Nevada County Fair Opens Tuesday September 21
Final plans for the 35th Nevada County Fair outline events for Tuesday through Thursday. Tuesday features School Day, official judging of flower show and crops, grand parade opening, and horse shows. Wednesday covers beef and dairy cattle judging, swine judging, and Queen crowning. Thursday includes a Leo Castleberry concert. Nine floats have been entered for the opening day parade with several additional entries pending theme selection.
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Nevada County
Ellis Stewart
P. W
Area Students Enrolled in Tech School in Sixth Year
Red River Vocational Technical School in Hope marks its sixth year with record enrollment. Hope area students join programs from Business Education to Welding, with names listed for Diesel and Heavy Truck Mechanics, Heavy Equipment Operation, Technical Forestry, Machine Shop, Practical Nursing, Masonry Construction, and Welding.
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Red River
Walter Don Huckabee
Carl Edward King
Albert Charles Dismuke
Billy Gray
Larry Burchfield
Hope
Russell Williams
Bruce White
Ozan
Wendell Cox
Patmos
Allan Bennett
Leon Green
Terry D. Powell
Larry Noel Powell
Gary Goodwin
Rosston Machine Shop
Tommy L. Coburn
Lee Artis Patterson
Blevins
Fern Wickliffe
Carolyn Sue Williams
Peggy Purtle
Darlene Nelson
Oran
Monroe Erwin
Mike McCorkle
Tommy Edwards
Julius Drummons
Robert Malone
Larry Don Rutherford
Bobcan
Harold Lloyd
Robert M. Faulkner
Robert E. Tidwell
Rosston
Frank McJunkins
Bobby Lee Pierce
Saratoga
Jack M. Revels
McNab
Heavy losses for South Vietnam in U Minh clashes
In the Mekong Delta’s U Minh forest, North Vietnamese counterattacks produced the heaviest South Vietnamese losses in months. South reports 47 dead and 97 wounded as 100 North Vietnamese slain, with reinforcements ferried by U.S. helicopters and air power aiding the defense.
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Saigon
U Minh
Mekong
Snuol
Cambodia
Nixon Moves To Accelerate Vietnam Troop Withdrawals
President Nixon appears set to speed up the pullout of combat troops in Vietnam. Sources say maneuver battalions will fall to under 20 percent of peak strength by November, with seven more cut over 20 months, leaving about 20 battalions from a peak of 112 in April 1969. The plan anticipates quickened rates after November, while South Vietnam builds an infantry division to fill the gap.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Nixon
Vietnam
da Nang
U.S
South Vietnam
Washington
Nguyen van Thieu
Thailand
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Tonkin Gulf
North Vietnam
Life Is Like Circus in Which No Man Can Give All Performances
HAL BOYLE notes life as a three ring circus where a man is too busy with work family mortgage and spouse to finish many desires. He lists quirky past actions from changing a car tire to helping deliver a baby by flashlight and jokingly reflects on what he has or hasn’t done and what he did manage to do.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Timbuktu
That Alligator Was Hungry at Plant City Florida
Wallace the seven foot two hundred pound alligator at a sewage treatment pond attacked circuit judge James B D Bruton as he fed the reptile raw chicken parts. Bruton says the bite occurred when he returned after missing feeding for three days.
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Plant City
Fla
Wallace
James BD. Bruton
Bruton
Edith Still Can Generate Tornadoes
New Orleans AP reports Ed ith, once a hurricane named Edith, moved into Alabama as a tropical depression yet still capable of spawning tornadoes and flash floods. The National Weather Service warned of serious flood risk from western Pennsylvania to eastern Ohio southward along Ediths path, with winds up to 100 miles per hour on the Louisiana coast. The storm caused scattered minor damage and tornado destruction but no deaths or serious injuries, despite high tides and multiple twisters in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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New Orleans
Edith
Alabama
National Weather Service
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Louisiana
Mississippi
House Votes New Tools for the EEOC
The House rejected a bid to give the EEOC power to issue its own orders and combat discrimination. Instead it approved a milder plan allowing the EEOC to sue employers for race sex religion or national origin discrimination, aligning with administration support. The move shifts to the Senate for final action.
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Washington
House
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Justice Department
Senate
Bomb squad finds toad near U.S. Embassy
In Buenos Aires the police bomb-disposal unit hurried to Sarmiento Street on Thursday to remove a package near the U.S. Embassy. Opening the box revealed a live toad inside.
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Buenos Aires
Sarmiento Street
U.S
Nixon promises post-freeze restraints on wages and prices
President Nixon signaled selective post-freeze wage and price controls targeting major industries with “teeth” after the 90 day wage price rent freeze ends on November 13. He cited Phase 2 as strong and potentially indefinite, with governors noting continued restraints and possible interest rate limits.
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Nixon
Bill Neikirk
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Arch A. Moore Jr
West Virginia
Cost of Living Council
Treasury
John B. Connally
Moore
Forecast for Arkansas Oklahoma State Football Game
Partly cloudy skies and temperatures near 60 are forecast for the Arkansas Oklahoma State game in Little Rock Saturday night. Northeasterly winds 5 to 10 mph. No precipitation is predicted.
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Little Rock
Reds Harden Peace Talks at New Low
The three year old Vietnam peace talks reach a new low as North Vietnamese negotiators Xuan Thuy and Nguyen Thanh Le renounce earlier hints of compromise. They say prisoners will be released only after Thieu is removed from Saigon, reversing hopes for a separate peace with the United States.
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Michael Goldsmith
Associated Press
PARIS
Vietnam
Xuan Thuy
Nguyen Thanh le
Sen
George S. McGovern
Ds.d
Thuy
U.S
Hanoi
United States
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Viet Cong
McGovern
Thieu
Saigon
Nixon
All Around Town highlights from Hope area schools and service news
University of Arkansas education majors begin student teaching in local schools. William Byers of Hope teaches at Westwood School in Springdale. Mrs. McMahon, formerly Jackie Holt of Hope, loses Baton Rouge home to Hurricane Edith but unharmed. Garland School PTA freshens playground with blue and white paint. Army Private Larry Bates, 23, trained nine weeks at Fort Polk with simulated Vietnam conditions. John Boatner, 23, promoted to specialist four with the 1st Infantry Division in Germany. Esther Boatner, his wife, resides in Wichita. Sergeant Clifford Williams, son of Hope residents, arrives at Tinker AFB Oklahoma after previous duty in Vietnam. 1969 Yerger High School graduate.
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University of Arkansas
William Byers
Hope
Westwood School
Springdale
Army
Larry O. Bates
James 0. Bates - Hope
Fork Polk
John H. Boatner
Joe D. Boatner
1D Infantry
Germany
Boatner
15Th Infantry
Esther
Wichita
Kan
U. S. Air Force
Clifford R. Williams
Hazel Williams
Tinker Afb
Okla
Williams
Air Force Communications Service
USAF
da Nang AB
Vietnam
Yerger High School
Senate vote seals Nixon victory on draft extension bill
The Senate defeated a move to reject a compromise draft extension and pay raise bill, 47 to 38, in a key Nixon win. Majority Leader Mansfield sought to table the measure to send it to conference, while critics vow to filibuster further. The end-the-war amendment was dropped from the final draft amid negotiations on Indochina.
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Washington
Senate
House
Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
U.S
Indochina
Senate House
A H Washburn Improving in Local Hospital
A H Washburn Star president and editor is at Hempstead Memorial Hospital recovering from major surgery. He became ill while en route to Houston for a baseball game and had emergency surgery in Dallas three weeks ago, then was moved to the local hospital last week and is reportedly doing fine.
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A. H. Washburn
Star
Hempstead Memorial Hospital
Washburn
Houston
Astrodome
Doctor's Hospital
Dallas
Blames Roads for Lack of Industry in South Arkansas
In Little Rock a blunt report pins slow industrial growth in South Arkansas on deficient highways. Louis Hurley of El Dorado asserts the state’s transportation system overlooks the region. Dan Roebuck of the Department of Industrial Development says a new plant push is aimed at South Arkansas, but industry shows little interest, with Roebuck stating a four lane highway could attract major industry.
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Little Rock
South Arkansas
Louis Hurley
el Dorado
Commission For the Department of Industrial Development
Dan Roebuck
Department
Rogbuck
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Lee Nixon
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W. B. McMahon Jr
Baton Rouge
McMahon
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Garland School
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