Local church leaders and graduates honor capstone service and awards
A multi church service features Rev Johnie A Beasley Rev Everett M Vinson Rev Gordon Renshaw and congregants seating for Purcell pieces. A long list of students includes Melinda Carol Anthony James Thomas Turner Janice Russell Betty Morris Ellen Turner and Mary Nell Williams with three year honor graduates Dwight Galloway and Charles Crittenden Stuart III. Various sponsors and senior representatives accompany the national student council officers and the Danor society figures.
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Melinda Carol Anthony
James Thomas Turner
Janice Marie Russell
Betty Lee Morris
Martha Jane Bader
Ellen
Elizabeth Turner
Patricia
Jeanne Pruden
Larry Don Alford
Kay Coleman
Deborah Jean Watson
Phillip Roy Ballard
Cynthia Ann Trout
Debra Ann Holmes
Charles Crittenden
Stuart IT
Candice Ann Harris
Casi Decehieg
Dwight Galloway
Dnor Society
Wayne Oscar Norvell Des Crittenden Stuart III
Twila Phanae Hunt Walter Gene Jines Patricia Jeanne Pruden
Jennifer Wilson Tolleson
Cynthia Ann Trout Ellen Elizabeth Turner
Charles Winfred Ward
Deborah Jean Watson Vy Moses
Poor March Sure to Be a Headache
Hundreds of Poor People’s Campaigners flood Washington to set up a large camp near Lincoln Memorial with 700 shelters in plywood shanties and 700 more expected from Chicago and Maryland churches. Officials rush funds and volunteers amid rain delays as Vice President Humphrey visits and calls the campaign the American way of seeking change.
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Austin Scott
Associated Press
Washington
Lincoln
Trive
Mississippi
Alabama
SCLC
Chicago
Maryland
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Jonesboro Tornado Ends School Early as Death Toll Rises
In Jonesboro and nearby towns a killer tornado wiped out portions of the Nettleton complex and left about 43 dead and 47 injured across several Arkansas communities. The school year ended two weeks early for roughly 1,200 pupils while rescue teams and residents cleared debris. Governor Rockefeller urged federal disaster status as towns assessed damage and insurers moved in.
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Jonesboro, Ark
Jonesboro
Jared
Gerald Watkins
Nettleton School
Watkins
J. William Fulbright
D.ark
O 'Trough
Tuckerman
Mountain Home
Fulbright
Winthrop Rockefeller
Johnson
Rockefeller
St. Bernard's Hospital
D. W. Anderson
Hugoton
Jan
W. E. Weatherhold
Decatur
Weatherhold
Associated Press
Arkansas
Iowa
Ilinois
Indiana
Missouri
Winois
OH Trough
Harold Hughes
Red Cross
Charles City
Oelwein
Maynard
Hughes
National Guard
Purcell Says WR Created Commission
Arkansas Attorney General Joe Purcell said Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller re created the governor s Commission on Crime and Law Enforcement as part of the state Planning Commission. He noted a proclamation dated April 16 providing 16561 in state funds to plan coordinate and address law enforcement crime justice and crime prevention. Purcell also cited a second proclamation replacing a March 18 proclamation and sought guidance from the governor s office to have an attorney general s office lawyer assist in the legal review.
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Little Rock
Joe Purcell
Winthrop Rockefeller
State Planning Commission
Purcell
Virgil Fletcher
Benton
Fletcher
Rockefeller
Turmoil Hits Colleges Across Nation
A nationwide student protest wave sparks campus shutdowns and tense demands. Delaware State College in Dover closed after about 200 students seized the administration building. Newark's University of Delaware saw 100 students occupy the student center in solidarity. Marquette University faced demands for a Black administrator and possible athletic boycotts while a priest threat to resign loomed. University of Miami pledged scholarships and new black history offerings to calm tensions amid sit-ins. An Ocean Hill Brownsville district closure and a Hope High School awards event are also noted.
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Associated Press
Delaware State College
Marquette University
State College
Dover
Del
Luna I. Mishoe
National
Charles
Roman Catholic University
John P. Raynor
Marquette
Henry King Stanford
University of Miami
Stanford
Brooklyn
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
Tornado Toll Across Nine States Reaches Seventy One
A nationwide tornado disaster leaves 71 dead and over 1,000 injured across Arkansas Iowa Illinois Indiana and Missouri. Gov Rockefeller declares federal disaster area as stricken towns such as Jonesboro Charles City and Maynard struggle with destruction and mass homelessness. Rescue and relief efforts mobilize while survivors recount loss and plan reconstruction.
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Red Cross
Freeburg
Leo Dickerson
Otto Kerner
Illnois City
Salvation Army
Dors Othy Clark
Oelwein
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First Baptist Church
Mrs
B.C. Hyatt
Gordo Renshaw
Unity Baptist Church
Croft
Hope High School Choir
B. J. Willhite
First Assembly of God Church
Johnie A. Beasley
First Christian Church
Everett M. Vinson
First Methodist Church
Gordon Renshaw
Grieg
Calvin Caldwell
Bob Whitmarsh
Charles Crittenden Stuart III
Rocky Dwaine Cummings
Mary Nell Williams
Danna Frances King
Raymon Powell
William D. Sillavan
A. Williams
Donna Gail Byers
National H Dent
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Martha Jane Bader Donna Gail Byers Gradie
Alan Clark
David Lyon Fincher
Miss Mary Re
March
HOPE
Ohset
Wayne Oscar Norvell
E. 0. Norvell
Hope High School
Thomas Hays, Jr
Wayne
National Honor Society
FTA
Mu Alpha Theta
Arkansas Tech
Jim Pruden
Clark
James Clappier
Clappier
James Forbes
Faubus
Orval Faubus
B. G. Robertson
KTHV
Robertson
Ford
Chevy
Plymouth
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Bob Morton Motors
East Third ST
Hope, Ark
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