Six Complaints Grow Over Out-of-State Ad Return Labels
Our Daily Bread notes six readers complain of paying $1 plus 25c for 1000 return address labels from Southland Products in Cardwell Missouri after an advertisement from July. The Star warns it will file with public authorities if no reply by next week, citing potential fraud by mail and suggesting actions through state and federal agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southland Products
Dept. 518
Cardwell
Southland
Missouri
Star
Consumer Protection Division
State Attorney General’s Office
Justice Building
Little, Rock, Ark
Federal Trade Commission
South Ervay
Dallas
Texas
U.S. Postal Service
Debates Tonight: Mondale Dole Score-Curring Panel
AP reports a panel of college debate coaches will score Mondale and Dole in a 75 minute vice presidential debate aired on TV and radio at 9 30 p m EDT. The scoring uses six categories from 1 to 5 points. Ford and Carter led the prior two debates with one win each.
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Washington
Walter Mondale
Bob Dole
Ford
Carter
Mondale
Dole
American Forensic Association
Soviet Union
Powell
R-Kans
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Houston
Williamsburg
Garrison attacks off campus limits at state board hearing
Henderson State University President Martin B. Garrison told the Arkansas State Board of Higher Education that forces seek to limit education to those near a campus. He urged full funding of off campus courses, citing cost savings and attendance centers at Mena DeQueen and Hope. He urged inclusion over exclusion to preserve quality education in Arkansas.
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Little Rock Henderson State University
Martin B. Garrison
Arkansas State Board of Higher Education
Arkansas
Little Rock
Department of Higher Education
Garrison
Southwestern Arkansas
Mena
DeQueen
Hope
Pryor proposes major income tax cuts and local funding shift
Gov. Pryor unveils a plan to reduce Arkansas income tax by up to 50 percent, with an average 25 percent cut and up to 50 percent for low income earners. The proposal would abolish state turnback funds and reallocate federal revenue sharing funds to cities and counties, sparking opposition from the Arkansas Municipal League and questions about Highway Department funding.
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Little Rock
David Pryor
Pryor
General Assembly
Arkansas Municipal League
del Goldberg
House
Goldberg
Legislative Council
Highway Department
Economic growth seen at five percent next year
The Business Council predicts 5 percent GDP growth for 1977 with unemployment easing only to about 6.5 percent and inflation at roughly 5.5 percent. Despite a Ford or Carter win, executives expect little change in policy impact and warn wage and cost pressures may slow inflation relief.
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Hot Springs
Business Council
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Ford Administration
DeQueen City Manager W. E. White Jr dies at 47
W. E. White Jr. died Thursday at his DeQueen home from an apparent heart attack. A former Hope Chamber of Commerce president and Hempstead United Fund treasurer, he led Hope Water and Light Plant and served as a Presbyterian elder. Survived by wife Wanda, sister Martha Solomon, mother Mrs. W. E. White Sr., and other relatives. funeral Saturday at Herndon chapel with burial at Rose Hill cemetery under Herndon Funeral Home direction.
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W.E. “Gene” White Jr
DeQueen
Ark
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Hempstead United Fund
Hope Water and Light Plant
Lambda Chi Alpha
University of Arkansas
Presbyterian Church
Wanda
Martha Solomon
Dallas
W.E. White Sr
Hope
Nice
Herndon Chapel
Roger Williamson
Ralph Madison
Rose Hill Cemetery
Herndon Funeral Home
Mondale Dole to Debate Tonight at Houston Alley Theater
In a one night campaign duel in Houston the Democratic Mondale and Republican Dole argue on stage at Alley Theater beginning 9 30 p m EDT. The 75 minute session differs from presidential debates with a responsive format and is sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
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Houston
U.S. Senate
Texas
Walter Mondale
Bob Dole
Alley
Dole
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Mondale
Carter
League of Women Voters
Syrians and Palestinians claim key town near Beirut
Syrian and Palestinian forces both claim control of Bhamdoun east of Beirut as fighting rages. The Syrian drive reaches toward Aley while another column advances four miles toward Sidon. Palestinian casualties are reported without figures. Yasir Arafat appeals for Arab aid.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Sidon
Beirut-Damascus
Bhamdoun
Aley
Cairo
Damascus
Egypt
Alliance
Yasir Arafat
Arab Nations
Nobel committee withholds 1976 Peace Prize in Oslo
The Nobel committee of the Norwegian parliament decided not to award the 1976 Peace Prize. The $160,000 prize money will be reserved for 1977, a move repeated ten times since World War I. Possible nominees included Mexican President Luis Echeverria and Sister Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
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Nobel Committee
Oslo
Norway
Nobel Foundation
Nobel Institute
Tim Grove
Luis Echeverria
Mother Theresa
Calcutta
India
Carter considers equal time response to Ford accusation
President Ford assailed Jimmy Carter as slandering the United States during a Washington news conference. Carter and aides weighed asking the FCC for equal time to reply while Ford defended his actions and noted corrected remarks on Soviet domination.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Carter
Watergate
Michigan
Europe
United States
New York
Queens
Jody Powell
Federal Communications Commission
Amerca
Vietnam
Angola
Lifers Escape from Arkansas Prison in Early Morning Break
Allen Frank Davis, 52, on life with death sentence commuted in 1969, fled from Arkansas Correction Department Livestock Production Center in Booneville. A horse and saddle disappeared. Davis unarmed, eight miles from town, roadblocks in place. He killed his wife Sharon in 1967 at a Hot Springs laundromat. her mother Pauline Knight wounded.
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Booneville, Ark
Allen Frank Davis
Winthrop Rockefeller
Correction Department
Tim Baltz
Davis
Rockefeller
Baltz
Booneville
Sharon
Pauline Knight
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L. Peng
Times
HSU
Council
John deButts
American Telephone & Telegraph
Duesseldorf
West Germany
Harvard University
John Kenneth Galbraith
John F. Kennedy
W.E. White
V.P
Dale
Ronald Reagan
California
John Connally
Albert Schweitzer
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
Albert Lutuli
Linus Pauling
C. B
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