Dream Suwanee voyage recalls bridge inscription
The narrator recounts a Florida trip to Sarasota and Old Town near Perry along Highway 98 19. A boat launch on the Suwannee River led to a paddled voyage toward the Gulf, past Treasure Island, with reflections on Stephen Foster and the famed Suwannee bridge. The journey ends with a return to the bridge, tieing memory to the song. A note credits Tom Sarnoff for humanitarian award coverage and reports a separate lightning strike on a Trans-Australia Boeing 27 jet near Perth Airport.
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Florida
Sarasota
Wlanee River
Stephen Foster
Perry
Old Town
St. Petersburg
Suwanee
Hope
Tom Jarvis
Caddilac
Theorth
Suwanee Lables
Georgia
Purvis
Gulf of Mexico
Fla
North
Gulf
Temple of Hope
Penh
Australia
Perth
Johnson Says Commission Bypassed Johnson in Appointments
An aide to Jim Johnson claims the state Election Commission bypassed his preferred third members for county election commissions. Gov. Faubus and others deny contact with Johnson, while Johnson’s team notes multiple tests of cooperation and lists 18 replacement appointments by county, including Al Faubus in Washington and Mrs. Elizabeth Swanson in Woodruff.
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Little Rock
Jim Johnson
Johnson
Phil Stratton
Stratton
Commission
Orval Faubus
Nancy Hall
Kelly Bryant
Miller
Searcy
Stttate
State Board and Commission
Nat B. Murphy
Ashley County
Murphy
Noble Barnes
Ashley
Bert George
Carroll
Joe Came Biane
Conway
Lenore Miles
Drew
R. Julian Glover
Garland
Joe Kimsey
Hot Spring
Carl Barnes
Izard
Sandy Tallaferro
Linc Coln
E. W. Savage
Logan
Noah Leatham
Madison
J. C. Portis
Poinsett
Harry W. Parkin
Pulaski
John Burris
Randolph
Norman Goodner
Scott
W. J. Smith
van Buren
al Faubus
Washington
Ted Reed
White
Mrs
Elizabeth Swanson
Woodruff
Lions Plan Big Program on Monday
Next Monday September 19 the Hope Lions Club invites a 100 percent attendance. Miss Paula Brock Arkansas Poultry Princess returns from Japan for her first Arkansas appearance. Lions will host a 5 pm door-to-door light bulb sale with seven-bulb packs priced at two dollars. Proceeds go to the local sight work and the Little Rock center.
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Lion’s Club
Hope
Paula Brock
Arkansas
Japan
Hope Lion Club
Little Rock
Lion's Ly
Injunction Sought at Desegregated Grenada School
In Grenada Mississippi the Justice Department seeks a preliminary injunction to force local authorities to protect Negro students at newly desegregated Grenada High School and nearby elementary, as 83 pupils walked with highway patrol protection after violence the week prior. Judge Claude Clayton set a hearing, while a restraining order kept classes suspended briefly.
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James Bonney
Oxford
Miss
Justice Department
Grenada
Asst
U.S
John Doar
Claude Clayton
Clayton
Greenada
Highway Patrol
Paul B. Johnson
Grenada High School
Weiner Student Killed in Wreck
Weiner Arkansas reports a student, 25, killed in a wreck north of Weiner. Dale Waddell, of Newport, died when his vehicle struck an embankment after a loss of control. He was a student at the state college.
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Weiner
Ark
Dale Waddell
Noweport
Britt Opens Campaign in Fort Smith Rally
Republican lieutenant governor candidate Maus rlee Britt will formally open his campaign Monday in Fort Smith. Britt ran a Fort Smith business for 20 years before founding Beautyguard Manufacturing in Little Rock three years ago. Winthrop Rockefeller will introduce Britt at 5:40 p.m. in Creekmore Park, with Rep. Page Belcher of Oklahoma as main speaker.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Maus Rlee
Footsie
Britt
Fort Smith
Beautyguard Manufacturing Co
Winthrop Rockefeller
GOP
Dididate
Owinor
Creekmore Park
Page Belcher
R-Okla
Democrats Open Their Convention in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK AP Democrats opened their state convention amid a party split from the hard fought primaries. Jim Johnson backers lamented the Election Commission’s failure to pick Johnson allies for county posts while Gov. Faubus pledged to vote Democratic for Johnson and later affirmed his support. Texarkana organizer O S Carpenter named state coordinator as Johnson aides claimed Johnson’s blessing for a Miller County post. The two day gathering aimed to show party unity against Winthrop Rockefeller as Johnson had attacked Faubus and resisted reliance on political bigwigs.
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Little Rock
Jim Johnson
State Election Commission
Johnson
County Election Commission
Orval Faubus
3Im Johnson
Miller County
Mission
Democratic Party
O. S. Carpenter
Texarkana
Carpenter
Winthrop Rockefeller
Faubus
Rights Bill Dead for Now Faces Dim Senate Prospects
Senate sponsors wrestle with a second push to pass the civil rights bill and its open housing provision after a failed two thirds vote. Senate leader Mansfield weighs ending debate or trying to boost the tally, while Dirksen remains opposed and Hart pushes another delaying motion amid a narrow Wednesday result.
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Walter R. Mears
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Everett Dirksen
Dirksen
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Hart
1966 Third District Livestock Show Opens in Hope
Visitors will see top livestock and varied exhibits at the Hope show September 26 to October 1. Highlights include a Flower Show A Rodeo of Flowers, Youth Talent Contest, Fair Queen Contest, and a Lady Arkansas Fair Queen prospect for Miss Universe 1967. The Coliseum hosts entertainment each night with free admission first three nights, rodeo charges, and Sonny Myers Amusement rides all week. Saturday features a chance to win a 1966 Comet sedan valued at $2,642.71.
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Hope
Hope Council of Garden Clubs
Arkansas
Sonny Myers
He Rideu
Gemini 11 Astronauts Back Safe With 1st Automatic Re-entry
Navy Cmdr Charles Conrad Jr and Navy Lt Cmdr Richard Gordon Jr completed a three day Gemini 11 mission landing in the Atlantic at 10 00 a m EDT guided by an automatic re entry system for the first time television cameras captured the splashdown near the Guam carrier as the crew communicated with mission control and TV relay.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Atlantic
Navy
Charles Cons Rad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Guam
Gemini
Bird
Man
Mission Control Center
Roger
Conrad
Earth
Senators Vote Against Civil Rights Bill Cloture Fails
Washington AP reports Senators Fulbright and McClellan, both Arkansas Democrats, among 21 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting against a motion to end debate on the civil rights bill. The cloture attempt failed 52 to 42, ten votes short of the two thirds needed, a crippling setback for proponents of the measure.
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Washington
Sens
J. William Fulbright
John L. McClellan
Arkansas
Arkansas reports 21 suspected encephalitis cases
The Arkansas Health Department said on Wednesday that suspected encephalitis cases rose to 21. Three new cases were reported, two in Pulaski County and one in Ouachita County, but none have been confirmed as encephalitis or sleeping sickness.
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Little Rock
State Health Department
Arkansas
Pulaski County
Ouachita County
Millwood Property to Be Sold by U S Army Corps
The Tulsa District of the U S Army Corps invites sealed bids for sale and removal of 11 groups of items including hay barns dwellings cabins poultry houses sheds and other real estate improvements near Millwood Reservoir Arkansas. Bids open at 10 a m September 30 1966.
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Tulsa
U.S. Corps of Engineer's
Millwood Reservoir
Arkansas
George A. Reich
Millwood Dam
P.O
Ashdown
Ark
U.S. Army Engineer District
Boston
Okla
All Around Town and City News Roundup
J W Rowe will speak at the Blevins PTA meeting about the new Red River Vocational Technical School. The Kelly Waltons quit the service station business to run the bus station at its new Fourth and Hazel location. City officials discuss police force hours and potential staffing increases. Ken McMure rough and Ronnie McWilliams entered Southern State College, while Gene Thomp son, David Grifen, Ronnie Ingram, and Bobby McGill left for Henderson State Teachers College. Prescott’s Curly Wolves fans call a tie with Hope a moral victory, last beat by Hope in 1933. Trap Range opens tonight at 7 30. Constitution Week events Sept 17 23 sponsored by the DAR.
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J. W. Rowe
Red River Vocational Techncal School
Blevins Pta
Mr. Rowe
Kelly Waltons
4Th and
Hazel Streets
Henderson State Teachers College
Gene Thompson
David Grifefin
Ronnie Ingram
Hope
Bobby McGill
Fulton
Marines Pour into Choke Infiltration
In Saigon three miles south of the demilitarized zone a reinforced Marine battalion joined two Vietnamese government battalions to choke off North Viet Nam infiltration. Shells and rockets pounded beaches as Marines and pilots moved against the 3243 Division. Command noted U S combat deaths in Viet Nam surpass 5,000 over five years with 71 deaths last week. enemy losses were about 1,166 killed and 216 captured. South Viet Nam forces reported 174 killed and 34 missing this week.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Cers
North Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Black Power concept seen as good by son of Dean Rusk
David Rusk, 25, No 2 person in Washington’s National Urban League, calls black power a logical response to waning white support for civil rights. He praises unity of Negro masses as a force for change while condemning violent rhetoric and blanket attacks on whites. He warns cooperation with white allies remains essential to progress. Enrollment at Arkansas State College Jonesboro hits 56,134 as fall term begins.
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AP News
Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
Tubert Oh. Mumphrey
Ellis G. Arnall
Georgia
David Rusk
Jack R. Miller
Washington
Dean Rusk
Young Rusk
National Urban League
Stokley Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Rusk
Viet Nam
Struge Gling
State
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Thomas W. Sarnoff
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Lester Chalmers
Shelton
Ft. Smith
AP News Digest
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China
Red Guards
Bill
Millwood Property
The
Star
City Board of Directors
Southern State College
Ken McMurerough
Ronnie McWilliams
Prescott
Curly Wole Ves
DAR
Jonesboro
Arkansas State College
Lloyd Howell
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