Compton, Latter-Day News Folds from Truck Crash
J Robert Compton, 87, of Ozan, died after a truck collision on Highway 4 near Nashville. Survived by wife Sarah, two sons, four daughters, two brothers, five sisters, and many grandchildren. Services Friday at 2:30 p.m. Latimer Funeral Chapel, burial Antioch Cemetery. Admiral Sir Philip Lian, 73, dies. Lenox Lohr, 76, ex NBC president, passes. Kees Van Dongen, 91, artist, dies in Monte Carlo.
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Stériing McLemore
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Holland
North Little Rock
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Kees van Dongen
Bicasso
Matisse
Paris
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Rotterdam
Drinks Bill Split in Arkansas Senate Amid Delays
LITTLE ROCK AP News reports Byruth Hurst of Hot Springs planned to call up a mixed drinks bill for a 4 vote in the Arkansas Senate today as the General Assembly faced a possible Memorial Day recess and adjournment Friday. House actions targeted Gov. Rockefeller's tobacco tax package, defeating a 15 percent excise tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes and several related proposals. The piece also covers zoning, highway studies, airport drag racing restrictions, asphalt resurfacing bids, and traffic-parking changes in Hope and Elm Street upgrades.
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Paris Braces for New Communist Labor Demonstration
Paris faces a major protest as the Communist led General Confederation of Labour plans a large march to demand a 12 percent pay raise. Cohn-Bendit, dubbed Danny the Red, returns to France after changing his hair, while strikes hit Pierrelatte and Agence France Presse delaying tests for France’s hydrogen bomb. Coal miners and bank workers vote to stay off the job in solidarity as police prepare.
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Sorbonne
Cohn Bendit
Holland
West Germany
Ministry of Interior
Charles de Gaulle
LBJ
Censor Helps Vote Self Out Of Job In Lords Bill
Britain's theater censor Lord Cobbold helped oust himself by voting for a bill to abolish stage censorship. House of Lords approved in principle, ending the era of government control over plays. The move aligns with international opinion and eases prior prohibitions.
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