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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1968
Page
2
Len E Blaylock Arkansas welfare chief reflects after 51 weeks in office saying he sought fairness for employees and taxpayers while finding the job shifted his views from conservative toward sympathy for welfare recipients. He notes programs were set and funds appropriated before his tenure.
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Chan Jernigan orders University of Arkansas Medical Center to deduct union dues from payroll for two unions. Hospital, Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Workers Local 200 and State County Municipal Employer Union members seek checkoff. Whaley testified in February on dues matters.
The 24 hour station report ends at 7 am Tuesday with high 74 and low 40. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy south with chance of showers and a few thundershowers in extreme south tonight and early Wednesday. North and central areas expect clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday, cooler tonight with lows around the upper 30s to 40s in the north and low 90s in the extreme south.
The University Board of Trustees faced Act 133 of 1967 over withholding discretionary funds. The court ruled withholding dues mandatory. Separately, Union and Confederate losses at the Battle of Gettysburg totaled about 51 000 lives.
Thousands gathered in Memphis under gray skies to honor Martin Luther King Jr. His widow Coretta Scott King spoke of nonviolence and carrying on his work as Rev. Ralph Abernathy pledged to return with her to assist striking garbage workers. National Guardsmen guarded the route amid earlier unrest and tank presence. Negotiations in the seven week old garbage strike were recessed for the funeral in Atlanta.
The Defense Department released names of 82 servicemen killed in action in Vietnam in the first such list of 198? involving Arkansans. Army S Sgt Marvin E Burrows of New Blaine Logan County Army Pfc Jewel L Rainwater of Van Buren and Marine Pfc Cecil L Jones of Jonesboro are named among the fallen. County minimum voting age note appears from Britannica.
Pulaski County Economic Opportunity Agency director William L Sonny Walker warned that words alone cannot avert racial unrest in Arkansas. He urged open housing, suggested Job Opportunity Week, and called for resolving neighborhood recreational facility issues and making school facilities available for job training. The piece ends by noting the loving cup custom tracing to wassailing.
A 15 year old boy, Oliver Knussen, conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in the premiere of his first symphony. Critics offered mixed reviews while Knussen won audience applause with ten minutes of cheering and five curtain calls. He conducted without a baton, son of Stuart Knussen, the orchestra's principal bass player.
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