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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1965
Page
2
About 100000 tips are filed yearly to the IRS from patriotic motives or civic duty with some payments to informers. The IRS evaluates tips, rarely pays rewards, and investigates both tip and informer. In fiscal 1964 about 95000 tips were offered, with payouts totaling $565000 to 822 informers.
Audrey Hepburn presented Harrison Ford with an Oscar after Harrison won for Best Actor in real life in Santa Monica. Julie Andrews accepted for Best Actress as Poitier introduced the crowd. Peter Ustinov claimed a second Oscar while Eva Kedrova joined the English winners and kissed Anthony Quinn in the Zorba moment. Bob Hope hosted and quipped about an enduring English presence in Hollywood.
The south half of Arkansas saw rain with the Weather Bureau predicting showers and thundershowers in all but the northwest. Temperatures will cool slightly tonight with lows from 50 to the low 60s. Overnight lows were mainly in the 60s, some stations at 70. Rainfall in 24 hours to 6 am varied from .89 inches at Fayetteville to traces elsewhere. Highs Monday reached around 81 degrees at several stations.
The Labour government imposes a stiff tax on capital gains and profits and bans most tax free expense accounts in the 1965-66 budget. Chancellor Callaghan announces the basic income tax rise from 38.75 to 41.25 percent and aims to raise about 700 million dollars yearly, pledging to curb outward capital flow.
U S Air Force reported 16 strikes against Viet Cong in the Ca Mau area with 32 additional American strikes nationwide, marking one of South Viet Nam’s heaviest air operation days. Reports say Communist casualties included a captain, with many deaths from helicopter fire as forces withdrew under combined land sea and air pressure. A Ranger battle began Sunday with helicopter insertions and heavy fire, killing both an American Army officer and a Navy officer in separate incidents. The Vietnamese Defense Ministry claimed 60 Viet Cong killed in Binh Dinh with ten government troops dead and 17 wounded.
Between the reopen and closing of the autobahn border guards slowed traffic with long vehicle checks. Four mile queues formed and some drivers waited up to 18 hours at Babelsberg. Reporters saw artillery, 50 Communist military trucks and 20 tanks west of Berlin. Soviet fighters roared low over Babelsberg, causing loud booms. Western air corridors remained open. Britain posted a 1964 balance of payments deficit of 2.086 billion dollars with capital outflow of 1.0388 billion.
Northeast Arkansas areas see decreasing cloudiness tonight with lows in the 50s. Wednesday brings mostly sunny pleasant conditions and highs in the 70s. Arkansas clearing tonight and fair Wednesday with southeastern areas staying mostly cloudy and a 40 to 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms through tonight and early Wednesday. Northwest cooler tonight with lows near 50, southeast near 70. Showers end in the southeast, then partly cloudy Wednesday with highs 72 to 82.
Partly cloudy and warm with a few thundershowers likely in northwest Louisiana. Lows tonight 65 to 70. Highs 78 to 85 Wednesday. Eastern and southern Missouri mostly fair through Wednesday with highs near 75 and lows in the 40s. Arkansas partly cloudy to cloudy with showers and thundershowers east and south today, clearing tonight through Wednesday. highs 76 to 84 and lows 50s to 60s.
The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a lower ruling that the Board of Election Commissioners lacked authority to add spaces on registration forms. State Auditor Jimmie Jones estimated registrations begin around June 1 in most counties due to printing and distribution time. He noted Parkin Printing had not ordered form paper because of the lawsuit and county clerks must setup registrars and systems. Schoenfeld criticized the delay and urged a capable printer be found to serve the people.
Broad storms sweep the nation with rain from the Midwest to Texas. Hail pelts Kansas City and Topeka while tornadic winds damage property in Missouri and Oklahoma. Snow falls in the Dakotas and Rockies as floods threaten Midwest towns and a century heat surge reaches southern Texas and Indiana.
Prince Philip laments duties limiting simple pleasures such as visiting a pub or going to a movie yet notes compensating advantages. Charlie Chaplin and wife show cold reception to elder son Michael and daughter in law Pay Johns amid family aid reports. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, reconciled with the royal family, arrive in Paris after eye surgery.
Phoenix AP Barry Goldwater the 1964 Republican presidential candidate was to enter the neurological clinic at St Josephs Hospital for treatment of a chronic back ailment from an old injury that plagued him through his campaign.
A neurosurgeon, speaking on condition of anonymity, says Goldwater likely has a cervical disc issue in the neck. The doctor notes no cause for alarm, Goldwater will be hospitalized for observation and possible therapy, and no surgery is planned.
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