Indians Protest Custer TV Series and Demand Equal Time
AP dispatch from Muskogee Oklahoma reports that officers of five Indian tribes protest an ABC television series on General George Custer. They demand equal time to counter what they call a misrepresentation and warn ABC to review its storyline. The piece also notes a visitor, a Texas newspaper color expert, and upcoming equipment replacements at The Star.
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$1.8 Million for Students in Arkansas
The U S Office of Education announced 1 893 867 funds for the National Defense Student Loan Program in fiscal 1967 68 benefiting 6 987 students at 23 Arkansas colleges. Undergraduates may borrow up to 1 000 yearly to 5 000. graduates up to 2 500 yearly to 10 000. Loans are repaid over 10 years starting nine months after graduation at 3 percent interest.
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National Defense
U.S. Office of Education
Arkansas
British Writer Is Murdered
A coroner's court jury ruled that British playwright Joe Orton was murdered by his best friend Kenneth Halliwell who then killed himself. Orton 34 and Halliwell 41 were found dead August 9 in an apartment they shared.
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Joe Orton
Britain
Orton
Kenneth Halliwell
Ford Target of Union Talks Start
In Detroit AP, the U.S. mediation chief joined Ford and UAW negotiators as the strike deadline nears. After seven hours of talks, Reuther announced William Simkin would observe, with Ford and UAW still deadlocked over a new contract for about 160,000 UAW workers at Ford.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
United Autors
UAW
Ford
Walter Reuther
William Simkin
U.S. Mediation and Conciliation Service
Hope Rotarian speaker touts water and light plant assets
Roy Anderson told Hope Rotarians that citizens are stockholders in the municipal water and light plant. He cited over a million dollars in free services from power generated by the plant and praised the Water and Light Commission formed eleven years ago for its unpaid service.
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Roy Anderson
Water and Light Commission
Anderson
Clyde Fouse
Prosecutor at Ft. Smith Dies inArkansas
Fort Smith Arkansas AP Lyman Mikel longtime prosecuting attorney died at his home Saturday night age 59 from an apparent heart attack He had served two terms in the state senate Funeral arrangements are incomplete
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Fort Smith, Ark
Lyman Mikel
Mikel
State Senate
Work and the Mysteries of Labor Across Time
HALBOYLE surveys enduring views on work from Adam and Eve to modern times. But the core question remains whether labor is a curse or blessing, with quotes from Coolidge Chesterfield Lincoln Kipling Wagner and others illustrating diverse takes on why humans toil and how work shapes life.
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New York
Garden of Eden
Calvin Coolidge
Lord Chesterfield
H. L. Mencken
Abraham Lincoln
Jerome K. Jerome
Thomas Carlyle
Walt Whitman
Rudyard Kipling
Harry Leon Wilson
Leo Tolstoy
Eugene Y. Debs
John Webster
Richard Wagner
Bernard
Lsbor
Percy Shelley
Leo XI
Carlyle
Milwaukee Demonstration for Open Housing Draws Thousands
About 1,000 mainly young Black residents marched seven miles through 81 blocks in Milwaukee led by Rev. James E. Groppi in a sustained civil rights demonstration for open housing. Sunday crowds reached 1,500 as fires and tense protests marked the weeklong event.
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Milwaukee
Wis
James E. Groppi
Confesses to Three Burglaries in El Dorado
El Dorado Police said Robert Lee Benson, 31, of El Dorado, confessed to three burglaries committed Friday night. Benson was arrested Saturday night and charged with burglary as grand larceny. He had been released from Tucker Prison Farm in July after a 1957 conviction on 60 counts.
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el Dorado
Robert Lee Benson
Benson
Camden
Tucker Prison Farm
Tucker
Man Held in Fatal Blytheville Shooting
A Blytheville man, 40, is held for questioning in the death of Eddie Brewer, 19, shot in the back Friday night with a single .38 caliber bullet. No formal charges filed.
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Blytheville, Ark
Blytheville
Eddie Brewer
Army Helps Battle Forest Fires Across Idaho and West
The U S Army and Forest Service lay a 429 foot pontoon bridge across the Kootenai River to aid mobilization against a northwest fire 38 miles long and 78 000 acres near the Canadian border. Bonners Ferry, Idaho stood three miles from the blaze as winds shifted. Airplanes and bridge sections move toward Port Hill while 1 900 firefighters join 1 500 on the lines. Other fires in Sun dance Mountain Glacier National Park Selway Bitterroot and Willamette areas burn with hundreds to thousands of acres and crews striving to contain them.
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Salem
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Shirley Temple
Brooklyn
Officer Slayer Continues Search Near Little Rock
Authorities comb Bush Creek Bottoms east of Little Rock for a man wanted in the slaying of Patrolman Lloyd Wilburn Worthy, 27, who was shot after stopping a man near the airport. Booker T. McDonald, 54, of Little Rock faces first degree murder charges. 150 to 200 officers search thick brush as the weapon remains unfound and the suspect’s whereabouts unknown.
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Pulaski County
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Vietnam Election Seen as Victory Over Communists
AP News Digest reports 83 percent turnout in Vietnam's election, aiding legitimacy for Saigon's Thieu Ky government. Johnson officials praised the result though public comment was limited, while concerns over postvote government formation and potential election irregularities persisted.
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Thieu-Ky
Murder and death by own action in Jackson County
Aman and his wife were found dead at their home six miles east of here. Coroner Ottie Dillinger ruled the deaths murder and death by own action. Myrtle Benson McGee was shot three times with a .22 rifle and her husband Bud McGee was shot at with a shotgun.
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Ac Aman
Here
Jackson County
Ottie Dillinger
Ralph Henderson
Myrtle Lorene Benson McGee
Orville Aubrey
Buddy” McGee
Thieu Ky Face Political Strife After Victory
Nguy en Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky assume South Vietnam leadership amid tensions. Regime aims for peace talks with North Vietnam but disunity risks undermine. Expect civilian ministers, anti corruption drive, and a shift toward legislative approval of major policies alongside governance by decree fading.
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South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Washington
Johnson
Thieu
Mekong Delta
Barry Kramer
Associated Press
Saigon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Thieu-by
United States
Thieu-Ky
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Senate
House of Representatives
Rockefeller to tour White River region Arkansas counties
Governor Winthrop Rockefeller will tour the White River region in Fulton Jackson Independence Sharp Stone counties. A public meeting is at 8 p.m. Wednesday at a Batesville motel. Thursday includes a news conference, private citizen meetings, a luncheon for lawmakers and county judges, and public sessions.
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Winthrop Rockefeller
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Independence
Wzard
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Stone
Rockefeller
Independence County
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