Soblen Still Dangerously Il in Britain
Dr. Robert A. Soblen, 61, remains in a drug induced coma in London with signs of partial improvement. A medical bulletin notes the coma may deepen or lessen, while his heart shows exhaustion and anxiety lingers. His wife, Dr Ding Soblen, flew from New York to be at his bedside as security around the vigil tightens.
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Raymond E. Palmer
London
Robert A. Soblen
Soblen
Ding Soble
New York
Sobien
United States
Soviet Union
Alter
Tme
Home Office
Israel
Fulbright to Call via Telstar in Little Rock
Senator J William Fulbright will initiate a Telstar long distance call from a Little Rock hotel mezzanine to London at 1145 a.m. next Wednesday. He will speak with David Bruce, U S ambassador to Great Britain, via earth station in Maine and Goonhilly Downs England. The private luncheon hosted by Southwestern Bell marks Arkansas first Telstar call and lasts about ten minutes. A scale model will be displayed at the event. Telstar has orbited Earth for two months.
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Little Rock
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Earth Communications Center
Andover
Maine
Telstar
Goonhilly Downs
Arkansas
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Warren Bray
Earth
Mrs Ruth Norman Dies at 62 in Hempstead
Ruth Maye Norman longtime Hempstead resident died Friday in a local hospital aged 62. She was the wife of the late Tom Westmoreland. Survivors include daughter Mrs James Ingram of Corpus Christi Texas and brother Marion F Adkinson of Ashdown. Services set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Herndon Cornelius Chapel. Rev J W Story and Rev Wayne Johnson will officiate. Burial in Westmoreland Cemetery.
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Ruth Norman
Ruth Maye Norman
Hempstead
Tom Westmoreland
James Ingram
Corpus Christi
Texas
Marion F. Adkinson
Ashdown
Herndon-Cornelius
J. W. Story
Wayne Johnson
Westmoreland Cemetery
Weather totals show 1962 rainfall at 22.26 inches
The report notes 1962 precipitation through August reaching 22.26 inches, compared with 39.41 inches in the same period last year. Arkansas is mostly cloudy with occasional showers and thunder showers forecast from Saturday through Sunday.
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Arkansas
Cuba Becomes Major Pawn in Cold War
AP Military Affairs Writer BEM PRICE analyzes Cuba as a growing Cold War factor. Soviet arms and 3,500 technicians bolster Fidel Castro’s 250,000 to 300,000 strong armed force. U.S. action risks high costs and potential global condemnation as the page continues.
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Bem Price
Washington
Cuba
U.S
United States
Durban
Soviet Union
Forc
Khrushchev
Comimunist
Fidel Castro
ALC Plans to Hold Hearings on Budget Proposals
Arkansas Legislative Council will hear committee reports and a tentative budget-hearing schedule at its meeting next Friday. No action on state budgets until after the November election due to a proposed constitutional amendment allocating 50 percent of state revenues for schools. Initial work begins with departments funded from revenues, like the Highway Department and Game and Fish Commission. The council will also consider abolishing the state fund office and extending the state retirement program to employees with 10 years of service.
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Little Rock Apj
Arkansas Legislative Council
Highway Department
Game and Fish Commission
Navy Patrol Plane Ditching Saves Crew by Sub
A Navy patrol plane with 12 aboard ditched off northwestern Washington Thursday night. The crew was rescued by the nuclear submarine Seadragon. The PVSM Martin Marlin developed mechanical difficulties. Coast Guard reports. Seadragon was en route to Pearl Harbor from Seattle after a historic voyage under the Arctic ice cap last month.
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Port Angeles
Wash
Washington
Coast Guard
Pearl Harbor
Seattle
Arkansas Tree Farming Bio Industry Growth Highlighted
The Arkansas tree farm program boosts private forest land enrollment with 3.7 million acres in the system, far above the national average. State chair B A Ryan notes 1100 to 1200 farmers participate, with continuous harvests and benefits to recreation, watersheds, and wildlife habitat. Continued on Page Two.
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Arkansas
George F. Bartsch
Associated Press
B. A. Ryan
Camden
State Tree Farm
Ryan
Tree Farm
Duty Increase on Cotton Is Ruled Out
Washington (RP) The Tariff Commission ruled against higher duties on cotton textiles imported to the United States by a 2 1 vote. The decision angered President Kennedy and U S textile manufacturers and pleased Japanese exporters. The administration will seek domestic measures to end the two price system while Kennedy proposes legislation to solve inequities in freer trade. The commission found that a 8 32 cent per pound surtax on imports would raise prices and restrict imports, hurting overall consumption.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
United States
Kennedy
U.S
Agriculture Department
Commission
Department
Ashley County to Vote on Bonds for Bernstein Plant
Ashley county voters will decide next Tuesday on a 340000 bond issue to finance a plant for J. J. Bernstein and Son Manufacturing Co of New York. The company will lease the county plant and start with 200 workers, rising to 500, with a one mill tax guarantee to cover costs if lease payments default. The plant will produce shirts and Bernstein products are sold through J. C. Penney Co.
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Hamburg
Atk
Ashley County
J. J. Bernstein and Son Manufacturing Co
New York
Arkansas
J.c.penney Co
Bernstein
Voting Machine Chairman Named for Arkansas Amendment
Wiles J. Smith longtime legislative secretary to three Arkansas governors was named campaign chairman for the permissive voting machine amendment. He will direct the voter approval drive in the November general election. The appointment was announced Thursday by the committee behind the amendment. Smith previously served as secretary to Ben Laney Francis Cherry and Gav Orvah Paulius.
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Little Rock
Wiles J. Smith
Arkansas
Iballiot
Herbert Thomas Sr
Smith
Ben Laney
Francis Cherry Ant
Gav
Desegregation gains marked first week in New Orleans schools
Across Louisiana and the Deep South a surge of integrated classes continues as fall term opens. About 306 Negro students join 20 public and 36 parochial schools amid scattered violence and bomb threats. In New Orleans area a parochial school briefly closes while St. Rosalie Elementary faced gunfire nearby but no injuries. Local leader Leander Perez warned of long-term demographic shifts. Public school desegregation expands to several states with Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina still resisting.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Deep South
St.Rosalie
Mississippi River
Leander Perez Sr
Louisiana
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
North Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Albany
Firing on U S Car Soft-Pedaled by official tone
Soviet soldiers fired about 40 shots at a U S Army sedan in East Germany. Only one shot hit. no injuries. The incident remained officially unconfirmed with U S officers downplaying its significance, while a State Department account appeared in Washington.
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Carl Hartma
Berlin
East Germany
U.S
Arty
Germany
State Department
Washington
Ernest von Pawel
Ivan Yakubovsky
Potsdam
Actress Linda Darnell Seeks Separate Maintenance
Actress Linda Darnell files for separate maintenance in Los Angeles accusing husband Merk R. Robertson of unfaithfulness cruelty and habitual drunkenness. She cites his admission of paternity of an expected child with Vera VioJella Gronavie a New York actress.
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Los Angeles
Linda Darnell
Silat
Merk. R. Robertson
Vera Vio- Jella Gronavie
Yoooekiciain
Gladiolus and Crape Myrtle Spelling Controversy Feature
In a playful feature from Little Rock, readers are guided through the spelling quirks of gladiolus and crape myrtle. The piece notes Latin plurals and common American forms, praises flowering varieties, and shares a vignette of an Ohio visitor in Hope, Arkansas, admiring crape myrtle before recounting campaign logistics for Senator Fulbright rival Kenneth Jones.
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Mary Anita Laseter Witshe
Africa
South
Arkansas
Ohio
Question of Dollarway desegregation plan contours
Federal Judge questioned whether Dollarway School Board needs a broader desegregation plan if only one or two Negro students seek admission. Hearing over Sarah Etorta Howard’s transfer from an all Negro school to Dollarway explored potential continuation of the plan and required briefs by Sept. 13.
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Lytle Rock
API
Dollarway
Dollarway 1
J. Smith Henley
Sarah Etorta Howard
Henley
Sarah
Buckley Clinches NY renomination amid reform charge
Rep. Charles A. Buckley of the Bronx wins renomination with Kennedy backing in New York City district 23. He announces this term will be his last, claiming reform charges of hossism. Unofficial totals show Buckley 20,158 to Levy 17,218 with Reformers winning one other congressional primary.
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New York
Charles A. Buckley
Bronx
Kennedy
Buckley
David H. Levy
Robert ©. Wagner
Herbert H. Lehman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Levy
Lye
Manhattan
20Th
William Fitts Ryan
Herbert A. Zelenko
Qyden R. Reid
Edwin B. Dooley
Congress
Westchester
Reid
GOP
Dooley
U.S
Israel
New York Herald Tribune
Janet Hill Gordon
Robert M. Quigley
William EB. Miller
Donald C. Chaplin
Lockport
Estes Favored by Superiors Hale Says
Senate hearing reveals Hale, a 21 year Agriculture employee, testified superiors gave Billy Sol Estes extremely favored treatment. He accuses officials of not taking needed precautions against abuses while secretaries deny favors. The inquiry probes potential government influence on Estes growing empire in cotton and grain programs.
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G. Milton Kelly Washington
Battle
Hales
Agriculture Department
Billy Sol Estes
Department
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Ville L. Freeman
Charles S. Murphy
Horace D. Godfrey
Estes
Meat Prices Up as Farmers Withhold Stock
Prices rise as National Farmers Organization actions reduce slaughter stock in the Midwest. Des Moines, Kansas City, Chicago, and Louisville stores report 5 to 10 cent hikes, with possible 10 to 15 cent increases next week. NFO says boosts are not guaranteed and will review justification while stockyards observe higher costs spreading to retail meat. Oren Lea Staley, NFO president, was in Minnesota and a full statement was promised after return.
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Corning
Iowa
Mids West
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Towa
Des Moines
Kansas City
Chicago
Louisville
U.S. Department of Agriculture
National
Oren Lea Staley
Minnesota
Pilkinton Considered Fulbright Campaign Manager
Informed sources say James H. Pilkinton hope attorney and former judge of the 6th Chancery District of Arkansas will be named next week as state camp manager for Senator J Willem Fulbright in his bid for reelection. Fulbright opposes the Republican challenger in November. Pilkinton could not be reached as he traveled to St Charles Missouri to enroll his daughter at Lindenwood College. His office indicated announcements would come from Fulbright.
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James H. Pilkinton
Hope
6Th Chancery District of Arkansas
Sen
J. Willem Fulbright
Senator Fulheight
Pilkinton
St .Charles
Lindenwood College
Fulbright
Conway Co Seeks Local Option Vote in Arkansas
Conway County residents filed a petition in Mormiston to place the antimliquor law issue on the November ballot. Petitioners aimed for 2,000 names but comments were not available from dry forces attorney J G Moore. Signatures must equal 15 percent of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election to qualify.
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Mormiston
Ark
Conway County
J. G. Moore
Dry Forces
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