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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1970
Page
2
The forecast predicts Tuesday morning temperatures in the 40s with partly cloudy skies and a notably cold feel. Winds from the northwest shift toward the southeast, with high temperatures in the 40s.
The Hempstead County Farm Bureau kicks off its 1970 membership drive on February 4 with a 2 00 noon lunch at the Farm Bureau office. Lester Kent chairs the drive, urging teams to contact farmers to join and reach a county goal of 800 members by February 28. Judge Finis Odom proclaims Farm Bureau Week for February 2.
Officials say the move to a new HEW Child Development Office aims to strengthen the program long term though questions remain about its scope duration and target age. Meantime Arkansas should run vocational education schools with public high schools, a Washington consultant argues cost and efficiency favor direct high school level training over area trade schools.
Rufus Hert don Jr outlines the Hope Rotary Club history of the local Furniture Co and funeral service since 1898 1916 first hearse 1912 average funeral cost 122 today 1099. Ambulance service to be run by Perry Campbell James Veas and Larry Moses from Perrytown starting February. College sports banquet invite noted with U A Razorbacks and Nashville notables.
Gov Winthrop Rockefeller backs highway bonds only if a clear classification plan is provided. Truman Baker of Searcy says the Highway Commission is ready to propose such a plan and will urge Rockefeller to include the bond issue in a special legislative session call for a voter election. A cricket note on ear slits is also mentioned in the text.
Early returns from GE strike votes show support for the contract among workers, though full results await Wednesday. The offer includes a 61 cent hourly raise over 40 months with potential COLA increases, while a nationwide boycott looms and picketing continues at several plants.
The article itemizes multiple flood control allocations including De Gray Reservoir 8.9 million, De Quaen Reservoir 1.03 million, Dierks Reservoir 1.6 million, Fourche Bayou 135 thousand, Gilham Reservoir 400 thousand, Narrows Reservoir 150 thousand, and Red River levees 2.4 million. Planning funds include Bayou Bartholomew 260 thousand and Bell Foley Reservoir 10 thousand, with Nixon seeking 79 million for Mississippi River work. Arkansas would share 4.3 million with Missouri for St. Francis Basin construction and 950 thousand with Louisiana for Tensas Basin. Additional funds cover Lower White River and Clarendon Levee projects and St. Francis River basin surveys. The piece also notes Jack Dempsey losing to Luis Firpo in 1923, then KOing Firpo in a later rematch.
The Supreme Court approved the merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads in a 7 0 ruling. The new Great Northern Pacific & Burlington will total 2 8 billion in assets and 26 500 miles of track from Chicago to Seattle and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. The Justice Department had challenged the deal but the court upheld it after the ICC blessed the merger with protections for the Chicago Milwaukee rail corridor and workers facing job loss.
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