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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1969
Page
2
Weather report for 34 hours ending 7 a.m. Monday shows high 42 and low 30 with trace precipitation. Arkansas travelers warned of drizzle in north. south sees warmer conditions. Cloudy tonight and Tuesday with occasional drizzle east and scattered showers and possible thundershowers Tuesday. turning colder. Highs 40s north to 60 south, lows mostly 40s to low 50s elsewhere.
Prague AP report says about 36 Czechs were arrested as police clashed with youths in Wenceslas Square while observing Jan Palach. The Czechoslovak Interior Ministry reported 13 arrests Sunday afternoon and several dozen detained Sunday night, amid Memorial Day tensions.
An Associated Press tally shows four people died in Arkansas weekend crashes. Debra Martinson age 11 months of Star City died after a truck struck her and her mother Mary Martinson while on Arkansas 81 south of Pine Bluff. Herman Morman driver of the tractor trailer and others involved. Mary Martinson also died. Kenneth Beaty 19 of Conway died in a one car crash on Arkansas 25 north of Conway after losing control and hitting a bridge railing. Donald Wynne 23 of Heber Springs also among the weekend fatalities.
Obituaries report the deaths of Mrs Opal Seaton 57 of Hope and Walter Merlin Hargis 57 of Hope. Seaton leaves a large family and is mourned in services at Herndon Chapel. Hargis a World War II veteran is survived by his wife and son and was laid to rest at Memory Gardens. Additional notes describe a house fire at 506 North Hazel Street causing total loss and minor injuries to Fireman J T Barber.
Talbot Feild announces Hempstead Industries Inc will locate a new plant in Hope Hempstead County. The facility plans to employ about 154 at full capacity, produce ten homes daily, and recruit through the state employment service with later announcements. The move aims for 6 million yearly sales and rapid local growth aided by the Hempstead County Industrial Foundation and regional executives.
A Saturday fire at a Little Rock supermarket caused about 100000 dollars in damage. The store was crowded but no injuries were reported. A Weingarten official said the fire likely started in the rear near the warehouse and spread to air conditioning units. The incident followed by a meeting of the rice group and the Arkansas Grain Corp session. L. C. Carter, EVP and GM of both groups, reported on operations.
Governor Winthrop Rockefeller circulated a memorandum to lawmakers proposing the removal of exemptions in the Arkansas sales tax for public utilities public carriers and communications corporations motor fuel and cigarette sales. He would keep exemptions for churches charities isolated sales farm direct food sales newspapers and religious professional magazines. He noted that applying the tax to gasoline could improve revenue prospects.
Firemen salvage rubble at the Victoria Hotel, Dunnville Ontario, as the death toll rises from eight to 16. Police estimate includes registered guests, with 43 rooms registered before the blaze. Two bodies found. four injured, one gravely, after a 12 hour blaze with an explosion and roof collapse.
Rep Sterling R Cockrist Jr predicted the governors one per cent sales tax increase would fail. The remark came in Little Rock as discussions of the Rockefeller proposal drew skepticism and opposition from lawmakers.
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