Yellowed newsroll revival and price shift in newsprint
Our Daily Bread recounts a five year old yellowed newsprint roll cured by drilling to fit the press. It notes pressmen Wendell House and Danny Lewallen testing the improvised core, with successful three runs. The piece also explains a 6.25 percent price increase to 281.50 per ton for 30 pound newsprint and industry move from 32 to 30 pound stock.
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Star
Wendell House
Danny Lewallen
Southland Paper Mills, Inc
Lufkin
Houston
Texas
Southland
Judge Anderson and son indicted in federal case
Sharp County Judge Leslie Anderson and his son James were indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiring to defraud the government over a road fence relocation project. The pair, ages 58 and 31, allegedly caused double payment for labor and surrendered to federal marshals in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Sharp County
Leslie Anderson
James
Anderson
Cave City
Calamine
Sharp
Weary candidates plan vacations after tough election
President elect Jimmy Carter and defeated President Gerald Ford near exhaustion after a close race as transfer of power looms. Carter meets with vice president elect Mondale and prepares plans for Plains Georgia while vote counting continues in Ohio and Oregon, with Carter at 272 electoral votes and still two unsettled states pending.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
White House
Carter
Walter F. Mondale
Plains
Georgia
Coun
Ford
United States
Ohio
Oregon
District of Columbia
Wholesale Price Index shows October rise amid inflation pressure
U S government data show October wholesale prices up six tenths of a percent led by transportation equipment and fuel costs marking the third sharp monthly rise this year. Farm prices fell 1 2 percent while crude materials jumped four percent signaling broader inflation trends.
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Washington
Carter
Labor Department
Carter Mondale to Confer as Transition Begins
President elect Jimmy Carter prepares for a Plains Georgia transition with Vice President elect Walter Mondale arriving this afternoon. They will hold a joint news conference at the Plains train depot and plan to open a Washington office during the transition. Carter aims to meet top aides and start transition talks with Cheney while Ford offers cooperation.
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Carter, Mondale
Plains
Carter
Mondale
Ford
Jack Watson
Atlanta
Cheney
Washington
Long distance system planned for Hope area in 1977
Southwestern Bell will implement a Zero-Plus Dialing long distance system in Hope next year allowing direct calls for person to person collect credit card and coin phone calls. About 70 traffic office employees face transfers retirement or termination with no effect on engineering or plant staff of 30. The system, a $4 million project, aims to speed all long distance calls, with operation expected in summer 1977.
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Hope Telephone
Dennis Mills
Southwestern Bell
Traffic Department
Hope
Mills
Arkansas
Black nationalist leaders clash over Rhodesia interim election plan
In Geneva Bishop Abel Muzorewa proposed a national election in two weeks to pick an interim prime minister for Rhodesia. rival factions rejected the plan calling it his own gimmick while the Nkomo Mugabe group favors independence first, then elections.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Rhodesia
Abel Muzorewa
KR .O
Dessa
Patriotic Front
Joshua Nkomo
Robert Mugabe
Muzorewa
Willie Musrurwa
Nkomo-Mugabe
Carter victory cements Arkansas Democrats hold in 1976
Arkansas delivered a landslide for President-elect Jimmy Carter with about 760000 votes, the second highest in the nation. Conservatives largely backed Carter while liberals and labor supported him. GOP gains stalled at four of 135 state House seats and no statewide victories beyond Congress. Governors, congressmen, and party leaders attributed the turnout to Carter’s broad appeal across blacks, whites, urban and rural voters.
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Arkansas
Jimmy Carter
GOP
Ford
Jim Sheets
Lynn Lowe
Texarkana
Lowe
General Assembly
Carter
Congress
Polish plane hijacked to Vienna by grenade wielding passenger
A Polish citizen brandishing a hand grenade hijacked a LOT Air BU 134 from Copenhagen to Warsaw and forced a landing at Vienna Schwechat. The hijacker, identified as 20 year old Jaroslaw Karoszinski, surrendered to Austrian authorities as police questioned passengers and crew.
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Vienna
Austria
Copenhagen
Warsaw
Denmark
Poland
Munich
Jaroslaw Karoszinski
Schwechat
LOT Air Co
Mrs. Mattie Roberts dies at 86 in Homer Louisiana
Mrs. Mattie Cornelius Roberts, 86, died Wednesday night in Homer Louisiana. She was the last survivor of 11 children of Robin Ed and Laurana Davis Cornelius. Her father donated land for the First Baptist Church. Surviving sons are Ralph Malone and John Malone, daughter Elizabeth Butler, plus grandchildren and nieces. Funeral arrangements by Herndon Funeral Home.
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Mattie Cornelius Roberts
Homer
Robin Ed
Laurana Davis Cornelius
First Baptist Church
Matt Cornelius
Hope Furniture
Herndon- Cornelius Funeral Home and Burial Association
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HCACC
Patti Manus
Clayton Palmer
Alice Patton
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Jim Guy Tucker
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