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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1967
Page
2
Partly cloudy to cloudy through Saturday. Warm through Saturday except a little cooler north portions. Scattered showers and thunder showers mainly in the afternoons and evenings today and Saturday. Low tonight 64 to 74. Highs near 87. Precipitation around .16 of an inch. 24 hour report shows 7 am observation.
Pope Paul VI announced reforms to end life tenure in the Roman Curia replacing it with five year terms and overhauling the Curia structure. The 15 000 word document De Romana Curia outlines changes supported by progressives and opposed by conservatives, following Ecumenical Council recommendations.
AP report notes brokers see limited relief from a 90 minute daily session cut, while volumes fluctuate. In six months volume rose from 8.2 to 9.8 million shares daily, then surged to 12.15 million in a week with normal hours, and fell to 9.3 million as four hour sessions began. Delays in back-office transfers persist, with some buyers waiting weeks for stock certificates.
A federal housing official says President Johnson ordered greater private enterprise use to build and run low income housing, since purely public projects have proven slow, costly, and stigmatized. Don Hummel notes private firms can get jobs done and HUD pursues a pilot program to develop and manage low income housing for profit.
Magnolia reporter notes Elizabeth Ledbetter daughter of Mr and Mrs Dennis Ledbetter Rt 1 Blevins has won a $200 academic scholarship to Southern State College for 1967 68. Bernard Polk college student aid director confirms. Ledbetter graduated 1967 from Blevins High School serving as salutatorian editor of the yearbook president of the speech club Beta Club officer Girls State representative and cheerleader.
The proposal argues private developers should negotiate fixed prices, build without ongoing government supervision, and sell to housing authorities. It emphasizes reduced red tape, faster construction, more competition, and potential profits from efficiency. It also notes stigma around public housing and new HUD options allowing residents to stay by paying full costs or buy their units.
William Edward Bazzelle, 23, of Hope Arkansas, completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Analytical Chemistry at Wayne State University Detroit. He is son of Mr and Mrs W L Bazzell, attended Oak Grove High Rosseton and was valedictorian. He earned a BS in chemistry from Texas Southern University, has traveled abroad, and joins Dupont Experimental Station Plastics Department in September.
AP dispatch from Fairbanks Alaska reports flood recovery progress aided by federal aid after Chena River floods. President Johnson declares major flood disaster, authorizes SBA loans and $1 million for recovery as authorities revise death toll to five. River expected to recede near banks by Saturday amid improving weather. Mayor Boucher says 95 percent of businesses damaged, many homes affected. SeparateKy item: Warrant Officer Preston in Vietnam asks Kentucky governor Breathitt for Bluegrass grass seed. Breathitt routes to agriculture aide Timmons who expects to help seeds reach the Delta base.
Washington AP silhouette of U S foreign policy toasts as defense commitments. State Department lists 71 pages of treaties memoranda and declarations tied to U S action if a country faces aggression. Monroe Doctrine and Humphrey Korea toast appear. senators debate executive power and congressional authorizations amid Vietnam war context.
Key House provisions include general benefit increases to 50 dollars monthly, earnings limits revised to 1680 and 2880 with 140 monthly cap, widows and disabled dependents new eligibility, tougher disability rules, Medicare study on disability extension, hospitalization days up to 120 with cost share, itemized bills from doctors, and strengthened dependent children and welfare work programs. Medicaid limits set at 133 1 3 percent of high aid or state per capita income with phased AMiltations through 1970.
The World Almanac reports a study linking Rome's decline to lead poisoning from plates pipes and coins. Lead ingestion could cause cramps weakness and anemia, suggesting a health factor in ancient societal collapse.
State Police Director Lynn A. Davis reported 21 troopers conducted raids on four Hot Springs clubs from 3 30 am to 9 am Thursday after a tip about casino type gambling. Equipment seized included slot machines dice cards and chips while no arrests were made due to unclear ownership. A fifth Casablanca Club yielded no equipment.
In Livingston Parish near Walker and Denham Springs, shotgun blasts hit the home of Negro resident Allen Stewart and a deputy shatter a bedroom window near his family. A shot also damaged a Watson hardware store as state forces guard the revived march from Bogalusa toward Baton Rouge. Governor McKeithen mobilized 650 National Guardsmen and 175 troopers amid a tense white gathering bearing Confederate flags.
Sterling R. Cockrill Jr. told a Little Rock civic club that Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller entered office with only a slight idea of the governor’s duties and that the 1967 General Assembly produced little of real importance. He cited press emphasis on a chaotic image from a prison tour and urged better manners and tact amid lawmakers. There are more than 000 coin operated laundry and dry cleaning stores in the United States.
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