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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1973
Page
5
The editor argues against trial by press in the Watergate era. Nixon urges withholding judgment until courts decide. Leaks, cash incentives, and media manipulation tempt officials and erode trust, while Watergate overshadows prior administrations and stalls government. The piece urges stopping sensational leaks and letting the courts resolve the case.
Dean Murphy, a Hope motel owner, was installed as governor of the Missouri Arkansas Kiwanis division at the unit’s 23rd annual convention in Hot Springs. He will assume Oct. 1, succeeding Paul Leopold of St. Louis. Ray W. Lunsford and Don L. Havel were named governor elect and treasurer respectively.
Khmer Rouge forces closed in on Phnom Penh routing Highway 4 and 5 supply lanes. A civilian vehicle was ambushed, two killed and one wounded as battles raged along the routes. Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak urged Sihanouk to admit fault in the fall of the monarchy amid wartime rumors. In Saigon, South Vietnam reported a 93.4 percent voter turnout in senatorial elections with pro-Thieu tickets leading. six Viet Cong attempts to disrupt voting and eight deaths were noted.
Rep Wilbur D Mills D Ark says he will not return the $1000 from Harry L Oswald head of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Inc Oswald and the co op pleaded guilty to illegal contributions to Democrats during the 1968 campaigns The investigation centered on 13000 in contributions from Oswald to Democrats including Mills Alexander and Fulbright The GOP calls for a full five year campaign finance probe and credits U S attorney court and IRS for exposing the violations while noting Mills paid much of his campaign costs personally and faced an 18008 deficit
Skylab 2 astronauts Alan Bean Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott passed the halfway mark of their 59 day mission as their space station completed 429 orbits and surpassed 12 million miles traveled since liftoff on July 28. They reached this milestone after a day of battery tests and scientific experiments.
A Hempstead County Quorum Court special session on Tuesday August 21 with 23 members present appropriated 96171 dollars from the Revenue Sharing Fund. Three thousand dollars go to Financial Administration for courthouse expenditures and the remainder funds hard surface road projects.
An Aero Condor turboprop with 41 aboard crashed into fog on Cerro del Cable near Bogota minutes after takeoff from Bogota International Airport en route to Cartagena Barranquilla and San Andres Island. Police and rescue teams recovered bodies as the wreckage split on impact.
The Associated Press reports at least three people died on Arkansas highways this weekend. Victims include Billy Thompson 23 of Little Rock Donald E Brown 19 of DeValls Bluff and Margret Canada 43 near Benton. Brown died when struck by a hit and run vehicle on Arkansas 33 west of Clarendon. Canada died on Arkansas 5 near Bryant when the car she rode in hit another vehicle and crashed into a telephone pole. Thompson died Saturday night after losing control of his motorcycle on Arkansas 161 near Scott. Florene McDonald 38 of Arkadelphia died Sunday night when the car she rode in skidded into a pond on an Arkadelphia city street. Leland C McDonald 18 the driver was not injured.
Chase Manhattan Bank, the third largest, boosts its prime lending rate to 9 percent effective immediately. If industrywide, it would be the 15th rate rise this year, with observers predicting a rise above 10 percent before peaking.
Martha Mitchell told the Washington Star News she plans to leave her husband former attorney general John Mitchell now facing New York indictments for obstructing justice and defrauding the government in a Nixon campaign funds case. She described a bitter stance toward President Nixon and recalled alleged beatings by a Secret Service agent.
In Castel Candolfo Pope Paul VI decries a Danish plan to film an erotic life of Christ as offensive to Christians. He asks where the community conscience has gone during Sunday blessing at the papal summer palace.
Feminists staged demonstrations fairs and church services to honor suffrage on the 53rd anniversary, with events in Seneca Falls inducting 20 into the Women's Hall of Fame and awards in Los Angeles honoring Billie Jean King Olga Connolly Shirley Chisholm and Helen Reddy. A Washington fair and Capitol rally followed, while New York Catholics protested a liturgical verse. A lavender paper mache female dinosaur appeared at the American Museum of Natural History as protests intensify for the Equal Rights Amendment. A Ride for Rights occurred in Cincinnati and women ministers led a service in Atlanta.
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