From Square to Round at Crowded Intersection
A new rounding of the S Main and Third Sts junction aims to ease turning onto US 67 from State 29, replacing square corners that forced wide turns and traffic halts. The piece notes a photo and letter by state historian John L. Ferguson identifying Allen W. Blevins as Hempstead county attorney in frontier days, connected to archival finds and a public service by the Arkansas History Commission.
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S. Main
Third Sts
U.S. 67
State 29
John L. Ferguson
Allen W. Blevins
Hempstead
R.L
Bob) Lattimore
Texas
Hempstead County Bar Association
Arkansas History Commission
Little Rock
W.H. Etter
Blevins
Old Washington Telegraph
Hugh A. Blevins
Ark
Ferguson
Austin
Cooper attacks UALR text as flatly racist in forum
Dr Grant Cooper a self described communist at the University of Arkansas accuses The Unheavenly City by Edward Banfield of being racist and dismisses it as poor fiction while Prof Richard Nygaard defends using it as academic contrast and urges academic freedom in metro politics course debates.
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Little Rock
Grant Cooper
University of Arkansas
UALA
Nixon
Edward Banfield
Richard Nygaard
UALR
Nygaard
Pine Bluff man recalls eerie preflight warning
A Pine Bluff resident who left Texas International Flight 655 before it crashed recalls a strange feeling about the flight. L D Davis, 50, described the plane flying at a substandard altitude around 1,500 feet between Memphis and Pine Bluff, noting engines appeared fine yet questioning the flight plan and the late loading of Army officers. He said he told his son he would be on the flight, kept awake by unease, and later watched the ground appear unnaturally close from a window seat.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Texas International Airlines
L. D. Davis
Memphis
Davis
Red Line Transfer and Storage
Washington
Nobody's business reason for Prescott crash kept secret
An Arkansas National Guard helicopter crash investigation findings will be classified, official Col Ned Aycock said. The Huey crash near Prescott killed Capt. William Robert Weat, Capt. John Larry Beardsley, and Spec. 6 David Marle Webb as two helicopters entered fog en route to search a missing airliner later found on a Mena mountainside.
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Little Rock
National Guard
Ned Aycock
Arkansas National Guard
Prescott
Aycock
South
Arkansas
Mena
William Robert Weat
John Larry Beardsley
David Marle Webb
North Little Rock
The Hel icopter Heroics and Its Civic Call
The piece memorializes Igor Sikorsky and argues helicopters save lives in disasters and emergencies. It cites 1972 rescues in Sao Paulo and earthquakes in Los Angeles and Managua, notes civilian and military use, and urges more heliports and support for emergency and nonemergency roles.
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Los Angeles
Managua
Nicaragua
Army plan to test dogs sparks widespread protests
Proposals by the Air Force to de bark 200 beagles and expose them to aviation fumes draw thousands of letters and petitions from citizens, lawmakers, and advocacy groups. The Army plans to buy 400 pups for poison gas testing as the controversy widens beyond July disclosures.
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Washington
Les Aspin
D-Wis
Air Force
Aspin
Cary
N.C
Gerry E. Studds
D-Mass
Chicago
Studds
Crash Kills Woman and Child Near Benton Arkansas
A Tuesday crash on Arkansas 5 nine miles west of Benton killed Ruby Waddell 68 and Christopher Childress 5 who were riding with Betty Childress 28. The car veered off the road, dropped five feet, crossed a field, and struck a fence after traveling 132 feet, according to eyewitnesses. Ashby Funeral Home confirmed Waddell was Childress’ mother and the boy’s grandmother.
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Benton, Ark
Joe Richards
Arkansas 5
Benton
Ruby Waddell
Christopher Childress
Betty Childress
Richards
Ashby
Pleasant Plains
Ark
Alice B. Turner
Here
Jim Kendig
U.S. 167
J. T. Goforth
Batesville
Kendig
Notable Journalists and Public Figures in Brief
AP reports Walter Lippmann, famed political journalist, in critical condition after a stroke in Manhattan. In Arkansas, new Episcopal presiding bishop candidates announced. Tulsa man found legally insane in a December strangulation case. a Pleasant Plains woman killed in a highway crash near Batesville. Public hearings set for an Arkansas Power & Light plant. Bible reading fund-raising in Wynne. Arkansas senators vote against foreign aid bill. Lou Rawls and Josephine Baker feature in Los Angeles notices.
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New York
Walter Lappmann
America
Lippmann
Manhattan
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Washburn
Cooper
Louisville
Episcopal
Thomas Pike
New York City
Robert R. Spears
Rochester
N.Y
John H. Burt
Cleveland
Ohio
Cristoph Keller Jr
John M. Allin
Jackson
Miss
C. Kilmer Myers
San Francisco
Hope
Bar
Ped Rogers
Mona Rowe
State Fair Association
LeRoy van Dyke
Mona
Arkansas Agri Building
Sharon Parham
Igor Sikorsky
Sao Paulo
Brazil
United States
Maryland
Illinois
Mercy Copters
John L. Mclucas
Animal Protection Institute of America
Atlanta
Philadelphia
Justice
Zebulon
Canada
England
Watergate
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Raleigh
Lynd B. Johnson
Pentagon
Die
Episcopal Church
Arkansans
Christopher Keller Jr
Jackson, Miss
Helena
Tulsa
Okla
Glenda Ann Cale
Jack Dwight Lazar
Arkansas Power & Light Co’s
Redfield
State Public Service Commission
John L. McClellan
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate
Lou Rawls
Superior Court
Lester E. Olson
Lana Jean Rawls
Lou Jr
Luanna
Rawls
Josephine Baker
County Board of Supervisors
Miss Baker
Europe
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