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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1969
Page
1
Our Daily Bread column cites lesson from editor Alen W Washburn on writing craft and mastering a chosen trade. It urges dedication to learning one skill, warns against idle thought, and encourages self-improvement to gain credible voice against the establishment.
Louisiana school officials ask the Supreme Court to hear an emergency case covering desegregation across six states. They urge delaying any mandatory desegregation deadline to February 1 while warning that an immediate order has created an emergency in West Feliciana, East Feliciana and Concordia parishes.
In Forks City Arkansas Negro leaders cancel participation in a Saturday parade planned with white participants due to fear of violence. The Lions Club had scheduled a December 13 event. organizers could not confirm the number of Black entrants.
The Justice Department investigates if real estate boards conspire to fix commission rates with antitrust implications. A civil suit targets Prince George's County Board of Realtors Inc for recommending fixed rates, prompting injunction and signaling broader industry scrutiny. Real estate listings last year exceeded 39 million, and a 6 percent rate increase could add 250 to a $25 000 home purchase. Dr Jesse E Cobb 79 North Little Rock Baptist leader dies. funeral in Conway.
Sports writer notes rising security concerns at high school events as crowds bring defensive gear and weapons. He recalls past peaceful scenes and cites incidents of racial tension, vandalism, and off field violence, including nighttime games and the difficulty of policing indoors.
Readers recall decades of chants and cheers as Black students enter formerly all white schools and encounter hostility. In Atlanta preparatory games, schools hire 25 to 30 off duty police officers to patrol stadium gates and sidelines, guarding against violence amid lingering racial tensions.
In St Louis, ACTION distributes over 5000 posters urging Black residents to avoid theft and debt this Christmas. The plan promotes home crafted gifts and community workshops while urging values over materialism. Officials split on endorsement, with some praising crime reduction help and others warning of division.
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said President Nixon will unveil three moves to ease U S trade restrictions with Communist China. The plan includes removing the $100 import limit from China, allowing U S firms abroad to trade on nonstrategic items, and revising rules on Chinese art imports with proof shifting to the government. Scott, a noted Chinese art collector, noted the moves aim to show willingness for substantive discussions with Red China.
The Junior Choir of the First Baptist Church presents a musical drama Journey to Bethlehem by Robert Graham Sunday at 7:00 p.m. in the church sanctuary. The cantata retells the Christ birth with a You are There style, inviting listeners to witness the Bethlehem scene and return to the present in celebration.
New York AP poll for ABC finds 52 percent support Vice President Spiro Agnew's charge that television news is biased while 33 percent disagree. The survey also shows 36 percent agree newspapers are biased, 34 percent disagree, and 30 percent have no opinion. Freedom of the press for all media gets majority support from 559 adults in 12 cities.
Congress rushes toward Christmas adjournment as Nixon warns he would veto the 21.4 billion Health, Education and Welfare appropriation while defense funding passes. Lawmakers push tax reform and foreign aid bills amid labor and safety legislation and a disputed Philadelphia plan.
A two-vehicle wreck on the West Memphis Bypass of Interstate 55 killed Edith Hats, 51, of Lilbourn Missouri, who rode in a car struck head on by a pickup driven by Eugene Williford, 54, of Ashland Mississippi. Several others from Lilbourn were injured, with Ronnie Williams in critical condition. the crash occurred as the Williams family was returning from Christmas leave.
Conferees in Washington reached a tentative accord on a relief package within a broad tax reform bill. The plan raises the personal income tax exemption to 750 dollars from 600 next July, with accompanying low income allowances and standard deduction changes for 1971 and 1972 onward. It also postulates a 15 percent Social Security boost, though a $100 minimum monthly payment was not adopted.
The Associated Press reports cooler temperatures are forecast in Arkansas through the weekend as a cold front moves in from the north. Light rain is possible Sunday night and midweek, with statewide rainfall totals of varying amounts in Fayetteville, Harrison, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, Texarkana, Blytheville, and Little Rock, as high pressure settles in from the north.
Saigon and regional forces faced renewed Viet Cong rocket and ground attacks as two major anniversaries drew near. At Tan Son Nhut Air Base Viet Cong fired four 100 pound rockets, killing a Vietnamese woman and wounding 17, with Americans and base housing hit. Elsewhere a column of armored personnel carriers near Saigon engaged. 2 Americans and 14 enemies killed, 6 Americans wounded. Viet Cong declared a three day cease fire for Christmas beginning next Wednesday, repeating last year’s pattern. The U.S. Command reported multiple rocket and mortar attacks with limited American casualties.
An drew McDaniel, 58, of El Dorado was found guilty by a circuit court jury after 2 hours 45 minutes of deliberation of voluntary manslaughter in the August 14 stabbing death of his wife Thelma 40. He testified the killing occurred in self defense and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
All Around Town reports Johnny Anthony at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville heads a Knoxville Evangelism School group led by Dr. Billy Graham May 25 29. Also notes Hempstead County Extension Homemakers leaders training with 300 officers elect from Arkansas and a Hope Air Force couple Charles W Billings and Kathleen St Louis posted to Torrejon Spain serving in the 401st Tactical Hospital and NATO.
In LITTLE ROCK Arkansas lawyers voted 881 to 82 against a proposal that would require all attorneys licensed in the state to be members of the Arkansas Bar Association. The Supreme Court will decide the final outcome as the mail vote is not binding. 58 ballots were eliminated for irregularities and a committee will review questioned ballots for legitimacy.
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