Military probe widens as Wooldridge case moves on
Army drops Wooldridge from command sergeant major list but keeps him at White Sands in another role with pay. Pentagon eyes possible court martial while investigators trace a worldwide web from Augsburg to Ft Benning and Vietnam. Sen. Ribicoff accuses a few of betraying public trust amid club‑run scams. Witnesses refuse to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment. hearings adjourn after 11th day.
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Wooldridge
White Sands Proving Ground
New Mexico
Pentagon
Augsburg
Germany
Ft. Benning
Vietnam
Iself
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate
Ribboff
Charles H. Percy
Bill
Armed Services
David L. Thomas
M. Set
William E. Higdon
Narvaez Hatcher
Symour Lazar
Lebanese Arabs in Battle in Tripoli and Beirut
The Associated Press reports running clashes in northern Tripoli between Lebanese troops and armed civilians and Arab guerrillas after a deadly day. In Beirut, Palestinians sealed the Sabra quarter with sandbag barricades and police posts were evacuated. Al Fatah guerrillas handed out machine pins to supporters amid heightened tension and curfew defiance across Lebanon.
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Associated Press
Beirut
Lebanon
Tripoli
Sabra
AL Fatah
Tripolis
Areus of
Tow
Contracts Up for Dierks Dam Projects
The Tulsa District Army Engineers will award contracts next June for relocating the Bellah Mine road in Sevier County at De Queen Dam and for building the embankment spillway outlet works and project buildings at Dierks Dam on the Saline River five miles northwest of Dierks. The overall project is about 15 percent complete and costs between 5 and 10 million dollars. De Queen Dam on the Rolling Fork River four miles northwest of De Queen is about 40 percent complete.
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Little Rock
Tulsa District of the Army Engineers
Bellah
Sevier County
de Queen Dam
Dierks Dam
Saline River
Dierks
Rolling Fork
de Queen
Standard Automotive Components
Homestead Industries
Meyers Baker
G & § Manufacturing Co., Inc
Hope Wire Products, Inc
Hope
Hope and Hempstead
Red River
EDA
Public Works and Economic Development Act
Uegency
Incumbent Mayors Face Strong Re-Election Challenges
Incumbent mayors with liberal reputations confront stiff challenges in re-election on November 4 in New York City Cleveland New Jersey and Virginia voters will choose new governors On the same day voters decide whether to lower voting ages in Ohio and New Jersey and North Carolina considers a local tax proposal Carl B Stokes of Cleveland and John Lindsay of New York rely on independent support as they seek a political term
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Associated Press
New York City
Cleveland
New Jersey
Virginia
Ohie
North Carolina
Carl B. Stokes
Cleviland
Vietnam War Vietnamization and political shifts detailed
The United States pushes Vietnamization, turning over the 18th Infantry Division base near Saigon to South Vietnam. The Black Horse camp east of Saigon houses the 11th Armored Cavalry and now the 199th Infantry Brigade, with potential 1970 withdrawals speculated. In politics, one of six alliance parties quits, claiming no gains. remaining factions are small and fragmented.
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U.S
Thicut
Senate faces diverging views on Vietnam cease fire and tax cuts
Senate debates mark a split among Republicans over a unilateral Vietnam cease-fire proposal by Senator Hugh Scott. Goldwater rejects Scott’s approach as not representing the GOP, while Scott presses for a pause in fighting amid fundraising drives in Pennsylvania. Separately, tax reform moves in the Senate shift oil and gas depletion allowances, with a partial reduction approved and further fights expected over the final rate.
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Barry Goldwater
Hugh Scott
Scott
Goldwater
White House
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U.S
Pentagon
Pennsylvania
Sharon
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Nixon
Supreme Court
Richard S. Schweiker
House
William Proxmire
D-Wise
Williams
Emma Sewell Winkler Dies in Shreveport Area
Mrs Emma Sewell Winkler died Thursday in a Shreveport LA hospital. Survivors include a daughter Mrs Comet Boyett of Hope and two sons William and Sewell Winkler, both of Shreveport. Funeral arrangements are incomplete but likely Saturday at Osburn Funeral Home in Shreveport.
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Emma Winkler
Emma Sewell Winkler
Shrevesport, la
Comet Boyett
Hope
William
Sewell Winkler
Shreveport
Osburn Funeral Hote
Kiwanis Pancake Supper Precedes Hope Magnolia Game
At 5 p.m. Friday the Kiwanis Club will serve pancakes sausage butter and syrup with milk or coffee in the High School Cafeteria before the Hope Magnolia football game. Volunteers handle cooking serving and seating. Funds support Kiwanis youth programs and a planned Hope Youth Community Center.
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Kiwanis Club
Magnolia
Kenneth Hamilton
Kiwanis
K-Park
High School Key Club
City Park
Hope
Hope Area
Weather to Turn Cooler Across Arkansas Tonight
A large high pressure system over Western Colorado will keep cooler air in Arkansas tonight through Saturday with a slight chance of showers in the northern half. Lows are expected in the 40s to low 50s. An overcast layer reached Western Arkansas with light rain in Eastern Oklahoma, but the high still pushed the min area westward. Overnight lows ranged from 39 at Jonesboro to 46 at Texarkana, with 41 at Stimson and 42 at Pie Bluff.
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Colorado
Oklahoma
Min
Blytheville
Memphis
Jonesboro
el Dorado
Stimson
Pie Bluff
Little Rock
Fayetteville
Fort Smith
Texarkang
Weather report for Arkansas through Oct 24 1969
Friday through Saturday outlook shows considerable cloudiness with a chance of showers mainly in the north half today and tonight. Highs in the 60s, lows in the 40s to low 50s, then diminishing showers Saturday morning.
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Arkansas
North Half
Democratic figures clash over Rockefeller bid in Arkansas
Conway resident Jim Johnson questions if Democratic Party chairman Walter Carruth and American Party leader are serious about defeating Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller next year. Johnson, a former state Supreme Court Justice, weighs a Republican run. Carruth accuses Johnson of betraying Wallace principles and dismisses his candidacy as a loss for the party.
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Conway
Ark
Jim Johnson
State Democratic Party
American Party of Arkansas
Winthrop Rockefeller
Johnson
Supreme Court
Walter Carruth
Lexa
George Wallace
Carruth
Rockefeller
Matthews
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