Veto Votes on Parts of Tax Package
Washington AP report details House and Senate moves to veto parts of President Nixon's economic package. Democrats push to block delaying a $1.3 billion federal pay raise for 4.3 million workers as senators attach riders to military procurement and pay raise bills.
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Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Nixon
Congress
House Democrats
H.R. Gross
Charles ‘McC. Mathias
Mathias
Rdon Allott
House
Key Bis_leayne
Con
Jose
Gross
Air Pollution to Arkansas: Heavy Emissions Report
The Pollution Control Commission released a report stating Arkansas emitted 693,915 tons of air waste from July 1969 to July 1. The EPA divides Arkansas into seven regions and requires a state plan by January 1975. Carbon monoxide was the largest contaminant, with residential heating contributing, while industry accounted for a sizable share.
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Title Rock
Visas Pollution Control Compission
Sun
Arkansas
Met
He Environmental Protection Agency
Medical Price Freeze Is Indicated
Washington AP Secretary Richardson says the administration will curb medical costs in the second phase of its economic program. He noted plans with the Cost of Living Council to brake hospital and doctor costs after the wage price freeze ends Nov 13. He spoke on Meet the Press and referenced a Newsweek poll showing 69 percent want continued controls and 55 percent favor Nixonomics. The proposal may be sent to Congress to accompany health insurance bills, with assurances on cost and quality of medical care.
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Washington
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson
Cost of Living Council
NBC
Meet the Press
Newsweek Magazine
Newsweek
Gallup
Nixon Administration
Congress
Fire damages Catfish Plantation Restaurant in Little Rock
Fire heavily damaged the Catfish Plantation Restaurant at 103 Roosevelt in Little Rock on Sunday night. Officials said the blaze likely started near the rear, with fire and smoke billowing through the roof when firefighters arrived.
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Little Rock
Roosevelt
Court Opens With 2 Vacancies But to Hold Up Key Issues
Hampton VA AP Brucene Smith a Texan 20 will represent the United States at Miss World in London next month. She won Miss World USA at a pageant in Hampton. Smith stands 5 feet 7 inches, weighs 125 pounds, with credentials 36 25 36. The Supreme Court opens the 1971 72 term with two vacancies delaying rulings on capital punishment and other major issues after Black died and Harlan is ill. Justice Douglas is now the senior associate. Brennan moves up one place. The court will issue rulings from Oct. 12 and 27 to winter due to vacancies, delaying decisions on Lake Michigan pollution, suspect questioning, and verdicts by nonunanimous juries.
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Hampton
Brucene Smith
United States
London
Brucene
Washington
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
John M. Harlan
Black
Harlan
Warren E. Burger
William D. Douglas
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Burger
William J. Brennan Jr
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
Harry A. Blackman
Pentagon
Vietnam
Lake Michigan
North Little Rock VA Hospital to be replaced in five years
Senator John L. McClellan announced the North Little Rock Veterans Hospital will be replaced in about five years. Immediate improvements totaling 347000 will be completed in about six months, funded by the Veterans Administration. The work includes air conditioning, extra electrical power, and partitioning of bed areas, following an investigation McClellan requested.
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North Little Rock
John L. McClellan
North Little Rock Veterans Hospital
McClellan
Veterans Administration
Donald &. Johnson
Deadly Sunday on Arkansas Highways Raises Toll
The Associated Press reports Sunday was deadly on Arkansas roads with 14 weekend fatalities. Five died in Phillips County from a head on collision on Arkansas 44 near Wabash, including A B Otey and Clyde Roy. Three died near Brinkley on Arkansas 17, while two perished near Osceola. Victims included Ora Lee Gardner Derrick Hart and Ike Hart of Elaine, plus others later identified as Morris Stafford Tim Banks Russell Tackette and Freddy Fitts.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Phillips County
Brinkley
Osceola
Arkansas 44
Wabash
A. B. Otey
Elaine
Clyde Roy
Fort Wayne
Ind
Roy
Otey
Ora Lee Gardner
Derrick Hart
Ike Hart
Marriel Marshall
Lambrook
Patricia Hart
Arkansas 17
Morris Stafford
Tim Banks
Russell Tackette
Freddy Fitts
Ministers Plan to Rebuild World Finances Now
Finance ministers at a five day meeting adopt a work agenda to reform the international monetary system. They aim to move away from the dollar and gold toward SDRs as a possible new reserve asset while seeking a longer term overhaul to restore stable world trade and payments.
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Sterling F. Green
Associated Press
Washington
M&nation Conference of Finance Ministers
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
London
Bretton Woods
IMF
Bretton Woods Asagreement
U.S
United States
Europe
Southeast Asia
Labor Party in Trouble in Britain
Britain’s opposition Labor party opens its 70th annual convention torn by disputes over Europe. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson leads a split with the party opposing entry to the European Common Market, arguing it would harm British living standards under the Heath government.
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Ahihun
Gavshon Associated Press
Brighton
England
Britain
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
Edward Heath
Europe
Rogers Presses UN to Keep Nationalist China Seat
Secretary of State William P. Rogers urged the United Nations not to oust Nationalist China, warning that expulsion is perilous. He called for reopening the Suez Canal as a major peace step, outlined a six point agenda, and urged equal access to Berlin while urging Red China be integrated into the UN rather than excluded. Rogers also noted Soviet discussions on arms limits would resume in Vienna and pressed for an interim Suez settlement with Israel.
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Oy Lewis Gulick
Associated Press
United Nations, N.Y
William P. Rogers
United Nations
China
U.S
Vienna
East Germany
Berlin
Europe
Rogers
Peking
United States
Taiwan
Israel
Suez
National Fire Prevention Week Observed in Hope
Fire Chief James Cobb announced Hope Fire Department observed National Fire Prevention Week from October 3 to 9. The department answered 98 calls this year, with 25 false alarms and 73 small fires such as car, trash, and grass blazes extinguished quickly. He thanked Hope citizens for cooperation and support.
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James Cobb
Hope Fire Department
Citizens of Hope
Hope Department
Cobb
Big Victory for Thieu in Vietnam Election Margin Big
Saigon officials announced Thieu won re election by a margin well above 50 percent amid charges of rigging by opposition politicians. A national center said Thieu received 91.5 percent with 5.5 percent against him, while 3 percent were unaccounted for. Discrepancies cited included stolen ballots in Da Nang and possible voter confusion. Turnout exceeded 87 percent of over seven million registered voters. In Dallas Dorothy Malone, star of Peyton Place, married Charles Huston Bell, a motel executive.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
National Election Center
Thieu
Wu Khanh
da Nang
Dallas, Tex
Dorothy Malone
Charles Huston Bell
Dallas
Miss Malone
Bell
North Vietnamese resupply drive may start earlier this year
Washington reports U S officials expect a dry season resupply push via the Ho Chi Minh trail to begin by mid October. Analysts say Hanoi aims to gain weeks to compensate for tonnage lost during the past season as U S interdiction and South Vietnamese operations reduced throughflow. U S reconnaissance notes heavy road construction in the Laotian Panhandle and a new route from Ban Ravine Pass north of the DMZ to support the truck shuttle.
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Washington
Ho Chi Minh Trail
U.S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Pentagon
Laos
Laotian Panhandle
North Vietnam
Ban Raving Pass
Demilitarized Zone
All Around Town Highlights Cap Browning at Reforger 111
Captain Larry Joe Browning, son of Mrs Grady Browning, to take part in Exercise Reforger 111 in Germany in October. Browning, a Fort Riley officer and 1st Infantry Division Medical Supply Chief, is a Hope High and Henderson State alum with Bronze Star and Vietnamese Service Ribbons. Also in town updates on police weekly report, Connie Hendrix named secretary of the University of Arkansas Press Club, and local events and notices including Republican dinner speaker Charles Bernard and Whitfield Lodge meeting.
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Larry Joe Browning
Grady Browning
Browning
Germany
Hope High School
Henderson State College
Sara Janet
Fort Riley
Kansas
1St Infantry Division
Connie Hendrix
Hope
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
Connie
Lloyd Hendrix
Hope High
Arkansas Traveler
U of A
Plane hijack ends in triple murder in Nashville Jacksonville
Real estate salesman George Mallory Giffe Jr 34 abducted his estranged wife Susan 25 aboard a private jet in Nashville then hijacked toward Atlanta. After landing in Jacksonville FBI and police found Giffe dead from self inflicted wounds, Susan shot dead along with pilot Brent Quinton Downs. Co pilor Randall Crump unhurt. Bobby Wallace 32 charged with air piracy.
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F. T. Macfeely
Associated Press
Jacksonville, Fla
Nashville
Giffe
FBI
Downs
Atlanta
Bahamas
Jacksonville International
Bobby Wayne Wallace
Randall Crump
Jim O'Connor
Wallace
Peabody College
Giffes
Big Brother Aircraft, Inc
Fulbright Urges End to Import Surcharge
Sen. J. W. Fulbright urges dropping the 10 percent surcharge on imports under Nixon wage-price freeze. In a letter to Arkansas constituents he warns retention may prompt other nations to levy surcharges on U.S. exports, harming Arkansas rice and poultry exports as well as cotton products.
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Little Rock
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Nixon
Arkansas
Fulbright
United States
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