Watermelon stunts wow Hemis Fair crowds in San Antonio
At HemisFair in San Antonio Arkansas visitors Pod Rogers and Carter Russell led a Hope crew featuring Cobb Gem watermelons weighing over 100 pounds. Skimpy rind surfaces challenged Mercury Outboard Ski Show skiers as Mundo Villegas and others rode the melon hulls amid photos and cheers from officials and pavilion guests.
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C. M
Rogers
Carter Russell
Hope
San Antonio
Texas
San Antonio Express
Jim English
The
Express
Sam Kindrick
Pod Rogers
Ozarks
Mercury
HemisPak
Pod
Stu McDonald
Arkansas
W. W. McAllister
Arkansas Pavilion
Glenda Brown
Martha Masters
Cleo Stern
Fair
Glenda
Martha
McDonald
Tom Kendall
Acapulco
Mike
HemisFair Mercury
Belon
Congress to Take Up Aid Gun Control
Senate leader Mike Mansfield warned Congress has about four weeks to finalize bipartisan aid and gun control legislation along with President Johnson’s Supreme Court nominee. He noted October campaigning could disrupt quorum, with a possible November return and a potential extra session affecting only the Senate over Justice Abe Fortas’s nomination as chief justice.
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William F. Arbogast
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Johnson
Abe Fortas
Europe
House
Fortas
Defense Department
Lst
Interchange at Prescott Up for Bids
The Arkansas Highway Commission will open bids September 25 for a $6.6 million slate of Interstate and state road projects across Nevada Franklin Sebastian Crittenden Woodruff Calhoun Dallas Columbia Clark. Works include an I-30 and AR 19 interchange northwest of Prescott and resurfacing and drainage projects from Ozark to Fordyce and beyond.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Highway Commission
Nevada
Arkansas 19
Prescott
Franklin
Ozark
Sebastian
U.S. 71
Greenwood
Crittenden
Arkansas
Arkansas 118
Woodruff
Arkansas 17
Cotton Plant
Calhoun
Locust Bayou
Harrell
Hampton
Dallas
Arkansas B
Princeton
Hot Spring County
Columbia
Taylor
Fordyce
Clark
Clark County
Children’s Colony
Colony
Television Logs and Schedule Highlights from Wednesday
TV listings show a wide array of programs from morning to late night including news, soap operas, game shows, and films. Notable items mention Faulkner roadwork near Conway Arkansas and national political items like the Fortas nomination and defense and education measures, reflecting mixed local and national focus.
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Mer News
One Life To Live
The
Shadows
Mike Douglas
Secret Storm
Raw News
Comanche A
Latralot Club
Bozo
Big Top
Passwood
Flinstones
Perry Mason
Hazel
F Troop
McHale's Navy
Paul Harvey
Daniel Boone
Ironside
Royal Philharmonic Dream House
Bly Graham
Hollywood Palace
Joey Bishop
Folsom Prison
Academy Theatre
Ouster hearing for G F Commissioner delayed
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller postponed the ouster hearing for Raymond Farris of Arkansas's Game and Fish Commission until a medical evaluation can be completed. Farris, treated for tuberculosis, faces nine counts of misconduct and will undergo an impartial exam next Tuesday by Dr. John Schultz in Little Rock. The governor will decide if the hearing resumes and when, based on the exam results.
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Uttle Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
State Game and Fish Commission
Raymond Farris
Biscoe
Farris
John Schultz
Little Rock
Schultz
Rockefeller
Woman jailed in Malvern for narcotics possession
Edna Ledbetter, 48, of Malvern was jailed in lieu of 10000 after being arrested and charged with possession of narcotics. State Police Director Ralph Scott said she waived preliminary hearing before Circuit Judge Henry Means.
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Malvern
Ark
Edna Ledbetter
Ralph Scott
Scott
Henry Means
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Hemis
Villegas
Stew McDonald
Club de Esquis
Mexico
Mundo Villegas
Congress
Faulkner
Conway
Abrumley
Music of America
the Avengers
Kraft Music Hall
Green Acres
He & She
Net Journal
Billy Graham
Fighting Chance
Vic Ames
Search For Tomorrow
Guiding Light
NBC News
Doctors
E General Hospital
Another World
Pastor Bozo
A.M
Texarkana
Shreveport
Glass Key
Treasure Isle
Dream House
Andy of
Mayberry
G&f
Sim Roblinson
Biasefeller
Robinson
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