Editorial Page Motives and Open Debate Across Pages
The piece discusses why editorials print provocative material and how today’s papers balance copyright, propaganda, and public interest. It notes Drew Pearson’s column sparks thought despite disagreement and defends publishing controversial local issues while resisting biased mimeographed propaganda. It also covers a local tax name change in Clinton Connecticut and Lester Pearson’s Canada policy remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Benng
Drew Pearson
Mississippi
Missouri
Lauren
Miss
Lauder-Call Town
Rise in U S Debt Ceiling Sought by Treasury
The Treasury Department urged Congress to raise the temporary debt limit to 392 billion dollars for the new fiscal year starting July 1. If not acted, the ceiling would drop from 328 billion to 285 billion. Budget chief Charles L. Schultze noted the current year's deficit may total 3.9 billion, versus January’s 6.4 billion estimate.
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Joseph R. Coyne Washingston
Treasury Department
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Charles L. Schultze
Budget Bureau
Four Die In Single Car Crash In Arkansas Weekend
Four persons died in a single crash and other fatalities occurred on Arkansas highways over the weekend. Killed were Jimmy Ed Perrin 20 of Watson. George W Slusser 21 of Turtle Creek Pa. Linda Reeves 17 and Judy Reeves 19 of McGehee. Magorre Thompson 43 of Stephens. A L Morris 24 of Rector. Roger Gregory 18 of Rector. Bobby Ashby 8 of Conway. The weekend count started 6 p.m. Friday and ended midnight Sunday.
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Arkansas
Associated Press
Lake Village
Jimmy Ed Perrin
Watson
Desha County
George W. Slusser
Turtle Creek
Linda Reeves
Judy
McGehee
Magorre Thompson
Stephens
Camden
A. L. Morris
Rector
Roger Gregory
Hector
Bobby Ashby
Odessa Ashby
Conway
U.S. 65
Miss USA From California Marla Remenyi Headlines
Miss USA Marla Remenyi, born in Denmark of Hungarian parents and a UC Berkeley junior, is from California El Cerrito. She is 5 foot 6 and speaks four languages with a fifth soon, and was named Miss Pixable at the pageant amid 49 contestants. Arkansas Tech seniors were told at commencement that human relations education begins after college.
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Kay Bartlett
Miami Beach
Fla
Marla Judith Remenyi
Miss Remenyi
Mis Remenyi
Denmark
Remenyi
el Cerrito
Calif
University of California At Berkeley
District of Columbia
Russellville
Ark
Arkansas Tech
Jack Yates
Ozark
Buddhists Protest Vogue Photographs in Sri Lanka
In Colombo, influential Buddhists denounce Vogue magazine pictures showing fashion models posed before ruined temples. The All-Ceylon Buddhist Congress executive committee calls the images sacrilegious and condemns the display.
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Colombo, Ceylon
Vogue Magazine
All-Ceylon Buddhist Congress
Swindle Custody Case: Arkansas Supreme Court Refuses Charge
The Arkansas Supreme Court refused to order the Greene County prosecutor to file charges against Gerald Swindle in a custody dispute with Valerie Day Swindle of Cheltenham England. The case involved Swindle taking the 3 year old daughter Sharon from Arkansas to California before custody was awarded to Mrs Swindle, who later learned he planned to move the child to South Africa with his new wife.
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Arkansas Supreme Court Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
Greene County
Valerie Day Swindle
Gerald Swindle
Swindle
Cheltenham
England
Arkansas
Sharon Swindle
Arkansas Court Upholds Freeman Life Sentence in 1964 Slaying
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed Samuel Freeman's life prison term for the strangulation death of Dorothy Lee Owens, found in her Little Rock apartment on December 6, 1964. The ruling held circumstantial evidence plus Freeman's admission sufficient for conviction. The court also upheld a 21-year term for Ollie Cox Jr. in a Paragould rape case and dismissed a school election suit in Hartford. Also, Gen. John P. McConnell and Charles H. Murphy Jr. will receive honorary Doctor of Laws degrees at the University of Arkansas commencement on June 4 in Fayetteville.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court Today
Samuel Theodore Freeman
Dorothy Lee Owens
Freeman
Supreme Court
Ollie Cox Jr
Cox
Sebastian Chancery Court
Hartford
Asa Douglas
Circuit Court
Chancery Court
High Court
Circuit
Arkansas
Fayetteville, Ark
John P. McConnell
Air Force
Charles H. Murphy Jr
FEI Dorado
Murphy Crop
University of Arkansas
McConnell
Booneville
Murphy
SAA Awards Given to Students at Hope High School
The Rotary Club of Hope sponsors the SAA Award Membership Program at Hope High School. Certificates and emblems were presented by Dr. Lester Sitzes at the May 20 awards assembly in the auditorium. Recipients include Martha Burton Allison, Edward Welch Bode, Susan Cobb, Mary Susan Forster, J Leland Lavender, Diane Mare, Kenneth McMurrough, Elizabeth Irene O Neal, Samuel Meeks Strong, Tony C Smith, Marsha Lynn Russell, Michael ane Turner, Gayle Williams, Kennan Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club of Hope
Society For Academic Achievement
SAA
Hope High School
SAA International
Quincy
Ill
Lester Sitzes
Martha Burton Allison
Edward Welch Bode
Susan Cobb
Mary Susan Forster
J. Leland Lavender
Diane Mare Kenneth McMurrough
Elizabeth Irene O'Neal
Samuel Meeks Strong
Tony C. Smith
Marsha ‘Lynn Russell
Michael Ane Turner
Gayle Williams
Kennan Williams
Ruling Upholds Limited Changes by Strike Rail Line
The Supreme Court ruled a struck railroad may make reasonably necessary changes to work conditions to keep operating under strict court supervision. The 7-1 decision affirms a New Orleans circuit ruling that Florida East Coast Railway may adjust conditions under federal oversight in Jacksonville, a key point in the longest U.S. railroad strike in history. F A O Daniel named president of the Rice Millers Association at the 67th annual convention in Biloxi Mississippi.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
U.S. Circuit Court
New Orleans
Florida East Coast Railway
Jacksonville
Van Dyke Show Wins Four Emmys Despite Crew Drama
Hollywood AP report outlines the Van Dyke show earning four Emmys tying with Chrysler Theater for most awards. Paul Davis salutes late Alice Pearce, Harriet Van Horne collects for KKThe Invisible Empire, and Ted Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, producer Carl Reiner, and writers are credited. Truman may visit Israel in July to dedicate the Truman Center for Peace pending health.
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Gene Handsaker
Hollywood
Dick van Dyke
Bill Crosby
Ug Nduter
Barwala Sianwyek
Paul Davis
Alice Pearce
Gladys
New York
David Lowe
KKK
Invisible Empire
Harriet van Horne
van Dyke
Chrysler Theater
Bob Hope
Lick van Dyke
Mary Tyler Moore
Carl Reiner
Bill Persky
Sam Denoff
Reiner
Rose Marie
Morey Amatergam
Sheldon Leonard
Miss Moore
Independence, Mo
Harry S. Truman
Israel
Truman Center For the Advancement of Peace
Truman
Rose Conway
Da Nang Rebels Surrender Boosts Ky in Vietnam War
Rebels in Da Nang surrender, giving Premier Ky a major boost as U.S. troops hold a strong ring around the Buddhist institute in Saigon amid anti-American rioting. The capitulation ends eight days of bloodshed and shifts momentum in Ky’s campaign to keep power.
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NEA Radio-Telephoto
da Nang
Vietnam
Dan Nang
U.S
Saigon
Oregon
Senate
Edwin Q. White
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Tinh Hol
SNCC chief urges blacks to form political parties
Stokeley Carmichael, new national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, says blacks should forget integration and focus on building political power by organizing their own parties. He argues participation in major parties has been denied and warns third-party efforts may fail without local power bases.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Lewis B. Hershey
United Presbyterians
Stokely Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Television Academy
Maria Judith Remenyl
Don McKee
Atlanta
SNCC
Carmichael
Newsman Is Killed Covering Viet Nam War
Sam Castan, 30, senior editor of Look magazine, was killed by mortar fire Saturday near An Khe while covering Operation Crazy Horse with the 1st Cavalry Airmobile. Three other reporters were wounded. Castan had reported from Viet Nam since 1963 and won Sigma Delta Chi’s 1964 medal for magazine reporting. He lived in Hong Kong with his wife and infant daughter.
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DA Nang
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Sam Castan
Look Magazine
U.S. 1St Cavalry
An Khe
Castan
Brooklyn
N.Y
Sigma Delta Chi
Cyprus
Dominican Republic
Hong Kong
Peeneen
Daugher
Youth Center meeting eyed for adult softball league
A 7:30 PM meeting at the Youth Center discusses forming an adults summer softball league. Other notes include Hope High Awards Day omissions, Lorena Arrington as best secretary, Susan Forster as best typist, Batesville Presbyterian trip, Collins College kindergarten recital, diplomas by Mrs Collins, Tommye Power joining Phi Alpha Theta, Linda Pondexter elected Booster Club secretary, and Charles Trexler elected Southern State Young Republicans vice president.
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Hope High
Lorena Arrington
Susan Forster
Charles Trexler
Fred B. Trexler
Emmet
Southern State College
Young Republicans Club
College Center
Emmet High School
Seven Local Students to Get Degrees at Magnolia
Seven Hay seniors are among 146 candidates for college degrees at Southern State College commencement Friday May 27 at 8 p.m. in the Greek Theatre registrar Miss Matsye Gantt notes. Candidates include Bob Stewart for BA in speech, James Gilbert and Ronnie Smith for BBA, Lula Cathey James McPherson Judy G Robinson and Judith Boswell among BSE and other degrees. Dr. Paul McCain Arkansas College president will deliver the commencement address and a reception will follow at College Center.
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Magnolia
Hay
Southern State College
Mnet
Matsye Gantt
Bob Stewart
M. D. Downs
Washington
Ronnie Smith
Herman W. Smith
Park Drive
Smith
Gilbert
Lula Cathey
Grady Cathey
Pecan
James H. McPherson
Paul McCain
Arkansas College
College Center
Two Racing Drivers Killed in Wichita Sprint Car Accidents
At the Air Capital Speedway in Wichita two sprint car drivers were killed Sunday night. Lee Smith, 43, of Lakewood Colorado, and Darrin Burkholder, 31, of Seneca Kansas, died. Bob Chester of Denver was injured and listed in satisfactory condition in hospital.
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Wichita
Kan
Air Capital Speedway
Lee Smith
Lakewood
Colo
Darrin Burkholder
Senecca
Bob Chester
Denver
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H. Washburn
Clinton, Conn
Board of Selectment
Oakwood Lane
Ontreal AP
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Pearson
American Society of Newspaper Editors
U.S.A
California
Buddhists Protest Magazine
Pictures
Arkansan
Rice
Biloxi
F. A. O'Daniel
DeWitt, Ark
Rice Millers Association
O'Daniel
van Dyke Show
Isaeli
AP News Digest
Pilkinton
Bryant
John R. Starr
Afl-Cio
Committee On Political Education
James H. Pilkinton
Kelly Bryant
Joe Purcell
Benton
Geeral
J. Fred Jones
Howard Cockrill
State Supreme Court
Republican Party
COPE
J. Bill Becher
By the Star
Steff
Batesville
McRae Andrews
Collins Wee College
Garland
Tommye Power
Prentice C. Power
West 4Th Hope
Phi Alpha Theta, Ao
Miss Power
Southern State
Lambda Sigma Alpha
Linda Pondexter
Hope
Hendrix
Booster Cub
Miss Pondexter
Ernestine Pondexter
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