Free textbooks versus teacher salaries spark tax debate
Arkansas education leaders clash as A. W. Ford touts free textbooks and a $1000 salary hike for teachers while Forrest Rozzell of the AEA opposes diverting funds. The editor warns against draining surplus funds, fearing future tax increases and a failed salary boost, echoing a long‑ago prophecy about sales tax raises.
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Rozzell
State Wales
Eighth Cucuit Court of Appeals
St.uis
Forrest Rozzell
Witnesses Prepare for Circuit Assembly Event
Jehovah's Witnesses district representative J. C. Howard led a Tuesday night meeting in Greenwood Street as the congregation gears up for a circuit assembly at city park October 14 to 16. A missionary service will invite residents, a new film titled God Can Lie will be shown, and more than 600 gates will be gathered for the event with free public admission.
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Spruce
Ward
Mynward
Christus
Traffic safety panel addresses driving improvement program
Sixty five Extension Homemakers heard Don Griscom State Farm Bureau safety director outline an eight hour Driver Improvement Program. Participants included George Frazier Roy Anderson Insurance Alvin Wills Hope police chief and Fred Ellis Jr of Hope High School with Milton Mosier Arkansas State Police. The session covered accident causes human and economic losses and youth safety education efforts.
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Extension
Homemakers County
Experiment Station Hut
Don Griscom
State Farm Bureau
George Frazier
Roy Anderson Insurance Agency
Alvin Wills
Fred O. Ellis, Jr
Fred
Delores McBride
Fred O. Ellis Jr
Hope High School
Extension Homemaker’s Council
Ernest Graham
Alvin Wilelis
Fred C. Ellis, Jr
Milton Mosier
Arkansas State Police
Sick of Cleanup Talk Spurs Arkansas Highway Panel
Little Rock AP report notes Highway Commission Chairman Wayne Hampton expresses frustration at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Johnson over calls to purge the Highway Department. Hampton insists no wrongdoing exists and challenges a special meeting if any new evidence is produced, defending the commission amid Republican criticisms of certain road projects.
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Little Rock
Highsway Commission
Wayne Hampton
Jim Johnson
Highway Department
Commission
Hampton
Americans Win Nobel Awards for Medicine in 1966
STOCKHOLM AP reports two American professors share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr Peyton Rous of Rockefeller University New York and Dr Charles B Higgins of Chicago University Hospital are honored for discoveries aiding cancer research and tumor immunity.
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Stockholm
Peyton Rous
Rockefeller University
New York
Charles B. Huggins
Chicago University Hospital
Morrilton to Expand Plant for 172 New Jobs
Crompton-Arkansas Mills will invest 4.34 million to expand its Morrilton plant, adding 172 jobs. The 18 year old facility employs 640 in a 270000 square foot site that produces unfinished corduroy and sends it to Osceola and Virginia for finishing.
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Morrilton, Ark
Crompton-Arkansas Mills, Inc
Osceola
Virginia
Johnson in Praise of All But GOP
Arkansas governor hopeful Jim Johnson blasts opponent Winthrop Rockefeller and Democrats who won t vote Democratic. He pledges intensified campaigning from Fort Smith with a telecast and promises for youths women the elderly and teachers while inviting aid from Faubus and other Democrats. Johnson attacks Rockefeller for relying on others and endorses a direct approach to governance.
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Fort Smith
Art
Jim Johnson
Johnson
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansas
New York
Orval) Faubus
Viet Nam
Rockefeller
Faubus
Actics
Hempstead County Singing Convention at Avery Chapel
The Hempstead County Singing Convention will be held at Avery Chapel Methodist Church on Saturday and Sunday October 15 and 16. Singing starts 7 30 p m Saturday and 10 30 a m Sunday. Lunch served at noon Sunday. Attendees invited. Harold Duke president Aubrey Cox vice president Lillian Roberts secretary treasurer. Paper Mill for Deridder La. West Memphis Ark AP Boise Cascade plans a 65 million pulp and paper mill near Deridder Louisiana on 1900 acres. Production starts 1969. Weeks sales manager says part of output to 33 5 million box plant in West Memphis.
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Hempstead County
Avery Chapel Methodist Church
Harold Duke
Aubrey Cox
Lillian Roverts
Deridder
West Memphis
Ark
Boise Cascade Corp
Neridder
Container
Boise Cascade
Alvin J. Weeks
Louisiana
Bec
Weeks
Rape Strangler manhunt expands in Cincinnati reports
A massive Cincinnati manhunt unfolds after a rapist strangler struck for the fourth time in ten months. City officials order unlimited police overtime and press firefighters into duty as investigators seek the assailant and review six other unsolved slayings including a suburban couple and their daughter.
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Cincinnati
Oho
Wiliam c. Wichman
Alice Hochhausler
Hochhausler
Good Samaritan Hospital
Elizabeth
AP News Digest
Johnson
New York City
Compedienne
Jean Arthur
Public works bill allocates 25 million for Red River basin
The Senate approved a compromise public works measure sending about 25 million dollars for Red River basin projects across Texas Arkansas Oklahoma and Louisiana. Funds cover construction planning studies and operation maintenance for reservoirs dams levees and riverbank work with several named projects including Hugo Pine Creek Dierks and Broken Bow reservoirs and related levee improvements.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Red River Basin
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
East Point
Broken Bow
Okla
Pine Creek
Pat Mayse
Tex
Lake Kemp
Hugo
Lukiata
Waurika
Oxla
Bayou Bodeau
SS Office Opens Late Thursdays in Texarkana
Texarkana Social Security office will stay open Thursdays until 8 45 p.m. District Manager Otis A Blackwood announced extended hours to accommodate workers and others unable to reach the office during normal hours. If demand remains, Thursday hours 8 00 a.m. to 6 45 p.m. will continue indefinitely at 121 College Drive, phone 792 2735 or 792 6271.
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Texarkana
College Drive
All Around Town Highlights From Hope October Events
Community notes from Hope cover a Monday October 17 prayer breakfast at 6 30 a m at the Diamond due to the United Fund breakfast on October 18. Devotion by Guy Basye and contact for women basketball by Velora Bright or Charlotte Gibson at 75288 after p m. DAR thanks helpers for Constitution Week success. Note on ROTC promotion for a Hope student at LSU and Marine Sgt L H Sampson tied to a Don Lam area operation with Viet Cong losses. Also mentions Arthur and Mrs Wimmerl returning from a Mexico City Acapulco tour and a 2 700 mile driving trip highlighting varied Mexican scenery.
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Diamond
United Fund
Guy Basye
Arthur Wimmerl
McCaskill
Mexico City
Acapulco
San Antonio
Mexico
LBJ Fears Backlash in Brooklyn Plea
President Johnson campaigns in Delaware after an antibacklash plea in Brooklyn. He warns the nation could falter if too many Republicans win in November and urges voters to choose a strong Democratic Congress. Johnson frames the party as delivering aid for the aged antipoverty and other reforms.
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LBJ
Brooklyn
Wilmington
Del
Johnson
Delaware
Volu
N.Y
Democratic Party
GE Strike Talks Reach Dead Center In Labor Dispute
Washington AP reports negotiations to avert a General Electric strike de scribed as dead center by a White House mediation panel. About 125000 workers in 11 unions threaten a 12:01 a.m. Monday walkout, with government urging a settlement to protect war effort production in Viet Nam.
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General Electric Co
Con Tinue
White House
Trm
U.S
Viet Nam
John T. Condor
Paul Jennings
Afl-Cio International Union of Electrical Workers
Johnson
New York
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Labor Federation
Detroit Bank Seized in $1 Million Red Ink Collapse
The Public Bank of Detroit, nine years old and over $1 million in the red, failed Wednesday. It was taken by the Bank of the Commonwealth, which said all deposits are safe. FDIC named receiver after involuntary bankruptcy petition. assets and deposits sold to the Bank of the Commonwealth. A Nov. 3 hearing was set for objections.
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Detroit
Public Bank of
Bank of the Commonwealth
James H. Mee Guire
Michigan
Charles D. Slay
Wayne County
Benjamin Burdick
Slay
Burdick
Federal Depsit Insurance Corp
FDIC
Bank of the Commons Wealth
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Dwigh Walton
Dan Jones
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