Hope Star (Newspaper) - November 1, 1962, Hope, Arkansas To City Subscribers If you fall I to gtt vour Star by carrier will deliver your YEAR 64 NO 16 Star For See Column at Bottom wi This a OUR DAILY Steed Thin by The NOVEMBER 1962 Heres Your Editors on Ballot Items When yop go to the polls next you will be looking at seven propositions on the general election five constitutional amend ments and two I dont need to remind you that when a citizen is confronted by numerous and complicated ballot matters is inclined to throw up his hands and vote against all of But there is something here of value perhaps a chance to make your tax dollar go where you intended it to by stop ping the politicians diversion of beating back the threat of more and heavier state If you follow me in this thought I suggest that you vote FOR three measures and vote AGAiNST the other four Our discussion takes up the various bills in the order in which they will appear on the Hempstead County which should be a helpful arrange ment when you come to make up your mind as to how you will Thats your The only responsibility of an editor is to discuss the pro to compare them with our states taxa tion and to offer advice that your common sense will either accept or Heres the story AMENDMENT 50 to give unlimited new taxing authority rb city Arkansas cities operate under a handicap because the public relieved of the former tax no longer have a prime interest in maintaining an adequate property assessment base but the cities and too are still confined to a maximum of 5 This newspaper would favor abolishing the city tax ceiling but Amendment 50 goes too r t would permit levying city income city soles and many The cities need help but the Amendment 50 Grab is not the VOTE AGAINST AMENDMENT AMENDMENT 51 A new and untried approach to the problem of school transfers based on racial Your guess is as good as mine on this But the Arkansas Education Association is strongly against Amendment The AEA feels that if Amendment 51 is approved it will weaken our present Pupil Assignment which has been tested and found valid by the VOTE AGAINST AMENDMENT i 52 provide increased salaries for state and county The present maximum salary for county officials is and 52 would change this to for judges and sheriff in the most populous and to for the smallest with corresponding in creases in other county The present salary of for the states governor would be in creased to with corresponding increases for other constitutional state The proposal for the governor is But S the blanket increase for all counties is Whats needed here is not a blanket salary in crease but a blanket reform of gov either consolidate some of the small er counties or consolidate county and city govern ment into a single eliminating ridiculous duplication of highsounding offices in a pintsize VOTE AGAINST AMENDMENT AMENDMENT 53 This is a proposal to help the Teacher Retirement Fund with state In any quarrel between the public schools and the politicians of the legislature Ill go along with the VOTE FOR AMENDMENT AMENDMENT 54 This is a to per mit use of voting machines when and if we ever get around to installing them and providing we can pay for Because the machines do not keep a record of how individuals voted the present tion forbids their the supreme court has decid Therefore 54 must be approved to overcome this legal Practically every public organ in the and both major have endorsed VOTE FOR AMENDMENT INITIATED 1 To override the legislature and guarantee to the public schools 50 per cent of all the states general IS most on Tuesdays For a generation we hove been voting new taxes for the public schools only to see so much of the money diverted to other purposes by the politic ians of the legislature that new or higher taxes are constantly In we enacted the 2 sales tax for the In 1941 we removed the exemption of food and doubling the tax again for the In 1957 we raised the sales tax to 3 across the board for the k But at almost every session the legislative politicians have robbed the schools of the money you voted to To cite one example City and county governments alone get 5 million dollars a year from sales tax equal to onethird of a cent sales Right here at home Hope a and Hempstead County a year of sales tax that was supposed to go to the The legislature has been tried and found want Vote the rascals out and vote the schools VOTE FOR INITIATED ACT i INITIATED ACT 199 A to regulate automobile sales and set up license fees for dealers and State government is sticking its nose into private offering pro like a Chicago It would make job in an expanded state gov The good feature is that these jobs wouldnt general taxpayer a dime except when he bought a and then hed pay for See the nearest auto for details too numerous to name in my limited VOTE AGAINST INITIATED ACT Man Collapses Following Dies a resi of collated yds died almost im The accident occurred on the old State Policeman Guy Downing and Sheriff Jimmie Griffin said that Laba apparently lost con trol of Me truck he was vehicle onto the wrong side of the road and collided with an auto driven by Oliver a Negro also of Officers said Laba appeared unhurt following the accident but shortly Nelson sustained lacerations and injuries to his left vehicles weire Marshal Lindo Wilson of Blevins assisted in thei inves Laba was a retired Aif Force Master Servant and had lived near about a having purchased the Date Yocom He was a member Catholic He is survived byi his Winfred Laba two Marie and Deborah Anri Laba of the home and Laba of four Edward and Al all ol Pitts burg four Mary Stella and all of Arrangements art incomplete and will be announced by Oak crest United Fund Now Total According to report some has been pledged to the United Fund with only one downtown block that being Uve block with Hody Butler as others should be com No special division has completed its canvass to date but the Special Gifts Division has one firm to Junior and the are resident ial arca and have already turned in more than Several of the the professional group and the greater parti of the division remains to be heard Ed drive urges all workers to make a special effort to get areas worked and the pledges turned in as soon as Firms or groups participating 100 per cent include Firsti and Citizens National Bank County Road Workers Childs Herbert Burns Gun ter Lumber Credit Montgomery Cox Drug Scott Roy An derson Lincoln High Schools Moore XRay Unit in Hope All Day Friday Thq mobile Xray unit took 61 at McCaskill and 133 al Blevins making the two day total Friday lire unit will at Hempstead Courthouse all day closing at Morning helpers include Edith Haynes Crow and Afternoon helpers include Mrs Vic Paul Owens and Frank fmt 4 mt PRICE COPY IN VAIN Erma Jian of tries in vain to a calf to drink a pail during the selection of a Kansas Statt Queen in Miss Kerr and five other also had to drive a tractor and construct a milk Guns Found inOle Miss Dormitory By VAN SAVELL Miss sur prise Halloween night search by soldiers unearthed a small arsenal in a mens dormi tory at the University of Missis sippi University officials vowed swift disciplinary action against students The sudden action followed the wounding of a military policeman By a apparently tossed from a window of Lester Baxter Hall where James Meredith is begins his second Ill MO classes today as the begin today first Negro ever knowingly ad to the univer He studied in relative silence Wednesday There were no firecracker barrages like those which disrupted the campus the previous two University officials cooperated in the dormitory Student Affairs Dean Love com We just cant have things like that going on That soldier could have been se The search turned up at least one dismantled Ml a dis mantled several tear gas a full can of gasoline and a large of noisy firecrackers known as cherry Neither university nor Justice Wonts Pay to Teachers Up to LITTLE ROCK Blockade of Cuba Is Resumed As Castro Balks at Inspection Thant Thinks Missiles Will Be Removed B UNITED AP Castros annoyance over being bypassed by Soviet Premier Khrushchev caused the Cuban leader to reject inspection of Soviet missile a high source said The source said that Castro was aggrieved because Khrushchev had not consulted him before agreeing with President Kennedy that inspectors could be sent to Cuba to verify the dismantling of Soviet These disclosures came as Act ing U Thant plunged into a new of diplo matic talks in an effort to get the Cuban peace effort back on the Informed sources said Castro had given him an outright executive secretary of the tion at first meet JH Arkansas Education Association vana but nad been much outlined a proposal Wednesday more on for an eventual minimum salary The belief expressed In for teachers from to high UN Q t The suggestions came on the opening day of the annual AEA expected to bring some teachers to Rock Registration for the teach ers was held Wednesday Declares Ruling Was Misquoted LITTLE ROCK AP Gem Frank Holt was Incorrectly quoted in a news story Tuesday as saying that a school term another state will qualify a to go to school in Arkansas if he is not six years old on or before Holt said starting school in an other state would not qualify a student to attend in Arkansas public school if he is not of school Van Walnut Ridge school had asked Holt if he was legally correct in defying admission to a student who at tended the first seven weeks of school in another then tried to transfer to a Walnut Ridge He also recommended accept the inspection ment of state and county after his mood pass sions school district consolidation Diplomatic informants in Wash ington said Castro had delivered a bitter trade in his talks Than and accused Khrushchev of having sold him down the A spokesman for Thant said this was completely The also denied Washing ton reports saying Thant had had a most unpleasant trip to The first ap pointment today was with the cur rent president of the Security Mahmoud Riad of the United Arab Republic and with Ghanas council Delegate Alex He also had appointments with Rozzell recommended a re quired minimum salary of a ofthe current for teachers with bache lors degrees and a from to holding masters degrees Under his consolidation a state commission would establish general standards provide Ov unit iuv willi professional assistance to county i Cubas newly appointed del Rozzell also suggested Establishment of a commission with authority to reprimand teach ers or revoke or suspend licenses in cases of corruption or unethical practices A requirement that local school boards to follow a uniform dis missal procedure A provision for professional Carlos who flew back from Havana Wednesday Lechuga arranged to pre sent his but it was possible also that he and Thant would deal with the Cuban situa Ambassador Adlai Ste venson had an afternoon appoint menl to see Thant said on his return from university nor justice n lor sum on nis return irom Department officials would detail negotiation when differences Havana Wednesday night he had the weapons found in the I alise between teachers and school been reliably informed bases The soldiers turned over to uni boards versity officials the student allocation of excess cards of at least a funds to various districts dozen But no one would on the basis of an equal amount disclose the exact number or specific Under university a student is considered under arrest child in daily Old Timers Day would be dismantled by Friday and the Soviet equipment shipped out of Cuba soon But said aboul ar rangements for UN verification I of the Soviet withdrawal the pur pose of his This plus the return with him of the when his ID card is aides he had taken as a and must face action of Baplist College alumni j nucleus of the inspection who graduated before 1932 will was taken as evidence at Saturday would not agree to the foreign In first Old Timers day be The announced football game between the it was resuming its naval ligers Southern of arms All Around Town By The Star Staff Accident Results in One Injury Yesterday on South Main street an auto driven McMahen of was hit from behind by another auto ven by Ruby Reed of McMahen was taken to a local hospital by a ambulance for a possible Officers Torbert and Sinyard charged Bradley Negro wo man with failure to have proper The autjo wasnt badly The other aulo had heavy and must face action of the Stu dent Judicial As the MPsi withdrew their around Lester Mississippi highway patrolmen police from Clarks fp miles on fiers of arms shipments The moving Continued on Page Two rapidly after the deputy at torney Nicholas Katzon flew here for talks about i mounting asked for the reinforcements to bost campus security Just before Meredith went to the campus dining room for sup the soldiers encircled Lester esg and waler balloon blocking all iWs in fu swing lasl More than 100 male students quickly gathered shout f ing at the boys temporarily only css prisoned inside iwC Bruner it was Lla and will be escort Dean Love and other key the lhal lj Sawyer a 1960 arrived quickly and asked of his pickup aliu lope she is a member students to disperse the mussed up both Young Womens Aux Explosive the and out Marlin and is a sponsor pus this week have been ll was morc than homecoming is November in some parts to the the of his feverishness preceding the and it Mrs and State was an Alvin Easterling attended a two teams l nis City hair fashion show in Little Rock bitter rivals more than a half a boys last is a candidate for Homecoming at Ouachita Baptist College where she a junior English major Ela Eta Has Sent Planes Back in Action By FRED S HOFFMAN WASHINGTON AP US Navy ships resumed their arms blockade of Cuba at daybreak to day and air surveillance was or dered renewed after Fidel Castro evidently refused to agree to UN inspection of Soviet missile with Washington officials will want to verify photos a report by U Act ing that all So viet missiles would be taken down by Friday and removed from Cuba soon afterward Thant said he was reliably informed of this in The suspended two days of evidently fruitless between Thant and Fi del was clue to go back into force at dawn Its as is to keep of fensive outl of The White House announced this Wednesday night after President Kennedy had reviewed the situa tion with his top level National Security Pierre presidential press said US photo reconnaissance planes would go back into action in the absence of effective UN arrangements with Castro the Paul by UTJ Soviet Salinger left vague just when surveillance will start again after the break Apparently this was intended to avoid tipping off Cuban antiaircraft which fired on unarmed US reconnais sance planes at the height of the crisis last The United Slates has edged losing one plane over Cuba and Thant said after arriving in New York Wednesday night that the Cuban at his re bad agreed to return the body of its Air Force Maj Rudolf Anderson of Green Until the United States has listed Anderson as missing in ac A Defensive spokesman said disclosure was the firsl word US gov has had thai Anderson was shot clown By all tho Anderson was piloting a highflying U2 and may have been clowned by a Soviet 600 Waiting for Shots at AP More than GOO persons were wait ing at the Washington County Health Center in when it opened today to receive Salk polio The rush to be inoculated against the disease came after nine cases of polio were reported within the last weeks in Washington A boy died from disease test the ty health officer estimated that booster or initial series shots of the vaccine would be given to county residents We gave about 800 shots of the Salk vaccine he And had to turn persons away last night before we could close the He estimated that 400 persons were turned away and told to return County health officials have planned a mass immunization pro gram using Sabin vaccine for Heerwagen said most of the persons receiving shots today were those who had not had polio shots or who needed to complete their initial series of three Private physicians administered many more Health officials said that some doses of the vaccine are eld a Kanas and will be flown too by Arkansas Ail National Guard if said the sabis vaccine arrived Wednesday but will be supplied antiaircraft held for distribution Reimposition of the blockade County health officials ordered maV serve to His doses of the oral vaccine on UN inspection from Lederle Laboratories at injected a note of uncertainty Pearl Heerwagen proceedings which had seemed said more will probably be bu moving smoothly since Sun day when Soviet Premier Khrush Heerwagen said the tion sponsored by the Washington County Medical So agreed to dismantle his mis silo bases in Cuba bring home his is aimed al immunizing the The turn of events in Havana 85 per cent of the countys Prompted Kennedy to residents which are suspected off a news orig carriers of the He based scl for situ this on surveys which show when ation is clarified Cancellation of disease breaks a certain session was announced late percentage of the population must be carrying The blockade and aerial surveil meet Saturday night Baton Weather roof over Bakery thcy were be singing services al cars a carload of at Gospel Light House Church on girls showered autos starling at eggs City Police have a list of 50 names over to school Congressman Oren Harris will Total 1962 precipitation through this morning in all fairness spiak over inches during local students had plenty ot li from to 9 the same period a year ago help a check of the list some from nearby rural Farm Family of the Year Dis i schools and even a few in collide l rid underway this Arkansas Regional Forecast some not in any Mr Mrs Ned By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hempstead will Central Arkansas Cloudy to Sue Ann daughter of Mr at t in Thursday Continued on Page Two ami Smith of Approximately 500 o had been suspended druggists and private at citizens have volunteered lo aid in Salinger declined to dis program Typo I ot the renewed the oral vaccine will be given reporters got the im all pression that the same zones ana rules would apply as during the Gronts in State fii six days 1 he orders under which block AP Grants operated pre to three Arkansas communities svill again until the ac projects lo be buill under the lion is finally in es Accelerated Public Works for board gram were announced ing and searching suspicious ves by the Community Facilities i Dermott was blockaders have authority to ed for extensions to its use as slight as possible but sewer Horatio sink a resisting ship if water and sewer facilities Cove for water Church Group Meets LITTLE AP The 1st annual session of the state Association of Missionary Baptist Churches will be held today and Friday in More than delegates and visitors from churches over the state are to The associa tion is composed of churches filiated with the American Baptist The i a national from sowing ci i if oats is
