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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1968
Page
5
The American Bar Association proposes a new sentencing approach where judges use a broad range of options rather than defaulting to confinement. The plan emphasizes probation for most crimes, reserve prison for serious offenses, and cites cost savings and social benefits like keeping families intact.
Police raided St Louis Chronic Hospital and arrested 31 year old employee Fred E Manson. Detectives said others at hospital and patients were not implicated in the gambling operation. Manson allegedly took hundreds of dollars daily in bets on his extension in the hospital store room.
President Johnson’s annual Economic Report urges Congress to enact a 10 percent income tax surcharge. Speculation notes possible voluntary wage restraint from labor and industry as a inflation curber, while direct price and wage ceilings are rejected. The plan features exploring a replacement for the wage price guideposts of 1962.
Arkansas Governor Rockefeller said the state police closed a probe into an alleged assassination plot with no reason for concern. Press aide Bil Conley cited completion before year’s start while journalist Melvin James claimed a San Angelo connection and a prisoner’s tip. James suggested motives tied to gambling backlash and possible political aims.
Washington AP reports a policy shift by HEW Secretary John W. Gardner to offer birth control services to the nation’s poor, not only on request. The new memorandum says all beneficiaries shall be informed of family planning availability, with no impact on relief eligibility, and guarantees of conscience rights. Katherine B. Oettinger was sworn in as HEW population deputy secretary at the ceremony.
In Memphis a ministers group announces a February 7 exchange of pulpits between white and Negro churches and a special race relations Sunday with sermons on harmony. The effort aims to promote unity amid tensions following the purge controversy in the Greek Orthodox community.
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