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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1966
Page
1
A Byline digest quotes Alabama Journal and Greenville News commentaries on Southern civility and values. Helen Keller’s legacy is highlighted as a moral exemplar for youth amid modern rebellion, while NSW Australia imposes factory rules on workers with long or Beatle-type haircuts to ensure safety.
In Houston and Dallas two Black men were sworn in as deputy marshals, believed to be the first Negroes to hold such positions in Texas. Eddie Crittenden, 41, was sworn in at Dallas and Lawrence Pope, 33, a Texas Southern University master's student, took the oath in Houston.
Brig. Gen. Gerald W. Johnson assumed today at Little Rock Air Force Base as commander of the 825th Strategic Aerospace Division, replacing Brig. Gen. Murray Bywater who becomes chief of staff at Headquarters Second Air Force in Barksdale Base, Louisiana.
Los Angeles AP report on the NAACP and CORE diverging views over black power. Roy Wilkins says the NAACP unlikely to adopt the concept even as CORE defines power as control of economic, political, educational and social wealth and calls for troop withdrawal from Vietnam. He notes progress of the civil rights movement but slower gains.
In Madrid during the summer tourist season Spanish authorities rounded up about six beatniks of various nationalities. They were taken to police headquarters and released with orders to bathe shave and cut hair or leave Spain. Among those detained were Americans including a man who said he recently graduated from Harvard University.
Japan said it will maintain contacts with Communist China to help Peking end its self-imposed isolation. Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina told a meeting with U S officials that Beijing seems pragmatic toward Japan, while U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave a tougher view. Demonstrators protested U S policy in Vietnam outside the Kyoto talks as police kept crowds distant.
In St Louis AP report Judge Roy Harper issued a temporary order restraining the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks from striking Missouri Pacific Railroad pending a Thursday hearing. The railroad, citing plans to drop pickup and delivery service at Little Rock and North Little Rock, said it would hire a private firm risking the loss of about 18 union clerks’ jobs.
Sen. John L. McClellan announced approval of a $907,344 HUD loan to Crossett for 64 low rent houses, with 24 units set aside for the elderly. The project underscores federal support for affordable housing in Arkansas.
In Bucharest the Soviet bloc summit opened amid signs of rift between the Soviet Union and Romania over control of Warsaw Pact forces. Romania seeks greater say for small members while Moscow pushes for tighter overall command. Official spokesmen offered no timeline for resuming talks.
An assistant general counsel said no field workers from the commission are in Arkansas for a study of alleged vote fraud. Charles Hampstone noted the study is in other states and will be presented to the President and Congress. The project is not an investigation and focuses on procedures rather than incidents.
MAPLEWOOD N J AP Jack Burmeister 95 runs for the U S House in the 11th District as a Democrat while his twin Jerry Burmeister seeks the U S Senate in the Sept 15 New Jersey primary as a Republican. They share similar beliefs and will cooperate in campaigns. They filed nominating petitions together.
The Associated Press reports Arkansas ended the Fourth of July holiday in tragedy with 21 traffic deaths and three drowning victims on Sunday. Drownings included Buddy Stevens, David Combs, John Brittain, and Regina Waldridge, while eight men, four women, and nine children perished in highway crashes on I-55, I-30, and other routes across the state. Notable victims listed by location include Benton, Blytheville, Huntsville, Pine Bluff, Walnut Ridge, and Siloam Springs.
National Guardsmen were called into Omaha's North Side after a holiday weekend with earlier violence in the 24th and Lake streets area. Police worked 12-hour shifts as guardsmen monitored the scene and made arrests Monday night, while extra units stood by on the outskirts for rapid deployment if needed.
The Audubon Club held a dinner and field trip on June 30 with nine members and one guest. In the early evening a large flock of starlings gathered near New Boston Road, Texarkana, described as destructive to hole nesting birds. Members later viewed nesting boxes and feeders, including a starling entering a Purple Martin nest and affecting the young.
In Milan an Italian ap al court confirmed nearly all verdicts in the mass trial of 84 defendants linked to South Tyrol terrorist activity. After a two month hearing, four of the 20 acquitted were convicted and two earlier convictions were reversed. The defendants were Italians Austrians and Germans arrested after the 1961 summer surge in terrorism.
AP reports Viet Cong launches a fourth attack in three days as anti-U S Viet Nam demonstrations spread abroad. Demonstrators rally for U S withdrawal while officials urge restraint and emphasize American limits.
A Navy transport plane on a routine training flight from Floyd Bennett Field New York to Moffett Field California dived near Battle Creek Michigan. Four crew members were killed William Eb Xiques John Patrick Fitzmaurice II Charles J Surrey and Larry W Battson were identified as the deceased.
Community notes cover a car incident with Judge Pilkinton, Medicare’s first county admission at Branch General Hospital, and Arkansas Baptist Assembly attendees from the Hope area. Also listed are graduates and nurses from Patmos and Little Rock, plus a church ice cream social hosted by First Methodist Church on July 6.
Saigon reports continued US air strikes against North Vietnam with Navy fighters targeting torpedo boats off Haiphong and an oil storage area near Haiphong. One Skyhawk was shot down but rescued, as 250 to 300 planes conducted invasions, a level above the 16 month war average though not a single day record.
A three day holiday period yielded 559 traffic deaths on U.S. highways, surpassing the 1963 four day record. Drownings reached 208 and boating accidents caused 47 deaths. The National Safety Council noted optimism from its president about pending safety legislation.
Ottawa jury inquiring into the Parliament Hill explosion that killed Paul Chartier recommended that all sales of explosives be reported to the police. The five man jury found Chartier was mentally unbalanced and appeared to intend to kill as many Parliament members as possible when his homemade bomb exploded in a washroom near the Commons chamber on May 28.
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