North Vietnamese Armor Moves Into DMZ Panhandle
The North Vietnamese army has shifted tanks and armored units into the region above the DMZ. U.S. analysts see potential aims to counter South Vietnamese ground actions or pressure Laos routes, with heavy Soviet tanks and self propelled guns sighted near Vinh. The buildup suggests a strengthened tank force in the panhandle and possible permanent deployment.
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Fred
Hoffman AP
Wester Washington
Demilitarized Zone
Pentagon
U.S
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Dmz
North Vietnamese
Panhandle
Vinh
South Vietnam
United States
Southeast Asia
North Vietnamese Panhandle
Young Demos Select Delegates in Arkansas
The Arkansas Young Democrats elected 12 voting delegates for the national YD convention November 17 to 22 at Hot Springs. Delegates include Bob Gibson Jonesboro Herbie Branscum Little Rock Sid Gibson Dermott Jerry Evans Searcy Doug Rawn Little Rock Clay Portis Lepanto Mary Ann Scoggins Pine Bluff Q Byrum Hurst Jr Hot Springs Larry Torgerson Arkadelphia Betty Crays Little Rock Judith Rogers North Little Rock and Donnie Burks Benton.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Young Democrats
Hot Springs
Bob Gibson
Jonesboro
Herbie Branscum
Lite Rock
Sid Gibson
Dermott
Jerry Evans
Searcy
Doug Rawn
Littl Rock
Clay Portis
Lepanto
Mary Ann Scoggins
Pine Bluff
Q. Byrum Hurst Jr
Larry Torgerson
Arkadelphia
Betty Crays
Judith Rogers
North Little Rock
Donnie Burks
Benton
Emergency Landing Near Interstate 10 in Arkansas
Two Raleigh men Malcolm Martin 33 and Steve Martin 28 escaped injury when their single engine plane made an emergency landing on Interstate 10 near Little Rock. The elder Martin piloting said a fuselage section ripped away and entangled the tail gear during the landing.
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Little Rock
Raleigh, N.C
Interstate 10
Here
State Polo
Malcolm Martin
Steve Martin
Martin
Administration Moves to Activate Its Post Freeze Machinery
Vice President Agnew reports solid assurances Greece will continue to support NATO on the southern flank. In Athens he meets Premier Papadopoulos and military leaders, calls talks useful, and heads to Gargalianos for a family-linked visit. Greece awards Agnew a grand cross and hints at future political success. The Nixon administration moves to activate postfreeze measures on wages, prices, and trade barriers, with Pay Board and Price Commission setup and talks with Paris partners on import surcharges and export barriers.
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Athens
Spiro T. Agnew
Greece
Atlantic Alliance
George Papadopoulos
Agnew
Gargalianos
United States
Armed Forces Command
ATO
Papadopoulos
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
George Zoitakis
Constantine
George I
Zoitakis
Bill Neikirk
Associated Press
Washington
U.S
Pay Board and Price Commission
$90,000 Judgment in Hempstead Circuit Court for land taken by highway
In Hempstead Circuit Court on Friday a jury awarded Ned Purtle and his wife $90,000 for land taken by the Arkansas Highway Department for Interstate 30. The highway cut through the Purtle ranch. Other actions include Ira Lee West pleading guilty to vending machine burglary and receiving a three year sentence. Cleve Arthur Miller and his wife Anetta Jane Miller pled guilty to check fraud with insufficient funds, receiving suspended terms of 10 and five years respectively. Terry York pled guilty to burglary and grand larceny related to looting a home, receiving a 10 year suspended sentence.
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Hempstead
Ned Purtle
Arkansas Highway Department
Purtle
Ira Lee West
Charlie Graham
North Hazel
Cleve Arthur Miller
Anetta Jane Miller
Terry York
Larry B. Powell
Mailbag Bulletins told of public office longevity and other trivia
New York AP columnist notes public office may extend life by about six months for elected officials based on a Metropolitan Life study of congressmen and governors from 1891 to 1968. The piece blends diverse trivia on nature, value of radium, household tips, pollen pollution, memorable quotes, and birth risks.
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Hal Burien
NEW York
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Brown Guarded After Shootout At Roosevelt Hospital
New York AP. H Rap Brown photographed in fair condition after a gun battle with police at a bar raid. He and three other men were captured. Brown fled to a rooftop before capture. Detective guards and FBI checks identified him. bond set at 150000. Patrolman Hunt wounded. Jackson calls for impartial probe.
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Larry Simmberg
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
H. Rap Brown
Roosevelt Hospital
Brown
West 85Th Street
Mary Hunt
Chicago
Jesse Jackson
Operation Breadbasket
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jackson
Manhattan
Percy Sutton
FBI
Ellicott City
Cambridge
Hunt
Classes at UA as Usual After Razorbacks Victory
Fayetteville Arkansas AP reports that despite the Razorbacks win over Texas, University of Arkansas classes will be held as usual today and Monday. President Dr David Mullins praised the team’s victory while confirming no class suspension.
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Fayetteville
Ark
University of Arkansas
Razorbacks
Texas
Razorback
David Mullins
Weekend on Highways Is Deadly
Ten persons died on the states highways during a 54 hour weekend period ending Sunday at midnight. Rain slick roads and fog caused several crashes. Victims include Gearlene Cardwell 24 of Springdale Eugene Wilson 20 of Marvell James R Glass 51 of Emmett Tressie Barrow 88 near Jacksonville Kenneth Cornwell 37 of Amagon Bertie Helmsley 74 of Batesville Greg Millikin 5 of Newport Suzanne Ruth Gaskill 22 of Midway James Knight 81 of North Little Rock Kenneth R Reddell 23 of Lurton.
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Associated Press
Gearlene Cardwell
Springdale
Arkansas 68
Eugene Wilson
Marvell
Arkansas 1
James R. Glass
Emmett
U.S. 67
Gordon
Tressie Barrow
Jacksonville
Kenneth Cornwell
Amagon
Jackson County
Arkansas 113
Morriston
Bertie Helmsley
Batesville
Greg Millikin
Newport
Millikin
Jesse Millikin
U.S. 167
Suzanne Ruth Gaskill
Midway
Baxter County
Arkansas 5
James Knight
North Little Rock
Pulaski- Saline
Kenneth R. Reddell
Lurton
Newton County
Arkansas
Jasper
Moist Air Flows Over Arkansas Weather Outlook
Moist Gulf air continued into Arkansas raising the chance of showers and thundershowers. A high pressure system over the Atlantic Coast drives southeasterly flow as a cold front nears Tuesday. The front will cross the state Tuesday with fog lifting to partly cloudy skies and highs in the 70s to 80s. Temperatures varied from about 74 to 83 across locations including Du tudu and Jonesboro.
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Associated Press
Gulf
Arkansas
National Weather Service
Atlantic
The
Weather Service
Rockies
Youth Charged in Bombing Attempt in Arkansas
Fayetteville police and federal agents charged 17 year old Mark Charles Vancel with using an incendiary device and unlawful possession of a destructive device after an attempted bombing Friday night at the Old Main building on the University of Arkansas campus. A preliminary hearing was set for today in Fayetteville.
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Fayetteville
Act
Mark Charles Vancel
University of Arkanas
FBI
Vandel
Series Celebration in Pittsburgh Turns Into Rampage
A World Series victory celebration in Pittsburgh devolved into a disorderly riot with widespread looting and sexual activity. Police reported about 100 injured, 300 arrests, multiple rapes, public sex, and extensive property damage as crowds swelled downtown. Fireworks and gunfire confusion accompanied the chaos.
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Pittsburgh
David M. Thompson
Associated Press Writers
Supreme Court orders new trial in Sharp County burglary
Arkansas Supreme Court in a 5 2 decision grants Charles Durham a new burglary trial after ruling an invalid search warrant tainted evidence. The conviction is reversed. Justice J Fred Jones Dissenting opinion, joined by Chief Justice Carleton Harris, criticizes the ruling. Durham was linked to May 23 1970 burglaries at E C Hardin and Neal James homes. Hardin reported seeing Durham flee in a pickup and later found a rifle in Durham’s truck. Sheriff Ray Martin and Hardin swore warrants before Justice Lucian J Lee.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
Charles Durham
Sharp County
Durham
J. Fred Jones
Carleton Harris
E. C. Hardin
Neal James
Hardin
Ray Martin
Justice of the Peace
Lucian J. Lee
Law- Lee
Administration pushes larger farm subsidies to curb surpluses
The Agriculture Department proposes boosting farm crop subsidies by up to 1 billion dollars next year to reduce feed production including corn sorghums and barley. The plan aims to idle tens of millions of acres, raise payments on remaining grain, and avert a new era of surpluses and low prices amid 1971 record corn output.
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Dun Kendall
Washington
Nixon Administration
Agriculture Department
Des Moines
Iowa
Dallas
Tex
All Around Town a Hope college paper earns eighth ACL rating
Linda Tye of Hope works on Southern State College Bray staff as the paper earns its eighth consecutive All America rating from the Associated College Press. Other items note a Cancer Seminar in Texarkana, a University of Arkansas bull sale total of 19325, and local law enforcement reports.
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Linda Tye
Hope
Southern State College Bray
Associated College Press
Linda
James Tye
Rt. 2
Hope High School
Crash Kills U S Official and Eight Others
Former U S Commissioner of Education James E Allen Jr his wife Florence and eight others died when Scenic Airways Cessna 402 crashed in snow covered Pine Mountain area about 40 miles north of Peach Springs Arizona Investigations continue by N T S B and A A A.
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Peach Springs
Ariz
U.S
James E. Allen Jr
Florence
Grand Canyon
Scenic Airways
Pine Mountain
Arizona-Nevada
John Siebold
Air Taxi Service
Allen
Wayne Leeth
Las Vegas
Siebold
Elkins
W.va
Nixon
Southeast Asia
New York
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Leeth
Canyon
National Transportation Safety Board
Federal Aviation Administration
Hope Observes National Business Women's Week 1971
Hope marks National Business Women's Week October 17 to 23 1971 with a BPW Club program led by Dee McMurrough president including a Thursday coffee hour from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m and 2 p.m to 4 p.m. The event emphasizes action programs and legislative advocacy under the Era of Responsibility theme.
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Hope Business and Professional Women’s Club
Magnolia
Dee MacMurrough
Mary Anita Laseter
Opal Hervey
Charlene Wiggins
la Vela Messer
Judy Reyenga
Mary Jane Reyenga
Cindy Roberts
Mona Howe
Tin Gunter
All of Hope
Dee McMurrough
Hope Business and Professional Club
National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Melvin Thrash
Donna Smith
Norma Jean Delaney
LaVela Mauser
Mary Anita Laster
Mary Andrews
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David
Dillon
Arkansan
Gainesville
James Miser
Bull Shoals
Missouri Highway Patrol
Miser
Star
Mary Burn
R.N
E. Johnson
Virginia Cain
Ning Tate
L.P.N
Jess Barnes
P.A
Branch General Hospital
Texarkana
Milton Davis
University of Arkansas Agriculture Experiment Station
Wayne Mclaughlin
Mineral Springs
Mark Armstrong
Exumet
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
New Orleans
Lake Texarkana
Hope City Police Department
Seuwutaster
Olen Overurt
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