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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1966
Page
1
An opinion piece by editor Alex H Washburn offers concise daily reflections on simple living, community values, and the modeled virtues of everyday faith. The column mines brief anecdotes to urge patience, charity, and mindful restraint in routine life.
Editorials praise the president for the freedom of information act and question private meetings with school officials in Columbia South Carolina. The State notes that many officials may need to change how they conduct business or leave government service.
About 1,500 civil rights demonstrators faced around 2,000 hostile whites on Chicago's Northwest Side as they urged open housing. Police protected an integrated march through Cragin amid rock and bottle attacks, with several offenders subdued and a rainstorm cooling the scene. The event marked the largest protest since open housing demonstrations began in white neighborhoods 10 days earlier.
AP News Digest reports Lawrence F. OBrien urges Democratic candidates to back Johnson’s Viet Nam policy. The war sees seven U.S. planes shot down by North Vietnam amid jungle rains aiding the Communists. An airliner crash kills 42. recordings may reveal cause. Elsewhere, Wallaces and Brown vs Reagan shape 1968 politics as GOP fears Alabama widow could help Johnson.
AP humor column notes one in three dog owning families in the United States also keep a cat. It cites mail box growth, diabetes risk factors, Japan's low tuition, and assorted quotable musings on public deficits, psychiatry, and family residence rights. It ends with a Lowell quip.
Standard Generator Company progresses on a 41600 square foot industrial building in Hempstead County Industrial Foundation Park on West Avenue B. Rock Steel Sales of Little Rock expects to roof it within days. the plant now operates in two Southwest Proving Grounds buildings. Amendment No 49 Bond issue funded the project. more jobs expected once the building is in use.
NEW YORK AP There are three stripes on Mrs Alfred Peterson’s shoulder and only one on her husband’s but he still outranks her at home. She would not change there after being promoted to sergeant in the Police Department. Peterson is only a patrolman and she jokes he is the boss in the house. The couple met after both joined the force in 1949. They have two children Janet and Richard.
City Police reported three accidents over the weekend with two people hospitalized. Eva Nell Moxley, a passenger in T. J. Johnson’s car, was injured but not critically. Henry Yocum, who rammed the Johnson car, was also injured. Police charged Yocum with driving while intoxicated.
Billie Eugene Swindle a 40 year old resident of Forrest City was killed Saturday when shocked by an electrical wire. He was routing power from the City Light and Water Plant in Augusta to the Carl E Hurley generating plant at Augusta officials said.
Arkansas congressional candidate David Pryor vowed to uncover who distributed racial handbills tied to the Black Power SNCC theme. He reported seeing fliers in Bradley and Cleveland counties and in Pine Bluff area cars, calling the tactic scurrilous while Craig Arnold denied involvement. Pryor faces Richard Artelod in the 4th District Democratic runoff.
In Saigon the U S military said seven U S planes were shot down in heavy ground fire after a near record 24 Soviet built missiles were directed at North Viet Nam. Five F105s and a Navy A1 Skyraider were among those lost, with two pilots rescued and others listed as missing in action.
A feature story notes a typographical error giving September 16 as opening date for the Red River Vocational Technical School in Hope. Mentions related events including publicity shots with a large Hope watermelon at Republican Headquarters, and the Young Arkansans for Rockefeller meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Voters are directed to Ward 1 stations including Fire Station Ward 1A and Tol E Show Room Ward 1B Green Laseter Club House and nearby schools Ward 1D Jones Field House High School Grounds Ward 2A Big Court Room Courthouse Ward 2B Little Court Room Courthouse Ward 3 Elks Hall Youth Center Ward 4A City Hall Court Room Ward 4B Elks Hall Youth Center First Room Country Box LaGrone Wilams Hardware 112 West Second Street Trading Post Showroom East Third Street. Ballot includes Governor Frank Holt Jim Johnson Lt Governor James Pilkinton Claud Carpenter Attorney General Joe Purcell Bruce Bennett Supreme Court John Fogleman Tom Gentry County Judge Finis Odom Orie O Byers.
FALLS CITY Neb AP A Braniff jet crashed into a soybean field killing all 42 aboard. Investigators recovered cockpit voice and flight data recorders but will need days to analyze. Witnesses described a sky brightening and a blast as the plane plunged. Ed Slattery CAB spokesman noted the devices survived the crash. Antone Schawang, owner of the crash site, recounted the fireball and near-miss to his farm buildings. Frank Lee Goodwin 40 Antoine Ark was killed by shotgun fire in Murfreesboro Ark Saturday. Ernest Mitchell, about 56, his father-in-law, was named as shooter the Pike County Sheriff's office said.
In Little Rock 450000 Arkansas Democrats head to the polls Tuesday for a runoff primary over the governorship. Jim Johnson 41 a segregationist and Johnson critic faces Frank Holt 56 who pledges cooperation with Washington. Rockefellar Republican foe looms in general election as Pryor and Arnold vie for the 4th District seat vacated by Orval Harris. Nomination races for lieutenant governor attorney general and secretary of state are also at stake.
The runoff field includes Claude Carpenter of Little Rock and Joe Basore of Cherokee Village with James Pilkinton of Hope surging to third via 1,000 extra votes after the official Friday certification. Bruce Bennett versus Joe Purcell for attorney general heats. Gentry and Fogleman lead Supreme Court field. Holt campaigns on Faubus ties amid governor race cleavages as five federal agencies plan to attend the Hot Springs Air Technology Congress October 26 29 with Valley Education and Research Foundation backing.
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