Grand Jury Blames Moonshine Tide Between Counties
A Nashville News column notes Howard County Grand Jury faults unbonded moonshine sales in Hempstead County Arkansas near Ozan. It argues prohibition creates enforcement gaps, warns Texarkana bears tax burdens, and suggests Miller County Grand Jury might issue a similar blistering report on wet counties and tax flows.
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The
Nashville News
Howard County
Grand Jury
Hempstead County
Howard County Grand Jury
Hempstead
Arkansas
Ozan
Howard and
Texarkana
Howard
Miller
Arkansas General Revenue Fund
Miller County Grand Jury
Gemini 12 spacewalk plan trimmed due to fatigue
Project officials canceled a bold Air Force developed experiment that would have sent Maj. Edna Aldrin Jr around the world with a backpack. Astronaut Edwin Aldrin now focuses on core space walk problems and may stay aloft up to two hours.
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Ronald ‘Thompson
Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Air Force
Maj
Edna, Aldrin Jr
Aldrin
Malvern Girl Crowned Queen at Third District Stock Show
Judy Toler of Malvern was named Queen of the Third District Show with Kay Lee of Arkadelphia as first runnerup and Sharon O Nea l of Texarkana as second runnerup. The event featured a quarterhorse show, rodeo by Texoma Rodeo Co, and school day ride discounts at Sonny Myers Amusement Shows through Thursday night finals.
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Judy Toler
Malvern
Kay Lee
Arkadelphia
Sharon O’neal
Texarkana
Texoma Rodeo Co
Madill
Jokla
IRA
Sonny Myers Amusement
Pam
Police to Add Two Men and Cut Hours
Hope City Board of Directors voted to hire two more officers and switch to 48 hour weeks from 60. They also authorized a full time assistant for Parks Director Charles Gough and a part time assistant for the Negro park director. The board approved 4th Street repairs between Main and Walnut and the use of a building at the Airport by the Hope Flying Club.
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Hope City Board of Directors
Police Department
Charles Gough
4Th Street
Main
Walnut
Air Port
Hope Flying Club
PTA Hears About School Traffic
The PTA's first meeting of the year covered student and parent traffic rules. Parents should not arrive after 3 15 to allow buses to load. students must obtain an unrestricted driver's license permit, parental consent, and school registration to drive to school. A traffic ticket forfeits the permit. Band progress noted, with 39 members marching and 25 starting, aiming for 60 or 75 next seasons.
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PTA
Gordy Cathe Ey
Richard Keyton
Keyton
Glee Club
Guards Called Out to Quell Negro Rioting in San Francisco
AP report describes two nights of violence in San Francisco triggered by a white officer’s fatal shooting of a Black youth. Gov Brown and Mayor Shelley mobilized 2000 National Guardsmen and imposed a curfew to quell looting, arson, and brick throwing in Hunters Point and Fillmore. Nine or more people were hospitalized as the city sought calm after unrest.
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San Francisco
Hunters Point
Fillmore
Edmund G. Brown
John F. Shelley
Mission Emergency Hospital
Legion Meeting Kickoff for 1966 67 Membership Drive
Legion Post 12 of the American Legion calls a meeting on Thursday September 29 1966 at 7 30 p m in the Little Court Room Hempstead County Courthouse. All members urged to attend as 12th District Commander Roy H Hopkins will install officers for the new year and kick off the 1966 67 membership drive.
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Leslie Huddleston Post 12
The
American Legion
Little Court Room
Hempstead County Court House
12Th District
Roy H. Hopkins
Bonds Wins Board Post at Blevins School Fight Outcome
Levelle Bonds won Post 1 on the Blevins School Board yesterday defeating James Staggers by 197 to 7 in an unofficial vote. No other county races had opposition. Results show McCagkill and Clow tallied for Bonds with 63 to 42 and 70 to 8 respectively.
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Levelle Bonds
Blevins
James Staggers
Mc Cagkill
Bonds
Staggers
Clow
Johnson urges space treaty as urgency grows
President Johnson pressed for a U N space treaty during a Cape Kennedy visit with West German Chancellor Erhard, arguing the security of all men hinges on swift agreement. He cited US Soviet gaps on reporting outer space activities, equal access to moon installations, and military hardware in space, urging early, binding terms over voluntary measures.
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Jim Strothman
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Johnson
United Nations
U.S
Ludwig Erhard
Soviet Union
Unite States
United States
Moon
Russia
Faubus Still Talks Special Session
Gov. Orval Faubus said he would leave an unprecedented pool of state funds for the incoming governor despite hints he might call a special session. At a Welfare Department banquet Johnson and Rockefeller met publicly for the first time since Johnson won the nomination, as Faubus announced a boosted Welfare budget including higher salaries for county welfare directors and staff. Johnson and Rockefeller praised welfare progress while Johnson urged support for his Nov. 8 race, and Mrs. Johnson warned Democrats against GOP smearing linked to national issues.
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Little Rock
Orval Faubus
Faubus
Jim Johnson
Winthrop Rockefeller
State Welfare Department
Johnson
Rockefeller
Welfare Department
Uke Rockefeller
A. J. Mose
Arkansas
Repubeican
National Democratic Party
Washington
CBJ
Great Society
Arkansas Democratic Women's Club
Arkansan Elected to Missionary Society Board
Henry J. Meenen of Fayetteville and Mrs Henry Hart Tyler of Fort Smith were elected members of the board of managers of the United Christian Missionary Society at its annual Dallas meeting. Meenen drew a term expiring 1968 and Mrs Tyler a term expiring 1969.
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Dallas
Tex
Henry J. Meenen
Fayetteville
Henry Hart Tyler
Fort Smith
United Christian Missionary Society
Meenen
Tyler
Hurricane Inez Haunts Caribbean Killing Five
Hurricane Inez plowed through the Caribbean killing at least five and causing widespread damage in Guadeloupe. It lashed Puerto Rico with 70 mph winds as Judith formed 1000 miles east. Officials warned of possible hits on Hispaniola and further uncertainties loom about its path toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Inez
Caribbean
Guadeloupe
Dominican Republic
Judith
Paris
Weather Bureau
Georgia
Ellis Arnall
Lester Maddox
Virgin Islands
Reports Coup in Making in Dominican Republic
AP reports an apparent coup propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust between Balaguer’s government and the military. The radical left and Bosch factions are blamed, but officials doubt an imminent coup due to armed forces backing the regime. Territorial violence and weapons traces persist in central Santo Domingo.
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Robert Berrellez
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Joaquin Balaguer
Juan Bosch
U.S
Bosch
Dominican Revolutionary Party
Balaguer
Havana
Balogue Oren
Woman Shot to Death in Fort Smith Household
Mrs. Eula Gardner aged 34 of Fort Smith was shot and killed at her home on Tuesday. Police held her husband Donald Gardner aged 34 for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Eula Gardner
Fort Smith
Donald Gardner
Jury acquits Klansman in Liuzzo slaying in Alabama
An eight Negroes four whites jury in Hayneville Alabama acquits Eugene Thomas a 48 year old steelworker and Ku Klux Klan member of murder in the slaying of Viola Gregg Liuzzo a white civil rights worker. The verdict followed 85 minutes of deliberation.
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Hayneville
Ala
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klans
Eugene Thomas
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Thomas
Liuzzo
Detroit
Bessemer
Klan
Richmond Flowers
Law and Order
FBI
Gary Thomas Rowe
William Orville Eaton
U.S
Montgomery
Flowers
Rowe
San Francisco
Edmund G. Brown
National Guard
Johnson
Transport Workers
American Airlines
Alabama
Arizona
Esther Peterson
President Johnson
Mrs. Peterson
Petition Hearing Set for Independent Senate Candidate
LITTLE ROCK AP A Pulas ky Chancery Court set a Thursday hearing on a petition to force Secretary of State Kelly Bryant to certify Dr John Hoffman Jr of Hot Springs as an independent candidate for state Senate. Bryant said Hoffman and two others lacked enough valid signatures on their petitions. Passionate Purple It Really Was MIAMI Fla AP street in front of my house has turned purple resident told police It really had as one resident put it Police traced 4 50 gallon drum purple dye fell from a truck and broke then it began raining.
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Little Rock
Miami
Fla
Rehabilitation, new residents, and scholarships amid Hope news
In Hempstead, 26 citizens were rehabilitated and placed in work during the 1966 fiscal year ending June 30, per Arkansas Rehabilitation Service director Russell Baxter. About 3,563 Arkansans with disabilities received help statewide. Hempstead field counselor H. E. Tye serves the area. Community notices seek cemetery fund donations to Emmet residents and announce Len O'Dell and family moving to Hope. Hope students enroll at Pines Vocational Technical School. Army Capt. Franklin N. Horton, son of local residents, reports Viet Nam assignment. National Merit semifinalists from Hope High include Patricia E. Fuller and Stanley L. Reyenga. Nashville list includes Donald E. Yarbrough.
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Hempstead
Russell Baxeter
Arkansas Rehabilitation Service
Arkansas
H. E. Tye
Councselor
Army
Franklin N. Horeton
Frankelin M. Horton
Hope
Ark
1St Infantry Division
Viet Nam
Horton
Ouachita Baptist University
Joan
Noyes
Glenmere Drive
Little Rock
Hope High School
Patericia E. Fuller
Stanley L. Reyenga
Nashville
Donald E. Yarbrough
U S Bombing Error Kills 35 Villagers
U S Marine planes dropped 500-pound bombs by error Tuesday on a friendly Montagnard village in Quang Ngai Province killing 35 villagers and wounding many. The blast leveled about 120 homes as relief teams moved in and an immediate investigation was begun.
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Robert Tuckman Smigon
U.S
Monta, Tagnard
Mone
Tagnard
Hon Ba
Quang Ngai
Saigon
Mekong Delta
Hit Delta Rice Bowl
Quang Neal City
Education Boosted in Elections
Public education received a large boost as Arkansas voters approved tax increases and bond issues by nearly six to one. Of 54 elections, increases in millage rates and bonds passed in all but seven districts including El Dorado North Little Rock Pine Bluff and Pulaski County Special Rural districts.
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Associated Prees
Arkansas
el Dorado
North Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Pulaski County
Walnut Ridge OKs 100000 industrial bond issue
Walnut Ridge voters approved a $100,000 industrial bond issue to acquire facilities and equipment for lease to the Southern Manufacturing Co. of Arkansas. The ballot passed 293 to 47 in the Tuesday vote.
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Walnut Ridge
Watsers
Southern Manufacturing Co
Arkansas
Child Killed in De Queen Wreck
Debra Lorene Plunk one month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Willian R Plunk of De Queen was killed in a Tuesday two car crash in De Queen. Six other people were injured in the collision near the Arkansas town according to AP.
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DE Queen, Ark
Debra Lorene Plunk
Willian R. Plunk
de Queen
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Flora Pierce
Emmet Mere, Co
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Emmet
Myr
Len O'Dell
Albuquerque
N.M
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O'Dell
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West Third St
Pines Vocational Technical School
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Jimmie Rowe
Billy White
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