawson
AP Business News
Kuston Karpet Kane
Interfaith Group
By Robert Berrellez
Spa
Army
C.R. Elliott
Fort Hood
5Th Battalion
Fort Polk
C. L. Conway
M. L. Brown
Berlin
US. Army
Ausburg
Germany
Camp Polk
George Conway Sr
Rt. 2
Benton, Lo
John E. Hawkins
Jefferson W Stone
Rt. 1
McCaskill
Ark
U. S. Internal Revenue Services
V. Nam
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