Sprouts Junior Garden Club Officers Meet in Garland
In a Garland School event the Sprouts Junior Garden Club officers are shown in a group photo with Tommy Boyce as president Larry Watson as vice president Dennis Allen as song leader and Gary Watson as reporter. Seated are Kathy McCain historian and Judy Clark secretary. A middle photo shows Mrs Wallace Martin making a terrarium. Bottom photo features Mrs LC Crow demonstrating another geranium propagation method.
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Sprouts Junior Garden Club
Garland School
Gardenia Garden Club
Tommy Boyce
Larry Watson
Dennis Allen
Gary Watson
Kathy McCain
Judy Clark
Wallace Martin
Crow
State Stock Show Opens for 10 Days
The Arkansas Livestock Exposition begins a 10 day run in Little Rock with a 2 pm parade starting at North Little Rock and disbanding in Little Rock. The parade features 90 to 100 units and lasts about 90 minutes. Ken Curtis of Gun Smoke will star at all 10 rodeo performances along with a lineup of country acts and Lawrence Welk stars on final weekend. Helga is in Norse name meaning holy.
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Little Rock
North Little Rock
Ken Curtis
Eoldy Arnold
Grandstand
Jeannie C. Riley
Jim Roberts
Sandi and
Salli
Lawrence Welk
Army to disclose case details against six Green Berets
Military spokesmen said the Army would release charges against six Green Beret officers accused of murdering a Vietnamese spy Thai Khac Chuyen identified as a double agent for Americans and the North Vietnamese. Defense lawyers denounced the move as attempts to inflame public opinion and prejudice the case. Attorneys for three accused Berets asked President Nixon to dismiss the charges.
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Green Berets
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Associated Press
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Vietnam
Green Beret
Thai Khac Chuyen
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Henry 8B. Rothblatt
Nixon
Death of Border Attack Suspect Ends Case Toward Canada
Je sus Mark White, 22, of Brooklyn, New York, allegedly shot at U S Canadian border crossing officials wounding two border patrolmen and a customs agent. White, charged with three counts of felonious assault on federal officers, was found dead in Canada, apparently by suicide. Victims include Leonard Chagnon. William Grinter. and David Hoff, with varying injuries. Chagnon identified the suspect after he asked him to step off a bus for routine questioning. Witnesses say the man fled into wooded, mountainous terrain.
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N.Y
Canada
Jesus Mark White
Brooklyn
Plattsburgh
Leonard Chagnon
Rouses Point
William Grinter
David Hoff
Ellenburg
Chagnon
U.S
Montreal
Nixon backs Haynsworth nomination amid calls for Senate vote
President Nixon defended Judge Haynsworth's qualifications and urged Senate confirmation. He said he was broadly aware of Haynsworth's background, favored a middle course between extremes on school desegregation, and argued federal funding denial is a defeat for education unless absolutely necessary.
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Senate
Judge Haynsworth
South
Vietnamese Deny Charge by Proxmire
Saigon military spokesman rejects Senator Proxmire’s claim that the South Vietnamese government tried to sell new U S arms supplied by the United States. He notes negotiations with a British company for 200000 weapons, most obsolete, with U S weapons dating to 1917. The ARVN states purchases would render items nonoperable.
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U.S
William Proxmire
D-Wis
United States
Army of the
Bartlett Gase Goes to Jury
In Fort Smith Arkansas the U S District Court jury of eight women and four men hearing the Ernest Bartlett Jr. trial retired to the jury room at 9 31 a m today after closing arguments.
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Fort Smith, Ark
U. S. District Court
Ernest Bartlett Jr
Fort Smith
Weather Summary From Offset Station Report
Forecasts by Associated Press show Arkansas fair through Saturday with mild days and cool nights. Louisiana expected clear to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with warm afternoons and mild nights. Lows in the 50s across states with highs reaching the 80s.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Louisiana
Group Tries to Trap Fuel in River Near Lit tle Rock
Diesel from a ruptured pipeline near Russellville spilled into the Arkansas River. Crews could not locate a surface slick at David D Terry Lock, Dam SE of Little Rock, hindering efforts to trap the fuel. OMS Pipe Line Co. and Army Engineers issued statements as they searched Pool 7 for the sheen.
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Russell+ville
Arkansas
David D. Terry
John Mawn
Army Engineer’s Public Information
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Mawnh
OMR Pipeline Co
Tulsa
Okla
Engineers District
Mawn
Terry Lock and Dam
OMR
Israeli War Casualties Rise to Eighty in Conflict
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said casualties in the Arab-Israeli clashes have climbed to about 80 per month, with half on the Israel Egypt front. A Jordan River skirmish left a 22 year old Israeli civilian dead and an Arab saboteur was killed near the Dead Sea. A 59 year old man died and a bus station was damaged in southwest Jerusalem. West Bank town Qalqiliya reported six homes demolished after arrests of saboteurs. weapons and sabotage gear were found.
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Dayan
Jordan
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Dead Sea
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West Bank
Qalqiliya
Obituary of Audie Franks of Hope and Hempstead
Mrs. Audie Hopson Franks, 72, lifelong resident of Hope and Hempstead County, died Thursday. She was a Methodist. Survived by daughter Mrs. Denver Dickinson of Hope, brother Burnie Hopson of Hope, sisters Mrs. Erma Thomas, Mrs. Georgia Neal of Hope, and Mrs. Edith Walker of Denver. Services 4 p.m. Friday at Oakcrest Chapel by Rev. Everett Vinson. Burial Memory Gardens by Oakcrest Funeral Home.
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Audie Hopson Franks
Hope
Hempstead County
Methodist Church
Denver Dickinson
Burnie Hopson
Erma Thomas
Georgia Neal
Edith Walker
Denver
Oakcrest Chapel
Everett Vinson
Memory Gardens
Oakcrest Funeral Home
Army pullout from Vietnam reshapes forces. air field deactivated
The Army Air Field at Fort Riley will be deactivated and reconstituted as a reserve unit in Omaha. A Sept. 16 pullout caps the U.S. troop selloff in Vietnam at 484,000 with 25,000 already withdrawn in August. A Hawaii conference coordinates the plan to meet the Dec. 15 ceiling. Meanwhile helicopter gunships killed 14 Vietnamese civilians west of Tam Ky, with seven and two wounded, in a second such incident this week. In the Mekong Delta clashes, 48 Viet Cong and four government troops died, while a convoy suffered losses southeast of Saigon. U.S. B52 raids continued near the Cambodian border northern Saigon area.
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Omaha
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Vietnam
Athursday
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McCain Jr
Pacific
Tam Ky
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Mekong del
Mekong Delta
Saigon
Pier Burns in San Francisco Fire Feeds City Front Ruins
A 490-foot Pier 1 on the San Francisco waterfront burned to char after a Thursday night blaze near the Ferry Building. No serious injuries were reported as troops and war materials readied for a new wave of attacks.
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Pier Burns
San Francisco
Pier
Britain to Check Progress in Ireland Visit
British Prime Minister James Callaghan will visit Northern Ireland on October 9 and 10 to review peace progress with Prime Minister Jo Chichester-Clark and leaders from Protestant and Catholic communities. The trip follows reforms to end discrimination in housing employment and government voting. Rioting in Londonderry intensified, authorities deployed troops and a peace line was strained near Bogside as clashes continued between Catholic youths and police.
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Northern
Britain
James Callaghan
Orth
Ireland
Callaghan
Jo Chichester-Clark
Chichester-Clark
Londonderry
Waterloo Place
Bogside
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