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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1969
Page
2
Forecast shows 4 NOUPS ending at 7 Gm with highs near 93 and lows around 70s. scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers expected through Saturday, with cooler lows tonight in the upper 60s to low 70s and Saturday highs around 80s to low 60s.
President Nixon appealed to banks and lenders to provide federally guaranteed loans to college students despite a Congressional delay in authorizing the program. He cited a retroactive rate hike from 7 to 10 percent and projected 920,000 borrowers totaling about 800 dollars each. Ziegle r assured welfare benefits would not be cut. An interagency review of transportation matters was ordered for six months.
A judge ruled there is reasonable cause to believe John Norman Collins may have murdered Eastern Michigan University freshman Karen Benneman, 18, whose strangled body was found near Ann Arbor. Arraignment set for Sept. 5 in Openawd County Circuit Court as witnesses testified.
In Dublin a crowd tore down the Union Jack at the British Embassy while police watched. Britain flew 600 infantry to Londonderry and recalled 600 Royal Green Jackets as violence across Ulster worsened. Rioting claimed gunshot injuries and deaths, with IRA suspects held and calls for Irish sympathy actions spreading to Britain. The piece mixes background on Northern Ireland politics and a separate note on a robber-proof Glasgow bank.
Cloudy skies and mild highs forecast with a slight cooling trend over the weekend. Showers brought limited relief to Arkansas on Thursday as high readings dropped in the northwestern areas. Overnight low temperatures ranged from the mid 60s to low 70s in several cities. trace to 0.25 inches of rain reported at listed locations.
The Arkansas constitutional convention voted to set aside a price-fixing statute and repeal the state fair trade liquor law that set markups. The price-filing proposal passed 57 to 23 after a 47 to 46 delegate vote, with sponsor James A. Ross of Monticello arguing re enactment would be politically difficult. Delegates also advanced a second draft of a finance and taxation article, approving language tying property assessment for ad valorem taxes not to exceed 20 percent of value for 10 years after new constitution approval.
Four men and one woman were charged with assault with intent to kill and armed robbery after a Thursday night attack on William Eppes, store operator, in Forrest City. Eddie Tate of Memphis, linked to the Invaders, and others arrested were jailed amid efforts to reach I-40. hearing set Monday. Eppes hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
More than 100,000 young people converged on Bethel New York for a three day pop music festival in the Catskills. Traffic jammed miles around Bethel while officials expected 50,000 more for the opening events. Six Torrington teens were critically injured when their bus left Route 202 in Yorktown and hit a pole while en route to the festival.
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