Millwood Camping Fees Spark Regional Debate
In a Dallas Morning News reprint, editors discuss Millwood Lake’s development, noting lack of eastern harbor facilities and Corps of Engineers camping fees set at Cypress Slough $4 and Saratoga Landing $2. The Star backs camping charges to fund cleanup but condemns precompletion pricing as unfair to Hempstead and Howard counties. Regional groups protest, urging full harbor and balanced development.
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Dallas Morning News
the Star
Bulletin of the
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Chattanooga
Sunday
Arkansas Gazette
Arkansas
Millwood
the Gazette
Cypress Slough Landing
Ashdown
Cypress Slough
Beard’s Bluff Landing
Hempstead County
Corps of Engineers
Tulsa
Red River Valley Association
Tulsa Engineers
Nashville
Hempstead
Howard Counties
Saratoga Landing
Beard’s Bluff
Paraloma
The
Star
Washington
Corps
Skylab ready for launch as first US space lab
Cape Kennedy.fla AP countdown for Skylab the first US space station advances toward a 1 30 p.m. liftoff. Three man Skylab 1 crew Conrad Kerwin and Weitz will orbit 270 miles high for 28 days aboard a giant Saturn V and dock with a 22 story Saturn 1B for the second phase. The nine astronauts will conduct medical scientific earth resources and manufacturing experiments to guide future long duration missions. Skylab offers home like comforts a kitchen pantry shower toilet stereo books and a live in doctor.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Skylab
America
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Earth
Donald K. Slayton
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
Houston
Tex
Apollo
RHA case wins access to investigation records in Florida dispute
The Rural Housing Alliance won a legal order forcing the USDA Inspector General to disclose basic details of an investigative report on Farmers Home Administration discrimination against minority families in Florida. Personal data will be deleted. The ruling leaves open the possibility of appeal.
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Washington
Rural Housing Alliance
Agriculture Department
Farmers Home Administration
Florida
U.S. District Court
Inspector General
USDA
RHA
Nathaniel E. Kossack
Clay L. Cochran
Poultry fete winners announced at Southwest Arkansas festival
About 5,000 people attended the 1973 Southwest Arkansas Poultry Festival in Nashville. Winners included five women in the Chicken Cooking Contest, finalists in the Poultry Princess Pageant, and several winners in Poultry Growers and 4-H contests. The event ran with festivities highlighting Nashville’s 100th birthday Aug 4–11.
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Nashville
Ark
Pauline Leavins
Beverly Starr
Secon
Gladys Chambers
Sherry Goodrum
Julia Hintze
Becky Thompson
Mandy McAllister
Mineral Springs
Pat Jines
Greenbrier
Gail Sharp
Arkadelphia
Ann Lumis
Delight
Joe Bolinger
Ray Goodner
Hope
Jerry
Clower
Hot Springs
Alvin Friday
Lockesburg
Roy B. Cox
Ralph Montgomery
Harold A. Belcher
Bobby Joe Barton
Bruce C. Humphrey
Jack Cromer
Blevins
Ambrose Robinson
Dennis Arrington
Hempstead
Terese Cowart
Pike County
Connie Jackson
Garland County
John King
Grant County
Diane Schowpe
Howard County
James King
Nashville Jaycees
Arkansas Poultry Federation
Lou Anne Blakely
All Around Town items and local commencement news
Tonight at 7 30 the Unity Baptist Church screens The Return narrated by Hal Lindsay about Jews returning to Israel. Also Masonic Lodge No. 239 meets at 7 30 and Hope High School hosts an Agri Building Open House 7 to 9 pm. Explorer Scouts post meets 7 30 pm Tuesday at Fair Park. Daisy Heard Williams earns an A B at Randolph Macon Woman's College. Several area graduates from State College of Arkansas and Duke University noted. Otto B Potter makes perfect score in Civil Engineering exam. Residents urged to contribute news to All Around Town.
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Hal Lindsay
Unity Baptist Church
Masonic Lodge No. 239
Hope High School
Explorer Scouts
Lion’s Club
Fair Park
Lynchburg
Daisy Heard Williams
James G. Williams
London
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Williams
J.R. Heard
S. Grady
Hope
John S
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Richmond
Hope Star
Hope, Ark
Otto B. Potter
University of Arkansas
Mr. Potter
Walter G. Potters
Ozan
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Alex. H. Washburn
Tyler
Texas
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Tyler Junior College
Poultry Festival
Pod Rogers
Juliet Hintze
Elizabeth Tomerlin
Pat Jones
Gail
Ped Rogers
Egg Division
Broiler Division
John R. Henley
Sandra R. McCorkle
College of Arkansas
Conway
SCA
Belinda Burke
Emmet
Loretta McDonald
Wanda Monroe
Gordon
Michael McCullough
Baird Peek
Michael Don Ray
David Ponder
Billy White Jr
Duke University
Durham
N.C
William Alfred Eason
Alf Eason
Vernon E. Jordan Jr
National Urban League
Cameron Indoor Stadium
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