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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1968
Page
1
The piece rails against a last autumn vote against a street-improvement bond for Hope while urging reflection on funding repairs and visible curbs. It contrasts traffic safety needs with fiscal limits, warning about future bond size and urging prudent public choice. It also comments on the Pueblo incident and U S foreign policy missteps linking domestic budgeting to global events.
In Georgia's Brunswick area, sportsmen gather wrecked cars old refrigerators and concrete slabs to dump into the ocean as part of a debris disposal effort.
The annual Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce banquet is scheduled for Thursday night February 1 at ? p.m. in the coliseum with Dr. Kenneth McFarland of Topeka Kansas as guest speaker. Master of Ceremonies will be retiring president Dr. Lester Sitzes.
Officials from public and state supported schools told the Legislative Council that a major financial crisis looms in months. Budgets exceed expected income for this fiscal year and worse conditions are anticipated next year starting July 1 as state revenue falls short. Clarence Frost of the Administration Department was to outline the Rockefeller program to address the shortfall.
A state police inquiry at Cummins Prison Farm proceeds in secrecy after three skeletons were found in unmarked graves on the 15,270 acre site. Officials weigh whether the graves are paupers’ or inmates’ and probe past killings with claims of mass unmarked burials by guards. Gov Rockefeller urges withholding details to avoid nationwide bad publicity while pathologists study the bones and investigators assess potential foul play.
AP sifts modern parent child voices from HAL Boyle on teen angst and family tensions. Quotations reveal kids blaming parents for rules and technology while parents worry about growing up, independence, and changing social norms across everyday scenes.
U S gold reserves fell sharply in 1967 with December alone dropping $900 million. The year’s total loss reached $1.17 billion, the largest in two years, leaving the stock at its lowest in 50 years. Officials cite speculative buying after Britain's pound devaluation and Middle East tensions as key factors.
AP dispatch reports that synchronized Viet Cong strikes on Saigon and other South Vietnamese centers seek to force a withdrawal of American troops from key border areas. Analysts note aims to terrify civilians and demonstrate the guerrillas remain a force to be reckoned with as North Vietnamese forces mass near the border. The White House calls the Saigon events serious while officials consider broader winter spring offensive plans and possible implications for peace talks.
Audie Lee Fulkerson, a Morriston Ark. man who vanished in December 1964 while job hunting in California, was found in a Mojave Desert grave. Emory Eugene Byrd, 31, convicted of involuntary manslaughter, led investigators to the body. Byrd previously claimed the shooting was in self defense. Fulkerson's widow and three sons live in Morriston.
In Santa Fe New Mexico AP report 20 members of a militant Spanish American group faced a preliminary hearing on assault and kidnapping charges tied to a June 5 raid on a rural courthouse. Defense attorney Joseph Roberts challenged searches outside the courtroom and Judge Joe Angel ordered attorneys not to be searched. The article notes the judge was also searched.
Gov. Rockefeller’s aide says separate fiscal and nonfiscal bills may be considered to reduce confusion in the upcoming special session. G. Thomas Eisele notes a possible two-call approach or a recess to split timing, with about 69 items on the call and roughly 15 expected to be controversial.
In a broad dispatch from Saigon, Viet Cong assaults target the U S embassy and South Vietnamese cities as U S forces mass for possible withdrawal. Other fronts include Korea’s Pueblo crisis fallout and Nigeria’s Biafran struggle. Separate notes report Oregon Governor McCail in hospital, and Navy plans for billion-dollar amphibious ships.
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launch a major Tet assault across South Vietnam. At the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, five Americans and others died as U.S. troops fought Viet Cong near Tan Son Nhut. Gen. Westmoreland calls the raids diversionary while Thieu proclaims martial law and orders curbs on entertainment.
Attorney General Herbert Brownell urged the Supreme Court to preserve aid for parochial students, arguing tax payments alone do not confer standing to block government programs. He filed for 15 New York families whose children attend Jewish, Lutheran, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox schools under the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Rev. Lindell Ballinger at First Assembly of God says the Bible shows more references to Jesus second coming than his first. Despite heavy rain, Rev. Wilshite notes large attendance. Tonight focuses on the Family with recognition for the largest family. Services continue through February eleventh at 2 30, except Saturday.
The Arkansas Department indicated the administration favors delaying financial matters in the upcoming special legislative session. Consultant Clarence “Mike” Frost said a 60 to 90 day recess would allow a comprehensive study of agencies sharing funds from the general revenue budget. Rep. Marion Crank questioned appropriating funds that do not exist.
Mack McLarty attends the President's Prayer Breakfast in Washington as one of 31 student leaders invited from the U S. Outstanding religious leaders congressmen justices cabinet members diplomats and business leaders will be present. Also listed are top students from Henderson with perfect four point averages and other dean's list members. a Lincoln Day dinner at Arkansas Tech features John Paul Hammerschmidt as speaker. Christmas Seal Campaign raises funds. Ione Angus Farm elected to American Angus Society. senior high girls named as state Homemaker finalists.
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