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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1966
Page
1
The editor explains the Vietnam spelling shift and clarifies Interstate Highway financing. AP dispatches show highway funds are self sustaining, with no diversions from general taxes. The piece argues the slowdown is inflation relief, not financial treason, and notes uniform spelling trends toward Vietnam.
The Legislative Council kept most university budgets intact while trimming Univers ity of Arkansas football coach Frank Broyles salary to equal the university president’s. Budgets for CCHEF proposals were $37,004,011 for 1967-68 and $41,971,233 the following year. The council voted to accept department recommendations, sparking opposition over budgetary procedure and raises across institutions.
St Mark's Episcopal Church will mark the Feast of the Holy Nativity with a Midnight Mass at 11 45 P M on Christmas Eve announced by Vicar Fred Hancock Assistants include Leo Harmon Mark Hancock organist and ushers Robert Huffman Carl Howell and Jerry Winer The invitation extends to the community to worship with the congregation on the birthday of Our Lord.
In Leningrad, Arkansan Buel Ray Wortham of North Little Rock faces a five year hard labor sentence for stealing a bear statue and illegal currency changes. Craddock M. Gilmour Jr. of Salt Lake City faces a $1,111 fine but no imprisonment as the court weighs currency violation charges.
Evangelist Billy Graham began a week long Christmas visit to U S troops in Vietnam. He said Americans face frustrated impatience about the war and he has no definite answers. The trip serves for information gathering ahead of world travels and features a Christmas Eve candlelit prayer meeting for the 1st Cavalry Division at An Khe in the central highlands.
LITTLE ROCK AP The state Workmen's Compensation Commission on Monday voted 2 to 1 to allow Leonard W. Johnson of Blytheville a second chance to press a claim against Osceola Finance Co. Johnson failed to justify missing a June 22 referee hearing.
New orders for durable goods fell for the second straight month in November by 3.1 percent, led largely by the aircraft industry. Earlier data showed declines in industrial output, wholesale prices, and retail sales, with slower growth in personal income. Some analysts say the trend reduces prospects for a tax increase as the government plans to sell 1.1 billion dollars of financial assets once aimed at curbing inflation.
In Framingham Massachusetts Brink's armored car guards and city workers searched a street catch basin after a bag of 4000 quarters spilled from a guard's hand. They used long shovels to pull the coins from the muck and recovered most of them, taking about two hours.
The wife of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. failed to appear at a closed hearing about her $20,500 yearly salary as his aide. Subcommittee chair Wayne L. Hays seeks her and 16 other aides’ testimony while Powell, criticized for travel and payroll practices, remained in the Bahamas under a court contempt order.
King Saud of Saudi Arabia ends exile in Greece and moves with 45 family and staff to a Cairo hotel overlooking the Nile for an indefinite stay. President Nasser granted permission for the ailing former monarch to live in Egypt to perform religious duties and raise his children in a sound Islamic environment, after previously accusing Saud of involvement in an assassination plot.
United States officials pursue extending the Christmas truce in Vietnam into a longer cease-fire under agreed conditions. Negotiations with North Vietnam face negative reactions from Communists, with Thant unlikely to engage significantly. U S Ambassador Goldberg asked Thant to seek talks while aiming to ease pressures for a lengthy holiday pause.
The Diesel and Truck Mechanics department at Red River Vocational Technical School received a six volume set of Shop and Service Manuals from International Harvester Company. J W Rowe said the manuals will aid instructional work while Roy K Harrison and W P Threadgill presented them. The school, with sixteen students enrolled, plans to use the manuals in the program.
Gov. Faubus said his attorneys will pursue action to challenge proposed automobile insurance rate increases. He noted his absence from the public hearing on January 11 will not change his fight and planned to stay in Little Rock for Christmas, not traveling to Huntsville. He called it his last Christmas there.
Southwestern Electric Power Co of Shreveport Louisiana asks the Arkansas Public Service Commission for authority to spend 119000 dollars on a 3.2 mile 69000 volt transmission line in Little River County. The line would connect the Nekoosa Edwards Paper Co with existing power lines.
First Pentecostal Church presents its annual Christmas plays on Wednesday night December 21 at 7 30. The Story of Christmas is directed by Sharon Cornelius and The Night After His Birth by Brenda Neal. Public invited.
In Seoul at least 100 people were quarantined at a city hospital for typhoid fever. A hospital spokesman said the outbreak is blamed on the water supply in a refugee camp, triggering swift health measures.
Dora Ann King of Hope, a senior at Ouachita Baptist University, is initiated into Kappa Delta Pi. Army PFC Arthur L. Green of Hope earned the Combat Infantryman Badge in Viet Nam. Christmas Seal Campaign in Hempstead County reports $1,507.50 raised as drive continues. Arkansas Highway Department opens 8.5 miles of Interstate 30 between Arkadelphia and Little Rock. Z Faughn of Ozan buys Aberdeen Angus bull from Circle Ranches.
U S bombers pounded a northern buildup and infiltrating troops in the demilitarized zone in a sixth raid in three days. Air force strikes targeted a Ha noi area oil dump and other sites as MIGs engaged, amid small ground clashes near Christmas truces in South Vietnam. The Maddox braved daily patrols, destroying several watercraft in Operation Traffic Cop.
President Johnson summoned Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to his LBJ Ranch in Texas to discuss defense spending and national security. He also planned talks with two diplomats, Lincoln Gordon and Sol Linowitz, on Latin American affairs and possible Western Hemisphere summit planning. No site or date set for the hemisphere summit, with mid-April Lima, Peru, speculated.
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