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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1970
Page
2
The Hot Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Center assigns a representative weekly to work with students. Funded by Title VI and the school district, the program aims to place students in jobs with morning classwork and afternoon work.
A cold front moved through Arkansas early today ending the summer like warmth and southerly winds. Cloudy skies bring a few showers then clearing and cooler temperatures tonight with freezing lows forecast in northern areas. Overnight lows ranged from 32 Fayetteville to 65 El Dorado with varied readings across the state.
The meeting opened to questions was ruled out of order by Couch who chaired. A board election favored Couch’s faction 104 078 to 88 496 with Couch Sam M Vogel Virgil G Alexander Guy E Campbell Clifton Trigg Rhett W Butler elected. Bowen faction elected Alfred Kahn Jr James T Dyke Max Moses W S Mitchell Kent Vestal. Hours later Couch announced Alexander resigned and Charles A Hagood was named to succeed him. James H Hall and Frank L Watson were added to the board.
The all-Negro community of Sunset near Marion Arkansas was incorporated as a town. Judge Milton Beck approved the incorporation papers signed by 31 land owners in the community of about 200 people. Sunset sits north of Marion between Interstate 55 and Arkansas 77. No election date has been set for the town government.
A state prison investigation led to grand jury action against 15 persons for cruel and unusual punishment and civil rights violations. Only three convictions have resulted. defendants listed include G W Torpion, a Cambins Prison Farm supervisor, and former wardens and trustees from Tucker Farm and other facilities.
A Senate panel announces hearings in Washington on February 9 to investigate how 31 patients died in a Marietta Ohio nursing home fire. Officials debate if heavy smoke from carpeting trapped within a fire resistant brick facility and whether federal rules exempted sprinkler requirements for such buildings.
Weather note shows scattered showers and thundershowers moving east across southeast Arkansas. Mostly cloudy and colder tonight with clearing and cold Friday. Highs range from the 40s in the northwest to the 60s in the southeast. lows tonight in the 20s outside and around 30s in the southeast.
Cleveland native James Charles Phillips, 22, father of three, appeared before a federal grand jury probing the Joseph Yablonski family killings. He testified after FBI agents escorted him from the Federal Building amid reports of an alleged plot to kill Yablonski, his wife Margaret, and daughter Charlotte. The trio of accused men from Cleveland faces first degree murder charges for the Dec. 31 gun slayings in Clarksville, Pennsylvania.
Israeli jets hit guerrilla positions in three Jordan locations with all planes returning safely. A raid north of the Dead Sea near Shunat Nimrin and two south of the Sea of Galilee in the Beisan Valley followed a border clash. Cairo warned of a wider strike beyond battlefield lines as Sadat urged victory. France reportedly expanded arms talks with Libya, with Mirage sales fluctuating between 15 and 110 aircraft amid ongoing negotiations.
House GOP leaders pressed a strong partisan showing as lawmakers faced a vote on overriding the President. Nixon said the extra 1.2 billion in the bill caused inflation and invited 156 Republicans and 35 Democrats to a White House reception for sustaining the veto. Democratic leaders met to decide next steps, with options including keeping the extra funds but letting Nixon not spend them. Nixon signaled he would spend 448 million of the additional funds if left to him, largely for the impacted areas program, which he had budgeted at 202 million Democrats accused the administration of cynical double dealing.
Paris reports North Vietnam denounces U S bomber activity as a grave act of war citing Wednesday raids on North Vietnamese territory. Hanoi claims multiple attacks on populated areas with planes shot down, while Saigon quotes American pilots downing a MIG and rescuing crew. The exchange fits ongoing Nixon era tensions at the peace talks.
The report notes heavy bombing of the Mu Gia Pass and the Ho Chi Minh Trail by up to 400 U.S. fighter bombers to slow North Vietnamese movements. It also states two American helicopters were shot down in South Vietnam on Wednesday, with one Cobra gunship lost near the Cambodian border and two crewmen killed, while another downed near the Mekong Delta caused no American casualties. U S Command reported 75 Americans killed in action, down from 84 the prior week.
New York AP reports a tentative agreement on economic issues ends the 12 union 95 day strike against General Electric Co. Negotiations between GE and electrical workers aimed to settle contracts for 133000 workers across 135 cities with talks led by J Curtis Counts. Details remain under a news blackout as unions and management prepare final language.
Cecil Keeney 25 of Texarkana Ark died in Shreveport La from a right temple gunshot described as an apparent self inflicted wound. He was to face a first degree murder charge for the shotgun killing of his stepfather Doyle Hynman of Texarkana. Trial had been postponed by bad weather.
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