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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1967
Page
2
Page Two Weather report notes 24 hour period ending 7 am Thursday. Arkansas forecast: clear to partly cloudy, warmer through Friday, low tonight in the 30s, high Friday in the 50s. Louisiana forecast: clear to partly cloudy through Friday, warmer tonight and southeast portion Friday, low tonight 32 to 40, high Friday 54 to 64.
Rangoon Burma AP government releases 116 political prisoners from jails nationwide. Among them are 56 Buddhist monks detained for antigovernment activity in 1965. Most others are students or rank and file politicians. It is the third batch of releases in recent months.
Mrs John F Kennedy made an unannounced visit to Boston to attend the opening night of the Boston Opera Company's production of Don Giovanni on Monday.
Graham Willis Jones a 69 year old Fort Smith grocer and store owner was found shot to death inside his home. Police say robbery motive and $7 000 to $10 000 in store funds taken with his wallet missing. No forced entry noted and a medium caliber pistol likely used.
Dr Paul W Wilson 70 of North Little Rock died February 8 in a VA Hospital Little Rock Survivors include wife Evelyn Denty Wilson two sisters and funeral services set for 2 pm Thursday Griffin Leggett Funeral Home in charge L J Miller 70 of Hope died in a Little Rock hospital former maintenance supervisor for Hope school system Survivors include wife four sons three daughters and several relatives Services will be at Oakcrest Chapel Friday morning Burial in Memory Gardens Mary Owen Davis 72 longtime Hope resident died Thursday in a local hospital Survived by two sons Wallace P Davis and Stanley Davis five daughters and two brothers Oakcrest to announce funeral arrangements
An 18-year-old Hammon resident, Felix Fesmire Jr., who was acquitted last year in the shooting death of Amarillo policeman William Meadows, faces murder charges for the slayings of his father, 10-year-old brother Bucky, and Roy Franklin Thomas, 17, in their wood and tar paper house on the edge of Cheyenne Oklahoma. Police found the bodies after an investigation that began with the earlier Texas case and the suspect’s prior armed robbery conviction and probation.
The Arkansas Joint Budget Committee rejected Gov. Rockefeller’s recommendation and approved budgets for the University of Arkansas and state colleges. It approved $425,000 over two years to service Mississippi River bridge indebtedness at Helena to ease tolls, while denying a $3 million annual request for new programs but funding $100,000 yearly for the Fayetteville law school and $98,500 for the university pest control program.
Senator Dan White of Fort Smith defends a bill to require public inspection of filing applications and hearings for rate increases, labeling it fair though critics say it shifts proof to the public and favors certain insurers. Insurance Commissioner John Harkey questions the measure as not in the public interest while the House awaits action.
Miss Fannie Hardy, a 14 year deputy in the Arkansas Insurance Department, says she was fired and did not resign as state Insurance Commissioner John Harkey replaces most of the staff with E. J. W. Fennell. Hardy says she cleared out of the office after being summoned and told the move was not a reflection on her.
California Governor Ronald Reagan celebrated his 56th birthday with a birthday cake that had ten per cent of the cake missing. The gag noted that ten per cent of the candles were also missing as he prepared to blow out the candles.
California university students from Santa Barbara UCLA Berkeley Davis and Sacramento join a march from a park six blocks from the Capitol to protest Governor Reagan plans to charge tuition and slash higher education budgets in a dignified demonstration.
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