National Newspaper Week defended by editor
The writer argues newspapers are thriving amid a mechanical revolution and advertising gains. He cites upgrades at The Star, offset printing, and rising circulation, noting suburban growth and persistent urban consolidation. Gov Faubus sets a November special election date. Podgorny postpones Vienna visit due to illness.
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Star
America
Dhé
Adso
New York
Icago
Los Angeles
Dallas
Wlittle Rock
Fival Faubus
Emocrat
David Pryor
Bublican
Lynn Lowe
Faubus
Hope Woman Killed in Auto Wreck
Mrs. Faye Moody, 59, longtime Hope resident, died yesterday afternoon in a car truck collision on Highway 67 east of town. Claud II. Davis of Little Rock drove the truck. he was not hurt. Moody, a former Southwestern Bell employee, is survived by her husband Bert, two sisters, a brother in Mississippi, and several step relatives. Services set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at Walnut Street Church of Christ with burial at Memory Gardens.
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Faye Moody
Hope
Highway 67
Here
Arkansas
Wallace Martin
Ed Aslin
Henry Fenwick
Ray Turner
A.J. Rhodes
J.w.stevens
Otis Walden
Dewey Baber
Harold Hendrix
Special Meet of Homemakers Wednesday Panel on Traffic Safety
Extension Homemakers plan a Wednesday meeting at the Southwest Branch Experiment Station Spring Hill with a 10 00 a m start and 9 30 a m registration. A special panel on traffic safety chaired by Mrs Ernest Graham includes George Frazier Roy Anderson Insurance Alvin Willis Don Griscom Milton Moster and Larry Don Wright. A Safety Hat Parade with 24 members, a noon picnic, devotional by Mrs Lyle Allen, recreation by Mrs M S Riley, and activities coordinated by Mrs Ridghill and others.
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Extension
Ernest Graham
George Frazier
Roy Anderson Insurance Agency
Alvin Willis
Don Griscom
State Farm Bureau
Milton Moster
Arkansas State Police
Larry Don Wright
Rope High School
Extension Homesmaker
Ernest Ridghill
Southwest Branch Experiment Station
Spring Hill Extension Homemaker Club
Lyle Allen
M. S. Riley
Ridghill
Wiley
Cewcil Smith
Helen Light
Verner McMurtrey
Counseil
Arkansan Dies in Mo. Wreck
A two car crash eight miles east of Springfield Missouri killed Edna Miller 62 of Mountain Home Ark and seriously injured Lonzo Miller 71 Opal Wise 60 both of Mountain Home and Gus denby 62 of Rogersville Mo The Arkansan car failed to stop at a county state road intersection and struck the Denby vehicle. The Missouri Highway Patrol reported the fatalities and injuries and listed the survivor details. A separate note in Washington says the Senate Public Works Committee approved a 9360000 flood control project for Bayou Bartholomew and tributaries in Arkansas and Louisiana with a House committee action following last week.
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Springfield
Arkansan
Here
Missouri Highway Patrol
Edna Miller
Mountain Home
Ark
Lonzo M. Miller
Opal Wise
Gussie Denby
Rogersville
Washington
Senate Public Works Committee
Bayou Bartholomew
Aragansas
Louisiana
House Public Works Committee
Arkansas AEA Opposes Using Surplus for Textbooks Over Raises
The Arkansas Education Association chief Forrest Rozzell argues against diverting funds from teacher salary rises to free textbooks or other educational enhancements. He notes the state can fund a high school free textbook program and a $1000 salary increase only if budgets are tightened, while Gov Faubus and Education Commissioner Ford push for expanded aid. Rozzell urges setting fund priorities given limited resources and calls for greater per-child spending before broadening the program.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Education Association
AEA
Forrest Rozzell
Arkansas
Rozzell
A. W. Ford
Orval Faubus
Ford
General Assembly
Jim Johnson
Othe Republii
Winthrop Rockefell
Arkansas educator named director of regional diagnostic services
Dr Fay W Smith of Hot Springs is named Director of Diagnostic and Remedial Services for children in thirty districts across five South Arkansas counties with a Magnolia based Regional Center and satellite centers in Camden Prescott Hope and Lewisville. He will start October 15 in Magnolia after leading Arkansas Rehabilitation Research and Training Center.
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Magnolia
U.K
Fay W. Smith
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Carlton Hasley
Smith
Cenater
Arkansas Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
Magnolia Public Schools
South Arkansas
Camden
Prescott
Hope
Lewisville
Arkansas State Teachers College
University of Arkansas
Damascus
van Buren County
South Side High School
Bee Branch
Accidentally Shot to Death in El Dorado
El Dorado Arkansas reports the Union County coroner ruled Gendle W. Mason age 63 died from an accidental gunshot Sunday at his home south of the city. He fired a .22 rifle while alone after family members returned from a trip and died shortly after arriving at a hospital.
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EL Dorado
Ark
APS
Union County Coroner's Office
Gendle W. Mason
Doorado
Here
Mason
Soviet and U S aim for nuclear nonproliferation pact
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told President Johnson that both nations appear to seek a treaty preventing nuclear weapons spread. The State Department agreed, with talks to resume in New York led by William C. Foster. Gromyko’s White House and State Department meetings signaled a new era in U S Soviet ties, potentially easing Europe tensions and aiding Viet Nam efforts.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Andrei A. Gromyko
Johnson
State Department
Gromyko
New York
William C. Foster
U.S
White House
Dean Rusk
Jolson
Rusk
United States
Soviet Union
Europe
Viet Nam
Johnson to Save State From Win in Arkansas Rally
Conway AP Jim Johnson told about 6 000 at the Faulkner County Fairgrounds he would save Arkansas from the Rockefeller empire promising a November victory with supporters prayers. He criticized Winthrop Rockefeller and spoke with Pilkinton about party positions and church remarks while stressing unity.
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Conway
Ark
Jim Johnson
Arkansas
Rockefeller
Johnson
Faulkner County Fairgrounds
Hat Springs
Winthrop Rockefeller
Joe Basore
James Pilkinton
Pilkinton
Maurice Footsey
Britt
Pilkenton
Arkansas Democratic Party
Presbyterian Church
Academy Gets Federal Grant For Training Police Heads
Governor Faubus announced a $33,251 federal grant from the U S attorney general to the Arkansas Law Enforcement Academy for one year of training of police administrators. The funds are issued to bolster state law enforcement leadership programs.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Law — Enforcement Academy
U.S
One-car crash near Pocahontas claims life of Dorothy Gay
Dorothy Gay, 48, of Gary Indiana, died after the car she rode in veered off U S 62 two miles west of Pocahontas and struck a tree. The driver, Ted Looney 49 of near Imboden, survived. Gay was visiting relatives in the area. In Moscow, Poland's top leaders arrived for talks with Soviet officials on Viet Nam and other subjects amid signs of possible East West rapprochement.
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Associated Press
Pocahontas, Ark
Dorothy Gay
Gary
Ind
U.S. 62
Here
Weldon
Pete) Evans
Ted Looney
Imboden
Pocahontas
Moscow
Poland
China
New Appeal for Peace Plan Support
UNITED NATIONS, NY AP British Foreign Secretary George Brown seeks support for a Viet Nam peace plan in a general policy speech before the U N General Assembly. North Viet Nam and Red China reject the plan and demand U S troop withdrawal. Brown meets U S Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and plans talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to press for a Geneva Conference style settlement with free elections in Vietnam.
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George Brown
U.N. General Assembly
North Viet Nam
Red China
Brown
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
Soviet Union
Gromyko
Britain
Cochairmen
Indochina
Geneva
South Viet Nam
Gromyko Urges Talks as Johnson Seeks Nuclear Pact
AP reports Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and President Johnson appear to pursue a treaty to curb nuclear spread with State Department support. McNamara meets with South Vietnamese officials as Vietnam tensions persist amid broader cold war diplomacy. In other news Inez Storm breaks up over Mexico and Congress moves to lock administration proposals in adjournment fever.
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Atte Drel A. Gromyko
Johnson
State Department
West Germany
Europe
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Robert 8. McNamara
Inez
Mexico
Washington
Congress
George W. Culver
National
Rep
Adam Clayton Powell
New York
Rosemary Jelneck
Leopold Stokowski
Bank robber arrested after $12000 Dec ember heist
Albert Jackson Ray 43 of Dallas charged with robbery in the Dec ember First National Bank heist in Hope. He was arrested July 28 posing as a deputy after cashing a forged check. Found with a sawed off shotgun, badge, handcuffs, and forged checks. turned over to FBI. Ray’s criminal record dates to 1940 and includes murder life sentence in Oklahoma, plus numerous forgery charges.
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Albert Jackson Ray
Dallas
First National Bank
Hope
Jessie Brown
Joe McCulley
Hansford Long
Hay
Tol-E-Tex
Ray
FBI
Lawton
Okla
Oklahoma State Prison
Diehard Viet Cong Band Is Wiped Out
A five hour engagement near the central coast 28 miles northwest of Qu Nhon left 33 Viet Cong killed and eight captured. U.S. Cavalry, Air Mobile Division planes and helicopters encircled and forced surrender attempts while 350 troops pressed the fight as McNamara met South Vietnamese leaders.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Qu Nhon
Robert S. Me
Namara
North Viet Nam
Ast
Central Seas
McNamara
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Gulf of Tonkin
Viet Nam
Cotton Crop Forecast Falls to 10.7 Million Bales
Agriculture Department estimates this year's cotton output at 10,688,000 bales 500 pounds gross, down 2.8 percent from last month. September forecast was 10,992,000 bales, compared with last year’s 14,956,000 and the five year average of 14,795,000. The drop follows a government program paying growers to reduce plantings amid a 16.9 million bale surplus, with the shorter crop expected to free room for about 4 million bales of excess supply.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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Vienna
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Austria
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Phu Cat
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Russia
U. S
State
Academy
AP News Digest
The
Pro
Duction Credit Association
Hope High School
Leo Bailey Bar
Travis Ward
Libby Alderman
Ouachita Baptist University
OBU
E.a.alderman
Audubon Club
George Purvis
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Brint Odom
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