Microfilm Center mission saves The Star files for posterity
Our Daily Bread notes 19 years of microfilm at Dallas Microfilm Center as 40 bound volumes from 1947 to 1956 arrive. The Star aims to complete digitized and preserved archives from 1899 onward, costing $120 per year for current microfilming and $1,200 per decade, with fireproof storage and devoted staff handling shipments. Cowboys Bills game reference ties to football date and local weather wraps Arkansas.
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C.M
Rogers, Jr
Dallas
Star
Rogers
Eastman Kodak Recordak
Microfilm Center
Penn State
Baylor
Dallas Cowboys
Buffalo Bills
Texas Stadium
Irving
West Side
Cowboys
Quake felt in Peking as aftershock fear grips city
Reports from Peking describe a strong earthquake rocking tall buildings and sending people into the streets. US and European seismology groups cite magnitudes 6.5 to 6.8, noting Tangshan's 8.2 as a far deadlier quake and Kyodo labels today’s event as an aftershock.
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Tokyo
Peking
National Earthquake Information Service
Golden
Colo
Seismological Institute
Uppsala
Sweden
Tangshan
Kyodo
Burglars Hit Ozan Stores Reported Monday Morning
Two burglaries near Ozan were reported by Hempstead County Sheriff Henry Sinyard. Goodlet's Grocery was robbed of 12 silver dollars and about $23 in change, while Joe Bingham's Store saw five cartons of cigarettes stolen. Investigation ongoing.
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Ozan
Hempstead
Henry Singard
Goodlet
Joe Bingham
Sinyard
Truck strikes I-30 bridge near Gordon in early morning crash
A tractor-trailer hit a bridge at the 56 mile marker on Interstate 30 near Gordon around 4 40 a.m. Monday. The eastbound lane remained blocked until about 9 07 a.m. Traffic was diverted to Highway 67 until wreckage was cleared, according to Arkansas State Police Trooper Ray Coston.
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Gordon
Arkansas State Police
Ray Coston
OPEC Commission mulls crude price rise in Vienna
In Vienna, OPEC economic and financial experts draft recommendations to raise oil prices amid inflation. The plan calls for a 10 percent base price increase, possibly boosting the oil bill for importing nations by about 12 billion dollars annually, with ministers to decide at December talks in Qatar.
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Vienna
Austria
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Economic Commission
Qatar
U.S
Gilmore waits as fight continues in Utah
Gary Gilmore faces further delays as Utah legal battles delay his planned execution. Gov Ramp ton halted the sentence pending a Pardons Board review after prior rulings had altered the schedule. Gilmore’s lawyer Dennis Boaz planned to seek Montmuit Papery review.
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Calvin L. Rampton
State Board of Pardons
Gilmore
Dennis Boaz
Food Price Rise Seen 3 to 4 Percent Next Year
USDA forecaster Rex Daly predicts overall food prices will rise 3 to 4 percent in 1977, matching this year’s increase. Home groceries and meals out show higher costs, with a $10 food budget expected to reach about $15.10 to $15.24 next year.
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Agriculture Department
USDA
Daly
House panel plans subpoena over FBI Oswald memo
Rep. Thomas N. Downing says the committee will subpoena an FBI memo in which Lee Harvey Oswald tells Cuban officials he intends to kill President Kennedy. Downing cites a committee request as driving the discovery, conflicting with an AP source claiming Senate access earlier. The memo reportedly dated to 1964 and written by J. Edgar Hoover.
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Washington
House
FBI
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Thomas N. Downing
Dva
Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Associated Press
Senate Intelligence Subcommittee
J. Edgar Hoover
Four-car wreck at intersection leaves no injuries
Burke, Rateliff and Buster report Whitley failed to stop at a stop sign. Whitley charged with failure to yield. HPD notes a minor accident in the TG and Y parking lot around 11 15 a m. A child fell in the front seat as Mrs Whitley drove and her car struck Philip Forrester’s parked vehicle in Prescott.
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Burke
Rateliff
Buster
Whitley
HPD
Tg&y
Sue Whitley
Philip Forrester
Prescott
Hempstead County Farm Sales Hit 48 303 000 in 1974 Census
The 1974 census preliminary report shows Hempstead County with 886 farms selling 48 303 000 in agricultural products. Production expenses totaled 44 025 000. Farms with 2 500 or more in sales comprised 445 operations.
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Hempstead County
Hempstead
U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of the Census
Carter says he put no pressure on church during vote
President elect Jimmy Carter says he was just a church member when Plains Baptist Church voted to drop racial barriers. The congregation kept its pastor Bruce Edwards and opened services to all races with a 107 to 84 vote. A black man attended the service and Carter plans a news conference near here. The church also set up a screening committee to evaluate new members.
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Carter
Bruce Edwards
Southwest Georgia Agricultural Experimentation Station
Walter F. Mondale
Atlanta
Plains
Frank Williams
Clennon King
Albany
Secret Service
King
Selma
N.C
Roger Sessoms
Jerome Ethredge
Afra
Jesus Christ
Bill Wilkinson
Invisible Empire
The
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
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Arkansas
Times
Hope
Ark
Jim Harris
Ozan Stores
Burgarized
Opec of
Salt Lake City
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Rex F. Daly
Economic Research Service
Avenue D
North
Herry Street
J. Owen Whitley
Hervey Street
James K. Burke
Merry Street
Mark A. Rateliff
Jacksonville
Ark Rateliff
Hervey
Dennis Buster
Ash
Church
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