War Eagle Arts and Crafts Fair Grows for 13th Year
Our Daily Bread reports on the War Eagle Arts and Crafts Fair as it expands under the Northwest Arkansas Handicrafts Guild. Eureka Springs hosts the event with 175 exhibitors from Missouri Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas. The Ozarks Crafts Fair Association now oversees operations with a permanent exhibit building and executive director Mrs Blanche Elliott. A photo crew plans to publish color and black and white spreads highlighting the event and its vendors.
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L. Carter Johnson
Parks
War Eagle
Sony
Johnson
Eurekaots
Ozarks
Eureka
Reka
Basin Park
Theorthwest Arkansas Hand Havers Guild
Ozarkssts & Crafts Fair Association, Re
Iitbit
Blanche Elliott
Lester
Ste
Eat
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Road Issue Big One Politically
Winthrop Rockefeller pledges to fire the Highway Commission if elected governor, a move aimed to influence voters. The GOP faces a potential bypass for Pine Bluff as Rockefeller vows action, while Democrat Johnson promises to make the bypass a top priority in his administration.
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Wariman C
Dunlap
Associated Press
Winthrop Rockefeller
Prome
GOP
Democratic Party
Im Johnson
Rockefeller
Pine
Johnson
Pine Bluff
State Court Affirms Stuttgart Zoning Law
Arkansas Supreme Court upheld Stuttgart zoning ordinance denying land value loss claims by Baldwin Shoe Co. over a 48,000 gallon gasoline storage tank near Stuttgart Shoe Real Estate Corp. plant. Justices noted council considered safety concerns. separate rulings affirmed Farrar robbery conviction appeal and Warren liquor conviction in Dry County case.
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Little Rock
UPI
Arkansas Supreme Court
Stuttgart
Arkansas County Chancery Court
Baldwin OW Co
Stuttgart Shoe Real Estate Corp
William Farrar
Lee County
Farrar
Lafayette O’donald
Don Warren
Sharp County
Warren
Mock Vote By North Vernon Students Delayed By Politicians
North Vernon High School pupils postponed their mock election after local politicians objected, fearing the results could influence adults. Since 1956 the event has forecasted upset Democratic wins, including Hartke Bayh Welsh, with the real vote set for November 8. In Britain a church report on sex and morality topped best seller lists, prompting a fourth printing of 20,000 copies after selling out its first printing on release day.
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North Vernon, Ind
North Vernon High School
Vance Hartke
Birch Bayh
Matthew Welsh
London
Britain
Martian planets target sterilization lab at JPL
Pasadena AP reports a 1.5 million dollar facility at Jet Propulsion Laboratory to keep earth microbes from hitching rides to Mars and Venus. A 1000 square foot clean room will sterilize Voyager parts before launch in the 1970s. Testing begins mid 1967 as unmanned Voyagers approach Mars and Venus to probe life possibilities.
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Pasadena
Calif
Mars
Venus
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Voyager
Survivor of Air Crash Loses Job
London AP reports Jean Chapman a 21 year old air stewardess and survivor of a Yugoslav crash that claimed 98 lives has lost her Britannia Airways job. Managing director J E D Williams said the company is protecting her interests and that continuing to employ her could have affected her legal claim regarding the crash.
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London
Jean Chapman
Yugoslavia
J. E. D. Williams
Britannia Airways
Jean
President Johnson Viet Nam schedule at Manila summit
President Johnson’s Manila summit agenda shows activities from 10 a.m. through 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, including a private meeting, a working luncheon with six nations and their foreign ministers, final talks and communique, and an informal dinner at President Marcos’ palace with a native festival.
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Manila
Johnson
Viet Nam
Marcos
U S Seeks Prisoner Exchange in Viet Nam Talks
The United States urges the Manila summit to include a bid for a prisoner swap with North Vietnam in the final statement to be signed Tuesday. Washington says Hanoi holds over 100 Americans and refuses direct talks, while Saigon shows some openness to exchanges. The only North Vietnamese known to be held are 19 sailors captured after PT boats were sunk.
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Fred 8. Hoffman
Manila
United States
North Viet Nam
Washington
International Red Cross
Hanoi
Red Cross
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Viet Nam
Red Cavity
Saigon
Viet Nam
Johnson to Sign Most Legislation Passed by Congress
President Johnson is expected to sign nearly all the bills approved by Congress in its rush to adjournment. Major items include a 6.1 billion elementary and secondary school aid package, a 1.26 billion demonstration cities program, and a potential 30 million campaign fund for each party in the 1968 election. The two-year federal outlay reaches a record 263 billion dollars, with 144 billion this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oy Dick Bart Washington
Johnson
Congress
United States
Fighting in Viet Nam in a Lull
AP dispatch from Saigon notes small scale fighting flared in scattered South Viet Nam sections while overall war activity remained in a lull. monsoon thunderstorms reduced US air strikes against North Viet Nam. Viet Cong mortars hit South Vietnamese outposts in the central highlands and northern provinces, with US forces countering near Da Nang and the DMZ. Casualties for US Marines and a 173rd Airborne unit were reported with limited detail.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Manila
Hue
Central Highlands
Reds
U.S. 173Rd Airborne Brigade
da Nang Airfield
House Wiring Data to Be Discussed at Local Meetings
Local meetings on Sound Construction and Wiring and Lighting will offer training by Raymond C. Benz October 25 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Extension Office Conference Room. Benz covers heating cooling ventilation insulation and construction features with focus on foundations floors and roof framing. A 1 1/2 hour builders and carpenters class is set for October 25 at 7:00 p.m. Southwestern Electric Company will assist October 26 from 9:30 to 11:40 a.m. and 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Cal Caldwell and Delores McBride urge attendance for details on wiring lighting and year round conditioning.
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Extension
Raymond C. Benz
Benz
Southwestern Electric Company
Calvin Caldwell
Delores McBride
Manila Conference and Viet Nam War Developments
AP News Digest reports on the 1966 Great Society impact, Viet Nam actions, a prisoner exchange proposal at Manila, and ongoing air campaign limits due to weather. Martha Raye volunteers in a Vietnamese Army hospital. Also notes political reactions to Harold Wilson and Nixon, plus a Florida education official murder case.
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Manila
Viet Nam
U.S
United States
North
Martha Raye
International Cancer Congress
Harold Wilson
George Blake
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Democratic Party
Paul H. Douglas
GOP
Samuel H. Sheppard
Florida
Princess Beatrix Expecting First Child in April
The Netherlands government announces Crown Princess Beatrix is due to give birth in April, marking the first child for the royal heir apparent. The palace confirmed the pregnancy and anticipated due date.
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Hugue, Netherlands
Beatrix of the
Netherlands
Kindergarten Visits Local Wood Plant
The Methodist Kindergarten class toured Southwest Products Company on October 20 with Mrs Dorsey Stringfellow helping. Frank King guided the group through ladder manufacturing from lumber intake to finished product and explained pine sources from Washington and Oregon.
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Southwest Products Company
Dorsey Stringfellow
Frank King
Washington
Oregon
Whitfield Masonic Lodge to Confer Entered Apprentice Degree
All Around Town reports Whitfield Masonic Lodge No 239 will confer an Entered Apprentice Degree Tuesday October 25 at 7 30 pm All Entered Apprentice Masons are invited. Webb Laseter of the Credit Bureau of Hempstead County Inc attended a Unit meeting of Collection Agents in Vicksburg Mississippi. Judge Royce Weisenberger and Judge Lyle Brown attended a trial judges study seminar in Little Rock. A meeting of the Arkansas State Arts and Humanities and a concert and art exhibit at the capitol rotunda were noted. Mrs Lester Kent and Mr and Mrs Tommy Lee Brint left for Rochester Minnesota where Mrs Brint will be a Mayo Clinic patient. Linda Hulsey daughter of Thurston and Mrs Hulsey of Washington was Homecoming Queen for the Southern State Muleriders at Magnolia. The Southern State team won the event. Mr and Mrs E Basye and Mr and Mrs T C Crawford with Mrs G B Morris underwent surgery for the second time Friday and are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. Evangel College meeting in springfield Missouri noted. Mrs Charles Haynes of Washington attended Little Rock for an executive board meeting Tuesday. Candidate Withrop Rockefeller will be at Hope Village Shopping Center Tuesday at 1 15 pm. Browns will entertain.
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Whitfield Masonic Lodge No. 239
Royce Weisenberger
Lyle Brown
Little Rock
National College of State Trial Judges
Arkansas Bar Association
Linda Hulsey
Thurston Hulsey
Washington
Southern State
Magnolia
E. Basye
T. C. Crawford
G. B. Morris
Rey
B. J. Willhite
Mayo Clinic
Rochese Gi
Evangel College
Minn
Springfield
St. Mary’s Hospital
Johnson in Philippines for Talks at Manila Summit
AP dispatch from Manila reports U.S. General Westmoreland telling allied leaders in Viet Nam war talks that troops may rise, while President Johnson urged allied unity to fuel peace. Johnson outlined four principles including aggression’s failure, pacification, regional cooperation, and reconciliation amid ongoing combat.
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John M. Hightower
Manila
U.S
Viet Nam
Johnson
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
South Viet Nam
Arkansas Toll Hits Five in Weekend Crashes
AP reports five people died in Arkansas highway accidents from Friday evening to Sunday night. Edwin Martin Myers 11 of near Hermitage killed when motorcycle rear ended by a car driven by Roger Winningham 17 of Bison and Roger Brown 13 of Warren were aboard. John Ward 74 of Mellwood died after being struck on Arkansas 44 near Mellwood by a car driven by Mrs. B B Morgan 42 of Drumrod. Wayne Knight 31 from Richland near McGehee died when his car left Arkansas 138 near McGehee. Johnson Roosevelt 30 of Chicago died in Little Rock hospital after his car overturning on U S 65 south of Clinton. Horace Hunter 52 of Malvern killed when struck by pickup driven by James Smith 46 of Malvern on U S 270 near Hot Springs.
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Associated Press
Edwin Martin Myers
Near
Hermitage
Myers
Arkansas
Bill Watson
Roger Allen Winningham
Bison
Roger Brown
Warren
John. L. Ward
Mellwood
Helena
B. B. Morgan
Drumrod
Wayne Knight
Richland
McGehee
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H. Washburn
Big One
Hope Store
Paul Ward
Hope Star
Donal Parker
Second Street
Porterfield and Ward
James Rowe
LBJ
AP News Digest
Great Society
Princess
The
Star
Webb Laseter
Credit Bureau of Hempstead County, Inc
Vicksburg
Miss
Arkansas State Arts and Humanities
Capitol
Lester Kent
Tommy Lee Brint
Rochester
Brint
Charles 4
Haynes
Withrop Rockefeller
Hope Village
Browns
Phillipines
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