Mail mix spurs plan for lawsuit after May switch
Reader laments lost a $50 check mailed May 12 from Oaklawn to Ashdown amid sorting changes to Texarkana. He urges registered mail to prevent losses and cites past insured mail failures. The piece previews a potential landmark suit against the postal service after a full month of second class deliveries through Texarkana.
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Wie Star
Oaklawn
Texarkana
Texas
Ashdown
Star
Memphis
Dallas
Post Office
P.O
Sarasota
Fla
Daily Bread
Air Express
Air Parcel Post
Express
RFD
Hempstead
Guardsmen Called to Carolina Riot in Concord
National Guardsmen were mobilized in Concord North Carolina after a second night of racial violence. Mayor Alfre Brown imposed a dusk to dawn curfew as clashes erupted following the shooting of 23 year old Paul D Johnson in a white owned grocery. The owner, Jimmy Miles, 35, was arrested on assault with intent to kill charges as about 500 Black residents looted and burned several businesses before calm returned late Sunday. Concord, a textile mill and farm market town of about 18 000, lies 25 miles north of Charlotte.
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Concord
N.C
Alfre Brown
Brown
Paul D. Johnson
Jimmy Miles
Johnson
Miles
Charlotte
Voting Places Named for Tuesday in Hempstead County
Hempstead County democratic central committee lists voting places for the preferential primary on Tuesday May 30. Polls open 8 a.m. to 7 30 p.m. Locations include Hope Fire Station James Motor Company Courtroom Ward 3 W O W Hall Hope City Hall Hope Youth Center and many rural sites such as Burke s Store Jaka Jones Sutton s Store McCaskill Ozan Patmos Sardis and Shover Springs with schoolhouses churches and town halls serving as boxes or stations.
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Hempstead Countyocratic Central Committee
Hope Fire Station
James Motor Company
Pety’s
Green’s Grocery
Jones Field House
W.O.W. Hall
Hope City Hall
Hope Youth Center
Young Chevrolet Co
Tate Auto Co
Bingen
New
Blevins
Burke's
Burke’s
Columbus
Cross Roads
Gilbert
DeAnn
Fulton
Guernsey
Jaka Jones
Sutton's
McCaskill
RCI
McNab
Ozan
Patmos
Rocky Mound
Saratoga
Soviet U S Treaty Signaled Cooler Cold War Tone
AP dispatch reports on Viet Nam fighting near An Loc and Kontum with heavy U S air strikes, North Vietnamese artillery, and South Vietnamese relief efforts. Details note 100-plus Allied casualties, 15 dead, 80–90 wounded, and ongoing siege actions as data from Saigon and Kontum drive coverage. An Loc siege persists. Dat Do front actions cited with air and artillery offensives. Also reports a fatal tractor overturn near Mountainburg, Ark.
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Saigon
An Loc
Highway 13
South Vietnam
Kontum
Dat Do
Memorial Day wrecks toll rises near 400
A Memorial Day weekend crash spree left three dead and 11 injured near Flagstaff Ariz as highway tragedy spread nationwide. Victims include Maxine Playmond Soto 3 Mary Soto 17 and Santana Young 6 all of Sacaton Ariz. In the second vehicle Dick Nelson 42 of Cudahy Calif and seven of his family were injured. Other fatal crashes occurred near Gainesville Fla and in Rhome Tex involving Williston and Ward families.
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Associated Press
Flagstaff
Ariz
Maxine Playmond Soto
Mary Soto
Santana Young
Sacaton
U.S. 89
Soto
Dick Nelson
Cudahay
Calif
Gainesville
Fla
Williston
Alvin J. Burns
Cecil Ward Jr
Teresa Ward
Ward
Rhome
Tex
Fort Worth
Denver
Winona Warner Powell
Denton
Lizzie
Allie
U.S. 81-287
Hope area events and student honors listed
The Hope Jaycees meet tonight at 7 30 at Limberts in downtown Hope with all members urged to attend. A banquet is set for Saturday June 10 at 7 pm at Perry's. Jimmy Turner of Hope will receive a BA with honors at Hendrix College June 2. Turner, a senior psychology major, joins Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities and received the Alphi Chi Scholarship Prize. He is the son of Mr and Mrs H Robert E Turner of Hope Deda. Jordan of Hope is named to the Spring semester honor roll at Arkansas State University Jonester. Beth Levins, daughter of Mr and Mrs James K Levins of 520 South Washington, Hope, appears on Harding College Dean's List for spring. 68 students had straight A averages. Levins, a senior elementary education major, posted a 3 667 average. Jeanne Pruden, daughter of Mrs Jeraldine Day Pruden and the late James Pruden, Hope, will receive a Bachelor of Science in Business from Centenary College in Shreveport at commencement on Sunday May 28. The Hope City Police weekly report lists four traffic violations and several other infractions, totaling 126 accidents during the week.
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Hope Jaycee's
Limberts
Hope
Perry's
Jimmy Turner
Hendrix College
Turner
Alphi Chi
H Robert E Turner
Beth Levins
James K. Levins
South Washington
Harding College
Miss Levins
Jeanne Pruden
Jeraldine Day Pruden
James & Pruden of Hope
Centenary College
Shreveport
Nixon Brezhnev sign long range peace plan at Kremlin
President Nixon and Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev signed a joint statement of long range principles to avoid military confrontation and pursue total world disarmament. They also agreed to pursue a European security conference soon to reduce East West forces in Central Europe. Kissinger noted no summit before November and warned the accord is aspirational.
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Moscow
Nixon
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Europe
East
West Germany
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S
Vietnam
Kissinger
Middle East
Soviet Union
Memorial Day Observances Across Nation Honor War Dead
This Memorial Day marks a three day tribute with wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Rep. William Scott represents President Nixon at the Moscow summit, while Coast Guard cutter Hesolate wreaths the sea near San Francisco. A new war memorial opens in Coweta Oklahoma, famed for high Vietnam casualties per capita.
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Associated Press
Bull Run
Khe Sanh
Arlington National Cemetery
William Scott
R-Va
Nixon
Moscow
San Francisco
Coast Guard
Hesolate
Golden Gate
Coweta
Okla
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