Retirement of Arkansas Farm Bureau President Bowman
Morris L. Bowman of Newport, a 1,000 member Arkansas Farm Bureau leader for five years, will retire as president at the December 13 convention in Hot Springs. He cites expansion in farming and farm implement manufacturing as the reason and remains involved in family farming, equipment design, and multiple agricultural boards and businesses.
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Morris L. Bowman
Newport Rice
Arkansas Farm Bureau
Bowman
Country Farm
American Farm Bureau
Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co
Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co
Jackson
Mississippi
State Farm Bureau
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
Riceland Foods
Sungart-based
Arkansas Agriculture
Progressive Farmer Magazine
Bowmans
Jackson County
University of Arkansas
Gamma Sigma Delta
Newport
Newport Bank
Farm Bureau
Nicky E. Hargrove
Stuttgart
Billy Mitchell Jr
Morriston
Arnold A. Berner
Little Rick
Industries Told to Curtail Use of Gas in Four States
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. ordered curtailments for large industrial gas users in Arkansas and four other states. Company president Sheffield Nelson cited premature winter weather and a delayed Oklahoma storage facility as causes. He noted the Ada Oklahoma storage project is near completion and that curtailments aim to protect residential customers.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co
Sheffield Nelson
Nelson
Oklahoma
Ada
Okla
Federal Power Commission
Arkla
Raymondville
Tex
Oscar Correa
Nelson Rockefeller
Correa
Rockefeller
Willacy County
Texas
Hawthorne notebook reveals inward themes and odd habits
Brown University professor Hyatt Waggo ner discusses Hawthornes earliest manuscript notebook from 1835 to 1841 noting the authors normal interest in girls legs and social smoking or drinking with friends. The scholar calls the 46 page notebook highly inward entered and idea focused. The find alters prior understanding of Hawthornes creative process.
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Providence
R.I
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brown University
Hyatt H. Waggoner
Hawthorne
Waggoner
Carter daughter to attend public school for first time in 70 years
Amy Carter will enroll in January as a fourth grader at the Thaddeus Stevens School in Washington DC, marking the first time a president's child attends public school since Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin 1904–1906. The Stevens school is 108 years old, mostly minority, with 215 students including foreign, black and white students.
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Quentin
Washington
Force
Stevens
Andrew Johnson
Carters
Amy
Plains
Carter
Jody Powell
Cartier
A Stevens
Verona Meeder
Crash victim identified near Little Rock flight wreck
Authorities confirm the body recovered after a Thursday missing single engine plane crash is pilot J. L. Juhl 36 of Fordyce. The wreckage was found about 25 miles west of Little Rock near Perry County by a CAP pilot. Coroner to conduct autopsy in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
J. L. Juhl
Fordyce
Juhl
Russellville
Stanley Bohanon
CAP
Perry County
Arkansas 9
Lake Sylvia
Hollywood Mourns Rosalind Russell at 63
Hollywood mourns actress Rosalind Russell who died at 63 from cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. Cary Grant Lucille Ball and director George Cukor praised her heroism and generosity as family and colleagues recall her bold screen presence and four Oscar nominations.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Rosalind Russell
Cary Grant
Miss Russell
Lucille Ball
Roz
Rosalind
George Cukor
Martin J. Cline
Cline
Civil rights leader Roy Wilkins praised at Denver event
Black officials saluted Roy Wilkins at a ceremony where Jimmy Carter pledged urban aid. Wilkins noted the president elect’s good intentions while Benjamin Hooks warned that political gains remain limited as 1,185 blacks held office in 1969 rising to 3,979 in 1976. The fundraiser drew 600 attendees including several mayoral candidates.
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Denver
Roy Wilkins
Jimmy Carter
Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
National Black Caucus
Carter
NAACP
Benjamin Hooks
Caucus
Maynard Jackson
Atlana
National League of Cities
Hooks
America
Brooks Brothers
IBM
Plains
Eight Die In Louisiana Thanksgiving Weekend Traffic
Eight people died in Louisiana traffic accidents during the Thanksgiving weekend as icy roads and freezing rain affected travel. Officials said weather slowed major crashes, with 80 percent of Northwest Louisiana bridges frozen at times and multiple weather related incidents reported in Shreveport Monroe and Sabine Parish.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Shreveport
City Streets Department
Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Sheriff's Office
Zwolle
Sabine Parish
Distress Signal May Day Origin and Meaning
The May Day distress signal derives from the French m’aidez meaning Help me. In maritime use the term signals urgent assistance and danger requiring immediate aid.
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M Aides
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