04 Apr 1957
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1957
Page
1
Hal Boyle reports a hunt for a legendary four lettered big cat called the onzain. Naturalists recall such an animal in old Spanish chronicles and Mexico City records. Locals claim tracks found by natives and suggest a few may survive in the mountains with retractable claws.
State police forces range from 600 to 1,250 with hires aimed at easing high death tolls. California reports 8305 highway deaths, while Texas and New York seek hundreds more officers and higher salaries. Michigan also plans 35 additional patrolmen.
Officials in Little Rock North Little Rock and Pulaski County react to a new measure reducing quotas. The city council weighing indigent patient screening at the Medical Center while North Little Rock Mayor Perry adopts a wait and see stance fearing insufficient funds to support large added costs.
An Associated Press correspondent Endre Marton and Tlona Nvilas shared a journalism award presented after arrival in Socountry from Vienna. The prize acknowledged their coverage of the October revolt and oppression by Russian forces while noting Marton’s murder during the conflict.
A Arkansas Parole Board meeting approved 29 of 72 applications amid a 59 cent per parole cut. Among those freed were two men convicted of second degree murder, Armstad Morgan and Huie Mabdy, with others named from Mississippi, Crittenden, and Miller counties. Board Chairman Loyd Sadler and member Clyde King commented on parole delays and tougher enforcement.
Five people killed and two injured in two separate U S highway crashes near Pine Bluff and Little Rock yesterday. Victims include Gilber Jordan 38 of Rampton and his wife, plus a youth Dannie Stiles 16 of Little Rock and Eugen Thomas Warren of Houston. Jordan’s mother Mrs Walter Jordan hospitalized with multiple fractures. Police say one crash occurred on US 87 near Pine Bluff Arsenal, another on US 63 north of Pine Bluff. Institutions and witnesses unable to provide full details. vehicle origins under investigation.
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