Pryor Seeks Runoff in Arkansas Senate Race
In Conway Arkansas Democrat David Pryor predicts a runoff in the U S Senate race with rivals Foster Johnson Ted Boswell and incumbent John L McClellan. Pryor campaigns in Jonesboro Helena and Fort Smith drawing thousands while criticizing McClellan and discussing Vietnam drugs and school busing positions. A separate report from Corning notes a fire heavily damages an Atkins Pickle Co plant with undetermined origin and no damage estimate.
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McClellan
Pryor
Arkansas
Jonesboro
Helena
Fort Smith
Winthrop Rockefeller
Little Rock
Jaycees
Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Robert McNamara
Corning, Ark
Atkins Pickle Co
Dan Blocker Buried In DeKalb Today
Dan Blocker star of Bonanza is to be buried today beside his father in the family cemetery plot in DeKalb Texas. Burial is private with only immediate family attending. Blocker died Saturday in Los Angeles from gall bladder surgery complications. His body was flown to Dallas then to DeKalb.
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Dekalb
Tex
Dan Blocker
Blocker
Los Angeles
Dallas
California
Texas
Judge Rules for Foreman in Houston Murder Trial Case
A state district court judge ordered Houston lawyer Percy Foreman paid 390,700 for work before and during the 1966 Miami murder trial of Candace Garrison and Melvin Powers. Foreman, who testified to an oral agreement promising property in lieu of fees, was told 250,000 was owed for Powers defense and 250,000 for Garrison’s defense, with 140,700 still due on Powers case. The defendants were acquitted.
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Houston
Percy Foreman
Miami
Fla
John L. Compton
Candace Messler Garrison
Melvin Lane Powers
Foreman
Powers
Garrison
Messler
Barnett Garrison
Wallace Day Proposed in Arkansas to Honor Wallace
Camden resident John N. Warnock urged Gov. Dale Bumpers to declare Saturday George Wallace Day in Arkansas following George Wallace being wounded in Maryland. Warnock said the Wallace movement would not be stopped despite the attack.
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Little Rock
John N. Warnock
Camden
Dale Bumpers
George Wallace
Arkansas
Alabama
Maryland
Warnock
Wallace
Professor Heads Presbyterians in Church Moderatorship
George W. Cornell reports that C Willard Heckel, a 59 year old constitutional lawyer and Rutgers law professor, was elected moderator of the United Presbyterian Church. He criticized the Vietnam War as immoral and lawless and defended the defense grant for Angela Davis while stressing the church must defend fair trials. The race included three other candidates and followed a prior church dispute over the controversial grant.
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George W. Cornell
Denver Cap
United Presbyterian Church
C. Willard Heckel
Angela Davis
Vietnam
Heckel
Rutgers University Law School
Ais Stair
Waukesha
Wis
Miss Davis
California
James R&r. Carroll
Amarillo
Tex
Frank L. Brown
Casper
Wyo
James E. Jones
Los Angeles
Regents Sue Contractor Over Lyndon B. Johnson Library Repairs
University of Texas regents sue T C Bate son Construction Co and Federal Insurance Co in state district court to force repairs costing over 10000 dollars. The petition cites exterior sealing material failure causing moisture, stone displacement, and cracks in travertine marble on the eight story library and Sid Richardson Hall, evident since April.
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Austin, Tex
University of Texas Regents
Lyndon B. Johnson
State District Court
T. C. Bateson Construction Co
Dallas
Federal Insurance Co
Regents
Sid Richardson
Tucker Cites Barbiturate Abuse in Arkansas
Little Rock attorney general candidate Jim Guy Tucker told a Senate subcommittee that barbiturate abuse is widespread in homes and could become Arkansas’s top drug problem. He urged exploring four areas: identifying manufacturers, forged prescriptions, record keeping lapses, and treatment program gaps.
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Little Rock
Jim Guy Tucker
Arkansas
Tucker
Washington
Senate
$8.7 Million Fund Drive For St. Jude
Entertainer Danny Thomas announced an $8.7 million fund raising drive to expand St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. The effort is led by the State Labor Council with support from Tennessee banks and features Mrs. Winfield Dunn and Matthew Lynch.
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Memphis, Tenn
Danny Thomas
St. Jude's Children Research Hospital
St. Jude
Thomas
Tennessee
Winfield Dunn
Matthew Lynch
State Labor Council
St. Jude Hospital
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