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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1967
Page
2
Page Ton Experiment Sta tion report outlines 24 hour period ending 7 a.m. Monday with highs near 54 and lows around 24. Arkansas mostly cloudy with occasional rain tonight into Tuesday, warmer tonight and colder Tuesday. Louisiana mostly cloudy with scattered showers, little temperature change, partly cloudy Tuesday and showers mainly in the southeast.
The Office of Education approved a $500,000 grant to the University of Arkansas to expand its graduate schools under the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963. The act allows federal payments up to one third of project costs to establish or improve graduate facilities, and this is the first such grant to Arkansas.
The Associated Press reports traffic deaths rose gradually over the New Year weekend. Through the three-day period ending Dec 9-12 1967 the toll stood at 346, below last year’s pace of 391. A Kalamazoo area crash killed five Boy Scouts. other fatal crashes occurred near Harrisburg and in Illinois. Weather featured snow and ice across the Northeast and northern regions, with average winter driving conditions overall.
NOTTINGHAM England AP Members of the Association of Assistant Mistresses in Secondary Schools voted to remain mistresses at their annual convention Sunday rejecting a branch’s complaint that the title was open to misinterpretation.
Mitchellville Arkansas plans to drop its color restrictions and allow white residents to move in Mayor Charles Kelly cites changed times and government rulings against segregation The all Negro town near Dumas on U S 65 has 550 residents and was incorporated in 1953 The Arkansas Municipal League notes it is one of four such towns in the state
The infant son of Mr and Mrs James Caldwell died Sunday Graveside services were held at 3 PM in Columbus conducted by Rev Stacy Thrasher Arrangements were handled by Herndon Funeral Home.
President Johnson plans to return to Washington early this week after a working holiday at his Texas ranch begun on December 16. Aides declined to reveal travel plans while Johnson told reporters at the ranch Saturday that he would head back soon, with New Year's Day at the ranch described as quiet.
Arkansas Reed ten miles south of here with Menifee in Faulkner County and Edmondson in Crittenden County referenced as nearby locations in the region.
Billy Wayne Gilbert, son of Mrs Lawrence Crowder, entered the Seabees in August after training at Davisville Rhode Island and Gulfport Mississippi. He left December 12 for Vietnam. A graduate of Hope High and Arkansas Vocational Technical School Pine Bluff, he stands at a timber line height atop a mountain where treelines end.
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