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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1970
Page
1
A partisan standoff in the Senate blocks conservative nominees for the Supreme Court, arguing over ethics and a broader plan to shift court personnel after Nixon's 1968 victory. The piece cites a 1961 census secrecy ruling, Funston, Aguinaldo, and calls for restoring privileged census reports, plus labor and wage data from January.
In Jonesboro Arkansas Mrs Flossie V Hanks age 3 of Bono died in a hospital after a fire at Woodstone where her clothing caught fire while she was beating cloth. Authorities are investigating the blaze and its cause.
Israeli warplanes sank an Egyptian minelayer with a crew of 80 in the Gulf of Suez during attacks on Suez Canal targets. Egyptian frogmen had damaged Israeli supply ships in Eilat, sinking one and beaching another. Israel also struck targets in the Nile River valley south of Cairo as retaliation.
Two former candidates voiced support for Ady Gen Joe Purcell’s proposal to lengthen the interval between the first and second primaries. They backed a three week gap in Rockefeller’s Arch 2 special session plan, citing benefits over the current two week window.
The 24 hour allied cease fire ended with at least 91 enemy attacks. 117 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, three Americans, and four South Vietnamese dead. Heaviest fighting near the DMZ six miles south. 45 North Vietnamese killed by artillery and mortar fire. Field reports note sporadic ground fire near Dong Ha and an assault on a Special Forces camp at Ba Xoui in the Seven Mountains area near the Cambodian border. First reports say two Viet Cong were seen.
Arka delphia police report 25 year old Hentry L HI was jailed on a marijuana possession charge after officers seized two small cellophane bags worth about 50 dollars Wednesday.
A warming trend is forecast for Arkansas this weekend, with cooler air expected to arrive Sunday night as a frontal zone from New Mexico and Texas drifts eastward. Precipitation should end tonight. Thursday highs ranged from 44 in Memphis to 62 in Texarkana with overnight lows from 35 in Fayetteville to 48 in Texarkana and El Dorado. Rainfall over the past 24 hours included 0.61 in in Harrison, 0.68 in in Jonesboro, 0.04 in in Pine Bluff, 2 in in Texarkana and Fort Smith, 0.7 in in Little Rock, and trace in Fayetteville.
The Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission plans a field review at 1:00 p.m. Thursday February 14 1970 in the Federal Building Hope for the Terre Rouge Creek watershed in Hempstead County near Washington and Selma. The review precedes proposed improvements to reduce flood damage and improve water supply, including nine floodwater retarders and erosion controls on Terre Rouge Creek and Little Missouri River tributaries.
Washington AP report states Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell rejects claims of hostility or prejudice toward civil rights litigants. He cites widespread practice before him and notes letters from judges and lawyers backing his denial. Committee action anticipated after rebuttal and review.
Von Buffington, 20, of Appleton Wisconsin died in a Little Rock hospital from injuries suffered January 29 when he fell from a truck on Interstate 30 south of Malvern. Authorities reported the incident and fatality.
Louisvill e Kentucky AB General Electric restarts production after a three month strike raising prices on major GE and Hotpoint appliances about three percent. Spokesman Walter Bennett says increases apply to goods sent to distributors and dealers may pass costs to consumers. Higher steel copper and component costs plus wage hikes under new union contract drive the rise.
Congressmen from New Hampshire and Texas push a bill to bar a state from taxing nonresidents who work where the Navy funds municipal services. Rep. Louis C. Wyman and Rep. Richard C. White seek relief amid Maine's tax on Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers on the island between Portsmouth and Kittery.
In San Francisco Jackie Peart debuts a trippy new chess variant pitting an adult hippie against a business magnate. Paddy wagons and psychedelic enterprises replace castles, antiwar protesters stand as knights, and the rest of the pieces shift to era icons. The dual queens represent a society matron and the hippie, while pawns mimic children. the set sells for 450 dollars.
Senate moves toward a vote on an education aid measure sought by President Nixon. Senator Dominick seeks to strike a provision adding public housing children to federal school aid, arguing expansion misaligns with the 10 year old program. The change would curb rising costs tied to federal installations.
Washington AP reports Eastland supports tightening communications to committees as senators debate an amendment to a $35 billion education bill. The measure would drop impact aid to schools serving children from public housing projects, a flash point between Congress and the Nixon administration.
President Nixon and a Cabinet team traveled to Chicago to blend pollution concerns with politics. They toured a Hanover Park sewage plant turning 29 percent of polluted water into usable water and met with Mayor Daley at Meigs Field before an antipollution conference with Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Michigan governors. A Tet cease-fire pause and Israeli naval incidents also crossed the wires alongside a Nelson bill to outlaw eight long-lived insecticides linked to DDT.
Arkansas voters approved a new constitution in November and the attorney general’s office said that elections not specified in the document must be held as scheduled later. Assistant Attorney General Tom Tanner drafted the opinion for delegate James E. Cole of Malvern.
A church family pot luck is planned for Tuesday February 16 at the Century Bible Classroom of First United Methodist Church starting at 7 p.m. The church will provide meat bread and drinks. attendees should bring a salad vegetable or dessert. Entertainment by Hey George W Martin pastor of Malvern Methodist Church. he plays guitar sings and entertains. Nine Hempstead students from Hempstead have at least a 3.50 GPA and were named to Henderson State College Fall Honor Roll including Susan G Clark Sue Thompson Harmon Debra A Holmes J Leland Lavester Marion E Gyden Elizabeth J O Neal Janice M Russell Jane B Snaith all Hope residents. Patrick W Bingham daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne Bayette of Washington. Pool elevation at Millwood Reservoir 259.85 with 20500 cfs discharge. water murky and rising. About 45,500 people visited the lake last month. bass and crappie fishing fair on minnows. Mrs Steve Carrigan Jr remains in Little Rock improving. new address Fountainbleau 10305 West Markham Little Rock 72205. Mrs Tom Wardlaw admitted Wadley Hospital Texarkana for surgery. Marine Captain Esquingle School Hope Ark is with Battalion Landing Team Third Battalion Second Marine Regiment in the Caribbean. Camp Lejeune Marines participate in amphibious exercises with Naval units and Caribbean nations. Marine Lance Cpl Jerry W Seaders son of Mr and Mrs Albert Sanders Jr of 106 Avenna C Hope Ark is at Marine Corps Air Station New River Jacksonville NC.
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