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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1968
Page
5
Six of eight teams from last year’s state American Legion tournament return to open the event in Helena Arkansas with North Little Rock DeJanis and Helena as new entrants. Defending champion Arkhola Rucks and others from Pine Bluff Intercity Kiwanis Fort Smith Kerwin’s Blytheville Searcy and Russellville also compete.
A dense schedule fragment lists daylong broadcasts across CBS NBC and local channels. It names news weather sports, talk shows, game shows, soap operas, movies like The Caddy and 14 Hours, and religious broadcasts, with times ranging from morning to late night.
In Arkansas, some delegates to the Democratic National Convention back Eugene McCarthy while Vice President Humphrey appears poised to win all 33 Arkansas votes under unit rule. Party chair Leon B. Catlett says the delegation will follow the committee's decision. AP poll shows McCarthy with limited support and Humphrey dominant among committed delegates.
The Hope Star notes no games scheduled and reference to an exhibition pro football event. Detroit is mentioned alongside Tolay's games with limited readable details from the Associated Press report.
Arkansas delegates to the Republican National Convention plan a caucus to poll preferences for a possible second ballot. They are pledged to Gov. Rockefeller as a favorite son on the first ballot and debate honoring Rockefeller’s request to stay through the second ballot. Pollard expects 15 or 16 of 18 delegates to follow the request, while Beeson says he would refuse. unanimity would be required.
Polls and delegate dynamics show Beeson and Pollard predicting a Nixon Rockefelle r split at the Arkansas delegation meeting. Some Arkansas delegates plan to meet Nixon at the former vice president's headquarters while others will join Reagan and Rockefeller talks earlier.
President Johnson enters Brooke Army Medical Center for a routine annual physical as he and First Lady Johnson plan a brief Texas hill country stay. Press secretary Christian says health is normal and the White House routinely shares medical updates during extended recess of Congress.
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