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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1967
Page
2
Report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Tuesday shows high 66 and low 45 with cloudy to partly cloudy skies. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected ending from the west tonight, with a chance of severe activity early. Wednesday will be cooler and less cloudy, especially in the west, with lows in the 40s west and 50s east.
Gen William C. Westmoreland tells AP that U S troops are fighting a war of attrition in Vietnam and urges maximum pressure on the enemy. He plans to brief Congress and governors in Washington on Friday and speaks of grinding the enemy down as antiwar protests flare outside a New York hotel. He praises South Vietnamese forces and notes more prisoners and defectors, while acknowledging some home opposition.
Arkansas remarks touch race issues amid political sparring as accreditation concerns surface at the University of Arkansas. The NCA evaluated campus relations, teaching loads, budgets, and tenure in a five year re accreditation review. Hal D. McCown named as new U S Army commander in Thailand succeeding Stilwell.
Western leaders including Johnson du Gaulle and Wilson attended a memorial service for Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. Chancellor Kiesinger urged Germans to honor the former chancellor by pursuing German reunification and European unity. Funeral rites were to be held in Cathedral Cologne with burial at Rheendorf.
In New York Gen Westmoreland praised the air campaign against MiGs while cautioning policy could shift. He argued sanctuary in Red China would still hinder enemy fighters, while noting Germany’s wartime alliances and President Johnson’s Bonn talks with Kiesinger on nuclear arms and troop withdrawals. De Gaulle met Kiesinger amid the Bonn visit.
Wet and cold weather with raw easterly winds up to 15 mph swept across Arkansas. Heavy rains, including 1.32 inches in Little Rock by 6 am, with Dardanelle and Clarendon near an inch. Showers to redevelop across West Arkansas and spread east by tonight. A cold front will lower temperatures to the upper 30s in Northwest Arkansas by Wednesday morning. Monday highs were mid 50s to 60s. Early lows ranged from the 40s to the low 50s.
The Arkansas Highway Commission will open bids on 3.7 million dollars worth of road and bridge jobs and review road study proposals from eight delegations representing Faulkner Clark Carroll Sebastian Logan Yell Bradley Sain e Crawford counties. Proposals overlap county lines.
The report details Marine operations Shawnee beginning in South Vietnam with 27 enemy killed and four Marines wounded. It notes the departure of Ambassador Lodge for Saigon and the arrival of Ellsworth Bunker who pledged U S support for the Vietnam revolution. Air strikes near Hanoi target a railroad yard and an electrical transformer site as the war intensifies. The Armada was 182 ships with 33,000 soldiers and crew members.
Mrs. Odell Parish 52 of Patmos formerly Idabell Okla died Sunday in Texarkana hospital. Native of McCurtain County she moved to Patmos in 1961. Survived by husband Odell Parish three sons Hershell Parish Donald Gene Parish Henry Halden Parish a sister Mrs Marie Sharp two brothers M L Pittman and Pittman from Pittman. Services will be Tuesday at Forest Hills Baptist Church near Idabel.
Long Beach California AP reports Douglas Aircraft reinstated hydropress operator Christopher Vosburg, 24, who was suspended April 4 for wearing a black beard deemed distracting. Union filed grievance. television coverage credited with clearing the issue as company officials acknowledged he looked good.
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