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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1968
Page
1
In a local wry column the editor recounts a back yard saga with Canada Geese and domestics, noting a diplomatic nest relocation and a goose attack. He shifts to tax season, warning readers the state return changes mean early prep, with a new form and April filings.
The Rev. York W. Williams Jr., 38, a Dermott Negro, filed as a Republican candidate for Arkansas House District 44 in Chicot County. Williams, former Democrat and Morris Booker College president, seeks seat held by Democrat Lamar Dingler who filed for reelection. Williams is a graduate of AM&N, the University of Colorado, and attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. A separate item notes a homemade bomb at the American Legion in Paris with minor damage. Vermont plans to import about 430 Negro teenagers for a summer educational and recreational program in response to a national civil disorders report.
Memphis 1300 garbage collectors return to work after a memorandum of understanding settling a 65 day walkout that drew Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the city. Workers will get 10 cents an hour May 1 and 6 cents Sep 1, plus union recognition and dues checkoffs.
The bankrupt Plastwood Corp plant in Hope was sold at auction to Wynnewood Products Co of Dallas. The buyer plans three shifts and seven days a week production with 100 workers and expects to start as soon as possible. The plant, two other sites, and debts totaling about $1.01 million were detailed in bankruptcy filings.
HAL BOYLE argues boredom rivals poverty in this rich land as a widespread malaise affecting rich and poor alike. He urges self-challenge over self pity, noting that changing boring jobs can spark growth and that the first step is to stop feeling sorry for oneself.
FRANK CORMIER reports President Johnson hosts South Korea’s Park in Honolulu for a one day conference focusing on war and peace in Vietnam and rising Korean tensions. Park’s arrival, formalities, and meetings at Kaiser estate frame a day of diplomacy amid broader Cold War pressures.
The seniors present Her Father Said No a three act comedy set in a Florida hotel. Cast includes Rocky Cummings Mike Banvers Danny Lauterbach and Tommi Suaar. Business managers Linda O Neal Cathy Feild assisted by Debbie Watson Susan Clark Charlotte Moore Jimmy Turner Mary Beth Levins Neyie Churchywell Crit Stuart Jenny Tolleson. Ushers listed as Linda Britt Kathryn Coleman Kay Coleman Yvonne Barber Glenda Thompson Sandra May.
The United States arms South Vietnamese regulars with lightweight rapid fire M16 rifles before American troops on the Korean defense line. Pentagon plans to triple M16 production to about 100,000 monthly by November 1969. South Vietnamese forces presently have higher priority for MiGs than U.S. troops in Korea.
Senators backing a House plan to extend the school lunch program to day care centers and recreational facilities claim enough support to win a vote. An aide to Sen. Hart said more than 30 colleagues pledged support as the measure faced a Senate vote. The plan would replace a prior three year 96 million free lunch pilot. The House had passed the new program unanimously last month. The Senate Agriculture Committee had dropped the idea from a broader bill.
Thurston Hussey notes local Lions Club will sell brooms at Blevins Thursday night. Northwest Arkansas Times in Fayetteville ran a feature on Jack Pritchett former Hope resident now with Soil Conservation Service who received a special award from Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman in Washington DC for cost reduction. Pritchett helped develop a method to separate pack fractions from large clay samples saving about 15500 yearly. he toured the Capitol and USDA Building and now works on a watershed dam near Prairie Grove. Prairie Grove will get its municipal water from the lake. He and his wife Voncell Jordan once lived in Hope.
North Vietnamese gunners resume shelling Khe Sanh as U S Marines suffer heavy casualties in a renewed assault described as the fiercest in weeks. Reports cite 16 Marines killed, 56 wounded, 14 missing, with a 260 round artillery onslaught and continued air and artillery bombardment of enemy bunkers. The broader sweep of Operation Complete Victory advances with multiple clashes near Saigon and in the Mekong Delta, leaving dozens of Vietnamese and several Americans dead or wounded.
Pine Bluff Arkansas AP the Pine Bluff branch of the NAACP questioned the Watson Chapel School Districts desegregation progress they asked state and national NAACP to seek a HEW investigation into compliance reports say complaints suggest noncompliance while HEW earlier noted room for improvement in student desegregation but no faculty segregation concerns School Superintendent L L Owen said HEW review last year found students not fully desegregated yet but faculty segregation concerns were absent
Engineers seek bids to supply three all wet steel deck barges for transporting man sewer type cranes to maintain structures along the Mia Rives navigation channel. Bids will be opened May 29.
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