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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1969
Page
1
The piece mocks federal moves to ban cigarette ads while subsidizing tobacco farming. It questions the FCC FTC stance as bureaucratic rubbish and warns against a backdoor prohibition. The author cites health debates, freedom of press, and personal smoking history while arguing for choice.
A Boy Scout Explorer post is established in Hope with Mr Hartsfield as adviser. Explorers meet at the Presbyterian church on the second and fourth Thursday at 7 p.m. Scuba diving is the primary project with an Indian dancing team as a secondary goal. Officers elected include President Mark Gunter and Vice President Alphonso Roy Jr. Contact numbers are 4771 4590 or 777 2664.
A Hope civic and youth center project enters planning with an executive committee of nine led by Gene White. Officers named include Margie Vickers as reporter and Mary Nell Turner as sec treas, with members from Rotary Kiwanis Lions junior auxiliary and local schools and business groups. About 3500 dollars has been pledged, mainly by students, toward the building fund.
Telegrams to T O Porter and Buster Royston say the Ozan Creek Watershed Committee has won approval to proceed with a planning phase. The Soil Conservation Service will draft a flood control and erosion retardation plan, seeking easements from area farmers for cross land surveys and later meetings to discuss retarding structures and channel enlargement. Benny Coleman chairs the committee, praised for its collaboration. George F Brown of the Soil Conservation Service commends the group.
Gerald Brooke, a 30 year old British lecturer, returned to London after four years in Soviet custody. He spoke at a news conference at Heathrow, wearing the suit of his arrest and a red striped tie. Brooke said he felt numb and out of practice with English. Britain exchanged Soviet spies Morris and Lota Cohen for him and two other Britons on drug charges. The Cohen pair, Americans known as Peter and Helen Kroger in Britain, receive 20 year sentences and are expected to be freed in the fall along with the other Britons. A crowd of about 200 watched as Brooke left the Aeroflot jet with police escort.
The Kennedy auto crash probe remains unfinished with a full report likely a week away. Massachusetts official said Kennedys license remains suspended pending a formal hearing while investigators query how the senator behaved at the scene.
New York AP Burt Lancaster, film star and former circus acrobat, rejects the idea that acting is unmanly. He recalls a humble upbringing in East Harlem and says life is a commitment requiring involvement with the downtrodden. He cites Shaw and aims for social impact in his films, including Castle Keep.
The U S Weather Bureau reports showers and partly cloudy hot days across Arkansas through Saturday. Moist tropical air brings scattered afternoon thunderstorms with up to 2.25 inches of rain in western Little Rock and 0.15 in Blytheville. Temperatures reach the 90s, with Texarkana at 101. A Gulf coast high pressure ridge and a slow moving front keep the system mainly north and east of Arkansas.
The Bull Shoals Lake and White River Association opposes a proposed one dollar trout license fee. Executive director A D Nuckolls says the group will resist in its current form, but may reconsider if revenues fund stocking, camping, public access, parking, and boat ramp construction. The Game and Fish Commission floated the idea to bolster trout area improvements.
About 50 to 60 families from the Curtis area seven miles south of Arkadelphia were evacuated after a Missouri Pacific freight train derailed east of Curtis. 11 cars carried chemicals and 30 were buried four deep, flames rose 125 to 150 feet, one car deemed potentially dangerous remained as workers planned to move it with a bulldozer. residents may return soon though the fire could burn two more days.
Israeli jets reported six MIG fighters shot down along the Suez Canal with other sources listing nine Egyptian aircraft lost. Days of air and ground fighting continued as Egypt’s Nasser threatened to regain Arab territories. Defense Minister Dayan said a full-scale war is unlikely this summer but Israel must stay prepared.
In Honolulu Pat Nixon dined in Mawatian style, slept briefly, and prepared to view the Apollo 11 splashdown on television from her hotel suite overlooking the Pacific.
Apollo 11 returns to Earth after historic Moon landing. NASA crews aboard USS Hornet meet President Nixon and officials as astronauts Armstrong Aldrin and Collins are recovered in the Pacific. They enter quarantine before traveling to Houston while authorities confirm safe landing and stabilization of the craft Eagle.
The Apollo 11 crew Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins splashed down in the Pacific aboard the USS Hornet after reentry at 24 600 miles per hour. Weather shifted the landing point 950 miles southwest of Hawaii and the astronauts were to be moved to a sealed trailer on the carrier. Log notes say the astronauts likely would be treated awkwardly rather than hailed as conquerors.
The six month old infant of Capt. and Mrs. Norman Blaylock fell from the Hillcrest Apartments second floor to the ground Tuesday. She was taken by ambulance to St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock. Initial reports were favorable but by Wednesday she developed a blood clot and concussion symptoms. Doctors say she is improving and should be all right. Capt. Blaylock has flown in from Vietnam and should be in Little Rock today. Mrs. John Lloyd, the grandmother, is also in Little Rock.
Thunderstorms near the Apollo 11 splashdown zone forced recovery ships to shift to a new landing area about 250 miles away in the Pacific Ocean 950 miles southwest of Hawaii. NASA officials said the change causes little trouble as splashdown timing remains. President Nixon and other officials will watch the return of Armstrong Aldrin and Collins from the new position 241 miles from Johnston Island with weather forecasts showing mostly clear skies and 10 mile visibility.
All Around Town notes Whitfield Masonic Lodge No. 239 will confer a Master’s Degree Friday July 25 at 7 30 p m. Millwood Fishing Report shows pool near normal at 258 25 feet and June visitation 224 100. Discharge is 160 cfs. Three day forecast calls for rising clear water. Local fishing reports: bass on artificial bait in Little River and Saline River, crappie on mine boats in Little River, bream biting worms and crickets in Big Water, and catfish fair in Saline River. Also reports Scout Mark Stephens 11-year-old Eagle Scout home from Fanayat State Park Idaho. Elaine Burtch and Verna Bass of Hope attended third school lunch managers workshop at U of A concluding July 18. Marine Lance Corporal Truman D Arrington promoted in Vietnam. civic action program aiding wells, culverts, small bridges and schools supported by Marine Reserve Civic Action Fund. Arrington, from Route 2 Hope, attended Hope High School before service.
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