Hope City budget set. insurance bids awarded to low bidder
City officials set the 1970 budget structure and opened three year fire insurance bids for city buildings excluding the Airport and power plant. Anderson-Frazier Insurance Company offered the low bid at 4043.00, with Bill Ellis at 4043.70, Roach 4485.00, and Greening-Flus at 4493.09. The sanitation truck bid went to Young Chevrolet Company for 4743.91 over Hope Auto’s 4943.00. The Hope Planning Commission urged action on highway realignment, favoring NC 23 and NC 4 North crossing the Missouri Pacific with an underpass at Shover Street and requested a unified city presentation to the Arkansas Highway Commission.
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Anderson-Frazier Insurance Company
Bill Ellis Insurance Agency
Roach Insurance Agency
Greening-Fl Us
Andersons Frazier Insurance Company
Young Chevrolet Company
Sanitation Department
Hope Auto Company
Hope Planning Commission
City of
Hope
Arkansas
Arkansas Highway Department
Central Business District
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Shover Street
Searcy approves $700000 hospital bond vote
SEARCY Ark AP White County voters Tuesday apparently approved a 700000 bond issue to finance an expansion of the White County Memorial Hospital. With 37 of 50 boxes reported.
Packing and Labor Survey and Tax Policy Notes
A college dorm packing tale shows a student struggle to fit belongings into tiny spaces, detailing repeated moves and growing clutter from freshman year to junior year. The Hope Hempstead labor survey launches with 26 000 questionnaires to 6500 households, led by local chambers and development groups, aiming to aid industry expansion in Hope Hempstead County. The piece also references Nixon's tax policy debates, noting 2745 percent adjustments and criticisms of tax privileges for big business amid Senate House compromises.
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Hope-Hempstead
Hempstead County
Hope-Hempstead County
Wortham Bank
Little Rock
Hope and Hempstead County
Walter Allen
Hope Industrial Foundation
A.D. Brannan
Teddy Jones
Hope Employment Security Division
Texas
Nixon
Thas
Barbara G. Culver
Midland County
West Texas
Treasury
White House
San Cleemente
Calif
Senate
House
Two measures on city spending face mixed votes
In unofficial tallies, construction approval failed by 2,286 to 1,491 against. A two mill tax received 2,160 votes for and 1,618 against. Earlier, residents approved the expansion proposal but defeated the tax to finance it.
Senate GOP Leadership Fight Ended in Election
Washington AB reports the Senate Republican minority elected a new leader today with Scott of Pennsylvania contending against Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee. Both claimed advantage as the 43-member GOP minority faced the decisive vote in a tense bid for the top position.
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Washington
Sen
Scott
Pennsylvania
Senate
Huw Scott
Howard H. Baker Jr
Baker
Tennessee
Angry union leaders threaten boycott of federal projects
In Atlantic City AFL CIO building trades leaders threatened a boycott of federal construction projects to protest a Labor Department plan they said would enforce racial hiring quotas. Secretary George P. Shultz announced the plan would be implemented in Philadelphia and expanded nationwide to broaden high paying construction jobs for Negroes and other minority groups.
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Atlantic City
Afl*cio
Labor Department
Philadelphia
George P. Shultz
Washington
Revenue from Little Rock Mixed Drinks Tax Totals
UTTLE ROCK AP reports Little Rock clubs and taverns earned 8030.51 from mixed drink sales in August with 8158.73 the prior month. Since last May 1 the city has collected 40983.89 from the 10 percent gross sales tax.
Cold Front Heads For Northwest Arkansas This Week
A new cold front moving from the Northwest is expected to reach Northwest Arkansas by Thursday bringing more showers and thundershowers. Tuesday’s showers lingered as the first general rainfall in about a month with Little Rock and Memphis registering wet streets and minor car incidents but no serious injuries. Overnight lows ranged from 49 to 68 across the region with forecasts calling for 50s to low 60s tonight. The passage notes the domestic chicken as the first bird domesticated by humans.
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Associated Press
Tennessee
Northwest
Arkansas
Little Rock
Memphis
Blytheville
el Dorado
Texarkana
Pine Bluff
Jonesboro
Harrison
Fayetteville
Garden of Eden nudists disturb Florida homeowners
Charles and Virgie Mac For complain that strolling nude visitors at the Garden of Eden camp near Hudson disturb their Sunday dinners. Neighbor Kenneth Ellis defends the camp saying he has a fence and permission from a church group while noting services and Sunday picnics occur on the grounds.
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Dade City
Fla
Charles
Virgie Mac
Garden of Eden
Virgie
Pasato County
Qnem
Robert Sumner
Kenneth Ellis
Hudson
Florida Gulf Coast
Ellis
Pye
Fox
Florida
Richmond
Ellis Lves
Ernest Knowlton
Knowlton
Christian Naturalist Society
Universal Christian Church
Oral Roberts
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Missouri
Hope Club
Melvin Thrash
Mel Thrash
Planning Commission
Arkansas Highway Commission
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Tbe
James McLarty
Aus
Henry Haynes
Star
Searcy
Ark
Offset Beker
GOP
Lonneys
Don Kendall
Washington (Ap
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Laird
Packard
Pentagon
Congress
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