23 Apr 1970
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1970
Page
1
A local father weighs cost per square inch in deciding between an $18.50 1970 auto license plate and a $14.98 bikini for his teenage daughter. Preliminary surveys favor the plate as the better buy.
In observance of Law Day USA KXAR will host five one hour sessions on law and its history with attorneys and law enforcement officers answering calls. Planned by Hempstead County Bar Association president Larry Patterson the schedule runs April 27 to May 1 with Judge John L. Wilson Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Robert Graves former chancery Judge James H. Pilkinton Captain Milton Mosler Arkansas State Police and Larry Patterson sharing roles and a parental message. Listeners may call 5535 during 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. daily.
The Pentagon disclosed that Army Spec. 4 Kenneth L. Crow, son of Mr and Mrs Virgle M Crow of Stonewall Greene Preset, was killed in action in Southeast Asia during the ongoing conflict.
Washington reported that South Vietnam transferred several thousand AK47 rifles to the Cambodian regime with U S knowledge and approval. Press secretary Ronald Ziegler said the shipment did not reflect a direct Nixon administration response to an extensive Cambodian request for military supplies.
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller dedicated the Rosston Feeder Pig Project at Oak Grove High School in a gym packed with around 500 people. The cooperative effort between Oak Grove School students the Office of Economic Opportunity and local citizens aims to provide a supplemental income to families in the predominantly Negro Oak Grove community through a pig project and agricultural training.
AP dispatch details how Southeast Asia spirals into a complex web of trouble as Vietnam spills into Laos and Cambodia. The piece notes tensions among the United States, Soviet Union, Red China, and regional nations, with Hanoi wary of a conference and fearing shifts in power between Moscow and Beijing. It also outlines uncertain prospects for Cambodia and the broader Indochina conflict amid shifting international influence and local distress.
The Associated Press reports humid conditions across Arkansas will ease as a frontal system moves in tonight and Friday. Rain and thunderstorms are forecast statewide with clearing skies and cooler temperatures by late tonight. Lows will dip into the 40s north to 50s south, while Wednesday highs reach 83 near Pine Bluff Texarkana and El Dorado and 78 in Fayetteville Harrison and Jonesboro.
Representatives of 39 school districts named by the Justice Department as failing to comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act are to meet today with officials from the Justice Department and the Health Education and Welfare Department. Education Commissioner A. W. Ford said federal officials requested the meeting and would likely explain the compliance expectations.
President Nixon ordered an end to future deferments for occupational and agricultural active duty and for fatherhood. He also sought congressional authority to end future student deferments. The action would not affect deferments already held or applications pending. He urged a national draft by lottery to replace local board calls.
AP reports six more American aircraft were shot down on bombing and reconnaissance missions over Laos and border regions, raising two day losses to 12. Two Americans were killed, one missing, ten wounded. total U.S. aircraft lost since Jan 1 1961 climbs to 6,689. An EC47 spy plane was downed near A Shau Valley, two crew killed, six injured.
At a Hope Arkansas meeting the city board accepted an alternate I 30 tie in to Highway 67 route that bypasses Edgewood. The plan moves the interchange east of the old route to cross the Missouri Pacific Railway near the brick works and heads toward 23rd street, with right of way to be surveyed.
In Hempstead Circuit Court Judge W H Arnold VI presiding a jury awarded C D Hunter 8100 for land taken for Interstate 30. The court planned to hear State v Tom Hill Eli Hill and George Hill an assault case involving Game Warden Ab Mormon of Nevada County who shot George Hill in the arm during a night deer-hunting incident near the Missouri River bottoms above McCaskill earlier this year.
All Around Town reports the Arkansas Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association released final results. Hempstead County contributed 1950 dollars, slightly down from 1956.95 the previous year. The piece also notes various local activities and personnel, including students at Oklahoma State University and Hope High School events, with several names and dates referenced.
A Stephens man, 50 year old Alex L. Williams, was killed in a one vehicle crash on Arkansas 4 near Camden. State Police said his logging truck ran off the road and struck a tree on Wednesday.
The Uth annual FFA Rodeo will start at 4 p.m. Friday with Rodeo Queen Linda Wray and FFA Sweetheart Tina Martin. Junior Rodeo Queen contestants include Mitzi Estes, with twelve 1970 contenders. Proceeds fund school shop equipment and hay hauling program. Hope chapter members assist.
Wayne Hampton, former Arkansas Highway Commission chairman, filed as a Democrat for the Arkansas House in District 34. Details are unclear due to missing text but indicate pursuit of the seat previously held by an unnamed incumbent.
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