Municipal League Convention in Hot Springs Arkansas
The 29th annual Arkansas Municipal League Convention will be held Thursday through Saturday in Hot Springs with about 500 municipal officials expected. Filbert J. Hating of the Public Housing Administration Fort Worth Texas will address the group Friday. Separate sessions for officers Friday afternoon. convention ends noon Saturday with officer elections and a resolutions committee report.
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Hot Springs. Ark
Arkansas Municipal League
Hot Springs
Filbert J. Hating
Public Housing Administration
Fort Worth
Tex
Today in History highlights from 1941 to 1956 events
On this date in 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged 1 billion dollars in lend lease aid to Russia. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was selected president. In 1896 the Volunteers of America was founded in New York. In 1926 Mussolini banned opposition parties and meetings. In 1956 Eisenhower Nixon won re election. Ten years ago Herbert Brownell charged Truman promoted White despite FBI report.
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Russia
Nazi Germany
Abraham Lincott
United States
The
Volunteers of America
New York
Talian
Benitto Mussolini
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
U.S. Atty
Herbert Brownell Jr
Harry S. Truman
Harry Dexter White
FBI
Brownell
White
Soviet UN
Soy Beans Jump as Prices Rise on Demand and Harvest Progress
Washington AP reports soy bean prices rose about 1 percent to 14 cents a bushel in many domestic markets last week. The Agriculture Department noted rapid harvest progress but farmers held out for higher prices, with strong demand and ongoing export activity shaping the market amid reports of poor Arkansas yields and trade rumors involving soybeans and oil.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Arkansas
Europe
France awards Liberation to Churchill fifty years ago
Five years ago France bestowed its highest honor, the Order of the Liberation, on Sir Winston Churchill of England by Premier Charles De Gaulle. One year ago California elected Democrat Ed Mund Brown to a second term, defeating Republican opponent former Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
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France
Order of the Liberation
Sir Winston Churchill
England
Charles de Gaulle
California
Edmund Brown
Richard M. Nixon
Quillow and the Giant Tops NBCs Childrens Theater
NBC’s Children’s Theater offers a Thurber based tale about a slow witted giant who vanishes after health worries and a town saved by a humble toymaker. The King highlights include moral lessons for kids, upbeat music, and credits noting an educational adviser and psychologist. Richard Burton appears as a guest.
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Cynthia Lowry
NEW York
NBC
Childrens Theater
James Thurber
Highlights in History of Today November 7 1963
On this date in 1811 Gen William Henry Harrison led 1200 U.S. troops to victory at Tippecanoe In 1659 the Pyrenees were fixed as the France Spain boundary ending a 24 year war In 1995 work began on the New York and Erie Railroad In 1917 Communist rule of Russia began as Lenin and Trotsky led the revolt In 1954 a US Air Force reconnaissance plane was shot down over Hokkaido Japan Ten years ago Dylan Thomason of all unlikely places Sunday nights Ed Sullivan show was damaged by laryngitis Carol Lawrence was to headline but fell ill The Jerry Lewis show era prompted changes with stars like Phil Silvers Ethel Merman and Sid Caesar appearing in a plug heavy program context.
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William Henry Harrison
U.S
Tippecanoe
Ind
Pyrenees Montains
France
Spain
New York and Erie
Russia
Nichai Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Alexander Kerentsky
Air Force
Hokkaido Island
Japan
Dylan Thomason
Ed Sullivan
Carol Lawrence
Burton
London
Man Held on Murder Charge In Pine Bluff
Virgil Powell 41, operator of the Pastime Recreation Center in Pine Bluff, is held without bond on a first degree murder charge in the slaying of Ray Hefley 31 of Stuttgart. Warrant issued in Jefferson Circuit Court. Hefley was shot above the left eye with a .45 caliber revolver in a Pine Bluff back room. No hearing set.
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Pine Bluff, Ark
Virgil Powell
Pine Bluff
Ray Hefley
Stuttgart
Jefferson Circuit Court
Hefley
Teachers to Meet in Arkansas at Education Convention
About 10 000 Arkansas teachers expected Wednesday through Friday for the Fourth annual convention of the Arkansas Education Association. NEA assistant secretary Dr T M Stinnett will be the main speaker. A separate item notes high winds and waves along the East Coast after a record snowfall. A 44.5 carat Hope diamond was sent to the Smithsonian for safekeeping. Eleanor Roosevelt died at 78 after a long illness last year.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Arkansas Education Association
T. M. Stinnett
National Education Association
Washington
New Jersey
New England
Smithsonian Institution
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Keating Backs Goldwater If Rockefeller Fails
New York Senator Kenneth B. Keating says he would support Barry Goldwater for president if Arizona conservatives back a platform similar to the Republican National Committee’s 1960 plank. Keating, appearing on ABC radio, also voiced support for Nelson Rockefeller as a potential nominee.
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Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Keating
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Coldwater
ABC
Rockefeller
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