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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1968
Page
1
A student writes that political campaigns expose ugliness, yet a career in government can be rewarding for the sincere. The News defends public service as honorable, noting that most officials are honest while politics remains a dirty business at times.
Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Paul Ward, 77, steps down after 18 years. He did not seek re election this year and Frank Hall was elected to replace him. Ward cited an unmanageable workload making it hard to discharge duties satisfactorily.
A Pacific storm lashed the Northwest as fresh snows spread from the Cascades and Sierras into the northern Rockies. Sixteen inches fell at Lakeview Oregon. heavy snow blanketed western New York and surrounding lake areas. Blizzard conditions and high winds disrupted travel from the Great Lakes to the Midwest. temperatures dropped below zero in much of the Plains and upper Midwest. Highway crews fought 10 to 12 foot drifts in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas and Minnesota as arctic air pressed south.
In Arkansas over the weekend six teens died in accidents while three counties saw only three minor incidents during a saturation enforcement. State Police Director Ralph Scott credited strict enforcement and driver cooperation for reducing the accident rate. Apollo 8 joke aside, the report notes a water dump affecting course slightly during lunar orbit, described humorously as the last gas station for a while.
Seventy four hours after release from North Korea the 82 Pueblo crew members flew toward San Diego for a Christmas reunion with families. A memorial service for Fireman Duane Hodges was held at Kimpo airport in Seoul. Cmdr Lloyd Bucher led the group as an Army band played and thousands of relatives gathered at Miramar station awaiting arrival.
AP reports a festive signal as Santa Claus and his reindeer head toward the American border under green northern lights. The North Pole scene shows Santa fretting over his heavy gift load, meeting penguin hitchhikers, and planning universal presents for good and bad children this year. Santa accepts a single elf gift, then signals departure for a worldwide outreach.
AP report notes a 24 hour allied standdown began at 6 pm during a three day Viet Cong cease fire. In the first hour the enemy violated the truce with nine shooting incidents including mortar and ground attacks. US forces reported seven enemy casualties and several wounded on both sides. Additional clashes occurred near Saigon with American and Vietnamese troops sustaining minor losses as de facto hostilities continued.
Donald Ray Buchanan and Kenneth Wayne Johnson, both sought in Arkansas and Oklahoma burglaries, were captured after a gun battle with Big Springs police. Federal agents charge them with the November 28 Bryant State Bank robbery in Benton and a North Little Rock grocery robbery, while Oklahoma holds armed robbery charges related to a Hartshorne bank robbery. they had escaped from an Oklahoma prison on November 28.
AP reports Apollo 6 astronauts see hazy windows on four of five around the cone craft. Two side windows about 13 inches square show moderate haze, the central round window is nearly opaque. Officials say the issue should not hinder critical maneuvers. the source remains unresolved.
Apollo 8 television feeds from lunar orbit show a mottled white gray moon surface with large craters and horizon arc. Crew commander Frank Borman and pilots James Lovell and William Anders narrate the jagged landscape as they capture 12 minutes of footage per orbit. A Christmas Eve transmission is planned, with guards on the lookouts for better lighting as the ship completes its eighth lunar orbit.
Roy Holloway, 42, of Dallas Texas, pled guilty in El Dorado Circuit Court to four counts of forgery and passing bad checks. He received 64 years on each count, to run concurrently, after being arrested for forged checks totaling 9000 dollars. He was already released to Texas authorities on related charges.
New York AP piece suggests books as enduring gifts and lists many suggested titles and readers. It notes gifts should suit the recipient and cites figures from politics, sports, and entertainment such as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and Joe Namath, among others.
Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders reached lunar orbit on Christmas Eve. They reported the moon’s far side as a gray beach like plaster of Paris and beamed dramatic pictures and live commentary to Earth. A TV program was planned to transmit a message of peace and unity before returning to Earth.
A coroner's inquest was scheduled today in Berryville into the stabbing death of Mrs. L. A. Piteheer and the throat-slashing of her husband at their home. Coroner C. Poynor said the case involved two stab wounds to the woman and serious wounds to the husband, with further details pending.
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