City Board Enacts Rezoning Ordinance For Eastside Property
City Board approves rezoning of Eastside 1300 block from R-1 to R-3 amid some opposition. Plan calls for about 60 apartments on roughly 642 acres. Also approved Urban Renewal amendment and discussed municipal sewer options. Hope Parks camp set at Fair Park for ages 6 to 10 with $1 daily fee. registration May 29 at the Hope Youth Center.
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City Board of Directors
Bob Odom
Planning & Zoning Commission
Housing Authority
John Hawkins
Don Walker
Hope Parks and Recreation Department
Fair Park
Hope Youth Center
Highway Department Reminder on Sign Erection Policy
State Highway Commission Order 68 255 dated May 22 1968 bans political signs on highway rights of way and directs removal. John Tallant, Resident Engineer, says many signs have been removed and enforcement will continue during campaigns.
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State Highway Commission
Highway Department
Commission
The
Star Tuesday
John Tallant
State Highway Department
Tallant
Showers Move Into State From Frontal System
The long dry spell ended as showers and thundershowers moved into Arkansas. A weak frontal system from Oklahoma triggered the precipitation with considerable cloudiness and scattered showers expected, clearing by afternoon and redeveloping later. Highs 80s to low 90s, warm continued. Jonesboro and Little Rock tied for warmest at 93, a date record at Little Rock set in 1970. Overnight lows ranged from 57 in Fayetteville and Harrison to 70 in Pine Bluff, 63 Jonesboro, and 60 Fort Smith.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Oklahoma
National Weather Service
Jonesboro
Little Rock
Fayetteville
Harrison
Pine Bluff
Texarkana
Ef] Dorado
Memphis
Lattle Rock
Fort Smith
Not All Wallace Delegates Are Secure At Convention
Washington AP reports that about one third of the 323 delegates Wallace has won for the Democratic National Convention are truly bound to him by state laws. Many are free to vote for other candidates, with McGovern seen as the main beneficiary. Some delegates may switch on first or later ballots, depending on whether Wallace maintains 35 percent on the initial roll.
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Washington
George C. Wallace
George McGovern
Wallace
Tennessee
Maryland
McGovern
Indiana
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
POWs, Hanoi stance and U S withdrawal debate
Officials say despite Hanoi’s refusal on POWs there is no sign of retaliation after intensified bombing and mining. Captives counted 494 with 1,089 missing. families feel growing dissatisfaction but remain hawkish, preferring release of captives as a condition for broader U S withdrawal.
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Hanoi
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
North
State Department
North Vietnam
Obituaries for Masse Pritt Mitchell Grady
Burt A Masse 84 former executive vice president Palmolive and leader of a grand jury that investigated the St Valentine Massacre in Chicago founded the Chicago Crime Laboratory which became the FBI crime lab. Denis Nowell Pritt 84 a defense lawyer in Britain and abroad died Tuesday. Jerry Mitchell 67 a sports writer for the New York Post for 38 years. Lucretia del Valle Grady 79 widow of Henry F Grady former U S ambassador to India Greece and Iran died Tuesday.
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Burt A. Masse
Jacksonville, Fla
The
Palmolive Co
Chicago
Masse
Chicago Crime Laboratory
FBI Crime Laboratory
Denis Nowell Pritt
London
Britain
Jerry Mitchell
NEW York
New York Post
Mitchell
Post
Lucretia Grady
San Mateo
Calif
Lucretia del Valle Grady
Henry F Grady
U.S
India
Greece
Iran
Wallace told Oregon results as hospital reports improve
Governor George Wallace ended the Oregon primary in second place as doctors at Holy Cross Hospital reported progress in his gunshot wounds. McGovern won the Democratic race. Wallace remains paralyzed below the waist with ongoing involuntary movement in his legs.
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Janet Stashar
Associated Press
Silver Spring
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Oregon
Wallace
Holy Cross Hospital
George McGovern
Laurel
O’brien
Billy Joe Camp
Miami Beach
Camp
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Forest Davis
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Robbin Wilson
Susan Wilson
Patsy Ledbetter
Larry Wahlquist
Miki Wahlquist
Bill Fore
Prescott
Nevada County Centennial
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Brush
Hope
Ark
Pod Rogers
John Teeter
Bill
Lindell Buchanan
Marvin Watson
John
Anderson- Frazier Insurance Agency, Inc
Lawrence F. O’brien
Democratic National Committee
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New Hope Baptist Church
Elbert O'Steen
David Pryor
Harry Barnes
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